{"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":"Best of G&R: Tin Soldiers and Nixon's Coming . . . 56 Years After the Kent State Killings (G&R 492)","slug":"best-of-g-r-tin-soldiers-and-nixon-s-coming-56-years-after-the-kent-state-killings-g-r-492","published_at":"2026-05-04T10:31:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/best-of-g-r-tin-soldiers-and-nixon-s-coming-56-years-after-the-kent-state-killings-g-r-492","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greenandred/episodes/Best-of-GR-Tin-Soldiers-and-Nixons-Coming-------56-Years-After-the-Kent-State-Killings-GR-492-e3iquag","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10cb45ac/podcast/play/119420688/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-3%2F423380672-44100-2-2e287428a23d6.m4a","summary":"Support Green and Red Podcast and get analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. It's the 56th anniversary of the killings at Kent State University. In a special encore episode, we're reposting our episode from 2020. In this episode, we commemorate the anniversary of the tragic events of May 4th, 1970 at Kent State University, where agents of the state murdered 4 students and shot 9 others. Students, who'd been told the war was winding down in Vietnam, erupted in protest at campuses all over America when Richard Nixon announced the U.S. invasion of Cambodia on April 30th. At Kent State, a working-class public school in Northeast Ohio, protesting students and other burned down an ROTC building, a common target in the Vietnam protest era, and Ohio Governor James Rhodes, vowing a violent response, mobilized the National Guard and sent them to Kent. For two days the students and Guard skirmished, with the paramilitaries hurling tear gas and intimidating students. On May 4th, the Guard, unprovoked, started shooting into the crowd of students and shot 13, killing 4, from distances beyond 300 feet. These were extrajudicial killings and a sure sign the state would murder anyone who challenged its interests. The war had come home! Scott and Bob, who's also a historian of the Vietnam War and the 1960s and has published extensively on those subjects, talk about the background to the protests, the official, violent response, the aftermath at places like Jackson State, where 2 more students were killed, and the larger context of anti-state protests and their meaning, and lessons .---------- Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody 🔗 Links//​ 🌐 Kent State Tribunal Organization, established by Lau…","meta_description":"Support Green and Red Podcast and get analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3444,"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/best-of-g-r-tin-soldiers-and-nixon-s-coming-56-years-after-the-kent-state-killings-g-r-492/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/best-of-g-r-tin-soldiers-and-nixon-s-coming-56-years-after-the-kent-state-killings-g-r-492.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}