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"Shut Down APEC!" Anti-War, Labor, Human Rights and Climate Activists Unite Against the Global Elite (G&R 258)

"Shut Down APEC!" Anti-War, Labor, Human Rights and Climate Activists Unite Against the Global Elite (G&R 258)

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals


"Shut Down APEC!" Anti-War, Labor, Human Rights and Climate Activists Unite Against the Global Elite (G&R 258)

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

ratings:
Length:
26 minutes
Released:
Nov 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Last week, the San Francisco Bay Area was the center of the political and media world as the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) convened CEO summit and heads of state summit to divvy up the global economy for the billionaire class. This included a high profile meeting between Joe Biden and China’s leader Xi Jinping.

In response, a movement of movements (consisting of antiwar, labor, human rights and climate activists, etc.) rose up in protest and direct action to the APEC summit. Through the week, we saw unified actions against dictators, billionaires and war mongering American leaders. This overlapped with escalating actions in the Bay Area around Gaza.

Scott organized and joined the protests against APEC and this week talks again with Will Wiltschko about the week of action.

Bio//
Will is the director of the California Trade Justice Coalition
(@catradejustice).

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Outro- "We the Movement" by Rebel Diaz

Links//
+ https://www.bayclimateaction.com
+ https://linktr.ee/no2apec

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This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Scott.
Released:
Nov 20, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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.