{"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":"Why the Global Flotilla to Gaza is Never Giving Up w/ Writer and Flotilla Participant Zukiswa Wanner (G&R 494)","slug":"why-the-global-flotilla-to-gaza-is-never-giving-up-w-writer-and-flotilla-participant-zukiswa-wanner-g-r-494","published_at":"2026-05-14T13:26:48+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/why-the-global-flotilla-to-gaza-is-never-giving-up-w-writer-and-flotilla-participant-zukiswa-wanner-g-r-494","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greenandred/episodes/Why-the-Global-Flotilla-to-Gaza-is-Never-Giving-Up-w-Writer-and-Flotilla-Participant-Zukiswa-Wanner-GR-494-e3j9jbn","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10cb45ac/podcast/play/119900983/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-12%2F880fca68-1920-427e-e031-2493882f5185.mp3","summary":"Support Green and Red Podcast and get the latest at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. In our latest, Scott talks with writer and Flotilla participant Zukiswa Wanner about the Global Salmud Flotilla. They talk about the detention, torture and deportation of two flotilla activists Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Avila. They also discussed her trip to the West Bank in early in 2023 , her experiences last October when she joined the flotilla bound for Gaza, her time on a boat and in an Israeli jail. And finally, they talked about South Africans joining the Israeli Occupation Forces and South African organizing against genocide and apartheid in Palestine. Guest Bio//Zukiswa Wanner (@zakiswa.wanner) is an award winning South African writer and journalist. Her latest book is Flotilla: A Journey of Conscience about her participation in the Gaza flotilla last year. In 2025, Wanner was among four South Africans – the others being Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandela (grandson of Nelson Mandela ), Reaaz Moolla and Dr Fatima Hendricks – sailing with the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSP) international maritime initiative with a mission to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip , who were detained by the Israeli special forces when the humanitarian fleet was intercepted on 1 October. She is now on the South African steering committee of the flotilla effort. -----------------Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by MoodyLinks//🌐 Why we are sailing to Gaza on the Global Sumud Flotilla (https://bit.ly/4uiYN8M) 🌐 Zukiswa Wanner Unveils Dual Covers for Flotilla: A Journey of Conscience (https://bit.ly/433jn0W) 🌐 Nakba Day: https://www.instagram.com/p/DYOgl33Mf9x/💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast 🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast ☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR…","meta_description":"Support Green and Red Podcast and get the latest at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. In our latest, Scott talks with writer and Flotilla participa…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3244,"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/why-the-global-flotilla-to-gaza-is-never-giving-up-w-writer-and-flotilla-participant-zukiswa-wanner-g-r-494/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/why-the-global-flotilla-to-gaza-is-never-giving-up-w-writer-and-flotilla-participant-zukiswa-wanner-g-r-494.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}