@sparki1969.bsky.social
Lover, fighter and organizer with Rising Tide North America and Diablo Rising Tide. Organizing director at Rainforest Action Network. Co-host at @podcastgreenred.bsky.social. Posts are all me.
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Texas Floods, Mutual Aid and the Climate Crisis!
@bobbuzzanco.bsky.social and @sparki1969.bsky.social
talk with @candicebernd.bsky.social about her new article in the @texasobserver.org about the Texas floods and what led to a worse disaster.
🎙️: bit.ly/4flOyu0
READ: The head of the Mossad spy agency was recently in Washington to coordinate with the White House on plans to expel Palestinians from Gaza. The plan, along with the forced starvation and mass killing of Gazans, echoes the worst of the Nazi Holocaust. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/isra...
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MAGA vs. Trump
@bobbuzzanco.bsky.social and @sparki1969.bsky.social
dissect some of the cracks in the MAGA cult over Iran, Israel and the Epstein files.
🎙️: bit.ly/41cesu7
WELLS FARGO MASS ACTION: FROM STANDING ROCK TO PALESTINE
WHAT: Wells Fargo funds fossil fuels, genocide & the war on immigrants. Take mass direct action to shut down its global HQ.
WHERE: Wells Fargo Global HQ, 333 Market St, San Francisco
WHEN: Wednesday, 7/23 @ 8:30AM.
Join us!!
a nation of Flounders...
21.07.2025 15:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Thunder on the left!
@bobbuzzanco.bsky.social and @sparki1969.bsky.social talk about how Democratic and wealthy elites respond by punching the left.
🎙️: bit.ly/4ezisKS
I talk with @alicehu.bsky.social about the campaign against Palantir and other Bay Area billionaires.
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#PurgePalantir takes action against the billionaires.
@sparki1969.bsky.social talks w/ Alice Hu w/ @planetoverprofit.org
🎙️: bit.ly/4481eAL
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It's the 75th Anniversary of the start of the Korean War and @sparki1969.bsky.social and @bobbuzzanco.bsky.social talk with journalist @timshorrock.bsky.social about the politics and history that led to war.
Not to be missed!
🎙️: bit.ly/44yQefC
LIVE EVENT:“VIETNAM THEN, PALESTINE NOW”
Join the Jerusalem Fund for a talk w/ U.S. historian & professor, @bobbuzzanco.bsky.social.
WHEN: Friday, June 13th, 2025 at 12:00 pm (ET)
Location: The Jerusalem Fund (2425 Virginia Ave NW, Washington DC 20037)
RSVP (In Person/Virtual): bit.ly/3Hts2T2
Me and @sparki1969.bsky.social geeking out on Andor, Star Wars, social movement organizing, and our current political moment. @podcastgreenred.bsky.social greenandredpodcast.org/2025/05/30/r...
30.05.2025 17:53 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Look, let's not over complicate this whole ABUNDANCE thing.
When you live in a society where a few psycho billionaires are hoarding pretty much ALL the wealth, the path to collective ABUNDANCE is not to gut common-sense regulations.
The path is REDISTRIBUTION. Duh? 1/3
Resistance is everywhere! and the Green and Red Podcast is covering lots of it.
In today's episode, I talk with Prof. @josephmbrown.bsky.social about Stop Cop City and how it saw an evolution of protest that brought together the movement around politics, issues, strategies & tactics.
Listen in!
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Stop Copy City and the Future of Protest
We talk w/ Prof. @josephmbrown.bsky.social about how the Stop Cop City campaign saw an evolution in protest & brought together a movement that spanned issues, ideology, strategies & tactics.
🎙️: bit.ly/3F7tdGY
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Bold tree-sit in the Elwha.
@sparki1969.bsky.social talks with Fable, a tree-sitter holding space 70 feet above the ground, blocking logging of an endangered legacy forest near Pt. Angles, WA.
🎙️: bit.ly/3Fa5tSu
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Bold tree-sit in the Elwha River Watershed.
@sparki1969.bsky.social talks with Fable, a tree-sitter holding space 70 feet above the ground, blocking logging of an endangered legacy forest near Pt. Angles, WA.
🎙️: bit.ly/3Fa5tSu
Last night, I talked with Fable a tree sitter occupying space 70 feet above the ground to stop logging of an endangered legacy forest in western Washington.
bit.ly/3Fa5tSu
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The Fall of Saigon, 50 Years Later. (Or let’s let Saigons be bygones).
@sparki1969.bsky.social and @bobbuzzanco.bsky.social discuss the fall of South Vietnam, the aftermath and the legacy 50 years later.
🎙️: bit.ly/3S2mG3j
Fire Elon Musk protestors hold banner inside Tesla showroom in San Francisco
Protestors in San Francisco are inside the Tesla showroom at 999 Van Ness Avenue. Protestor: “Since Musk is motivated by money and power, we are taking action to help damage Tesla’s reputation and Musk’s copious wallet."
#TeslaTakedown
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Millions hitting the streets telling Trump "Hands Off" our democracy,Tesla Takedown ruining Elon's brand and a growing need for a big strategy.
In our latest episode, we get into the state of resistance w/ organizer @patrickjyoung.bsky.social.
🎙️: bit.ly/3G2lREK
"Life begins on the other side of despair."
--Jean Paul Sartre
“The first duty of the left in the heart of the empire must be a ruthless critique of it”
-Andreas Malm
Today the senate GOP voted to end the CFPD rule banning “unbanning” today. Which means a bank can ban a person based on their political beliefs. While I don’t care about right wingers like Laura Loomer, this doesn’t bode well for people on our side. www.dropsitenews.com/p/senate-rep...
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There’s a lot of people pissed off at Elon Musk out there. And just wait till he starts cutting social security.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/u...
Anti-MVP pipeline protestors sentenced in Virginia court for resisting Big Oil and Gas.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nothing to see here...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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#TeslaTakedown!
In our latest, @sparki1969.bsky.social talks with Valerie with the Troublemakers in Seattle about the viral protests against Elon and Tesla.
🎙️: bit.ly/41htNce
“I'm not afraid of death, but I am afraid of murder."
-Harry Caul (The Conversation)
R.I.P. Gene Hackman
Zoom screenshot of participants at my book conference
Just finished a virtual book conference, for my forthcoming book: "No Option But Sabotage: The Radical Environmental Movement and the Climate Crisis."
Fantastic comments from Joseph M. Brown, @sgadarian.bsky.social, @jenniferhadden.bsky.social, Keith Woodhouse, and @sparki1969.bsky.social
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Prez Day Special!
We talk about how the neoliberal presidencies of Clinton, Bush and Obama paved the way for Trump and MAGA.
🎙️: bit.ly/3EJAkEX
