{"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":"New Data Shows Wall Street and Pension Funds Investing in ICE Contractors with Over $80 Billion ft. Richard Brooks w/ Stand.Earth (G&R 484)","slug":"new-data-shows-wall-street-and-pension-funds-investing-in-ice-contractors-with-over-80-billion-ft-richard-brooks-w-stand-earth-g-r-484","published_at":"2026-04-09T09:57:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/new-data-shows-wall-street-and-pension-funds-investing-in-ice-contractors-with-over-80-billion-ft-richard-brooks-w-stand-earth-g-r-484","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greenandred/episodes/New-Data-Shows-Wall-Street-and-Pension-Funds-Investing-in-ICE-Contractors-with-Over-80-Billion-ft--Richard-Brooks-w-Stand-Earth-GR-484-e3hj4du","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10cb45ac/podcast/play/118116222/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-7%2Fe2d7f82f-13e0-0c7d-bd19-08d950ae7e4c.mp3","summary":"In an explosive new release, pensions CalPERS, CalSTRS, and New York State Common and Teachers Funds and banks Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citi have heavily invested in and financed companies that have profited from contracts with Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and enabled the deportation crisis and the surveillance, violence and repression of U.S. citizens resisting the Trump administration. These financial institutions have put over $80 billion into these companies. The corporate ICE contracrtors include Palantir, CoreCivic, Geo Group, General Dynamics, CACI, L3Harris and AT&T. In our latest, we talk with Richard Brooks about new data that Stand.Earth has released about financial players funding ICE contractors like Palantir, Geo Group, CoreCivic and others. Guest Bio-- Richard Brooks is the Climate Finance Director at Stand.Earth. -------------------- 🎸 Outro- \"Green and Red Blues\" by Moody 🔗 Links 🌐 Major US banks and public pensions attempt to profit from sinking $80 billion into ICE contractors (https://bit.ly/47Ja8Gb) 💚 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 🔥 Check out Bob on THIS IS REVOLUTION talking about the war in Iran (https://bit.ly/47xGkfC) 🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production 👨‍🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969) ✂️ Edited by Scott 🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics,…","meta_description":"In an explosive new release, pensions CalPERS, CalSTRS, and New York State Common and Teachers Funds and banks Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of Americ…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2052,"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/new-data-shows-wall-street-and-pension-funds-investing-in-ice-contractors-with-over-80-billion-ft-richard-brooks-w-stand-earth-g-r-484/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/new-data-shows-wall-street-and-pension-funds-investing-in-ice-contractors-with-over-80-billion-ft-richard-brooks-w-stand-earth-g-r-484.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}