{"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 Yellow Vests Defy Politics as Usual w/ Prof. Ida Susser (G&R 495)","slug":"why-the-yellow-vests-defy-politics-as-usual-w-prof-ida-susser-g-r-495","published_at":"2026-05-19T10:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/why-the-yellow-vests-defy-politics-as-usual-w-prof-ida-susser-g-r-495","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-Yellow-Vests-Defy-Politics-as-Usual-w-Prof--Ida-Susser-GR-495-e3jgkur","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10cb45ac/podcast/play/120131995/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-4-17%2Faff3c1bb-8d2a-3c7f-2b23-316e51edc516.mp3","summary":"💫 LIVE Green and Red Podcast Event on May 21st in Berkley: "Radicals, Realists, and Repression: The State of Activism in the U.S." RSVP here- https://bit.ly/3QFR1XO Support Green and Red Podcast and get the latest at https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast. The Yellow Vest, or gilets jaunes, are grassroots worker movement that have defied politics as usual in France and the rest of the world. In our latest, Scott talks with Prof. Ida Susser about her new book- an ethnographic study of the Yellow Vest movement- "The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy." They discuss who they are, where they come from and the alliances and relationships they built in through their movement organizing. They also discuss the state backlash to them as they refused to comply with liberal and far right political institutions.Guest bio//Ida Susser is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has published on popular mobilizations, social movements, and the urban commons in the United States, Europe, and Southern Africa. She is the author of "The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy" and many other books. ----------------- Outro// "Green and Red Blues" by Moody Links//🌐 Prof. Ida Susser (https://bit.ly/4uaBJJs) 🔖 The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy. (Get free access to the book here: https://bit.ly/495sIZI) 💚 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 Net…","meta_description":"💫 LIVE Green and Red Podcast Event on May 21st in Berkley: \"Radicals, Realists, and Repression: The State of Activism in the U.S.\" RSVP here- ht…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3477,"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-yellow-vests-defy-politics-as-usual-w-prof-ida-susser-g-r-495/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-yellow-vests-defy-politics-as-usual-w-prof-ida-susser-g-r-495.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}