@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.
Direct action gets the goods. Maybe even some of Elon's goods.
06.11.2025 20:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0NOW: A small group of protesters briefly blockaded the entrance to the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin to demand shareholders reject a $1T pay package for the world’s richest man, Elon Musk.
The blockade dispersed after a Travis Co. Sheriff threatened to arrest protesters without any official warning.
There was a lot of NATO liberal ♥️ for Cheney in his final days. Everything from his war crimes in Iraq [Biden, HRC both supported] to his later opposition to Trump.
While he opposed Trump in the end, his brand of GOP politics paved the way for today's vile version.
And yet liberals ♥️ him.
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Dick Cheney kicks the bucket. But not before he wreaked havoc on the world and the U.S.A.
In our latest, @sparki1969.bsky.social and @bobbuzzanco.bsky.social discuss his history and how he paved the way for Trump.
🎙️: bit.ly/4hNvhmn
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One Uprising After Another!
We talk about the Gen Z uprisings that have spread across Asia, Africa and beyond w/ historian and social theorist George Katsiaficas.
🎙️: bit.ly/4obK1Oc
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The Anti-Authoritarian Playbook
We talk with long time organizer Nadine Bloch to discuss a new education project from the Freedom Trainers teaching an "anti-authoritarian playbook" of non-cooperation, non-compliance and mass disruption.
🎙️: bit.ly/478sSxE
If you like #NoKingsDayOct18th, you’ll love our episode on the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook w/ organizer Nadine Bloch.
18.10.2025 16:32 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Trumps war with the military, and the “war within.”
In our latest, we talk about the history of U.S. civilian-military relations and how the Trump-Hegseth 🤡 car fits into it.
🎙️: bit.ly/4mMaPTC
Great interview with Prof. John Maerhofer about green capitalism and eco-militancy.
Check it out and share!
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Political violence is not a “both sides” issue, it’s the ruling class waging war on us.
@bobbuzzanco.bsky.social and @sparki1969.bsky.social talk about the history of political violence, recent events and lots of facts and studies.
🎙️: bit.ly/4mKPV7z
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"we had our project 2025, but it was for the good. Let's build these clinics. Let's open schools, let's build new free schools. Let's do all these things in a radical way from below where people could have control...."
-scott crow, co-founder Common Ground Relief
🎙️: bit.ly/3HX4mH5g
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Hurricane Katrina, 20 years later! w/ scott crow
We talk Common Ground co-founder and anarchist scott crow about Hurricane Katrina, Common Ground and the “long slow history of disaster.”
🎙️: bit.ly/3HX4mH5
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Solidarity to everyone taking action in the streets.
In our latest, we talk about how when people mobilize the forces of authority back off, and to do that we need more mass non-cooperation and direct action.
🎙️: bit.ly/3HT5POC
MASS ACTION! Mass occupation of SF Blackrock offices by Gulf South and Bay Area residents!
18.08.2025 20:04 — 👍 36 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
As the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations fail in Geneva this week, residents of Texas and Louisiana, and local Bay Area residents, take action with local activists at the global HQ one of the major financiers of fossil fuels— Wells Fargo!
15.08.2025 15:33 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
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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...
24.07.2025 21:01 — 👍 49 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 0
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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.
01.07.2025 05:36 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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
