{"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":"The Rise and Fall of the Earth Liberation Front w/ author Matthew Wolfe (G&R 498)","slug":"the-rise-and-fall-of-the-earth-liberation-front-w-author-matthew-wolfe-g-r-498","published_at":"2026-06-02T10:26:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-earth-liberation-front-w-author-matthew-wolfe-g-r-498","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greenandred/episodes/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-the-Earth-Liberation-Front-w-author-Matthew-Wolfe-GR-498-e3k3goc","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10cb45ac/podcast/play/120750284/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-30%2Fbf6ccf95-0f6a-d0d3-e78a-ff71dbcad04d.mp3","summary":"🎉 Support Green and Red Podcast and other great events like this panel at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. In 1996, the first of a series of arsons burned down the Oakridge Ranger Station in Oregon. More followed, as well as a massive federal investigation of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). Their targets—car dealerships, slaughterhouses, lumber companies, a $12 million Vail ski resort—were chosen to send a message: if the government wouldn’t halt the destruction of the natural world, they would. Despite causing no deaths, the ELF would soon be branded the foremost domestic terrorism threat in America and become the target of one of the FBI’s largest investigations. Ultimately, with the help of an informant in the group, law enforcement was able to make arrests of the group. In our latest, Scott talks with Matthew Wolfe, author of "Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Fron, the FBI and the Secret History of Eco-Sabotage", and discussed the origins of the ELF, who they were, what motivated them, how they were able to pull off the actions for so long and how they eventually were caught. They also talk about the reassessment happening today of the ELF in the wake of ongoing climate and political crises. Guest Bio- Matthew Wolfe’s reporting has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, the Atlantic, National Geographic, and the New Republic. He was previously a national fellow at New America. He has a PhD in sociology from New York University, where he is currently a fellow at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge. He is the author of "Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Fron, the FBI and the Secret History of Eco-Sabotage." ———- Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by MoodyLinks// 🔖 Matthew Wolfe: https://matthewwolfe.net/💚…","meta_description":"🎉 Support Green and Red Podcast and other great events like this panel at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. In 1996, the first of a series of arson…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3578,"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/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-earth-liberation-front-w-author-matthew-wolfe-g-r-498/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/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-earth-liberation-front-w-author-matthew-wolfe-g-r-498.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}