{"podcast":{"title":"Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals","slug":"green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547","podcast_index_feed_id":359547,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10cb45ac/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://greenandredpodcast.org/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/2717571/2717571-1580334385371-3599dae039cc9.jpg","author":"Green and Red","episode_count":515,"summary":"Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T22:17:14.000533+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547"},"episode":{"title":"Anti-Austerity Protests Shake Bolivia. Here’s Why. w/ Dr. Rodrigo Acuña (G&R 499)","slug":"anti-austerity-protests-shake-bolivia-here-s-why-w-dr-rodrigo-acu-a-g-r-499","published_at":"2026-06-04T10:16:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/anti-austerity-protests-shake-bolivia-here-s-why-w-dr-rodrigo-acu-a-g-r-499","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greenandred/episodes/Anti-Austerity-Protests-Shake-Bolivia--Heres-Why--w-Dr--Rodrigo-Acua-GR-499-e3k8isa","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10cb45ac/podcast/play/120916298/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-2%2Fc09fca66-368a-c870-719a-4374fc621b89.mp3","summary":"🎉 Our work is only possible through your generous support. Support Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. Bolivian social movements [labor, farmers, civil society, indigenous communities] are pressing neo-liberal President Rodrigo Paz' centrist government to roll back austerity measures and address rising living ⁠costs. This has led to thousands in the streets and at road blockades around the country voicing their demands. Paz has responded with state violence targeting movements and former president Evo Morales. In our latest, we do a deep dive into Bolivian politics and recent history with Dr. Rodrigo Acuña Guest Bio//Rodrigo Acuña (@rodrigoac7) works as an independent journalist on Latin America and for the NSW Department of Education. “Newsletter on latin america” He has been writing on Latin American politics for close to twenty years He made the documentary ‘Venezuela: The Cost of Challenging an Empire’ (2024) with journalist Nicolas Ford. ------------------------------------- Outro// \"Green and Red Blues\" by Moody Links// 🌐Rodrigo's website [sign up for his newsletter here]: https://rodrigoacuna.com/ 💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast 🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast ☕️One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR 🎙️ Follow Green and Red 🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 🛜Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org 🌍 Our Networks 🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org 📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork 📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org ✊ Worker Power Radio: https://workerpowerradio.ismyradio.com/ 🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production 👨‍🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969) ✂️ Edited by Scott…","meta_description":"🎉 Our work is only possible through your generous support. Support Green and Red Podcast at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. Bolivian social movem…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2929,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/episodes/anti-austerity-protests-shake-bolivia-here-s-why-w-dr-rodrigo-acu-a-g-r-499/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/anti-austerity-protests-shake-bolivia-here-s-why-w-dr-rodrigo-acu-a-g-r-499.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}