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WILL THE “NO KINGS” MOVEMENT SAVE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY?
At GREEP Gathering #227 we mourn the horrific MAGA murders in Minnesota with St. Cloud resident HEDY TRIPP.
We look in growing detail at the “Christian Nationalist” movement with radio host LYNNE FEINERMAN, who discusses ANDRA WATKINS & her great work on right-wing cults.
From Indivisible we hear MIMI “SPRINGTIME” about her Episcopalian roots & their warped Evangelical off-shoots.
A wonderful award-winning poem from DANIELLA GIUSEPPE underscores the larger female hippocampus which provides more empathy than men can command.
From Columbus, Ohio, we hear SANDY BOLZENIUS reporting about the various marches ranging from NO KINGS to Pride to Doo Dah & more.
In Santa Monica, Dr. NANCY NIPARKO reports on functional brain studies showing large hippocampi among taxi drivers, along with other contributions of her great genius
Nancy gives us a pretty specific laundry list on the development of the brains in the Republican v. Democratic skulls.
There were 8k people at La Palma Park in Anaheim, according to DAVID SONNEBORN, who’s pushing SB42 for public financing of California elections.
From Oakland we hear from SUZIE GOLDMACHER about 10k marchers there & in other Bay Area cities.
We hear in general that QR codes were not distributed at these massive rallies, but that there is a NO KINGS web site people can connect to (https://www.nokings.org/ )..
From STEVE CARUSO we hear of the many hundreds who marched in protest in rural Licking County, Ohio.
From Los Angeles we hear from TERRY GOODMAN-MANPEARL who was shot in the hand by the LAPD while doing jail support in the streets.
Renowned activist JAN GOODMAN (Terry’s mom) emphasizes the power of organizing at the Pacifica Network as well as in the streets.
From Tucson BILL YOHEY reports on some great progressive marching. including more than 2k folks all over this small Arizona desert community.
From TATANKA BRICCA we get a heads-up about the ICE Gestapo. From Austin we hear from PERLY GATES’s original song TV legend DAVID SALTMAN tells us about the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to produce a NO KINGS documentary for the ages. From southern Ohio VINA COLLEY warns about the horrific Big Bad Bill now looming in the US House. For more about Pacifica’s New Day we hear from MYLA RESON & JAN GOODMAN. And we prepare to gather again next week for more ELECTION PROTECTION & SOLARTOPIAN POWER.
STANDING UP TO FASCIST ASSAULTS in Los Angeles & Oregon AS THE AMERICAN REICHSTAG BURNS
Our great Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN opens with some of her treasured verse.
Then elected-removed-reinstated MAYOR HEIDE LAMPERT updates us on the latest grassroots stand for democracy in the face of fascism.
Safe energy legend KARL GROSSMAN skewers the latest shish kabob of “hot” pro-nuclear executive orders from the radioactive White House.
New York activist HEIDI VERKAMPT reminds us of emergency efforts surrounding the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.
Long-time No Nuker ANNA GYORGY explains the grassroots victory in Massachusetts over a highly toxic battery storage facility.
Safe energy crusader MYLA RESON reports from Los Angeles while warning us of all the pro-nuke Democrats now pushing radioactive disaster.
Page 153 of Trump’s big bad bill will gut the court system, warns DANIELLA G., who adds that we must “Keep Hope Alive!!!”
Election Protection pioneer LULU FRIESDAT explains in depth her landmark vote counting victory in New York.
With her, electoral champion JULIE WEINER pleads for help in stopping the spread of hackable voting machines throughout NY.
Solar Rights Alliance’s CAILEY UNDERHILL warns us of the horrendous Newsomite attack on long-term solar contracts his California cohorts want to break.
Our erstwhile engineer STEVE CARUSO demands to know how these utilities take subsidies for dirty power while killing fair trade agreements for solar.
NY campaigner MICKY LEADER tells of her being “pooh-poohed” by the usual corporate Democrats.
KPFK Board Chair TATANKA BRICCA reports from Los Angeles on the gestapo ICE raids against migrant workers….and others!!
In 1934, concludes DAVID SALTMAN, there was a successful General Strike throughout the nation; maybe, he suggests, we need one again.
Amidst predictable escalating chaos, we will see you all next week!!!
GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY IN WALDPORT, OREGON; HOMELESSNESS; GA NUKE ELECTION THEFT; NUKES ON FIRE
Our great poet laureate MIMI GERMAN kicks us off with her usual genius at the GREEP zoom #225 from Monday, June 2, 2025.
Mimi additionally fills us in on the astounding fight for real grassroots democracy in the allegoric & all-too-real “Mayberry” on the Oregon coast.
Homelessness advocate SUSIE SHANNON gives us a full & powerful report on the horrific Budget Bill’s ugly assault on the tragically unhoused.
Minnesota’s KARLA SAND questions the role of Medicaid qualifiers for elder citizens.
From DR. NANCY NIPARKO we get a unique medical perspective on the horrendous impacts of being unhoused.
We hear from MIKE HERSH that his blog on Trump reminds us that FDR had Eleanor & Frances Perkins at his back.
From Georgia we hear from the great RAY MCCLENDON about a critical upcoming utility commission election in the Peach State.
PSC candidate DANIEL BLACKMAN tells us first hand about the challenges of running for election amidst some of the most corrupt electoral realities anywhere.
Legendary Pacifica activist MYLA RESON asks what we can do to help Daniel help save Georgia’s electricity grid.
That sentiment is echoed by Alabama native DR. RUTH STRAUSS.
New Jersey activist MICKI LEADER also calls for grassroots activism to save our democracy.
From PAUL MOBLEY we get a terrifying report on the health disaster at the Portsmouth-Piketone uranium facility in southern Ohio.
The great KARL GROSSMAN reports on the bad news from Trump’s death machine on pushing new atomic reactors.
The court-killing clause in Trump’s “beautiful” bill is raised by LYNN FEINERMAN and DANIELA GHIBELLI…on which we’ll do a deeper dive next week.
Waldport, Oregon, Fights for Democracy While Attacks on Voting Rights Proceed in Georgia
Our esteemed Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN opens the Green Grassroots Emergency Election Zoom with one of her great poems: “A Thousand Grains of Sand”.
We pay homage to BROOOCE SPRINGSTEEN and his stellar defense of democracy as well.
We follow with MAYOR HEIDE LAMBERT of Waldport, Oregon and her astonishing parallel fight for democracy.
In the wake of a meeting with Christie Brinkley and Alec Baldwin, the legendary KARL GROSSMAN tells us the Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul is now pushing nuke power in NY.
The great MYLA RESON fills us in on the latest lunacy from Arizona's Palo Verde nukes, which are owned in part by the city of Los Angeles.
Our co-convenor MIKE HERSH thanks Karl for helping to shut the Shoreham nuke on Long Island.
Legendary computer pioneer LEE FELSENSTEIN adds his contribution to encouraging organizers of upcoming mass rallies to distribute business cards with QR codes to special websites for further organizing.
Santa Monica solar pioneer PAUL NEWMAN updates us on Newsom’s attack on renewables, forcing AB942 through the legislature to impose new taxes and charges on rooftop PV panels.
Legendary investigative reporter GREG PALAST, producer of "Vigilantes Inc.", updates our understanding of the fascist attack on the right to vote in Georgia.
We’re then told by MAJOR GAMILIEL TURNER of the disenfranchising challenge meant to deprive him of his right to vote.
Our favorite Alabaman DR. RUTH STRAUSS gives a hearty endorsement of Greg’s “Vigilante’s Inc.” documentary on the destruction of the American franchise.
Esteemed anti-homelessness hero DONALD WHITEHEAD joins our dialog on both voting and on ending our terrible homeless crisis.
Georgia-based voting rights activist RAY MCCLENDON adds another dimension to the critical discussion about how to protect our right to democracy.
Radio talk host LYNN FEINERMAN raises additional critical points on protecting your own right to vote.
Our engineer STEVE CARUSO chimes in with his assessment of “hostile architecture” used to attack homeless citizens where they are forced to camp.
California’s MIMI SPREADBURY updates us with the latest from the Golden State, carrying us to our next meeting, on June 2, after Memorial Day…..IN SOLARTOPIA!!!
FASCIST ATTACKS ON MAYORS, JUDGES & MORE; QR CODES FOR MAJOR RALLIES; PLANNING FOR A PROGRESSIVE FUTURE
We start with our great poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN & her usual mystic verse.
From Waldport, Oregon, we hear from ousted & now re-instated MAYOR HEIDI LAMBERT about her incredible saga on the way to remaking this pivotal spot in the American MAGA/saga.
This far-and-wide astonishing attack on democracy by the MAGA Klan is dissected by co-host MIKE HERSH.
Tough questions come from SCOTT KLATT who wants to know why Heide let herself get drafted for Mayor.
From the LAProgressive.com we are updated by SHARON KYLE & DICK PRICE on the national assault on the Judiciary & our democratic elections.
Then the great MYLA RESON narrates the amazingly absurd arrest of Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka & three US Congresspeople for attempting to inspect a prison facility under their jurisdiction.
The attack on Mayor Baraka is mourned by DANIELA, who warns us all to carry our birth certificates.
Computer pioneer LEE FELSENSTEIN elaborates on his suggestion that rally organizers use business cards with QR codes, printed in special colors, with colored ink & union labels, feeding into local-generated websites.
We get a critical whistleblower report from VINA COLLY in southern Ohio.
From DR. RUTH STRAUSS we hear that it’s illegal for federal agents to follow illegal orders, a Nuremberg Principle that has gained major weight with the rise of Donald Trump.
Op Ed News founder ROB KALL then presents the beginning outline of a full progressive program going forward.
California Indivisible’s MIMI SPREADBURY warns us we must protect programs that mean life/death to so many.
The need for unity is emphasized by MELISSA HALL as well as the imperative to protect the separation of church and state.
From CHUCK PENACCHIO we hear a warning of “Democracy in Chains” & the weaponization of race and religion by Big Money.
The fascist Catholic Opus Dei (see “THE DAVINCI CODE” & its female slaves are illuminated by LYNNE FEINERMAN of “Women Rising” Radio, a discussion we’ll pursue next week!!
FASCIST ATTACKS ON JUDGES & A MAYOR * CINCO DE MAYO * WINNING ECO-BATTLES
We start with “Kidnapping the Rubicon” from our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN.
The duly elected MAYOR HEIDE LAMBERT of Waldport, Oregon has been arrested by a fascist city council in an attempted coup; the activist progressive Mayor shares her amazing tale as we hear her plans to get re-instated.
Our co-convenor MIKE HERSH assures us all that the fight-back will inspire deep regrets among the Trumpist attackers.
LAProgressive.com editor-publishers SHARON KYLE & DICK PRICE give us the scoop on the Trump attack against Wisconsin Judge Hanna Dugan and many others like her who are standing up for actual justice & the law. Such judges, says Kyle, have been subjected to DOXing and other forms of Nazi-style attacks.
Emmy-winning documentarian DAVID SALTMAN explains the key elements to maintaining a lawful society.
Climate activist DIANE CAMERON talks about defeating a new highway proposed for Maryland.
Green campaigner MARGARET SCHOAP OF US-PIRG expands on the great grassroots work happening in Maryland to preserve what’s left of the state.
Long-time no nukes activist MYLA RESON reminds of the major fightings against atomic power in New Mexico.
Rockville (MD) resident ALEX WILLIAMS advocate for mass transit & an end to new highways.
From Ohio we hear JAY WARMKE updates us of the surprising progress of new solar farms in the Buckeye State.
Solar pioneer PAUL NEWMAN checks in on the state of corn-based ethanol.
Legendary eco-founder MARION EDEY visits us with her great wisdom.
Legendary computer pioneer LEE FELSENSTEIN contributes the suggestion that upcoming rally organizers use business cards with secret color coding, recycled paper & union labels to provide attendees with QR codes they can use to link back to websites established for moving America’s activist mass to true criticality.
Legendary no nukes strategist KARL GROSSMAN decries NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s support for nuke bailouts.
Erstwhile engineer STEVE CARUSO gives us the latest from central Ohio.
Indivisible activist MIMI S concludes with California’s ridiculous new attempt to build new nukes.
Next week we’ll do a deeper dive. Meantime, HAPPY CINCO De MAYO.
KEEPING THE FAITH WHILE FIGHTING FOR A SOLARTOPIAN GREEN-POWERED EARTH WHILE FINALLY BURYING THE NUKE POWER INDUSTRY
We start our GREEP Zoom #221 with DR. NANCY NIPARKO & her exhortation to keep the faith & not lose hope, however difficult the times may be.
The FAR OUT documentary film is endorsed by DR. RUTH STRAUSS who also demands the return of Abrego Garcia after he’s been disappeared to El Salvador.
The name of this terror victim is shouted out by MYLA RESON with the warning that this could happen to any and all of us at the whim of Donald Trump.
ON ENERGY: From DOROTHY REIK we hear about SB540 which would open the door to new nukes & to kill the ability of California to control its own energy supplies.
The legendary KEVIN KAMPS warns of the gargantuan subsidies proposed to insanely re-start Michigan’s Palisades despite the exponential cost overruns already with us, and despite disturbing reports of an epidemic of cancer in a nearby golf club, indicating major radiation releases from the nearby reactor; there are “start dates” for nuclear disasters, he said, but there are no end dates.
We’re reminded by MIKE HERSH that a major driving force for the “civilian” reactor industry is the on-going production materials for atomic weapons.
The radioactive insanity as spread over New Mexico is exposed by MYLA RESON.
The horrors of the radioactive fallout from Trinity, the first atomic bomb test, has studied in part by JOE MANGANO of the Radiation & Health Project, who wonders what kind of health survey could be supported by Robert F. Kennedy’s federal agency; RFK, Jr’s uncle, the late US Senator Ted Kennedy, long ago advocated such a study. Joe tells us of a study involving 16 of the oldest US nukes & found a clear correlation between cancer death rates and early and later plant operations.
California’s 2018 master plan to phase out the two reactors at Diablo & phase in a renewable energy base is laid wholly at the feed of Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Kevin Kamps tells us that at least 10% of the ratepayers in Georgia’s Vogtle rate region can’t pay their bills to keep their lights on because of the huge charges coming from the two new nukes.
We then take the plunge into the stock market and the insider manipulations of Donald Trump’s tariffs, whose announcements let his friends and family sell and buy at obscene levels of grift.
We also delve into the little-discussed T-Bills/government bonds that have stabilized the US and global economies. The loss of confidence in T-bills could signal a death knell for the American economy as reflected by the global loss of confidence in the US economy and the Dollar.
“Women Rising Radio” host LYNN FEINERMAN wonders if we are thus headed into a Depression…or are we already there?
The importance of the bond market, says MIKE HERSH, is valued by very powerful moneyed interest whose presence in T-Bill markets can decide the fate of the global economy, especially as the US “credit rating” is being destroyed.
The kinds of insider manipulations available to Trump have been worth incalculable grift to friends and family on the Trump Rolodex.
Kissinger’s “Mad Nixon” theory is raised by TATANKA BRICCA as we see maximum currency manipulation among those who own the bulk of global wealth. TATANKA warns further that the oligarchs want to cauterize our hearts & our souls, which can only be defeated with empathy and compassion.
The California Fair Elections Act SB42 would repeal the ban on public financing of election campaigns, neutralizing the power of America’s oligarchs.
The documentary movie called “the Encampments” about Columbia’s University’s investments is introduced by DR. NANCY NIPARKO.
PRESIDENTIAL DEMENTIA; VETERANS’ MEDICAL DEBT; A GENERAL STRIKE & THE NEED FOR DIGITAL ORGANIZING
Medical specialist DR. NANCY NIPARKO opens GREEP Zoom #220 with a direct quote from Donald Trump and a diagnostic prognosis.
Financial organizer JERRY ASHTON tells us his organizing has helped retire $45 billion in medical debt for more than 5 million people, including thousands of veterans, many of whom have thus avoided suicide.
Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN tells us of HEIDI STRANGE-SKY LAMBERT, who was duly elected mayor of Waldport, Oregon, only to be forcefully removed by the bad bully she was duly elected to remove as mayor. Heidi’s amazing story of being bullied out of the mayor’s office is going global.
The story of Elon Musk’s pro-apartheid parents follows in sequence with our discussion of the rise of Trumpian fascism.
Long-time activist DOROTHY REIK expresses her intense dismay that the LA Dodgers went to see Trump in the White House, and calls for a general strike.
Having attended the Bernie/AOC rally in Los Angeles, MYLA RESON also references Trump’s desire to have “home growns” shipped to death camps in El Salvador.
Taking the next step in electronic organizing is directed by LEE FELSENSTEIN toward business cards with QR codes leading to central organizing data bases with the technical help they need.
The question of our organizing focus is raised by our steadfast engineer STEVE CARUSO raising the issue of upcoming rallies in central Ohio.
The notion of a General Strike is seconded by ALEX WILLIAMS, who warns that pain will be involved, and that we must not be split up by race & gender.
The need for general solidarity is underlined by co-convenor MIKE HERSH.
Solar homeowner PAUL NEWMAN wonders how we can find the dictatorship’s pivotal weakness. The scourge of the “Christian Nationalist” right wing is rooted out by DAVID BROWN whose podcast demands the protection of religious diversity and rights, especially in Oklahoma, whose governor is erasing the lines between church & state. From DAVID NADER we get a confirmation for a General Strike and a boycott against paying the bills of utility companies destroying our Earth.
WHAT DID THE RALLIES MEAN? WHO ADVISED ON THE TARIFFS? HOW DO WE END HOMELESSNESS?
Greep Zoom #219 opens at the giant multi-million global marches that tried to confront the Trump regime.
One performer at LA’s Pershing Square gathering is CLIFFORD TASNER of the Southern California Americans for Democratic Action who introduces us to Trillionaires for Trump.
The fictional Trump “tariff advisor” Ron Vara is exposed by TATANKA BRICCA as a mythological economy crasher.
Our co-convenor MIKE HERSH chimes in with his usual wisdom.
The great DAVID SALTMAN raises the issue of a general strike.
Computer genius LEE FELSENSTEIN offers a “Reverse the Media” strategy going forward, complete with a national mailer on his critical digital design.
Radio maven LYNN FEINERMAN adds to the brilliance with her call for grassroots organizing.
Indivisible’s MIMI S calls for support for the “Make Polluters Pay” movement.
From Minnesota KARLA SAND tells us that 1 in 4 Americans is disabled while she emphasizes the need to protect Medicare and emphasizes that she goes of ‘every darn thing.".
To dive deep into the world of House-less-ness the great DONALD WHITEHEAD opens an hour-long discussion of a changing market with new possibilities for a solution to this terrible modern plague.
Legendary activist SUSIE SHANNON tells us there are 70,000 vacant units in Los Angeles, enough to house the entire house-less population in an “easy solution” that must be put into effect, but is being blocked by landlords who make more money by keeping their buildings vacant.
Meanwhile Dr. NANCY NIPARKO argues that the problem is financial, demanding changes in building laws that encourage billionaires to buy properties and let them sit.
MIMI S says the city of Berlin can now seize unused property.
Our engineer STEVE CARUSO tells of his 3 years of homelessness and working on low-cost housing, which he says must be made available to those who need it.
UKRAINE, WISCONSIN, BURNING THE REICHSTAG & THE REALITIES OF GRASSROOTS / WEB ORGANIZING
We start GREEP Zoom #218 with our laureate MIMI GERMAN & her fabulous poetry.
With TATANKA BRICCA we then celebrate the birthday of the great CESAR CHAVEZ & The United Farmworkers Union.
The Green Party’s HOWIE HAWKINS & Ukrainian engineer DENYS BONDAR relate the realities of Putin's “hybrid nuclear war” that combines the horrors of atomic weapons and power plants.
Denys reminds us of the Budapest Memorandum in which Ukraine thought it had traded the warheads it inherited from the former Soviet Union in exchange for peace & security.
Howie tells us of the brave Ukrainians staying behind the maintain the Ukrainian reactors to keep them from causing another Chernobyl-sized disaster despite being tortured by the Russians.
We also hear that Putin has destroyed 70% of Ukraine’s wind power while Vampirizing the juice from Crimea’s solar panels.
The question of whether mass rallies can become more than photo ops through the use of QR codes is discussed by organizer GINI LESTER & computer guru LEE FELSENSTEIN.
Howie then wonders if organizers at April 5 rallies throughout the country.
Ohio’s SANDY BOLZENIUS lauds the decentralized nature of these pro-democracy rallies nationwide.
Solar homeowner PAUL NEWMAN of Healthcare For Us describes using cell phone hotspots to link into rallies.
We hear further MURTZA MURTI about using a MailChimp page to further working groups for democratic progress.
A call for a working group comes from Lee Felsenstein.
Howie refers us to the book subtitled THE MASS PROTEST DECADE & THE MISSING REVOLUTION.
Re-localization is advocated for us by MIKE HERSH.
The history of the farmworkers is revisited by Tatanka.
Recalling her radio interview with Dolores Huerta is LYNN FEINERMAN.
We finish with Tatanka conjuring up Communities of Resistance to carry us through the coming Reichstag Fire & fascist putsch, where we will begin again next week.
We start this monumental legal exposition with the great hero-attorney STEVE DONZIGER & the high-profile corporate attack on Greenpeace & the Indigenous community.
Greenpeace has been sued by Energy Transfer in a North Dakota court with a jury dominated by fossil-fuel workers and a pro-corporate judge.
Hawaii-based attorney NATALI SEGOVIA gives us detail on the particulars of this rigged indictment in a case meant to “target the environmental movement as a whole.”
Natali emphasizes that the land devastated by the contested pipeline is, by treaty rights, still Indigenous land.
Much-revered long-time campaigner CHARLIE CRAY explains that Greenpeace’s role in the Standing Rock demonstrations was to train people in non-violence, and that the corporate attack on the Greenpeace organizational structure has been misguided.
Steve Donziger then explains where the next legal battles will go amidst the long-standing campaign to weaponize the law against the human attempt to preserve our ability to live on this planet.
Charlie Cray explains that the courts refused to allow a live broadcast or official transcript of the court proceeds while the corporations used “pink slime journalism” to propagandize the local North Dakota population.
Natalie Segovia confirms that the willingness to ignore tribal sovereignty and fight against movement solidarity is at the core of the corporate attack, as she calls for courage among all of us.
Charlie & Steve remind us that a Dutch court will hear anti-SLAPP proceedings against the corporations trying to kill Greenpeace & its pro-ecological campaigning.
To start our second hour, we then get an on-the-ground report from journalist/filmmaker ROGER RAPOPORT about Michigan’s insane attempt to re-start the Palisades nuclear reactor.
An expert on air travel, Roger also reports on the real horrifying & infuriating reasons for the recent deadly crash at Washington DC’s National Airport.
Performance Artist TOM ENGLISH gives us a great poem about try to humanize our nation’s billionaire CEOs.
We then move into the nightmare of lithium battery storage & the horrifying disaster of a major fire at Moss Landing California.
Nationally syndicated Flashpoint host DENNIS BERNSTEIN talks to us about the human damage being done by this terrible fire & its fallout.
MICHELLE A. gives us a heads-up on water based batteries called Aqueous Metal batteries.
Western Massachusetts activist & no nukes organizer ANNA GYORGY tells us of her great victory over an unwanted lithium battery center in her neighborhood.
Activist/film-mater JILL LONG makes the connection between Moss Landing & the horrors of Three Mile Island.
Thanks to MYLA RESON we touch on upcoming supreme court election in Wisconsin, which we will revisit NEXT WEEK!
We sign off with PAUL SHERMAN & the Budapest Memorandum that should have prevented to war in Ukraine.
The Health Issues of Nukes, Lithium & Solar Panels
We open GREEP Zoom #216 with a deep dive into the horrors of our border patrols targeting tourists with horrendous torture and mistreatment.
We then explore health impacts of nuclear power reactors on nearby downwind communities.
The great JOE MANGANO of the Radiation & Public Health Project updates us on the multi-decade attempts to construct a data base on cancer rates & trends near nuclear power plants.
Three Mile Island film-maker JILL MURPHY LONG reports on her horrifying experiences with cancer survivors from around the notoriously stricken nuke.
Safe energy pioneer KARL GROSSMAN tells of his ground-breaking media contacts on the radiation issue.
Moss Landing resident BRIAN ROEDER gives us terrifying reports on the lethal fallout from the lithium fire that “clobbered” downwind victims.
With a report from SARAH AMINOFF we hear of the devastating impact on food production from the Moss Landing lithium fire.
Scientist MADELAINE ADAMCZESKI raises core issues about the lack of regulation & safety standards at such lithium battery centers.
Remembering the Karen Silkwood case, TATANKA BRICCA raises the prospect of large-scale health suits stemming from the Moss Landing disaster.
Health specialist RICHARD LEAR catalogs the potential role EMF filters can play in curtailing the devastating impacts of “dirty electricity" on human well-being.
Engineering legend TIM SCHOECHLE raises core issues about “badly designed equipment” harming people with solar panels using inferior inverters.
Our erstwhile engineer STEVE CARUSO talks about shielding to protect us from stray rays emitted by electronic devices.
Legendary researcher DONNA GILMORE outlines numerous problems with battery facilities that threaten human life.
Sodium-based batteries used by the Chinese BYD automaker are introduced by MYLA RESON.
The precautionary principle is raised by BETTY KISSILOVE.
Indivisible’s MIMI SPREADBURY emphasizes that there IS a lawsuit against Moss Landing & PG&E.
A switch to Iron Air versus lithium batteries is proposed by MELISSA HALL as we head off to a post-nuclear/post-lithium Solartopian green-powered Earth.
RESUME ATMOSPHERIC BOMB TESTS? ARE YOU NUTS? We open with a beautiful poem from our Laureate MIMI GERMAN. We then explore the origins of the 1963 Atomic Test Ban with the tragic tale of the premature death of Patrick Kennedy, the son of President John Kennedy and First Lady Jackie. This terrible loss led directly to JFK agreeing with Nikita Khrushchev to ban nuclear explosions in the atmosphere. We are then honored by the genius of ROBERT ALVAREZ, JOE MANGANO and KARL GROSSMAN on critical issues of radiation and health. We celebrate a vital op ed on this by CHRISTIE BRINKLEY in the Kansas City Star, with McClatchy syndication. We take a deep dive into the legendary “Baby Teeth” study, and Project 2025’s insane push for more nuke testing. We hear from PAUL NEWMAN warning about Christian Nationalists who want an Armageddon to fulfill Biblical prophecy. A spiritual contribution comes from LYNN MYSTIC-HEALER, and from MELISSA, who asks “Is this even legal?” From LISA WHITE we hear about the movement in Fresno for post-nuclear sanity. “How Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life” is a new radio show from LYNNE FEINERMAN alerting us to the Evangelical push for nuclear war. Ontario’s Doug Ford is exposed by MYLA RESON who questions his commitment to new nukes. Reporting in from southern Ohio, PAT MARIDA and VINA COLLEY report from the Piketon-Portsmouth nuclear death plants & an upcoming 2/12 town hall.
GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING; DC HOME RULE; FIGHTING CELL TOWERS
We start with a wonderful offering (as always) from our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN.
For an excursion into the wonders of grassroots organizing we are led by the great ANDREA MILLER through the wilds of Wisconsin and Virginia.
“Despair is not a strategy,” she says, & shows us how to use elections as an instrument of freedom.
We’re joined with critical input by long-timer activists MARION EDEY and MYLA RESON.
Santa Monica solar homeowner PAUL NEWMAN chimes in with his usual brilliance, as does NICOLE UNG.
The burning issue of DC HOME RULE comes to us with co-convenor MIKE HERSH & DC's former SENATOR MICHAEL BROWN.
Georgia voting rights activist RAY MCCLENDON tells us of an upcoming march in Selma, in Atlanta & beyond.
Long-time organizer FATIMA ARGUN gives us the word from Arlington, across the water from DC.
Our expectations are challenged by MELISSA HALL, RONALD HALL, and LYNN FEINERMAN.
We then take a deep dive into the life-&-death issue of Electronic Magnetic Frequency from CAMILLA REES.
Camilla’s scientific cohort RICHARD LEAR gives us a brilliant excursion into the scientific & epidemiological landscape around EMF.
On the 704NOMORE legal front we hear from attorney SCOTT MCCOLLOUGH, who dissectstells us about the need for local resistance against cell towers.
Long-time activist and EMF victim JULIE LEVINE evokes the need for our activism.
The results of a “no EMF fast” that transcended the health impacts of wireless impacts are presented by TATANKA BRICCA.
The latest from Indivisible comes to us through Mimi S.
Mozilla browser is recommended by DR. RUTH STRAUSS.
The need to build our networks comes from DEB SCHINDLER…and....
JOIN US AGAIN NEXT!!! for a deeper view on the Ukraine war…. no nukes….see you in Solartopia….
WELCOME HOME LEONARD PELTIER! MEET THE KURDS…RIPPED NC ELECTION...& COMPUTER PIONEER LEE FELSENSTEIN
We start GREEP zoom #213 with KANI XULUM and a fascinating exploration of the repression of some 50 million Kurdish citizens.
The great JENNIFER ROBERTS of the Carter Center updates us on a terrifying NC challenge to election integrity.
With TATANKA BRICCA we celebrate the return of LEONARD PELTIER to his people after FIFTY YEARS in unjust captivity.
A boycott of major corporations for Friday, February 28, is announced by DANIELA GIOSEFFI.
DC Home Rule is now under attack, & we get a first-hand report from MIKE HERSH.
The big attacks on the Big 3 of MEDICAID, SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICAID get a new look from Prof. ERIC KINGSON.
We then examine the realities of MARTIAL LAW and what may soon be coming to the US.
The new EPA Chief’s attacks on funding for renewable energy elicits a question of what will happen with nuke power.
For a deep deep dive into the world of computerization, we then hear from the legendary LEE FELSENSTEIN.
As founder of the Earth-changing Homebrew Club that pioneered the digital revolution, Lee’s genius is now focussed on democratizing information.
Additional input comes from STEVE CARUSO and MYLA RESON on the nascent Eco-Broadcast Network.
Santa Monica’s PAUL NEWMAN has some key questions about the world wide net.
Our own DR. NANCY NIPARKO raises critical issues about the impacts of electronic devices on children.
JULIAN LELUTIU, DONALD SMITH, NICOLE UNG & MUTAZA MOGRI wonder about the future of mass demonstrations & more.
A truly great session. We will continue next week!!!
SAVING SOCIAL SECURITY, PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS, & GRASSROOTS FEMINIST ORGANIZING
We launch GREEP Zoom #212 with a lovely poem from our Laureate MIMI GERMAN, who tells us about the feminist community of Rohava in northern Syria.
Co-convenor MIKE HERSH introduces Prof. ERIC KINGSON takes us on a long journey for saving Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid, which he says have deep popular support.
MARGARET VILLANI expresses her concern about the lethal swoop now trashing Medicare & Medicaid. ELLEN GOTTLIEB from Save Social Security & Medicare Now.com tells us of upcoming Florida events. Longtime organizer DANIELA GIOSEFFI warns that the dispersal of personal from Social Security & Medicare comprise an urgent threat. We hear from ROBERT COPLIN on California’s SSI shortcomings. KEVIN EISENSTADT seeks guidance on the best time to take SSI benefits. DONALD SMITH and MICKI LEADER warn about the need to sustain public support for these public institutions. Grassroots organizing questions come from BRYAN BLAKELY. Environmental broadcaster KEN GALE checks in from WBAI with vital green info about ECO-RADIO. Plutonium at Livermore is also opposed by MARJORIE MIKELS, who tells us about upcoming demonstrations there. The No Nukes community is thanked by HEIDI VIERTHALER who adds new about her Green Energy Economy work. Safe Energy activist MYLA RESON evokes the Plutonium that’s contaminated the Greater Denver region & remembers the great Dr. Karl Johnson and the Rocky Flats guards who shot 3-headed rattlesnakes. We hear from DAVID ANTOS about a young activist named NABILA SAYED. BARBARA HARRISON ask for our Environmental Network. Radio legend LYNN FEINERMAN asks if the US will ever have a Jewish president. The highly democratic process of knowing your neighbors is outlined by MIMI, MIKE & LYNN. Building local community is evoked by MURTAZA MOGRI. Fighting white supremacists powers the inquiry MIMI S from California.
GREG PALAST EXPOSES HOW THE 2024 ELECTION WAS JIM CROW DISENFRANCHISED
We start GREEP Zoom #211 with “Resistance” from our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN.
We then welcome the great GREG PALAST for a full-bore excursion into how the massive Jim Crow disenfranchisement of millions of Americans put Donald Trump back in the White House.
Palast warns that “your ballot will be rejected” at an astronomical rate if you are a person of color, meaning the 2024 vote count was heavily coded by race to pull off the soul-killing death-of-American-democracy coup now in poisoned progress.
Palast’s VIGILANTES INC. is at www.gregpalast.com & is a must-see for anyone concerned about the preservation of what’s left of American Constitutional freedom.
We also hear from the uniquely power election protection audit expert RAY LUTZ, and from Greg’s associate PATRICE GALLAGHER.
Greg. Patrice & Ray are joined for clarifying comments from NATHAN TAYLOR, PAUL NEWMAN, HEDY TRIPP, CD BUCKLEY, JOHN SEELEY, MICHAEL MCMILLAN, LYNN FEINERMAN, JULIE WEINER, MICKI LEADER, ERINNE ROCHELLE, NICOLE UNG, BARBARA WRIGHT & other truly wonderful Greepster participants.
The upcoming national April 22 Earth Day broadcast is explained by prime organizer MYLA RESON, who will convene the breakthrough event in about two months.
Our co-convenor MIKE HERSH raises the question of whether there needs to be a dialogue as to whether there really is an anti-Christ and if what’s happening now in America qualifies as “Apocalyptic.”
We will reconvene on PRESIDENT’S DAY to revisit much of the research done by Greg and available through VIGILANTES INC at www.gregpalast.com.
See you on Prez Day with George & Abe, February 17, in Solartopia!!!
DISSECTING THE DOOMSDAYS UPON US
We start with a beautiful statement from Grammy-winner ALICIA KEYS on the power of diversity.
We explore the real culpability of the White House—NOT diversity—for the air crash that has (thankfully) not had an equal in 25 years.
Radio Host LYNNE FEINERMAN tells us that the fiscal sponsorship for her non-profit radio show has disappeared.
From Minnesota’s frozen tundra we hear HEDY TRIPP reports from a DEI conference on the anxiety being imposed on women on people of color.
MYLA RESON reports that there are massive demonstrations in Los Angeles and elsewhere against ICE actions targeting immigrants.
Co-convenor MIKE HERSH urges an end to the circular firing squad.
Our Alabama heart doctor RUTH STRAUSS questions Trump’s comprehension of tariffs.
Health Justice Monitor’s DON MCANNE terms the attack on USAID as “catastrophic.”
We get a warning on DEI and the DC helicopter crash from NICOLE UNG.
“Where are the Democrats?” asks New York’s JULIE WEINER, a truly great election protection activist.
Election expert RAY LUTZ gives us many of the ins/out about how the 2024 election was conducted and tabulated.
U. of Michigan grad NANCY NIPARKO questions how young men from her home state were impacted by the issue of war in the Middle East.
GREEP engineer STEVE CARUSO confirms his belief in the “conspiracy” theory of massive disenfranchisement around the US.
Solartopia co-host MYLA RESON introduces the idea of a national Eco-Broadcast Network.
The status of Leonard Peltier is raised by Indivisible’s MIMI S, followed by TATANKA BRICCA reporting that, thankfully, Leonard is in Turtle Island, NOT in federal prison.
From “Nuclear Hotseat" Podcaster LIBBE HALEVY we hear the latest about atomic power’s escalating insanity.
We get a Yoruba version of Happy Birthday from MICHAEL O. JOHNSON.
…and we will see you next week with the great GREG PALAST to find out who REALLY won the 2024 election.
PELTIER, ELECTION PROTECTION & the ECO-BROADCAST NETWORK
Our GREEP Zoom #209 begins with “Time” by our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN.
We hear the latest about Leonard Peltier from TATANKA BRICCA and LYDIA PONCE in concert with the Indigenous community supporting him: “I would like to be out of prison, but I am a free man.”
BARBARA WRIGHT reminds us to thank The Creator for the fact that Leonard is out of prison & with his people.
LIndsay Graham, Lisa Murkowsky & Susan Collins are summoned for praise by DANIELA GIOSEFFI.
Will Trump’s GOP wear itself out with a Rope-a-Dope of illegal acts, asks MYLA RESON.
We hear from MIMI S about the need to recognize what should have been with Bernie Sanders.
From Columbus, Ohio we hear from SANDY BOLZENIUS about the kinds of election fraud that turned the Buckeye State to Bush in 2004. .
From co-convenor MIKE HERSH we bemoan the Democrats’ lack of a backbone—except when disenfranchising people of color.
“How long can they keep this up?” wonders MELISSA HALL.
Massive disenfranchisement demands a class action case against the Democrats for failing to protect the vote, says DAVID SALTMAN.
Bring in Ray McClendon and the NAACP, says JOHN STEINER.
Our erstwhile engineer STEVE CARUSO evokes some of the carnage now damaging our planetary consciousness.
For the inauguration of the ECO-BROADCAST NETWORK we hear from green media activists LIBBE HALEVY, DOUG WOOD, JACK EIDT, ALEX SMITH, STEVEN STARR, URSULA RUEDENBERG about building a major media presence for a post-nuclear green-powered broadcast reality.
With this gathering we “made history” says Mike Hersh, & will continue next week with still more.
WE CELEBRATE THE MAGNIFICENT LIFE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING & THE WELCOME RELEASE OF LEONARD PELTIER
We begin this celebratory GREEP zoom #208 with TATANKA BRICCA giving us some background of Joe Biden’s announcement that LEONARD PELTIER will be released from prison on February 18.
SHAWNA HOGAN-MOORE tells us about her meeting where she & asked Prez Biden to release Leonard.
Our poet laureate MIMI GERMAN gives us a poem about the duality of this amazing moment.
Crusader VINNIE DESTEFANO, who also worked to free Julian Assange, weighs in.
Co-convenor MIKE HERSH reminds us of the great & powerful life of racial justice campaigner Marcus Garvey, pardoned today.
From the American Indian Movement and NDN we hear from LYDIA PONCE.
Activist/author/poet DANIELA GIOSEFFI takes us back to Selma and reminds us of the triumphs of Martin Luther King, whose day it is.
Amnesty International’s GAVRILAH WELLS reminds us of the years of work that went into this campaign for justice.
New York activist MICKI LEADER talks of exploring the range of podcasts amidst a lifetime of social change.
The feminism pioneer Martin Luther is evoked by MARC IMLAY.
KPFA’s DENNIS BERNSTEIN tells us how to hear his FLASHPOINTS show and honors the Indigenous activism that continues to burn in our country’s soul.
Having foresworn the news, WINSTON APPLE gives us his plans for a perfect democracy.
From Dr. RUTH STRAUSS we get medical advice for Leonard & a negative view of the film “Apprentice,” arguing it went to early on Trump.
From deeply frozen Minnesota the great HEDY TRIPP encourages us to explore self-care in the hellish four years to come.
New York election activist JULIE WIENER warns us that election protection is still in jeopardy from dubious machines in the Empire State.
KPFK Board member MARCY BIELMA joins us for the first time with her wit & wisdom.
Activist MIKE KUNNECKE also warns us about the dangers of electronic voting machines.
Encouraging us to write our Senators is NICOLE HUHN.
Pacifica National Board member MYLA RESON tells us of the celebration on the Venice Pier honoring Leonard.
A thrilled DEB SCHINDLER chimes in with her joy and thanks for this victory.
Our long attention span is celebrated by co-convenor MIKE HERSH, who announces another zoom honoring MLKing soon to follow.
We are sent on our way by BOB ROEHM who does the calendar for the Columbus Free Press, putting us on nearly 100 times.
Having celebrated the victories of Dr. King & Leonard Peltier, we leave on a happy note!!!!
We start with an amazing, uplifting poem from our poet laureate MIMI GERMAN.
MIKE HERSH tells us that “everything is hackable.”
www.seesaynow.org is recommended to us by our erstwhile engineer STEVE CARUSO.
MYLA RESON call for an autopsy & a forensic investigation, with a well-deserved slam on Bill Clinton
From balmy Minnesota we hear from HEDY TRIPP enumerate the disturbing vote breakdown in Minneapolis.
An intriguing interactive chart of voter preferences comes to us from DONALD SMITH.
The mechanics of our election are examined by the great RAY LUTZ, one America’s true experts on vote count audits.
Infiltration of the vote counting process is examined by KPFK Board Chair TATANKA BRICCA.
Legendary No Nukes activist JOHN LA FORGE reminds us of his life-long opposition to nuclear weapons and tells us about a truly great Judge.
The Christian Nationalist/Zionist alliance is analyzed by radio host LYNN FEINERMAN.
Jeremy Rifkin’s AQUA PLANET is summoned for us by JOHN STEINER, who reminds us that it’s a “time for Bothisattvas”.
ERIC LAZARUS reminds us that “autocracies like Russia are not fun to live in” and commends to us a book entitled “Autocracy Inc”.
From much-acclaimed news documentarian DAVID SALTMAN we are guided toward a forward strategy, including that rarest of animal: the benign billionaire.
If the billionaires bought the election, wonders JUSTIN TRUONG, shouldn’t Biden have dropped out earlier…& how can we fight them?
…and as TATANKA wonders if Steve Jobs was murdered, we look deep into a dark new era of which we’ll make total sense NEXT WEEK!!!
CALIFORNIA SOLARTOPIA IN TRUMP’S WAKE We regroup after the Trump Debacle to talk about solarizing California and the world. DENNY ZANE, former mayor of Santa Monica, guides us through the ropes of running a referenda for a tax fund for solarization. Co-hosts TATANKA BRICCA and MYLA RESON help guide us on our way, along with some great callers. We also inaugurate the idea of a NEW SOLARTOPIA, comprised of CA, OR, WA & HI. JOIN US!!!
Voices from the Middle East; Bringing out the Voters; Band of Sisters; Swap Your Vote
We begin GREEP #196 in the Middle East with DENNIS BERNSTEIN and ANITA BARROWS. RUTH STRAUSS warns of burning drop boxes and has some advice for the Harris campaign. Getting Out the Vote is the expertise of the great ANDREA MILLER whose non-partisan Center for Common Ground website shows us how to direct voters to the polls. From Florida we get the latest update on rampaging fascism from JIM NATHAN. Atlanta-based RAY MCCLENDON guides us to Communities United for Justice, which supports canvassers in the field. MARGOT KING & JOHN STEINER update us on the Band of Sisters, which supports women’ reproductive rights. Swap the Vote is explained by MIKE HERSH as a way to use the Electoral College to balance support for 3d parties in “safe states” versus major candidates in swing states. Andrea Miller reminds us that leaving messages increases turnout by 5%, and that it’s key to let citizens know that early voting can be decisive. We must, says Andrea, let voters know they are invited to the dance, & the dance is democracy. We adjourn early to make phone calls to potential voters…and we hope you will too….
GREEP Zoom #195: From Election Protection to Renewable Energy to Outer Space
We start with a beautiful poem by MIMI GERMAN, as only our poet laureate can do.
ANDREA MILLER kicks us off with a deep dive into the world of phone banking aimed at enhancing voter turnout in this apocalyptic election.
Former Charlotte two-term Mayor JENNIFER ROBERTS gives us the latest from Mecklenberg County.
RAY MCCLENDON of Communities United tells us what is happening in the critical swing state of Georgia.
Widely popular radio host EGBERTO WILLIES reports in from Texas.
Co-Convenor MIKE HERSH encourages us to see the bigger picture on the democracy for which we are fighting.
JIM NATHAN lays out the astounding deterioration of the dictatorial state of Florida.
KPFA radio host DENNIS BERNSTEIN chimes in to invite our guests to a rally for Donald Trump with Greg Palast, producer of “Vigilantes, Inc.”
From Michigan, ROGER RAPOPORT reports on the nuclear madness gathering in the Great Lakes.
Radio host LYNNE FEINERMAN of “Women Rising Radio” discusses the impact of the Mid East war on the US election and the need for joy in these hard times.
ELISSA RICHARDSON HALL decries the impact of the mainstream media.
KEVIN KAMPS of Beyond Nuclear warns that the Biden Inflation Reduction Act calls for gargantuan handouts to the scam atomic power industry.
The predatory nature of the nuke power industry is underlined by both MYLA RESON and RAY LUTZ.
The brave new world of UFO investigation is introduced by TATANKA BRICCA in intriguing detail.
Engineer STEVE CARUSO tells us that China has called for “No First Use” of nuclear weapons….
…a fitting way to end today’s astounding session, and to invite you all to join us next week!!!
FROM INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY TO ELECTION PROTECTION 2024 TO THE MIDDLE EAST
We start with the legendary Indigenous leader-lawyer CHASE IRON EYES, who gives us a brilliant overview of the current state of Indigenous America & Leonard Peltier.
The great grassroots organizer ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground gives us a guide to phone banking to spark voter turnout in critical states.
JASON BERLIN of Field Team Six fills us on his unique phone banking operation, focussed especially on young potential voters.
MYLA RESON asks Jason about what the polls are saying, especially in Montana, Texas & Florida.
The idea of switching and offsetting votes from fringe parties in and out of swing states comes from RUSSELL GREENE.
Threats to FEMA disaster workers in North Carolina are exposed by ILENE PROCTOR in Asheville.
MIKE HERSH gives us a quick introduction to a civil discussion of the situation in the Middle East.
Civilian deaths, land development issues, economic resources and spiritual forces are discussed by LYNN FEINERMAN.
STEVE CARUSO raises issues about the horrifying slaughter in Gaza.
Massive underground oil resources are discussed by DAVID GRACE.
CONNOR MURRAY of the Council for a Livable World tells us how his legendary organization fights against nuclear weapons.
TATANKA BRICCA expands on the links between nuclear power & the Atomic Bomb(s).
To conclude we cope with Thom Hartmann’s terrifying outline of the various ways this year’s election could be stolen.
We will go deeper into this profoundly unsettled situation the next week. STAY TUNED!!!
PROTECTING THE 2024 VOTE, & A WEBINAR ON NEW NUKES
We start GREEP Zoom #193 with the great ANDREA MILLER, who lays out her powerful push for getting out the vote in key swing states, including Florida, Georgia and North Carolina.
STEPHEN SPITZ explains his very mixed experience with young election workers at the University of Michigan.
RAY MCCLENDON follows by describing the mixed impacts of manipulated polls and the stripping of voter registration rolls in Georgia and elsewhere.
A major election outcome prediction made by Alan Lichtman, who has been right many times before, is analyzed by TATANKA BRICCA.
We then shift gears to our Nuclear Webinar, starting with Michigan-based reporter ROGER RAPOPORT, who gives us the low-down on the insane attempt to re-fire the Palisades atomic reactor.
World-renowned health researcher JOE MANGANO confirms the death toll from TMI, Fermi, Palisades and other nukes linked to radiation emissions from these “perfectly safe” loser reactors.
KEVIN KAMPS of Beyond Nuclear adds Fermi I and other destroyed or decrepit nukes to the murderous list.
We pay homage to the great Philadelphia Inquirer op ed against TMI from the great Jane Fonda.
LINDA SEELEY from the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace updates us on the latest developments from Diablo Canyon, and reminds us that badly embrittled pressure vessel at Unit One is identical to the RPV at Palisades..
SHERI MCWHIRTER asks about the rule-making petition being circulated by Roger Rapoport.
MYLA RESON reminds us of the steam generator disaster at San Onofre that forced that plant's permanent closure.
Cleveland’s CONNIE KLINE reports on the continuing energy disaster in Ohio.
Santa Monica’s PAUL NEWMAN asks about Betty Yee, a candidate for California governor who stabbed the renewables industry while she was on the Coastal Commission.
LYNN FEINERMAN wonders if the fossil/nuke industry is using the “anti-woke” reaction to obstruct the rise of renewable energy worldwide.
STEVE CARUSO wonders about the “crazy-whack” attack against renewables despite their plummeting price tag.
Next week we will meet on Indigenous People’s Day, hopefully to celebrate the release of LEONARD PELTIER.
ELECTION PROTECTION ISSUE GO SKY HIGH; NUKE POWER’S INSANE REVIVAL ATTEMPT
Our GREEP zoom #192 begins with a furious renunciation of the death penalty in the wake of the unconscionable official murder of MARCELLUS WILLIAMS. Mr. Williams’s extensive appeals have been rejected by a “pro life” Supreme Court despite the appeal by the family of the alleged victim and many others. At a minimum more than 200 innocent victims have been put to death by “pro life hypocrites” despite overwhelming evidence of their innocence. STEVE ROSENFELD then gives us a detailed exploration of the mechanics of the upcoming fall election, focusing on the contrast of the legal landscape alongside the administrative landscape. Steve is joined by RAY MCCLENDON of Georgia and JOHN BRAKEY of Arizona in arousing massive popular turnout at the voting booth. JOHN STEINER introduces DAVID NEVINS of The Fulcrum.us and The Overtime Project, also aimed at voter enthusiasm. MIKE HERSH urges us to view VIGILANTES INC. by Greg Palast with its warning against voter suppression in 2024. At the one-hour mark we hear from CAILEY UNDERHILL of the Solar Rights Alliance. Cailey explains the horrendous anti-solar veto by CA. Gov. Gavin Newsom. KEVIN KAMPS and TIM JUDSON then give us a full tour of the atomic madness behind the manic attempt to re-open the nukes at Three Mile Island & Palisades. STEVE CARUSO and TATANKA BRICCA fill in the need to build statewide coalitions in Ohio and California to fight corporate capture of our energy supplies. MYLA RESON reminds us of the serious crisis in plugged turbine generator tubes that curse all uninsured old atomic reactors. PAT MARIDA and RANDI POKLADNIK give us the dirty news from Ohio about phony “clean” technologies being lined up to create industrial hydrogen. CAMILLA REES & DR. MAGDA HAVAS lay out cautionary issues involving wind energy and the kinds of “dirty energy” they might generate, both on and off-shore. ALAN MINSKY of the Progressive Democrats of America announces an upcoming showing of Palast’s VIGILANTES INC. RAY LUTZ takes us out with a reminder that the 2024 election is upon us, & will require the utmost vigilance…. See you next week!!!
PROTECTING THE VOTE IN GEORGIA & ARIZONA; THE YOUTH VOTE; REOPENING 3 MILE ISLAND & SOLARIZING LOS ANGELES
With the great RAY MCCLENDON we explore the astonishing ins & outs of how the votes will be counted in Georgia, a complex dance that could decide the 2024 election.
Backing Ray up is the amazing JOHN BRAKEY, whose pathbreaking work on digital imaging and election audits in Arizona has forever changed our history.
RUTH STRAUSS, LYNN FEINERMAN and TATANKA BRICCA raise major questions about the chaos about to throw the November election into limbo.
STEVE CARUSO fills us in on the completely warped dirty tricks being used to sabotage Ohio’s latest anti-gerrymandering referendum.
PROFESSOR MARCIELLE BRANDLER gives us some critical insights into the minds of young voters.
SANDY BOLZENIUS, based in Columbus, gives us some critical insights into the insanity now engulfing the Ohio town of Springfield.
MYLA RESON reminds us that the MAGA attack on immigration is designed to divert attention from Trump’s catastrophic failure in his debate.
Emmy-winning documentarian DAVID SALTMAN explains Brazilian attitudes toward race vs those in the US.
CAMILLA REES opens a great discussion on RFK, Jr., and the future of large-scale wind farming.
We’re then joined by BONNIE NIXON, sustainability director of the Ports of Long Beach/San Pedro, who is working to make then 100% net zero by 2030….or sooner!!!
See you all next week….
WILL THE 2024 ELECTION BE STOLEN? HOW ABOUT DECERTING GA/AZ?DR. NANCY NIPARKO gives us a hot and heavy weather report from Santa Monica.Executive Director ALAN MINSKY of Progressive Democrats of America gives us a parallel report on Get Out the Vote efforts and PDA’s new voting calendar.Greenpeace stalwart KENNY BRUNO gives us the overview on how this year’s presidency could be stolen.Communities United’s RAY MCCLENDON follows with a terrifying account of the “poster child” for election manipulation in Georgia, advocating that “we take action in advance” to protect our democracy.From Arizona we hear that JOHN BRAKEY is still being sued by Santa Cruz County for making a records request…but that the likelihood of a fair vote count might be better in Arizona than in Georgia.MYLA RESON wonders what happens if Harris/Walz win the White House but not the US Senate, especially as it applies to the US Supreme Court.Nancy Niparko returns to give a rave review to Greg Palast’s new film “Vigilantes,” which we will be examining next week.LYNN FEINERMAN and MARILYN MARKS express their concerns about counting votes in Georgia.MIKE HERSH introduces Maryland state Senator JEFF WALDSTREICHER to address issues of gun control and election protection.The legendary ANDREA MILLER of Center for Common Ground shares her plans for Get Out the Vote work in BIPOC states over the next two months.GREEP Engineer STEVE CARUSO reports from Ohio on the depradations of Elon Musk & the billionaire attack on our democracy.KPFK Chair TATANKA BRICCA reminds us of the dangers of Project 2025 and its “Nazi Playbook" threat to American democracy.Southern Ohio’s VINA COLLEY gives us the latest bad news from the nuclear disaster at Piketon/Portsmouth.NEXT WEEK: Greg Palast & “Vigilantes”….
SAVING THE SOLAR INDUSTRY WHILE SHUTTING DIABLO NUKES…& SOLARIZING THE OLYMPICS
We start today’s Solartopian KPFK-based radio broadcast with solar pioneer RON LEONARD.
Ron explains how California’s “green” governor is in fact decimating the nation’s renewable energy industry.
Ron dissects how the states Public Utilities Commission is destroying the electric supply structure, leaving CA with the nation’s 2d highest electric rates.
California Solartopia’s co-host MYLA RESON makes clear the need to switch to renewables ASAP.
KPFK local station board chair TATANKA BRICCA chimes in with a report for the north country.
Mothers for Peace co-founder LINDA SEELEY updates us the possibility that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission might seriously consider seismic issues at the Diablo site.
Co-Host HARVEY “SLUGGO” WASSERMAN announces the Solartopian Olympics Committee, mean to make all future Olympics sites completely power by local renewables.
VICTORY IN WMASS! ASSANGE ON THE BEACH!! HOMELESSNESS, ELECTION PROTECTION / DECERTIFICATION-THEFT OF 2024GREEP Zoom #187 opens with ANNA GYORGY to celebrate a major environmental victory in Western Massachusetts.VINNIE DESTEFANO shares the miracle & joy of Julian Assange walking the beach, a free man, with his wife and kids.TATANKA BRICCA reminds us that we still must free Leonard Peltier.The great homeless activist SUSIE SHANNON rallies us for activism to solve this horrible human nightmare.WENDI LEDERMAN adds her own heart-felt dimension to the tragedy of many fellow citizens living on the street.MYLA RESON then introduces SETH & EMILY of Walk the Walk, which helps with funding for grassroots election activism.EMILY LEVY follows by sharing the activities of her great Scrutineers organization.At the one-hour mark we’re joined by GREG PALAST to talk about his “Vigilantes” film & this year's massive disenfranchisement of voters of color.RAY MCCLENDON of the Atlanta-based Communities United for Justice describes the looming attack on Electoral College certification in Georgia.Legendary journalist LUCIAN TRUSCOTT IV adds his unique perspective on the litigation of 2020 to what may happen again in 2024.DR. RUTH STRAUSS, radio host LYNN FEINERMAN, renewables genius RON LEONARD join in to fill out this incredible 100 minutes on election protection.See you next week!!!
LETS GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS; LET’S GET SOLAR ON OUR ROOFTOPS!!
GREEP zoom #186 opens with the brilliant, beautiful poetry of our great Laureate MIMI GERMAN.
We then dive deep into the nightmare of money in politics with GREG COLERIDGE of Move to Amend.
RAY MCCLENDON of Communities United for Justice gives us the full report for embattled, disenfranchised Georgia.
We take a deep dive into the dark world of the Electoral College and the possibility that the 2024 election could hinge on MAGA decertifying enough states to swing the presidency.
WENDI LEDERMAN gives us the latest report from Ron Desantis’s Florida.
PAUL NEWMAN, MIKE HERSH, MYLA RESON & LYNN FEINERMAN give us great insights into saving our democracy.
Chair SUSAN YOUNG of the Pacifica Radio National Board gives us the call to vote in the on-going Pacifica election.
DR. RUTH STRAUSS updates us on Pacifica and the protection of our national election.
TATANKA BRICCA then introduces the great DENNY ZANE, former mayor of Santa Monica, who explains the Earth-moving referendum process in Los Angeles.
Denny is joined by the great LINDA SEELEY of the Mothers for Peace of San Luis Obispo, working for 50 years to shut the insane reactors at Diablo Canyon.
STEVE CARUSO jumps in to remind us of the immense power potential of using hemp to move our vehicle fleet.
MYLA RESON reminds Denny of the need to protect what’s left of Santa Monica and LA’s decimated tree canopy.
Quick recapThe team discussed the upcoming elections, focusing on the need for secure voting methods, fairness in ballot counting, and the role of activists in ensuring a fair election. They also introduced notable figures, including Christian and Dennis Bernstein, who shared their views on women's rights, voter education, and the importance of poetry in times of uncertainty. Lastly, they engaged in discussions about potential running mates for Kamala Harris, the interconnectedness of all work, and the historic nature of Harris becoming the first woman of color to hold the presidency.Next stepsKaren Greenberg and Julian Zelitzer to continue promoting their book "Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security IssueChristian Nunez and NOW to continue get-out-the-vote efforts and voter education initiativesDennis Bernstein to follow up on discussing Diablo Canyon on his radio showHarvey Wasserman to connect Karen Greenberg and Julian Zelitzer with Dennis Bernstein for a potential radio interviewHarvey Wasserman to reach out to Barbara Koppel about obtaining video footage from Woodstock '94Myla Reson to monitor astrological aspects related to upcoming political eventsHarvey Wasserman to write a letter to the current Mayor of Chicago regarding protest permits for the upcoming Democratic ConventionMike Hirsch to prepare audio recording of his composition for next week's callHarvey Wasserman to invite Mimi Gurman back next week to read her poetryCall participants to continue discussing and analyzing potential VP picks for Kamala HarrisCall participants to monitor and support Cori Bush's primary campaign in the coming daysHarvey Wasserman and Myla Reson to host their radio show on Wednesday at 3:05 PM Pacific time on KPFK.orgSummaryAutomatic Meeting Summary and LSD DiscussionGree-Gree introduced an automatic meeting summary feature, which could simplify the work of the station board secretaries. myla and Mike discussed the potential benefits and issues, including name recognition accuracy. Meanwhile, karen presented while Win led a discussion on LSD legalization and the Fermi nuclear plant incident. The group also discussed a book by karen and julian about a potential "armed coup," with Win praising their credentials. Lastly, Linda Foley, a Maryland representative, joined as a guest, and plans were made to feature poetry readings by Dennis Bernstein in the following hour.Election Security and Voting Rights DiscussionWin initiated a discussion about the security of the upcoming elections and the nation, with karen and julian sharing their concerns. karen emphasized the importance of viewing elections as a national security issue, given the various vulnerabilities and threats. julian discussed the relevance of the issues surrounding voting rights and election administration in the current political climate, highlighting the potential for increased political support to tackle these problems. The discussion also touched on the origins of these issues in the 21st century, with Win citing examples of voter roll purges and alleged electoral fraud in several states. The conversation concluded with the importance of election security and the potential threats to the upcoming presidential election being emphasized, with julian suggesting the reintroduction of measures to restore the Voting Rights Act.Introducing Notable Figures and Endorsing Kamala HarrisWin introduced several notable figures including Delegate Foley, a journalist and former president of the newspaper guild, and Christian, a social worker and women's rights advocate. Christian, representing the National Organization for Women, emphasized the importance of fighting for women's civil, voting, and reproductive rights, and the need to combat disinformation and oppression in the upcoming presidential election. He also announced their Political Action Committee's official endorsement of Kamala Harris as the Presidential nominee, made the day after Joe Biden endorsed Harris.Securing Elections and Protecting DemocracyThe team discussed concerns about the integrity of the US election process, focusing on the need for secure voting methods, such as hand-marked paper ballots, and the importance of fairness in the selection of those who count the ballots. They also highlighted the role of activists and grassroots movements in ensuring a fair election, and the potential impact of high volunteer rates for campaigns. The discussion touched on the upcoming election in North Carolina, the need for voter education, and the potential challenges and vulnerabilities in the election process. The team also emphasized the importance of unity and solidarity in protecting democracy, and the need to prevent a regression to pre-Civil Rights era conditions if Donald Trump is re-elected.Dennis Bernstein's Poetry and Election DiscussionWin introduced Christian, who had to leave early, and then invited Dennis Bernstein, a poet and talk show host, to share his work. Dennis read two poems: one in memory of his brother who was a skilled mechanic, and another in honor of his father, a war hero who often spoke of a bee that saved his life. The meeting also included an open forum discussion about the upcoming election, but no official endorsements were made.Poetry Sharing and Resilience DiscussionDennis shared a poem about resilience and hope, emphasizing the importance of living fully despite difficult circumstances. Tatanka thanked Dennis for his poetry and encouraged others to continue sending letters to Biden and Harris. Win then shared a poem about his experience at Woodstock, reflecting on the loss of his parents and the spiritual connection he felt at the event. The conversation ended with Win sharing another poem titled "Shoshi and Daddy," which he dedicated to his mother.Sharing Personal Poetry and Emily DickinsonWin shared a personal and touching experience with his daughter on Mother's Day, which was followed by Tatanka's drum song "2 Hearts, one drum," emphasizing the power of love and the importance of being present in the moment. Dennis shared a personal anecdote about his mother's poem and encouraged others to share their own poetic works, with myla affirming that everyone in the Zoom call likely had a poem to share. The group also discussed the life and work of Emily Dickinson, highlighting her impact and influence, and mentioned an ongoing exhibition in Amherst, Massachusetts, and a yearly gathering of her fans to read her poetry.Woodstock Memories and RegretsRon and Win reminisced about their experiences at Woodstock in 1994 and 1969. Win recounted being asked to give a speech criticizing Pepsi and other bottlers at Woodstock '94, though Pepsi threatened to withhold sponsorship if he did so. Ron shared an anecdote about interacting with Country Joe of Country Joe and the Fish. Win discussed the chaos of being introduced by Graham while Crosby, Stills & Nash were playing during his 1969 Woodstock speech. He also mentioned a premonition about his mother's death while dancing to Tatanka's music. Both speakers lamented their inability to obtain a video of the events to show their grandchildren.Hope, Diablo Canyon, and Songwriting DiscussionDennis shared a poem about hope, which led to a discussion about Diablo Canyon and a promise to provide more information. myla then shared her nostalgic experience selling the Berkeley Barb during the war and the group discussed the upcoming primary election for Cori Bush, a Democratic Squad member. The group considered endorsing candidates and supporting Bush's campaign through the Progressive Democrats of America. Towards the end, the group engaged in a light-hearted discussion about singing and songwriting, with a focus on the Scalia and Thomas themes. The possibility of future discussions with songwriter Steven Seinheim was also suggested.Discussing Potential Running Mates for Kamala HarrisWin suggested several potential running mates for Kamala Harris, including Josh Shapiro, Roy Cooper, and Mark Kelly. Win believed that Mark Kelly would be a strong candidate due to his impressive resume and potential to deliver Arizona and Nevada. However, Steve disagreed, suggesting that Roy Cooper would be a better choice due to his experience and ability to attack the Republicans. myla also expressed her preference for Cooper and Tim Walts, highlighting their progressive values and leadership qualities. The group also discussed potential drawbacks of having two women on the ticket and expressed uncertainty about the progressive credentials of Roy Cooper.Ancestors, VP Candidates, and ElectionsTatanka initiated a discussion about the interconnectedness of all work and the significance of acknowledging ancestors. The group then engaged in a lively conversation about potential vice presidential candidates, with suggestions ranging from Muhammad Ali to Eleanor Roosevelt. The historic nature of Kamala Harris becoming the first woman of color to hold the presidency was also discussed, with references to Gracie Allen's 1941 presidential campaign. The participants also discussed the possibility of international observers for the upcoming US election, the influence of big tech money on Kamala's campaign, and the upcoming Democratic Convention. Personal anecdotes and memories were shared, and the importance of remembering names correctly was emphasized.
CHRISTO-FASCISM; OHIO IN TURMOIL; GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING & ORGANIC FOOD
We open GREEP Zoom #184 with ANDRA WATKINS & her uniquely powerful view of Christo-Fascist / Christian Nationalism and Project 2025, the far-right blueprint for a new American theocracy.
Andra grew up in a South Carolina fundamentalist community but somehow came away to give us a powerful ground-up view of the forces trying to make America Puritan again.
DR. NANCY NIPARKO, our resident neurologist, wonders about the psychology behind this increasingly powerful fascist movement.
ERIC LAZARUS, LYNN FEINERMAN, DR. RUTH STRAUSS, JOHN STEINER, DIANA ARTEMIS get into the nitty gritty of what the far right is really saying.
Voter Suppression in Ohio is explained by NANCY LARSON in deep detail, especially when it comes to Ohio’s disenfranchisement czar Frank LaRose.
Nancy is joined from the Buckeye State by STEVE CARUSO who explains the cyber-now rages over the right to vote.
WENDI LEDERMAN reports from Florida about how the DeSantis disenfranchisement campaign is destroying what’s left of democracy in the Sunshine State.
MARY STONEWALL-BUTLER volunteers her service to help anyone working to protect the vote.
We then hear from long-time pro-democracy organizer LORI GRACE warns us of the likelihood of violence in the upcoming election.
From Georgia, RAY MCCLENDON reports on the rise of massive movements for Unity against Project 2025 and MAGA.
We are illuminated by the great DENNIS BERNSTEIN, host of the nationally-syndicated FLASHPOINTS, originating at KPFA/Pacifica.
Dr. Niparko takes a deep dive into the mental challenges of both Joe Biden and Donald Trump and “malignant normality.”
BARBARA WIMSATT and TATANKA BRICCA give us important new perspectives.
Then MIKE TABOR stars in a major presentation on the production of safe, clean food.
MYLA RESON updates us on the importance of food growing.
MIKE HERSH then gives us the lowdown on Mike Tabor & his landmark work on clean agriculture.
4 PILLARS OF AMERICAN FASCISM; THE TRAGEDY OF HOMELESSNESS We begin GREEP zoom #183 with HEDY TRIPP and her announcement of the public showing of the new documentary film “Detroit’s Olympic Uprising.” The great ANDREA MILLER from the Center for Common Ground then takes us through a devastating exposition of the US Supreme Court’s decision to restore an absolute monarchy to the North American continent. Her “Protecting Democracy from the Court” lays out in terrifying detail the Supremes’ attack on democracy. Their decisions range from dismissing charges against January 6 insurrectionists to establishing the divine right of a sitting president—-and maybe even an ex-president—-to break any laws they want. MYLA RESON asks about the Biden Plan for reorganizing the Supreme Court. ERIC LAZARUS proposes a civil assembly to substitute for the Court as is done in Ireland. GREGG GORDON says “we’re the King” and points out that the Court’s decision now applies to President Biden, giving him absolute power….for the time being. LYNN FEINERMAN tells us of GREG PALAST’S cinematic warning, in the movie “Vigilantes”, against vote challenging, which allows a single individual to disqualify thousands of registered voters without due process. Georgia’s RAY MCCLENDON confirms our worst nightmare about mass disqualifications in the Peach State among others. An Executive Order from the President would have no impact against this because of state’s rights. Ray urges us to focus on local election boards to counter this assault on democracy. WENDI LEDERMAN, MIKE HERSH, PAUL NEWMAN, STEVE KAISER and DENNIS BERNSTEIN chime in on various aspects of this deep attack on our democracy. We then welcome the legendary DONALD WHITEHEAD of the National Coalition for the Homeless. Dr. Whitehead takes us deep into the horrifying plague of homelessness that now so deeply taints the American soul. LORI GRACE then begins digging into the Project 2025 documents and provisos that might include a treason trial for Liz Cheney complete with execution of, at least, the death penalty. In the eyes of Christian Nationalists, she said, “God has ordained Trump.” TATANKA BRICCA brings us consideration of the Housing First organization that is successful 90% of the time for people who are unhoused. SANDY BOLZENIUS tells us of Move to Amend which works against the Citizens United decision that has opened the floodgates for corporations to take over our government and extinguish our democracy. DR. NANCY NIPARKO reminds us tat a major part of the homeless crisis has to do with overpricing on rents, bad zoning regulations and more. Tatanka reminds us of the horrendous crisis we face with LEONARD PELTIER, who faces a de facto death penalty unless he is soon freed. STEVE CARUSO has engineered another phenomenal gathering. We’ll see you next week!!!
FLORIDA FASCISM; DIABLO NUKE SHOWDOWN; LEONARD PELTIER’S LAST CHANCE; PACIFICA ELECTIONS; THE PEOPLE’S GUIDE
We begin GREEP Zoom #181 with a terrifying report from WENDI LEDERMAN on the declining state of democracy in Ron DeSantis’s Floridastan.
The great former California Public Utilities Commission Chair LORETTA LYNCH gives us a deep dive into the brutal battle over the Diablo Canyon nukes and the additional $400 million the once-green Governor Gavin Newsom wants to hand his pals at Pacific Gas & Electric.
MYLA RESON, TATANKA BRICCA, PAUL NEWMAN, RON LEONARD, LINDA SEELEY and STEVE CARUSO jump into this truly electrifying mega-theft being perpetrated on the people of California.
We then hear from KEN STERN on the dark, dire history of the trials of LEONARD PELTIER and the reality of his last parole hearing.
As we explore the horrific 50-year injustice done to this beloved AIM activist, JAMES STARKEWOLF reminds us of the early travesties accompanying this horrible persecution.
We hear further about the possibility of having Congress appoint a new member to the Parole Board that might restore Leonard’s freedom.
MYLA RESON then fills us in on the vital upcoming election at the Pacifica Radio Network.
VINNIE DESTEFANO gives us a quick update on the case of JULIAN ASSANGE.
Finally, CAMILLA REES fills us in on the latest developments with THE PEOPLE’S GUIDE TO GRASSROOTS ELECTION ORGANIZING, a definitive document we hope will help us save American democracy.
We start GREEP #179 with JOHN STEINER and LEAH GREENBERG, co-founder of the great grassroots juggernaut Indivisible.
Leah is joined by ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground, RAY MCCLENDON of Communities United, MAYA VAN ROSSUM of the Green Amendments campaign, and HOLLY MOSHER of Why Do You Vote, who shows us a wonderful video of folks explain to us why, in fact, they vote.
KENNY BRUNO chimes in with cogent questions about the impacts of Gaza and other key issues in the upcoming election.
DENNIS BERNSTEIN, renowned host of KPFA/Pacifica’s Flashpoints, tells us about the great LARRY BENSKY. Emmy-winning DAVID SALTMAN adds to the eulogy, as does KPFK Chair Tatanka Bricca, who also underscores the need to become a voting member of the Pacifica Radio Network.
VINNIE DE STEFANO updates us on the Julian Assange case.
WENDI LEDERMAN urges us to think about Gaza and how it might affect the upcoming election.
RICK GOODWELL urges us to make sure we and our neighbors are, in fact, registered to vote.
RAY LUTZ updates us on the crisis in our voting machines.
PAUL NEWMAN, MIKE HERSCH and MYLA RESON get into the struggle of a southern high school and statue-defenders intent on being named for Confederate traitors.
LYNN FEINERMAN conjures “the furies” of great and powerful females and their “boiling rage” against Trump and the usurpation of the rights of women.
Georgia voter PATRICK THOMPSON reports from the corrupt killing fields of Georgia now dropped into the depths of dead nuclear age.
WILLIAM GRAVES ends with the insanity of what Myla has called FELONIUS TRUMP and the terrifying future he promises us all.
Next week, in GREEP #180, we will move deeper into the art and science of successfully fighting back…See you in Solartopia!!!
GOOD NEWS FOR JULIAN ASSANGE; DAVID SWANSON’S BEYOND WAR; SAVING WMASS FROM BAD BATTERIES; WHO & THE COVID
Our astoundingly dense GREEP Zoom #178 starts with VINNIE DESTEFANO giving us some rare but important good news on JULIAN ASSANGE & his ridiculous victimization by the US government.
In this case a British court has ruled that the US cannot guarantee him a fair trial, and that he therefore has the right to appeal against extradition. Hopefully he’ll soon be free!!!
We follow with the great peace activist DAVID SWANSON and his illustrious cohort DAVID HARTSOUGH.
David Swanson tells us about his magnificent BEYOND WAR campaigns against the senseless militarism that plagues our species.
David Hartsough narrates some of his fantastic stories of peace activism, including an amazing moment when seven sailors jumped off a warship rather than deliver weapons to destroy Vietnam.
DAVID SALTMAN informs us that AMAL CLOONEY has had a helping hand in issuing the indictments to Netanyahu and Sinwar.
MYLA RESON and TATANKA BRICCA join PAUL NEWMAN in raising important questions about the war in Ukraine.
ANNA GYORGY, CORT DORSEY and BILL STUBBLEFIELD give us the low-down on a brutal grassroots fight against a lithium battery field criminally mis-sited in the rural Massachusetts town of Wendell.
This classic bottom-up battle shows how the coming of Solartopia must be done with eco-sanity.
Finally, CAMILLA REES introduces a stellar session on the World Health Organization, vaccines and COVID.
DR. MERYL NASS and MARY HOLLAND give us the devastating detail on the WHO attempt to install a global program on vaccination.
WENDI LEDERMAN, MIKE HERSH & DR. NANCY NIPARKO offer differing points of view of this critically important crisis.
Next week being Memorial Day we’ll take the time off and SEE YOU AGAIN IN 2 WEEKS.
No Nukes…shut Diablo Canyon!!!
RETIRE MEDICAL DEBT; SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY WITH GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING
We start GREEP zoom #177 with the great JERRY ASHTON and the amazing campaign to free the American public from medical debt.
Jerry announces the inauguration of his game-changing campaign which is taking on the debt of veterans while saving them from PTSD, suicide, poverty and more.
Among other things, Jerry tells us that his RIP Medical Debt campaign has retired more than $11 BILLION in life-destroying arrears lifted from more than 8 MILLION American citizens.
Don’t miss his descriptions of his astonishingly effective UNDUE operation that YOU can help.
Our second hour features RAY MCCLENDON with a terrifying description of voter suppression bills being forced through the Georgia Legislature to deny the right to vote.
The bills (of course) target mostly the communities of color, and have spread throughout the United States.
The anti-democracy campaign comes with violent MAGA terror against citizens who may want to work at the polls to guarantee a democratic proceeding.
Journalist STEVE ROSENFELD joins us from Arizona to amplify the national perspective on this fascist horror show.
We further hear from STEVE CARUSO, MIKE HERSH, WENDI LEDERMAN, LYNNE FEINERMAN and JOHN BRAKEY on this unprecedented crisis.
Unless we all get active, we will lose both our democracy and our planet.
We know what to do…we have no choice but to win.
ANTI-TRANS ATTACKS; JULIAN ASSANGE; LABOR RISING; CAMPUS UPHEAVALS; SAVING DEMOCRACY IN AZWe open with BRYNN TANNEHILL’s powerful report on escalating attacks against trans people throughout the US, but with an astounding victory in Kansas (!).VINNIE DESTEFANO’S information on Julian Assange includes a way YOU can help by calling your Senators & Representatives to get him FREE!MYLA RESON, DAVID GURAN and WENDI LEDERMAN chime into the amazing battle to save the right to practice journalism anywhere on Earth.RUTH STRAUSS talks to us about “Outside Agitators” and Joe Biden.From Georgia's RAY MCCLENDON we hear the latest on the Trump prosecutions and also on the arrival of the Vogtle nuclear plant already devastating the Peach State economy.Republican Arizona state Senator KEN BENNETT explains the 4-point program for guaranteeing safe, fair, digitally scanned paper ballots that produce accurate outcomes in public elections.With legendary election protection pioneer JOHN BRAKEY we conduct an astonishing excursion into the workings of the AZ legislature’s progress into the world of actual democracy.Will this publicly verifiable method of conducting the vote counting and auditing process become a national model? Let’s hope so.Globally infamous “magician” DAVID SALTMAN jumps in to doubt the ability of run a fair and accurate vote count when professional slights of hand are lurking.An Emmy-winning investigative reporter, Saltman challenges Sen. Bennett and Brakey to prove that they can produce a vote count without error.DONALD SMITH warns of violence at the polls.Myla Reson then challenges Senator Bennett to do face the realities of the horrendous Palo Verde nuclear plant. No Nukes!!!In four weeks (on June 3) we will stage a national zoom gathering on how to conduct fair, reliable, verifiable elections this fall….
NUKE ATTACK ON SOLARTOPIA; UNCOMMITTED; RESHAPING THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE
We start GREEP zoom #175 with the great LINDA SEELEY from the Mothers for Peace of San Luis Obispo explaining the latest hearing on shutting the Diablo Canyon nukes.
Linda explains that the extreme heat, pressure and radiation inside a nuclear reactor have embrittled Reactor Pressure Vessels, robbing nukes everywhere of their braking systems…rendering them all vulnerable to the next apocalyptic explosion.
As Linda says, we have far more battery storage in California than Diablo produces….so who needs nukes? Answer: NOBODY!!
MIKE THALLER of Progressive Democrats of America tells his personal horror show of what the San Diego utility has done to his electric bill (hint: it’s not pretty).
Ohio’s CONNIE KLINE tells us about the gargantuan pro-nuke bribery fire still melting the Buckeye State.
Green power pioneer RON LEONARD gets us to the solar nitty-gritty.
MAYA VAN ROSSUM tells us how Green Amendments can help shut the nuke industry.
STEVEN SONDHEIM offers his wisdom on saving the planet.
VINA COLLEY of southern Ohio warns us against the dangers of reviving the Piketon enrichment facility, which has “killed so many people in the community.”
VINNIE DE STEFANO gives us an update JULIAN ASSANGE just as Joe Biden has extolled freedom of the press at the National Correspondents Dinner.
The abortion issue is dissected by WENDI LEDERMAN, including an on-the-ground report of “baby killer” accusations all over.
MIKE HERSH explains the “Uncommitted” movement to get Biden’s attention on war and democracy.
LYNN FEINERMAN demands that the political mainstream pay more attention to the young and the marginalized.
RUTH STRAUSS and MYLA RESON bring reason and balance to the discussion of a nation in upheaval.
From Ann Arbor, we hear from BRIAN STERNBERG on Michigan's confused but vital debate over what happens to electoral delegates.
We conclude with the debate over reshaping the Electoral College and its devastating impact on real democracy.
INSANE ATTEMPT TO RE-START MICHIGAN REACTOR; BRILLIANT EMF PANEL
Our GREEP zoom #174 begins with famed investigative reporter ROGER RAPOPORT and nuclear safety expert KEVIN KAMPS. They explore the absurd $15 billion scam to bilk state and federal taxpayers and ratepayers to pay for re-starting Michigan’s Palisades reactor. https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2024/04/16/michigan-palisades-nuclear-reactor-restart-risk-renewables/73133145007/The government is spending billions to restart Michigan's Palisades reactor. Why? | OpinionMichigan and the federal government will spend billions to restart the Palisades nuclear reactor. They should invest in renewable energy instead.www.freep.com The plant is 50 years old and was shut two years ago for safety reasons. Critical parts have already been stripped out. The company designated to restart the reactor—Holtec—has never operated a reactor. Roger and Kevin give us a complete tour of this atomic catastrophe in the making. WENDI LEDERMAN reports on the attacks on women’s health care in Florida, Arizona and elsewhere. The legendary CAMILLA REES then convenes a world-class panel on the impacts of Electro-Magnetic Frequencies. With world-class expertise, we hear from DR. KARL MARET, MD, M.ENG; TIMOTHY SCHOECHLE, PH.D, and attorney DUNCAN CAMPBELL, Esq. Beautifully guided by Camilla, this is a uniquely powerful session that puts the EMF issue into essential perspective. From LA activist Brenda Martinez gives us an update on the fight against 5G in southern California. LYNN FEINERMAN, DAVID SALTMAN, DR. RUTH STRAUSS, TATANKA BRICCA, RON LEONARD, MYLA RESON & others all kick in. The level of expertise on energy and EMF is unmatched. Don’t miss this double session. No Nukes / No EMF!!
MIMI GERMAN’S GORGEOUS POETRY; PAUL BURKE ON ELECTION PROTECTION; NORMAN SOLOMON ON PEACE
Our GREEP zoom gathering #173 begins with the magnificent MIMI GERMAN, our much-loved Poet Laureate. Mimi reads us her fabulous poem about the time she almost got shot at the CGS nuke on the Hanford nuclear wasteland.
Plus she tells of our great adventure on the legendary peace boat GOLDEN RULE and the time we were rammed (true!!!) by a police boat while protesting Portland’s militaristic “fleet week.”
The great DENNIS BERNSTEIN joins us with tales of his activism as we celebrate the massive impact of his nationally syndicated FLASHPOINTS SHOW on KPFA/Pacifica.
PAUL NEWMAN chips in with a great comment on nuclear casualties.
RON LEONARD reminds us of the realities of the insane continued operations at Diablo Canyon...and of the new Friends of the Earth lawsuit against the handout to keep Diablo headed toward an uninsured Armageddon.
The connection between nuclear power and nuclear weapons is underscored by ALFRED MEYER.
WENDI LEDERMAN the introduces the amazing PAUL BURKE of VOTEWELL.NET, who fills us in on many of the crucial the realities of election theft.
DONALD SMITH and PAUL STOKES raiseadditional key issues on election protection,
At the top of the second hour, we’re joined by the legendary NORMAN SOLOMON.
Norman’s uniquely brilliant career as a journalist includes his work as a non-violent pioneer for peace.
As a co-author of KILLING OUR OWN, Norman reminds us of the horrible death toll among downwinders from the lethal Nevada Bomb tests of the 1950s and ‘60s.
Norman also urges our participation in DAN ELLSBERG WEEK, upcoming June 10-16.
TATANKA BRICCA reminds us of Ellsberg’s true greatness and of the many adventures they shared.
RUTH STRAUSS then reminds us that peace activism can be a dangerous business….and that the voting machines bought with millions of taxpayer dollars for Los Angeles are seriously problematic.
MARION EDEY, legendary founder of the League of Conservation Voters and co-founder of the Threshold Foundatlon talks to us about election protection and more.
We then hear MYLA RESON bemoaning the illusion among some young people that nuclear power can help fight global warming; she also raises the issue of depleted uranium being mis-used in US warfare.
MIKE HERSH reminds us of the great accomplishments of the Clamshell Alliance and Norman’s very effective activism in Oregon on shutting the Trojan reactor.
Norman ends with a plea for the revival of diplomacy as a tool of foreign policy rather than building ever-more weapons for increasingly insane wars.
With such a mindset, Norman warns, DR. STRANGELOVE remains a documentary….NO NUKES!!!
AN ELECTION PROTECTION COURT VICTORY * GRASSROOTS FUNDRAISING * NUCLEAR SHOW-DOWN IN MICHIGAN * “BE THE REVOLUTION”
We begin GREEP gathering #172 with the multi-million-dollar SLAPP suit aiming to murder Greenpeace USA.
We FOLLOW WITH Florida 2000’s coup d’etat perpetrated by the violent Brooks Brother Mob, which included current Supremes John Roberts, Amy Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh.
ANDREA MILLER and RAY MCCLENDON then join us to discuss the powerful new “GiveButter" fundraising website.
We also hear from Andrea about the welcome dismissal—after five years!---of ridiculous voter suppression charges against an innocent Texas citizen.
Ray explains the realities of voter suppression through “caging,” and cites the potential impact of the issue of abortion being on the Florida ballot this fall.
RON LEONARD mocks the Democratic Party’s top-down addiction, and the fatal trap of “couping.”
Andrea points out that Florida’s referendum allowing ex-felons to vote is still being kneecapped by requirements to pay “fines and fees” even if they aren’t spelled out.
RACHEL DEWOSKIN explains the rise of her “Writers for Democratic Action” and the use of the play “It Can’t Happen Here (Again)” as a powerful organizing tool.
Legendary writer/filmmaker ROGER RAPOPORT of Muskegon, Michigan describes his award-winning podcast series on voter turnout, and the desperate need to get people to vote.
Nuclear expert/activist KEVIN KAMPS joins Roger to explain the insane dynamics of the multi-billion-dollar attempt to re-open the failed, decrepit 50-year-old Palisades nuclear reactor, sited on Michigan’s west coast.
RUTH STRAUSS clarifies the fine points activism among former NRC Chairs.
Safe energy activists MYLA RESON and KARL GROSSMAN dissect the absurd attempt to prevent jalopy reactors like Palisades and Diablo from finding their way to the nuclear scrapheap.
WENDI LEDERMAN wraps this week’s Eastern Monday session by introducing writer/organizer JAY PONTI to discuss the challenges and rewards of grassroots campaigning and his new book “Be the Revolution.”
Happy Easter!!! See you next week...
WISCONSIN DE-GERRYMANDERS; ARIZONA ON THE LINE; FLORIDA IN PERIL; HEROIC POLITICAL PRISONERS
We start GREEP Zoom #171 with the great NORM STOCKWELL, Publisher of the legendary Progressive Magazine, telling us how gerrymandering has been reversed in Wisconsin.
It’s a huge victory for democracy that needs to be celebrated, with tangible progressive impacts for years to come…and outcome that could only have happened with grassroots election organizing..
The legendary JOHN BRAKEY then fills us in on the battles for democracy in Arizona, where the outcome for 2024 could decide the Presidency.
JAN PERELMAN, running for Congress in Florida, reports on killer developments in that uniquely tortured state.
MYLA RESON inserts her concerns about the Sunshine State’s horrendous nuclear power plants.
We then hear from DOROTHY REIK and DR. RUTH STRAUSS about the latest assault on birth control and abortion pills as approved by the FDA, now in front of the US Supreme Court.
We open our section on political prisoners with STEVE DONZIGER, who continues to be prosecuted by Chevron for his powerful work for social and ecological justice.
VINNIE DeSTEFANO updates us on the attempts to bring JULIAN ASSANGE to the United States for further torture and persecution.
TATANKA BRICCA reminds us of the horrific forever attack against LEONARD PELTIER.
And JEFF MACKLER provides chapter and verse on the four-decade incarceration of MUMIA ABU-JAMAL.
Finally, WENDI LEDERMAN and PAUL NEWMAN add to the mix of a truly powerful testimony to the wrongness of these prosecutions and the incredible power of the defendants and their supporters.
FANI WILLIS & PROTECTING THE ELECTION; THE END OF NUCLEAR POWER; ANARCHY IN HAITI
GREEP #170 begins with QUASIM RASHID, candidate for Congress in Illinois, who offers a glimpse of a progressive new generation coming to power.
NANCY LARSON fills us in on the latest insanity from the Buckeye State.
SANDY BOLZENIUS, MARY STONEWALL, KARLA SANDS, WENDI LEDERMAN, LYNNE FEINERMAN and others chime in.
RAY MCCLENDON clarifies the latest developments in Trump’s Georgia election theft case and offers a harsh warning on the likelihood of election theft throughout the United States.
PAUL NEWMAN correctly attacks the spineless, listless Merrick Garland.
We then explore the dying nuke power industry alongside the rise of the booming wind industry in New York and elsewhere.
The great PAUL GUNTER, RON LEONARD, TATANKA BRICCA and others then explore the insanity of pro-nuke/anti-solar policies in DC and CA.
MARY OLSON also takes us deep into the realities of the deeply denied death toll at Three Mile Island.
JOHN LAFORGE of NukeWatch updates us on the killing power of tritium and other atomic fallout.
ROSEDANIE CADET delivers as astonishing report of chaos and hardship in HAITI that defies description.
MYLA RESON raises the killer questions about whether France will step up to right its historic wrongs.
…and…WENDI LEDERMAN finishes with a terrifying catalog of the spread of Cop Cities around the US.
Overall, it’s a session to question the fate of the human race….but we WILL see you next week…..
WE DEMAND THE FREEDOM OF JULIAN ASSANGE; WE REVEAL OUR “PEOPLE’S GUIDE TO ELECTION ACTIVISM” & THEN WE EXPLORE SOLARIZING LA
VINNIE DESTEFANO starts us off with a detailed excursion in to horrid on-going torture of Julian Assange.
We then get into the weeds with WENDI LEDERMAN on our comprehensive PEOPLE’S GUIDE TO GRESSROOTS ELECTION ORGANIZING, 2024.
PAUL NEWMAN introduces a discussion of hand-marked/counted paper ballots, which, with digital scanning, can finally give us reliable election outcomes.
DAVE SALTMAN introduces the issue of the Electoral College.
LINDA SEELEY fills us in on the latest at Diablo Canyon.
PAUL KANGAS talks abut Senate bills 9 & 10 for building four-family houses with 100 solar panels
We follow with a full hour on the possibility of changing the world by Solarizing Los Angeles,
It’s a project that can transform the entire energy picture in California, the US and the world.
This is the world debut of a campaign that could completely end the reign of KING CONG—Coal, Oil, Nukes, Gas.
Join US!!
THE 5-G NIGHTMARE THAT THREATENS US ALL
Throughout the world 5-G transmission is being imposed on the human population.
It has terrible health effects that are almost everywhere hidden from an unsuspecting public.
Millions of human are almost certainly suffering from health impacts that would appear inexplicable but that are being cause by this terrible technology.
We’re joined at today’s CALIFORNIA SOLARTOPIA show by world-renowned expert CAMILLA REES.
She is joined by Los Angeles activists SIDNEE COX and BRENDA MARTINEZ.
Though some of this show's information is specific to Southern California, the overall picture of the health and political realities put forward here is invaluable
We also chide LA Representative Adam Schiff for his grotesque US Senate campaign, in which he trashed the legendary Barbara Lee and activist Katie Porter, elevating instead a fascist Republican to be his Senate opponent this fall.
And with MYLA RESON and TATANKA BRICCA we remind with world of the insane dangers of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant and all other atomic reactors.
And of the criminal opposition to renewables now being pushed by California Governor Gavin Newsom.
FANI WILLIS DISSECTED; VOTING RIGHTS AT THE GRASSROOTS; ASSANGE; THE ROOTS OF SOLARTOPIA
We gather again for the GREEN GRASSROOTS EMERGENCY ELECTION PROTECTION Zoom, this one #167.
Legendary voting rights activist RAY MCCLENDON dissects the furor over Fani Willis and the Georgia prosecution of Trump’s 2020 election theft attempt.
DENNIS BERNSTEIN, TATANKA BRICCA and JOHN STEINER jump in.
CYNTHIA PAPERMASTER tells us of her civil disobedience at the San Francisco home of Nancy Pelosi.
ANDREA MILLER explains her upcoming national webinar on Get-Out-The-Vote work that has made a tangible difference in so many elections.,
RUTH STRAUSS, LYNN FEINERMAN and WENDI LEDERMAN add their perspectives to Andrea’s amazing work.
Just back from London, VINNIE DESTFANO gives us his first person accounts of this critical juncture on the Julian Assange case.
SUSAN PYNCHON introduces us to the upcoming election audit zoom with John Brakey, Ray Lutz, Ken Bennett, Bennie Smith; look for the link at www.electionprotection2024.org.
PAUL NEWMAN and PAUL FENN give us the low-down on the benefits of actually installing solar panels in Santa Monica….and statewide.
Renewable energy Godfather RON LEONARD fills us in on the global success of the spreading solar power industry.
We finish by exploring the roots of the renewable vision from the 1975 Toward Tomorrow Fair at the University of Massachusetts, where the Solartopia outlook threw down its roots.
A challenge to the solar future comes from MARY BUTLER-STONEWALL.
MYLA RESON reads us the litany of legislation now being proposed to save California’s beleaguered solar industry.
See you next week for more on THOM HARTMANN’s terrifying vision of how Trump can steal the 2024 election.
WILL TAYLOR’S SUPER-BOWL DECIDE THE PRESIDENCY? + PAY OFF MEDICAL DEBT
We blitz at the beginning wIth MYLA RESON announcing job availability to run the upcoming election for the Pacifica Radio Network, confirming the democratic control of the nation’s oldest progressive media network.
We then open with PROF. MICHAEL ZWEIG, who checks in on the current progress of the Poor People’s Campaign.
TATANKA BRICCA, WENDI LEDERMAN, RAY MCCLENDON, JUSTIN LEBLANC, HEDY TRIPP and others fuel our deep dive into the tortured political realities of TAYLOR SWIFT & America’s number one professional sport right now.
JERRY ASHTON joins us to explain his amazingly successful campaign to retire medical debt, a cause now being considered by the states of Connecticut and New Jersey. Jerry’s work has retired $11 billion of medical debt among the general population, and is now moving heavily into retiring the medical debt of veterans.
As part of this critical discussion, DAVID SALTMAN reports on the astonishing ordeal of his sister, who has been crippled by a tree falling in San Francisco’s recent wind storm. Only her union medical coverage will save her from bankruptcy.
DR. NANCY NIPARKO then joins us with a fascinating, important and truly memorable report on the desperate need for a single-payer Medicare-for-All system to cover the medical costs of all Americans. Dr. Niparko’s genius presentation underscores one of the most important challenges average Americans, whose number one cause for financial bankruptcy stems from an inability to pay their doctor bills.
Nancy’s presentation is joined by PAUL NEWMAN, a major activist in grassroots California’s campaign for single-payer universal coverage of medical care.
CAMILLA REES asks the critical question about who would oppose universal care and why.
After comments from MIKE HERSH, Dave, Wendi, Myla and Justin, we leave the question to be answered through the ages.
TRAVIS, TAY-TAY, THE SUPER-BOWL AND AMERICA’S INSANE POLITICAL CIRCUS….PLUS NUKES, ASSANGE, LETHAL GAS & MORE OHIO MADNESS
In our first hour we start with TIM JUDSON of the Nuclear Information & Resource Service who joins with KARL GROSSMAN on the realities of America’s bogus “Nuclear Renaissance.”
MYLA RESON, TATANKA BRICCA, and CONNIE KLINE update us on a wide range of issues.
We’re then updated by ANNE BATIZA on a postcard campaign and other attempts to free Julian Assange.
We then hear from STEVE GOLDSMITH on the perils of a lethal poison gas now threatening Los Angeles.
STEVE CARUSO gives us the latest on the crazed efforts of Ohio officials to kill democracy.
With pop music on our music, we hear from the brilliant ALAN MINSKY the intersection of sports & politics as we head into the SuperBowl.
SANDY BOLZENIUS, MIKE HERSCH, MYLA RESON, WENDI LEDERMAN, STEVEN GOLDSMITH chime in.
ELISSA MATROSS explains the classic dilemma of a powerful political activists who roots for the home team….in this case the 49ers.
ALEX WILLIAMS adds his opinions about whether NFL games are fixed.
TATANKA BRICCA reminds us of the sacrifice of Tommy Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.
RUTH STRAUSS brings us a reminder of Alabama football, ending this wonderful gathering on a Crimson Tide.
GOOGLE POLICY MAKER RUNS FOR CONGRESS; DESANTIS GETS HIS OWN GESTAPO
Our gathering begins with former Google executive AHMED MUSTAFA and a deep dive into the politics of the world’s leading search engine.
With power and clarity, Ahmed, among other things, issues a stark warning on the challenges being posed to our future by Artificial Intelligence.
JOHN STEINER asks for specifics on Ahmed’s campaign for Congress now navigating the primaries in Silicon Valley.
SETEVE CARUSO, ERIC LAZARUS, LYNNE FEINERMAN and CAMILLA REES join the dialog.
TIM JUDSON of the Nuclear Information & Resource Service updates us on the horrendous Senate decision to remove Commissioner Jeff Baran from the Nuclear Regulator Commission, proving beyond any lingering doubt that any member of the NRC who values public safety over private profit will not remain.
MYLA RESON updates us on our YouTube presence and asks for your thumbs up!
MIKE HERSH then introduces us to “local hero” KEN BAWERS, who gives us a very impressive deep dive into the demanding world of Stormwater Control and his battles with the $25 billion Riverine Restoration industry.
RON LEONARD raises an interesting challenge to Ken’s presentation as we further hear from DIANE CAMERON in praise of Ken’s work.
We finish with WENDI LEDERMAN and her horrifying account of life in Florida after DeSantis’s presidential bust, extending to his assemblage of an armed “militia” that essentially translates into a private army financed at taxpayer expense.
HANIEH JODAT tells us about supporting a number of progressive candidates in upcoming races.
As Wendi further describes the private DeSantis army, we sign off on another great gathering, and invite you to the next one, which will convene on Monday, February 5, and be rebroadcast soon thereafter at PRN.
Thank you for listening. No Nuke, and we’ll see you soon in Solartopia.
oreign Influence, U Mining, The Chevron Doctrine, National Health Care & Much More
JUSTIN LEBLANC and MICHELLE SUTTER get us going with a California bill (AB-83) aimed at keeping foreign money out of our elections.
LYNNE FEINERMAN and LEONA MORGAN describe the HAUL NO campaign against Uranium mining near the Grand Canyon.
VINNIE DE STEFANO updates us on the FREE ASSANGE campaign with a boost from DR. RUTH STRAUSS.
WENDI LEDERMAN tells us the latest about the horrific COP CITY fight in Atlanta with the fate of a major first and the civil rights of a whole city at stake.
MYLA RESON introduces us to the debate over the Chevron Deference Doctrine now facing decimation by the Supreme Court, possibly open the door to an era in which government has no ability to regulate anything.
MARY BUTLER-STONEWALL ESQ. discusses corruption at the EPA.
Then, with an introduction from MIKE HERSH, we take a deep dive into the issue of national heath care with CALCARE proponent PAUL NEWMAN, ACA Godfather JOEL SEGAL and nationally prominent campaigner DR. WILLIAM BRONSTON. For nearly a full hour we explore the incredibly important labyrinth of public “illness management” and how it’s done better in places like Cuba.
TATANKA BRICCA, DR. NANCY NIPARKO take us out of another wonderful GREEP session. See you again next week.
EXPERT SOLARTOPIAN ADVICE ON ELECTRIC VEHICLES & THE BATTERY REVOLUTION
PAUL GIPE, a legendary pioneer in wind and solar energy, joins us with the inside Solartopian scoops on electric cars and new developments in battery technology. Paul has owned and operated at least one electric car for many years, with vital ground-breaking stories to tell. He is a staunch advocate for many good reasons, which he freely shares on this special green-powered CALIFORNIA SOLARTOPIA broadcast. Paul is joined by TATANKA BRICCA, a legendary peace, justice and environmental organizer with his own great stories to tell. Tatanka shares his own unique wisdom in dialogue with Paul, Harvey & co-host MYLA RESON. Together they discuss critical new developments in the battery industry. In particular, the developing use of sodium as a cheap but powerful replacement for lithium looms as a great green-powered game changer. We also welcome some excellent callers to this lively talk, which was first broadcast at KPFK-Pacifica in Los Angeles. Like Solartopia itself, this show is full of Solartopian wit, wisdom & green goodwill. JOIN US!!!
A GUIDE TO GRASSROOTS SALVATION IN 2024
Our first GREEP zoom of 2024 lays out in deep detail the Grassroots path to defeating dictatorship in this fall election.
ANDREA MILLER and RAY MCCLENDON are the two major architects of “relational” organizing in the southeastern US.
For nearly two hours they lay out the foundational guidelines for a winning strategy among ordinary voters throughout the US.
This presentation will be at the core of progressive non-media-based electoral work for the coming year and beyond.
Needless to say, the future of American democracy rests on the clarity and success of this presentation.
WENDI LEDERMAN adds a brutal assessment of the attack on a woman’s right to control her own body.
JUSTIN LEBLANC adds broad perspective to the issue.
STEVE CARUSO reports on the absolute insanity dominating Ohio.
DR. NANCY NIPARKO gives us critical data on women’s health in the US.
TATANKA BRICCA warns of the loss of our republic.
MYLA RESON bids us a fond farewell.
And we congratulate the University of Michigan football team on its first natonal championship in many decades.
SHUTTING THE NUKE POWER INDUSTRY & SAVING SOLAR WHILE FACING UF0S
We’re joined at GREEN POWER & WELLNESS via CALIFORNIA SOLARTOPIA and a deep dive into the hard realities of getting to a green-powered Earth.
Along with co-hosts MYLA RESON and TSUKURU FORS, we hear from KARL GROSSMAN, LINDA SEELEY and TATANKA BRICCA.
They tell us of the latest nuke-threatening quakes in Japan, the absurd failure of the COPS Conference on Climate, the desperate need to shut Diablo Canyon, the utter insanity of Gavin Newsom’s attacks on rooftop solar.
We conclude with an excursion into the transformed world of UFOlogy, newly renamed….with way more to come…..so JOIN US.
KILLING DEMOCRACY IN FL & OH; DIGITAL DERANGEMENT; POEMS FROM THE HEART
GREEP zoom #161 begins with WENDI LEDERMAN & CAROLINA AMPUDIA reporting on the Florida “Democratic” Party decision to cancel its presidential primary.
This astounding, unprecedented attack on electoral democracy accompanies a concerted attempt by the Republican Party to kill a popular referendum meant to preserve the right to abortion. Despite having gathered more than 1.4 million signatures, Florida’s right wing is working overtime to deny the public the right to decide.
From Ohio, STEVE CARUSO reports that $4.3 million in fossil/nuclear bribes have found their way to the Chair of the Public Utilities Commission, now indicted and on trial. E-mails between CPUC Chair Sam Randazzo and nuclear reactor owner FirstEnergy show an astonishing line of corruption aimed at bailing out Ohio’s decrepit fossil/nuke burners.
CAMILLA REES then introduces DR. NICHOLAS KARDERAS, author of Glow Kids and Digital Madness as well as a wide range of medical and professional studies on the impacts of algorithms on our brains.
Dr. Kardaras gives us a terrifying tour of the devastating impacts of digital addiction—especially when it comes to our children. Among other things, we are exposed to the horrifying impacts sedentary hours in front of a screen can have on us and our kids. These assaults range from depression, anxiety, OCD, psychosis and much much more. The epidemic of social media with zero nuance has ravaged the mental wellness of an entire generation.
This “weakening of the American mind” means the demise of critical thinking, creating an emotional brittleness and a “Stockholm Syndrome” that makes us love the tech oligarchs who imprison our narrowing minds by deliberately spreading dark chaos, the essential ingredient for fascism.
MIKE HERSH, LYNN FEINERMAN, DR. NANCY NIPARKO, JUSTIN LEBLANC, STEPHEN KAISER, DONALD SMITH, DAVID SALTMAN, ERIC LAZARUS, MYLA RESON add to our fond farewell to 2023.
As that happens, RON LEONARD helps us dedicate ourselves to preventing fascism in 2024.
We end with the brilliant, moving poems of Mimi German, hoping she’ll become our very own poet laureate.
See you then!!
DEAD FUKUSHIMA FISH; INSANE KOP28 GOES NUKE-CRAZY; ENDING HATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
We start GREEP ZOOM #160 with a discussion of Ohio’s newly legalized pot access, and the insane interventions against abortion in Texas and Ohio.
KARL GROSSMAN explains some of the horrors of the radioactive release at Fukushima, Japan, which has been followed by the predicable mass death of millions of sardines and mackerel in northern Japan.
Karl has reviewed RADIOACTIVE: THE WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND by Heidi Hutner, featuring four stalwart women whose health and families have been decimated by radioactive fallout from the 1979 TMI disaster.
KAT KRAMER reminds us of her great work with Kat Kramer’s Films that Change the World which will feature the WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND, perhaps in March.
Karl further describes the KOP28 which was captured by the Emirates’ oil industry and nuke power promoters who want 3X the reactors we have now.
TATANKA BRICCA then joins in with a description of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s sabotage of the phase-out of two decrepit reactors at Diablo Canyon.
WENDI LEDERMAN, STEVE KAISER and JUSTIN LEBLANC add to the dialog.
We're then regaled by CAMILLA REES, JOHN STEINER & MIKE HERSH with the needs of the GREEP calls for financial support.
In our second hour, DR. KENNETH STERN & legendary newsman DAVID SALTMAN conduct a uniquely powerful session on the Middle East.
Dr. Stern represents the Bard College Center for the Study of Hate. He and Dave share powerful, unique knowledge of the history of this war-torn region that casts the current Gaza disaster in a new light.
LYNN FEINERMAN, JULIE WEINER, MYLA RESON, ELISSA MATROSS wrap us into a peaceful, powerful climax unlike virtually any other discussion of this polarizing ancient never-ending hell-storm.
VOTING RIGHTS & BRIBERY IN OHIO; HOW GOOGLE MANIPULATES PUBLIC OPINION; NUKE POWER ON THE ATTACK
We start with the great ANDREA MILLER and RAY MCCLENDON, who open GREEP #159 with their usual genius insights on voting rights, gerrymandering and more, primarily in the BIPOC south.
STEVE CARUSO joins to fill us in on the corrupt insanity of Ohio. Buckeye officials from the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Public Utilities Commission Chair and others are all implicated in the infamous $61 million bribe for “persuading” the Legislature for a $1billion nuclear power bribe. The former House Speaker, Larry Householder, has already begun a 20-year prison term.
CAMILLA REES then introduces DR. ROBERT EPSTEIN and his pioneer work in tracking the undue influence of Google and other internet giants in swaying public opinion. Dr. Epstein’s riveting, groundbreaking presentation
The presumption is that the influence is meant to be “pro-liberal,” but co-convener MIKE HERSH argues that the real agenda is pro-corporate, far to the right of the American mainstream.
Major media legend DAVID SALTMAN challenges the idea that such manipulation can tangibly shape voting behavior,
ERIC LAZARUS, JUSTIN LEBLANC, MARY STONEWALL-BUTLER, JULIE WIENER, WENDI LEDERMAN and others chime in on the anti-democracy wave drowning our nation in outright autocracy.
We’re then joined by the legendary clean energy pioneer KARL GROSSMAN, who reports on the corporate call for the world to triple its insane commitments to atomic energy.
At the latest global climate conference, a convening sheik amazingly asserts that the burning of fossil fuels has no impact on global climate.
STEVEN SONDHEIM, RON LEONARD and others chime in on the nuclear attack on our planet.
NINA BEETY raises the possibility that a breeder reactor may have been built by PG&E at Moss Landing, California.
MYLA RESON, newly elected member of the National Board of the Pacifica Radio Network, reminds us that the California Solartopia show she co-hosts with me (Harvey Wasserman) has returned to to KPFK 90.7fm in Los Angeles at 5pm PT Wednesday evenings. That show can be heard at KPFK.org.
We will see & hear you again on December 11. Until then…..NO NUKES….Shut Diablo
REDISTRICTING IN GA & OH; RECYLING AND TRITIUM IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER; OHIO’S ATOMIC VORTEX and MORE MIDDLE EAST EXPLORATION
RAY MCCLENDON & RACHEL COYLE join us from Georgia and Ohio to parse out the grotesquely anti-democracy shenanigans from the MAGA right.
CAROLINA AMPUDIA fills us in on the struggles of Florida’s teachers' unions to sustain the public school system in the face of Ron DeSantis’s fascist attacks.
JOHN KEARNEY reports to us from Minneapolis on his new high-tech Recycling Electronics for Climate Action, aiming to re-use large quantities of rare metals that would otherwise require very dirty mining operations.
JOHN LAFORGE of NukeWatch reports on the insanely dangerous tritium links at the Monticello nuke which threatens the Mississippi River with deadly radiation.
HEDY TRIPP, LINDA SEALEY, JUSTIN LEBLANC all chime in on the immense impacts of radioactive fallout.
MYLA RESON celebrates the return of our CALIFORNIA SOLARTOPIA show to KPFK/Pacifica radio in Los Angeles.
STEVE CARUSO and VINA COLLEY give us a devastating overview of the Portsmouth-Piketon recycling/enrichment facility in southern Ohio, the true vortex linking the commercial nuclear power industry to the real Death Star—the nuclear weapons complex.
WENDI LEDERMAN explains the attempt to pave Flordia’s road with radioactive waste.
MARY BUTLER pipes in from Spokane to remind us of the atomic mega-disaster at the Hanford reservation.
VINNIE DESTEFANO updates us on the Julian Assange case.
In our second round table on the Middle East, we hear from Code Pink’s CYNTHIA PAPERMASTER, LYNN FEINERMAN, MIKE HERSH, JULIE WEINER, FAISAL KHAN, SALEEM, OMER and others as we pursue more open, civil discussion on the world’s most complex and brutal ethnic war.
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A COMPREHENSIVE DEEP DIVE INTO A SMALL MODULAR RENEWABLE SOLARTOPIA WITH AMORY LOVINS et. al.
Our Earth-Shattering GREEP zoom #157 takes us on a unique two-hour journey into the brave new world of renewable energy.
We start with LINDA SEELEY of the Mothers for Peace, who updates us on the multi-front fight to shut California’s Diablo Canyon Nukes.
The great SCOTT DENMAN then takes us through monumental collapse of NuScale’s Small Modular Reactor scam.
NuScale has been at the center of the so-called “Nuclear Renaissance” for large reactors which collapsed 2007-2012.
That fantasy gave way to a “resurgence” of Small Modular Reactors which has just collapsed.
NuScale went to Utah municipal utilities to buy into the SMR scam.
But this past week, as Scott tells us, the SMR scam has collapsed.
Great green guru AMORY LOVINS follows with a magnificent overview of the global conversion to renewable energy.
Carbon + cost + speed are the keys to the green transition, he says.
Renewables have added 986x net capacity than nuclear in 2022, he says.
In September 2022-October 2023, solar is running way faster than anybody can keep up with, he adds.
With an “integrate design,” and an “unimaginably big” cornucopia of renewables, we can meet our de-carbonization goals.
New grid materials brighten the equation.
Big reactors now cost 5-8x renewables; small reactors are 20-32x more expensive than renewables, even with mass production.
Solar and wind generate “variably” in predictable ways, widening the cost gap nukes must overcome to match renewables.
“Baseload” from nuclear has now become both obsolete and detrimental.
Lovins cites ten means of firming supply/demand reliability at extremely low cost compared to fossil/nukes.
JUSTIN LEBLANC, RON LEONARD, WENDI LEDERMAN and MYLA RESON join in on the discussion.
We also hear from ROY MORRISON on how to do community-owned renewable power.
Amory also recommends X-Change at RMI.org and Applied Hope on renewables and cars.
At the end we learn it’s Amory’s birthday, contributing to the truly beautiful, powerful spirit of this gathering.
Don’t miss it!!! & we’ll see you in Solartopia…..
A MONUMENTAL ORGANIZING MOMENT….& VICTORY IN ECUADOR This breakthrough two-hour networking session joins RAY MCCLENDON and ANDREA MILLER of the “Georgia Miracle” with RACHEL COYLE and COURTNEY FLYNN of swing state Ohio, where a major grassroots victory has been won protecting the referendum process. Ray tells us he has now helped form a new multi-state organization to help spread the grassroots tactics and strategies that famously turned two US Senate seats from Georgia into a reshaped majority in the nation’s upper house. Andrea explains some of the key organizing principles that have made her work at the Center for Common Ground so critically important to protecting democracy throughout our nation. Rachel then explains how the grassroots forces in the Buckeye State beat back a GOP attempt to destroy the referendum process. She’s joined by Courtney Flynn from the Ohio Voter Rights Coalition, which helped turn this seemingly un-winnable fight into a landmark victory for democracy. Joining these great multi-state organizers will hopefully help yield a transcendent campaign operation that will spread from the Ohio/Georgia axis throughout the US in the coming years, especially in the lead-up to 2024. Joining the dialog is VINNIE DESTEFANO of the Julian Assange campaign who is full of brilliant campaign tactics—banner drops and more—usable by grassroots groups throughout the world. JOHN STEINER and WENDI LEDERMAN add to the critical dialog. ERIC LAZARUS joins the great RUSSELL GREENE to fill us in on the major march coming up at the United Nations on September 17. Russell continues to break barriers with his signature brilliance and perseverance. FOREST BEAUDOIN-FREED and MARK HARRISON contribute to the dialog. MYLA RESON warns that despite his progressive reputation, US Senator SHELDON WHITEHOUSE has been a dangerous advocate of atomic power. For our second hour, we’re joined by Teamster organizer AARON WAZLAVEK who celebrates his union’s hard-won wins and promises to join us again. In our second hour, the great STEVE DONZIGER tells us of the monumental victory of the Ecuadorian people, who’ve become the first national population to vote a ban on oil drilling. Steve has become a major figure in the progressive movement as a result of Chevon’s attacks against him, and will be feted at a fundraising event in Topanga Canyon, California, headlined by JANE FONDA, JODIE EVANS and others. Steve’s fundraiser host, DOROTHY REIK, fills us in on the big mistake the oil industry has made in taking away attorney Donziger’s law license. What a travesty!!! JUSTIN LEBLANC, TATANKA BRICCA, MIMI SPREADBURY, JEFFREY BARKDULL and MARY STONEWALL-DOUGLAS expand the dialog. The great CAMILLA REES punctuates the drama with critical references to the fight to shut the Diablo Canyon nukes. Thank you all for joining us in this monumental dialog. No Nukes! And we wish the people of Ecuador success in protecting the beloved Amazon.
WHY NUCLEAR POWER SUCKS!
This breakthrough full-hour interview conducted by the legendary activist CAMILLA REES lays out—from bottom to top—why nuclear power has no role to play in saving our Earth from Global Boiling.
With your host HARVEY WASSERMAN, Camilla runs us through the full array of atomic issues, from health and safety to the economic, engineering and ecological disarray that has doomed this industry.
From the first Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission Lewis Strauss (the “bad guy” in “Oppenheimer”) promising energy “too cheap to meter”…. to the catastrophic $10 billion disaster at VC Summer, nuke power has been an unparalleled failure.
While confronting our “Global Boiling” imperative to slash heat and carbon emissions, nuke power makes both significantly worse.
On the other hand, 100% green SOLARTOPIAN energy keeps getting stronger, cheaper, more powerful, more job-creating, more unavoidable.
Under Camilla’s erudite questioning, Harvey lays out a comprehensive, irrefutable case for shutting all atomic reactors and moving straight to a 100% sustainable energy future based on wind, solar, batteries, efficiency and more.
No nukes, everybody!
CATASTROPHE IN MAUI; OHIO / MONTANA VICTORIES; THE NYTIMES AWAKENS TO RENEWABLES
The horrifying disaster in Maui is Mother Nature’s way of telling us that with global boiling, there are no more safe places.
JOHN & MARGO STEINER say where to send our ALOHA IN ACTION support for those in this stricken paradise.
TATANKA BRICCA, MYLA RESON, DOROTHY REIK, JEFFREY BARKDULL and JUSTIN LEBLANC give us their mahalo in a time of tragedy.
@15:40 RACHEL COYLE then reveals the inside story of the HUGE people’s victory over Ohio’s fascist Issue One, meant to erase the public right to democratically amend the Buckeye constitution with a simple majority….enshrined in Ohio law since 1912.
@44:45 WENDI LEDERMAN describes Florida’s strongman/torturer Ron DeSantis’s purges of duly elected public officials, making Florida the place where democracy and freedom go to die.
The great eco-activist RUSSELL GREENE invites us to his September 17 mega-march in New York aiming to end fossil/nuke climate destruction.
PETER FIEKOWSKY explains his mega-engineering approach to decarbonizing the atmosphere.
We explore the critical dynamics surrounding the defining battle at the DIABLO CANYON NUKE, joined by MIMI SPREADBURY, TATANKA BRICCA & MYLA RESON.
Russell explains what’s happening at the climate emergency summit while DOROTHY REIK invites us to her September 9 fundraiser in Topanga for Steve Danziger.
RON LEONARD dissects California’s escalating war against solar while we celebrate a front-piece piece from the NYTIMES finally citing Solartopian inevitability.
We hear also of major advances in solar panels and moving lithium-based batteries to sodium, a MUCH cheaper route to the Solartopia future.
Wendi reminds us of MAYA ROSSUM’s superb GREEN AMENDMENTS book.
And we thank the great JOEL SEGAL for authoring landmark legislation for 100% green energy.
NO NUKES! everybody….see you in Solartopia….
IS AN ATOM-POWERED ARMAGEDDON UPON US?
GREEP zoom #146 opens with KPFA's great talk show host DENNIS BERNSTEIN telling us of the astonishing nuclear dangers at Hanford, Washington’s atomic graveyard.
Host of “Flashpoints” at KPFA-Pacifica/Berkeley, Dennis’s brilliant reporting led him to witness some of the real horrors at the devastated Hanford Reservation in Washington state.
The fallout from the development there of the plutonium bomb that destroyed Nagasaki ruined the lives of thousands of innocent Americans, as Dennis powerfully explains.
LINDAY SEELEY of the San Luis Obispo Mothers For Peace then updates us on the latest developments in the grassroots campaign to permanently close Diablo Canyon.
The two reactors on the central California coast 9 miles west of San Luis Obispo pose a profound, mega-lethal death threat to tens of millions throughout California and across the United States.
Seeley and many many others have long been working to finally get those reactor closed. A critical chance will arise this fall, when Unit One may close for refueling.
GREGG SEMLER informs us of an intriguing new green energy device that harvest electric power from water power systems throughout the world, hopefully letting us fight climate boiling (in part) by flushing our toilets.
We then hear from RACHEL COYLE and JULIE WEINER about the latest election theft dirty tricks playing themselves out—alongside some actual victories---in Ohio and New York.
Along the way we hear from MYLA RESON, GREG SCHWARTZ, RON LEONARD, MARY DOUGLAS, JUSTIN LeBLANC, JEFFREY BARKDULL, NANCY NIPARKO, WENDI LEDERMAN, DAVID GURAN, STEVE CARUSO, MIKE HERSH, DOROTHY REIK, et. al.
NO NUKES EVERYBODY….SEE YOU IN SOLARTOPIA!
NUCLEAR TERROR IN UKRAINE
We plunge into the radioactive horror show in Ukraine for our 144th Green Grassroots Election Protection Zoom being rebroadcast during the Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Show on PRN.
We are joined by the great MEDEA BENJAMIN of Code Pink who makes the plea for peace and an end to the horrific planet-threatening slaughter in Ukraine.
We hear further from DENYS BONDAR, who is now circulating a petition to the United Nations General Assembly to sent peacekeepers to guarantee a demilitarized zone around the six atomic reactors at Zaporizhzhia.
These reactors are in various stages of shut-down. But the nearby spent fuel pools are in danger of losing their coolant.
Exposure of the rods stored therein could result in radioactive fires releasing enough lethal fallout to kill millions of humans an other living things in an apocalyptic event that would dwarf the killing power of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima and all other catastrophic events in human history.
KARL GROSSMAN, TATANKA BRICCA, LYNN FEINERMAN, WENDI LEDERMAN, DOROTHY REIK, MARY DOUGLAS and many others add to the dialog.
This terrifying threat to all future life on this planet must be dealt with NOW!!!
In the second hour of the GREEP zoom, which is available via www.electionprotection2024.org, we hear from JOSH FOX, legendary film maker and anti-fracking activist.
Josh announces his kickstarter fund for his new upcoming documentary on REBEKAH JONES, powerful whistleblower on Ron DeSantis’s fascist insanity in Florida.
We are also joined by DAVID BROWN, progressive candidate for the state legislature in Pennsylvania.
David is a musician, an environmentalist and a likely player in the future saving of our planet.
David is also an activist on behalf of the separation of church and state and host of the podcast UnReasonable.
FROM OHIO MADNESS TO JULIAN ASSANGE & UKRAINIAN WEAPONS OF MASS OUTRAGE FEEDING A POTENTIAL NUKE APOCALYPSE For our GREEP Zoom #143 at Green Power & Wellness, RACHEL COYLE explains how Ohio is trying to gut the referendum process while facing statewide votes to protect a woman’s right to choose both abortion and marijuana. WENDI LEDERMAN adds in the bad news from Florida, where she is being physically harassed in the course of gathering signatures for a referendum there whose rules have already been rigged. VINNIE DESTEFANO gives us the latest reporting on the murderous case of Julian Assange in contrast to the hand-wringing over Evan Gershkavitz, the Wall Street Journal reporter being held in Russia for reasons barely parallel to whatever Assange has done. MIKE HERSH informs us about a critical petition now circulating from Reps. Barbara Lee and Mark Pocan to finally slash some of the excess money being wasted on the military budget. DAVID SALTMAN explores the dirty realities of cluster munitions, land mines and depleted uranium in Ukraine. MYLA RESON ends our first hour with the lethal realities of the aerosolization of depleted uranium, leaving a death toll of cancer in its wake. IN OUR SECOND HOUR... Abut the failures of Ukraine/Russian diplomacy we hear from TATANKA BRICCA and DOROTHY REIK. Then HOWIE HAWKINS, 2020 Green Party Presidential nominee, and LINDA GUNTER of Beyond Nuclear, alert us to the terrifying nightmare at Zaporizhzhia. The UN General Assembly is now being asked to send peacekeeping forces to protect the six reactors & fuel pools at Zapo as they were used to prevent World War at Suez in 1956. Linda also shows that the International Atomic Energy Agency is promoting atomic power while it allegedly tells the truth about Zapo. Likewise Japan is poised to dump a million tons of irradiated water into the Pacific Ocean with no concept of what it might do to the global ecology. DR. LISA NAGY fills us in on the specter of radioactive phosphorus being melded into the paving of our global highways. RON LEONARD adds in the latest news in the war for renewables, which never ceases to amaze.
UFOs, OLIVER STONE, KIDS’ GREEN SUIT for the PLANET & OUR FUTURE
Our GREEP Zoom #142 opens with a challenge to Oliver Stone to debate atomic power after his ridiculous pro-nuke propaganda film. Oliver, if you’re there, I’ll debate you anywhere/any time.
We will of course deal with the terrible dangers at the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia reactor site under dire apocalyptic threat being played out before our terrified eyes.
MAYA VAN ROSSUM, author of THE GREEN AMENDMENT, tells us about a monumental action in Montana, where a group kids is suing the fossil industry to protect our planet and future.
Maya’s brilliant, inspiring presentation opens a whole new approach to finding a way to survive on this Earth.
The great KARL GROSSMAN chimes in on Maya’s great work, as do RUTH STRAUSS and DENNIS BERNSTEIN.
RACHEL COYLE then reports from Ohio on the anti-democratic assault on education, voting rights and an upcoming vote to gut the right to referenda.
RAY MCCLENDON of the Georgia NAACP reports on favorable redistricting news from Louisiana, Tennessee and elsewhere due to an unexpected pro-democracy ruling from the US Supreme Court.
CAROLINA AMPUDIA gives us a heads-up on the impending UPS strike, which could become the biggest in US history.
In our second hour, we join RON LEONARD in dissecting the attack on green power in Texas, despite renewables saving the state from a catastrophic heat wave.
TATANKA BRICCA adds analysis from Putin and his integrated fossil fuel/enriched uranium and their high wheeling hammer.
He joins WENDI LEDERMAN to further elaborate on the powerful new foothold UFO studies have gained at the Pentagon and the military, especially as we face a climate apocalypse.
MYLA RESON, WENDI AND TATANKA then update us on the attempt to save the Pacifica Radio Network from a lack of money prompted by eminently improvable programming.
WE NEED YOUR HELP. No Nukes….
A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE FOR DAN ELLSBERG
Our GREEP Zoom #141 devotes the full first hour to the great DAN ELLSBERG.
Dan’s incredible life of brilliance and service has us all in awe.
Beautiful tributes come from NORMAN STOCKWELL (publisher of Progressive.org), DOROTHY REIK (Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains), DENNIS BERNSTEIN (KPFA’s “Flashpoints”), DR. RUTH STRAUSS, TATANKA BRICCA, WENDI LEDERMAN, ANNA GYORGY and many many more.
This is a deeply moving program about a truly great historic figure who will be deeply missed and never forgotten.
THE GREAT & MOVING GOV. DON SIEGELMAN
We are joined in GREE-GREE session #139 by the great former Gov. of Alabama DON SIEGELMAN.
Gov. Siegelman was the very popular Alabama Chief Executive until Nixon/Bush dirty trickster Karl Rove had him thrown in prison.
Siegelman’s extreme integrity and reputation for competence made him a threat to Rove’s future manipulations.
So Rove had a crooked legal system take Don out.
Gov. Siegelman is now an extremely powerful and articulate opponent of the death penalty. Do not miss his explanation of how and why.
In this hour HEDY TRIPP shows us critical voting statistics, and Arizona’s great JOHN BRAKEY updates us on key voting rights fights that he has immensely impacted.
THE GREAT GREG PALAST TALKS ELECTIONS & NUKES
GREEP zoom #135 is devoted to the great investigative journalist GREG PALAST.
With his stunning revelations about mass partisan disenfranchisement in the Florida 2000 presidential fiasco, Greg god-fathered the modern election protection movement.
He played a key role in the reporting that came out of Ohio 2004, and too many additional “irregularities” that have surfaced since.
He has continued this incredibly important work most recently with his documentary film VIGILANTE, about Jim Crow election theft in current-day Georgia.
Greg also has a long history in reporting on atomic energy, and gives us a deep, knowledgeable presentation on the latest “Nuke Renaissance.”
There is no one on the American media scene with more to say about where we’re at than Greg Palast. Don’t miss this amazing show.
No Nukes! No More Coup Selections.
HOW TO RETIRE BILLION$$$ IN DEFAULTED MEDICAL DEBT
Our premier guest JERRY ASHTON has retired Billions of dollars in medical debt, freeing millions of American citizens from the burden of servitude to global corporate loan sharks. Ashton’s legendary RIP Medical Debt organization uses contributions to pay off overdue bills run up in hospitals and elsewhere, but bought by predatory collection agencies and then turned against ordinary citizens. Begun at the Occupy Wall Street actions many years ago, Ashton has used thousands of private donations to liberate many many families from unsustainable financial burdens. RIP Medical Debt was famously featured by John Oliver on his “Last Week Tonight” Show, in which Oliver donated Big Money to liberate many many families from their overdue payments. Jerry is a captivating, personable presenter who gives us a full hour of breakthrough brilliance that has made a very real difference in many many lives. Don’t miss his wonderful presentation! And much, much more!
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THE FIGHTS OVER NUCLEAR POWER & THE GLOBAL PLASTIC TSUNAMI CONTINUE TO ESCALATE
The MOTHERS FOR PEACE are among the nation’s greatest activists, and from them has come the wonderful LINDA SEELEY.
Linda updates us on the desperate struggle to shut the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors before they blow up and contaminate all of California.
Indeed, because Diablo is upwind of most of North America it threatens the entire United States with deadly fallout.
The infuriating strong-arm tactics of Gavin Newsom have ignited a furious resistance that must prevail if humankind is to survive.
DR. NANCY NIPARKO follows with her powerful explanation of how plastics are utterly destroying our oceans and global eco-systems.
Nancy’s compelling presentation underscores the desperate need to replace plastic with stuff that can, in fact, bio-degrade.
MYLA RESON, JUSTIN LEBLANC, TATANKA BRICCA, RUTH STRAUSS, JEFFREY BARKDULL, DOROTHY REIK, PAUL NEWMAN. JOAN SEEMAN and other great activists hugely contribute to this monumental discuss.
JOIN US to save the Earth…and we’ll see you next week.
NATIONAL GRASSROOTS NETWORKING FROM VIRGINIA TO FLORIDA & NO NUKES IN GERMANY
Our Green Emergency Election Protection Coalition Zoom #133 begins with ANDY MOORE of the National Association of Non-Partisan Reformers, a nationwide coalition of organizations working for election reform. The great ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground fills us in on her great grassroots push in Virginia. NORM STOCKWELL of Progressive.org then explains the aftermath of the progressive movement’s huge Supreme Court victory in Wisconsin, which will stretch deep into the 2024 presidential election. We then hear from the great ANNA GYORGY about German's monumental decision to shut down ALL its atomic reactors, which finally closed on April 15. In tandem we hear about the world-changing ENERGIEWENDE, Germany's incredibly rapid and effective shift toward a 100% green-powered energy supply in the world’s 4th-largest economy. Anna is joined by SCOTT DENMAN and by LINDA PENCE, both legendary long-term safe energy activists with great things to say about this European dawn of Solartopia. PART TWO: SECOND HOUR…..please also put this on the air where you can… STEVE DONZIGER & HIS AMAZING, INCREDIBLY POWERFUL FIGHT FOR PLANETARY SURVIVAL & CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS We hear from the astounding STEVE DONZIGER about his now-legendary fight against Chevron’s destruction of the Ecuadorian rain forest. Steve has endured unconscionable assaults from Chevron and a completely corrupted legal system. His persistent resistance has made him a global legend. Join us to hear why. We are then joined by DEEPA DRIVER with a powerful report from London on the latest developments in the fight for the freedom of JULIAN ASSANGE. And we hear from VINNIE DE STEFANO on American support work for both Donziger and Assange. If you are at all concerned about the future of the global ecology and the American legal system, don’t miss this show.
WISCONSIN BEFORE LIGHTENING STRIKES; ANTI-TRANS WARFARE
Our GREE-GREE #132 foreshadows the major victory in Wisconsin’s critical state Supreme Court race that is being widely ranked as “the most important election of 2023.”
We hear from ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground, NORM STOCKWELL of Progressive.org, and THOMAS NELSON of grassroots Wisconsin on the coming of what would be a huge victory for the Progressive movement.
We know as you’re listening to this that the left-leaning “Judge Janet” Protasiewicz won this crucial judgeship by a substantial margin. She beat a MAGA Republican.
So if you want to know how this happened, listen in to the powerful views of a critically important trio of organizer/activists who helped make this progressive victory happened.
We then turn to BRYNN TANNEHILL and her uniquely brilliant systemic presentation on the national assault against the rights and freedoms of trans Americans.
Among much more, Brynn tells us that “gun rights” stalwarts who NEVER want to limit gun ownership now want to make it illegal for trans citizens to own a gun.
[IN OUR SECOND HOUR, FOR NEXT WEEK:
PRESIDENT MICHELLE? A ROMERO ADMINISTRATION? LIVING EARTH MOVEMENT; MORE NUKE MADNESS
In our latest GREE-GREE gathering, we’re joined by legendary journalist/producer DAVID SALTMAN, presents the possibility of MICHELLE OBAMA running for President.
Though there are obvious doubts, Saltman reads a long passage from the former First Lady that would seem to indicate she’d be open to the idea should Joe Biden decline to re-run
Along the way we hear from LYNN FEINERMAN, JUSTIN LEBLANC and others.
TATANKA BRICCA lays out the Romero Institute’s on-going campaign to establish a full-blown government leadership apparatus, prepared to take and use power as the corporate Democrats and Trumpite Republicans fade away.
IGNACIO CASTUERA of the Living Earth Movement explains his organization’s powerful campaign to insure that we get to world peace.
The movement focuses in particularly on guaranteeing detente with China, thus avoiding a war between the world’s two biggest economies.
Finally the brilliant LINDA PENCE GUNTER of Beyond Nuclear confirms that Germany will, in fact, shut its last reactors around April 15.
Thus the world’s fourth-largest economy goes post-nuclear, with (hopefully) the fifth-largest (California) soon to follow.
Linda also fills us in on the uselessness of Silly Mythic Reactors, and the on-going dangers at Ukraine’s besieged Zaporigia.
We also hear about the use of Depleted Uranium (DU), armor-penetrating shells that spread lethal atomic radiation throughout the landscape.
Linda is joined by MYLA RESON who further explains the dangers of DU and atomic waste.
This wide-ranging excursion should not be missed. NO NUKES!!
XI-PUTIN & THE ASIAN CENTURY; WISCONSIN SUPREMES; DEMS DESTROY NEVADA; THE WAR VS. LGBTQ & THE DESANTIS DISASTER
Our GREEP #132 starts with the “deal of the century” as Xi & Putin lay the foundation for an end of the American Century and the dominance of the dollar.
As part of that excursion we visit “The Big Short” and other critical documents on the most recent fall of the American economy.
KFPA/Flashpoint’s DENNIS BERNSTEIN, LYNN HEIDIKOPER and others help us with the horrendous details.
From there we go to the all-important race for the deciding seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, where grassroots organizing will make all the difference.
JOHN STEINER fills us in with critical details.
We also hear from JUDITH WHITMER, recently purged as chair of the Nevada Democratic Party for being too progressive & grassroots. Where have we heard that before?
One place is New York, where JULIE WIENER and RON LEONARD explain how the utterly feeble Democrats blew it for the entire US House.
BRYANN TANNEHILL fills us in on the national war against LGBTQ citizens. WENDI LEDERMAN gives us the ugly details from DeSantis’s Florida, where Disney (!!!) is fighting back.
This incredibly powerful gathering proceeds for another 90 minutes, so join us at www.electionprotection2024.org.
No Nukes!!!
COUNT(Y) THE VOTE w SCRUTINEERS; SAVE THE COURT IN WISCONSIN; JAIL THE TRAITORS FROM 1980
Our GREEGREE #130 begins with the great EMILY LEVY and the new county-based rapid result vote count program she has just unveiled. With new computer software aiming to quickly and accurately count votes on the county level Emily hopes to avoid the impact of inevitable election inaccuracies. We then visit the all-important April 4 Wisconsin state Supreme Court race could hold the key to the 2024 presidential and Congressional elections. Abortion rights, gun laws, gerrymandering and voting right are all at stake in a race where in many cases over 90% of the electorate is unaware of the upcoming vote. Emily emphasizes the need to join with the Center for Common Ground to do phone banking and other grassroots work to up the turnout. With TATANKA BRICCA, LARRY BENSKY and more we then plunge into the newly confirmed 1980 OCTOBER SURPRISE treason by which Ronald Reagan took the White House. Long considered a fringe “conspiracy theory,” Texas pol Ben Barnes has recently underscored that Team Reagan did in fact promise the Iranians that if they kept American hostages until after the voting, Reagan would give them a “better deal.” The hostages were in fact released precisely as Reagan was inaugurated, and there is no longer any doubt how that happened. Larry then reveals hard evidence that Ron DeSantis participated in actual torture during his “service” at Guantanamo Bay. WENDI LEDERMAN and CAROLINA AMPUDIA follow with a laundry list of the increasingly fascistic policies of DeSantis’s Florida regime. We will follow next week with more on this crucial Wisconsin election….and with the far right shift of the DeSantis juggernaut. For the second hour of today’s show we take off from HEIDI HUTNER’s new WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND and go deep into the nuclear power issue in anticipation of the March 28 anniversary of the 1979 accident. To hear that presentation, check out www.electionprotection2024.org. And we’ll see you next week!!!
GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY IN OHIO!!! WI SUPREMES…BIZ 4 DEMOCRACY….GREEN AMENDMENTS
On our GREEGREE #129 we celebrate a big hit of justice in Ohio as the infamous House Speaker Larry Householder is found guilty of taking a $61 million bribe to give the nuclear industry a $1 billion bailout.
Householder and an associate face up to 20 years in a VERY rare instance of a corrupt official actually being convicted of selling the government to a corporation—and an atomic one at that.
We briefly discuss the crucial Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, where the Democratic party as usual appears fast asleep.
FRANK KNAPP of Businesses for Democracy tells us how his sustainable cohorts are fight for the right to vote and other basics of a free society.
Then WENDI LEDERMAN introduces us to MAYA VAN ROSSUM whose Green Amendment proposes the revolutionary strategy of appending to state constitutions the core right to a clean environment.
Maya’s pathbreaking work aims to force state governments to acknowledge—UNDER THE LAW---the ability of human beings to protect their survival on a planet being brutally assaulted by corporate greed.
Maya’s strategy and successes are an inspiration and a guidepost to those working for environmental justice and global sustainability.
ASSANGE FILM, GA ASSAULTS ON DEMOCRACY, WI SUPREME SHOWDOWN
In GREEGREE #128, VINNIE DESTEPHANO fills us in on the on-going tour of “Ithaka,” the stirring documentary about Julian Assange, now touring the US.
We then hear from RAY MCCLENDON about the escalated attempts to crush democracy in Georgia.
Finally we do a deep dive on the critical Wisconsin Supreme Court race that could redefine national politics.
GREG LEWIS of Souls to the polls joins legendary journalists RUTH CONIFF and NORM STOCKWELL in dissecting the realities of what may be the most important election of 2023.
HOWIE HAWKINS of the Green Party also joins the discussion.
With control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court comes critical decisions on women’s rights, voting rights, gerrymandering and much more.
As Wisconsin is certain to prove critical in the 2024 election, this state Supreme Court race could decide much of the American future.
GREEGREE #127 starts with the great ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground as she explains her legendary organization’s grassroots work in the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
Because the Court in WI is evenly divided (3-3) between progressives v. conservatives, this oddly timed (April 3) election will have huge impact.
As Andrea explains, a woman’s right to choose is on the line, as is redistricting, voter registration and much more in a state that could well decide the 2024 presidential campaign.
We hear further from KARLA SAND in Minnesota, who gives important detail on the unexpected victory of KEITH ELLISION for the AG office in Minnesota.
DR. RUTH STRAUSS asks Andrea about the Virginia election that has now sent the state’s first woman of color to the US Congress.
DOROTHY REIK and CYNTHIA PAPERMASTER also add to our discussion, in particular about the potential US Senate candidacy of Rep. Barbara Lee, the only Congressperson to vote again the Afghan War.
WENDI LEDERMAN then presents a crucial overview of the use of the state-wide referendum in protection critical rights like abortion, legal pot, medicaid expansion, democracy-based districts and more.
GEORGE RIPLEY tells us of the Ballot Initiate Strategy Center formerly affiliated with the great Senator Mike Gravel.
This discussion of grassroots referenda will be critical to our work all the way through the 2024 nation election.
NY VOTING LAWS, BRIBERY & CHEMICAL NIGHTMARES IN OHIO, OUR REVOLUTION, PERU, E-CARS
Our Jam-packed GREEGREE #126 starts with NY’s JULIE WIENER reporting from the NY legislature on hackable voting machines.
Ohio’s RACHEL COYLE tells us about the astounding trial in Columbus about the $61 million a nuclear utility slipped to the speaker of the Ohio House to get a $1 billion bailout for two atomic reactors.
The question, says Rachel, is whether in the world of Citizen’s United, it is perfectly legal to buy (or rent) a state legislature.
“You couldn’t write a movie better than this,” she says. It’s a trial to legalize bribery, with major national repercussions.
PACO FABIAN then tells us about the successful and impactful progressive campaigning of OUR REVOLUTION.
We merge in the possibility of using referenda to help get out the grassroots vote, particularly on the issues of Choice, Gerrymandering, Marijuana and Expanding Medicaid.
Our Revolution also focuses on raising the minimum wage, as was tried in California, demanding clearer messaging.
LORENZO CANIZARES gives us the news from Peru, where a Revolution is definitely not being televised.
From LINDA GUNTER of Beyond Nuclear tells us about the threat of earthquakes to atomic reactors in Turkey and Greece, not to mention Ukraine and California.
From STEVE CARUSO and others we hear the horrible news about the 50-care derailment now poising much of the Ohio River Valley.
BEN EICHERT, MYLA RESON, TATANKA BRICCA and others update us on the Energy War in California, now raging over the expiring licenses at Diablo Canyon.
Next week we are off for President’s Day, but will be back February 27 with a new link. We will be joined then by the great RAY MCGOVERN.
NO NUKES!!!
NY VOTING LAWS, BRIBERY & CHEMICAL NIGHTMARES IN OHIO, OUR REVOLUTION, PERU, E-CARS
Our Jam-packed GREEGREE #126 starts with NY’s JULIE WIENER reporting from the NY legislature on hackable voting machines.
Ohio’s RACHEL COYLE tells us about the astounding trial in Columbus about the $61 million a nuclear utility slipped to the speaker of the Ohio House to get a $1 billion bailout for two atomic reactors.
The question, says Rachel, is whether in the world of Citizen’s United, it is perfectly legal to buy (or rent) a state legislature.
“You couldn’t write a movie better than this,” she says. It’s a trial to legalize bribery, with major national repercussions.
PACO FABIAN then tells us about the successful and impactful progressive campaigning of OUR REVOLUTION.
We merge in the possibility of using referenda to help get out the grassroots vote, particularly on the issues of Choice, Gerrymandering, Marijuana and Expanding Medicaid.
Our Revolution also focuses on raising the minimum wage, as was tried in California, demanding clearer messaging.
LORENZO CANIZARES gives us the news from Peru, where a Revolution is definitely not being televised.
From LINDA GUNTER of Beyond Nuclear tells us about the threat of earthquakes to atomic reactors in Turkey and Greece, not to mention Ukraine and California.
From STEVE CARUSO and others we hear the horrible news about the 50-care derailment now poising much of the Ohio River Valley.
BEN EICHERT, MYLA RESON, TATANKA BRICCA and others update us on the Energy War in California, now raging over the expiring licenses at Diablo Canyon.
Next week we are off for President’s Day, but will be back February 27 with a new link. We will be joined then by the great RAY MCGOVERN.
NO NUKES!!!
HE FEDS HAVE ATTACKED INDEPENDENT CAMPAIGNS; THE RABBI CELEBRATES THE EARTH
At GREEGREE #125 Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party’s 2016 Presidential candidate, schools us in how the Federal Elections Commission protects America’s duopoly.
Stein is being PERSONALLY sued by the FEC for an independent campaign dating to seven years ago. It’s an astounding story of fascism in action with serious implications for grassroots campaigns going forward.
RAY MCCLENDON of the Georgia NAACP and co-convenor JOEL SEGAL confirm the need to transform how we connect with grassroots donors and volunteers to challenge the duopoly’s unyielding power.
“We need publicly financed elections, period,” says Segal.
With Stein’s terrible experience as background, the FEC must be changed to a non-partisan operation. “It’s all about the oligarchy,” says Stein.
TATANKA BRICCA tells us about Exxon now pouring trillions of dollars into Swiss “non-profits” to hide their money while promoting fossil/nuclear fuels which destroy the Earth.
We then hear from CAROLINA AMPUDIA about the fight for progressive policies within the Florida Democratic Party.
WENDI LEDERMAN tells us about the fight over privatization of water in the Sunshine State.
LORENZO CANIZARES updates us on the situation in Peru.
LINDA SEELEY from the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace tells us of the horrendous licensing scams being pulled at the Diablo Canyon atomic reactors.
RABBI ART WASKOW then takes us into a brilliant, fascinating tour of the destruction of Atlanta’s forest land along with the horrific murder of a young eco-activist with no less than 13 bullets.
Art is a long-standing activist based in Philadelphia who has joined radical Judaism with ecological protection. This broadcast is happening on the Jewish holiday, “the New Year of Trees...a fount of pleasure, of joy…” and much more.
His lifelong career has moved thousands of activists around the world, both within and outside the Jewish community, working for peace, social justice, protection of the Earth, an end to racism and anti-semitism and much more.
Art’s visit is punctuated with great comments by RON LEONARD, MYLA RESON and many more.
This is a fantastic, uniquely wonderful gathering. Don’t miss it!!!
DAVID CROSBY, LEONARD PELTIER, THE ALLIANCE 4 GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY, DEATH IN ATLANTA, UPRISING IN PERU
We start our 123d GreeGree zoom with a heartfelt nod to the great DAVID CROSBY, whose brilliant music still warms the hearts of multiple generations.
David was a powerful No Nukes activist whose work to shut Diablo Canyon has been powerful and important. Thank You, David.
We then speak with TATANKA BRICCA at length about the on-going refusal of Joe Biden (preceded by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama) to free Leonard Peltier, or at least to give him a new trial.
We get great questions from JUSTIN LEBLANC, LYNNE FEINERMAN, MIMI SPREADBURY, MIKE HERSH, WENDI LEDERMAN, MARY BUTLER-STONEWALL, and more.
DENNIS BERNSTEIN, legendary host of KPFA’s Flashpoints show, fills us in on the Atlanta killing of the powerful young environmental activist Manuel Esteban Paez Terán.
DOROTHY REIK helps us mourn this young man’s passing and re-dedicate ourselves to protecting our Earth.
In response to a question from JEFFREY BARKDUL, the esteemed labor leader LORENZO CANIZARES then tells of the great pro-democracy uprising in Peru.
As Lorenzo says, the fight in Peru could push a domino that will help bring democracy to all of Latin America.
Don’t miss this discussion!!!
ALLIANCE 4 GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY & GETTING PAST LITHIUM 4 BETTER BATTERIES
We hear from the great JOHN BRAKEY on the latest struggles for real democracy in Arizona & taking it national.
CAMILLA REES comes on to talk about that struggle, and to highlight her breakthrough work on 5G vs. the horrendous threats posed by universal wireless telecommunications.
Camilla then introduces TIMOTHY SCHOECHLE, who talk about the utility-sponsored debacle of “smart meters,” net metering and their utter collective failure.
Tim also talks about micro-grids and alternatives to centralized energy generation.
And about the rapid transition from lithium/cobalt
RON LEONARD, MARK ROEST and MARY BUTLER-STONEWALL chime in on solar in California along with JUSTIN LEBLANC and MIMI SPREADBURY.
Distributed energy from 1.5 million solar roofs (some with batteries) saved the CA grid twice in 100-degree temperatures. All this is here, says Ron Leonard. Let’s just DO IT.
More on this next week….and deep into the grassroots democracy future.
APER BALLOTS, JULIAN ASSANGE & THE GREAT CLIFF ARNEBECK
In Green Grassroots Election Protection zoom #122 we pay tribute to pioneer election protection mainstay CLIFF ARNEBECK, who has just passed..
This heroic Ohio attorney joined with BOB FITRAKIS, CLINT CURTIS, JULIE WIENER & others who demanded an end to the 2004 electoral fraud that wrongly gave GEORGE W. BUSH a 2d term.
Clint gives us a tour of the paper ballot issue and questions the use of computerized ballot images to count the vote.
We then hear from DEEPA DRIVER and VINCENT DeSTEFANO about the situation with JULIAN ASSANGE.
Deepa delivers a brilliant talk on the absolute need for protected journalism and a public funnel for critical documents.
She is briefly joined by TATANKA BRICCA who promises to tell us in a later session about LEONARD PELTIER.
We’re further joined by Vince DeStefano, who explains the possibility that Australia’s change of government may open a door for Julian’s release.
We hope it comes next week, as we adjourn for MLK DAY, returning January 23. No Nukes!!
GRASSROOTS ELECTION PROTECTION & CAMPAIGNING TO 2024 Our elections need to be protected and our progressive campaigns need grassroots support, exclusive of the party system. In this GREEGREE zoom #121 we lay out a template for our work through November, 2024 (and maybe beyond). We look first at a list of 20+ core issues dealing with election protection that will be in varying degrees the upcoming focus of our work. They are listed below. We are then joined by RAY MCCLENDON of the Georgia NAACP, who explains the nitty-gritty importance of grassroots “relational” campaigning with “democracy centers” for progressive candidates everywhere. Ray focusses in particular on Georgia, where the recent GEORGIA MIRACLE has helped swing control of the United States Senate, among much more. HOWIE HAWKINS of the Green Party lays out the details of Ranked Choice Voting, which can constitute a major leap forward for true democracy. RAY LUTZ of Audit USA tells us how audits can play a crucial role along with hand-marked paper ballots in guaranteeing accurate vote counts. Below is the partial list of key issues that are core to protecting free, fair, reliable and accurate elections. Along with safe energy, this will be the core of our work heading toward 2024.
GRASSROOTS ELECTION PROTECTION & CAMPAIGNING TO 2024
Our elections need to be protected and our progressive campaigns need grassroots support, exclusive of the party system.
In this GREEGREE zoom #121 we lay out a template for our work through November, 2024 (and maybe beyond).
We look first at a list of 20+ core issues dealing with election protection that will be in varying degrees the upcoming focus of our work. They are listed below.
We are then joined by RAY MCCLENDON of the Georgia NAACP, who explains the nitty-gritty importance of grassroots “relational” campaigning with “democracy centers” for progressive candidates everywhere.
Ray focusses in particular on Georgia, where the recent GEORGIA MIRACLE has helped swing control of the United States Senate, among much more.
HOWIE HAWKINS of the Green Party lays out the details of Ranked Choice Voting, which can constitute a major leap forward for true democracy.
RAY LUTZ of Audit USA tells us how audits can play a crucial role along with hand-marked paper ballots in guaranteeing accurate vote counts.
Below is the partial list of key issues that are core to protecting free, fair, reliable and accurate elections.
Along with safe energy, this will be the core of our work heading toward 2024.
FIGHTING CELL TOWERS, NUKE POWER & FASCIST FLORIDA We’re headlined on our GREEGREE #119 zoom call by the great JULIE LEVINE, one of America’s leading activists on cell tower / 5G radiation.Julie has long, painful personal experience with the damaging health effects of electromagnetic radiation from cell phone technologies.She’s joined by DOUG WOOD, a top NY-based researcher and writer on what EMT is really doing to us all.Based on Long Island, Wood has helped pioneer our understanding of how fiber optics could and should do a far better job of transmitting those cell phone signals without health impacts.We then switch related issues to be joined by renowned journalist KARL GROSSMAN who elaborates on his latest piece warning that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is about to kill regulation for small modular reactors.A legendary pioneer in the No Nukes movement, Karl warns that the NRC may want to allow nuke reactors to be built inside towns, with no human operators or security guards. Issuing their deliberations from inside a padded cell, the NRC is also poised to green light extended operations at the Diablo Canyon Nukes, where TATANKA BRICCA fills us in ON the latest developments. DENNIS BERNSTEIN OF KPFA / PACIFICA’S “Flashpoints” show chimes in on the insanity of a new $1 billion military aircraft of mass suicide. As for Fascism in Florida, CAROLINA AMPUDIA and WENDI LEDERMAN inform on the sorry state of the Sunshine State Dems….not to mention the outright dictatorship of Ron DeSantis. STAY TUNED!!!
THE “MIRACLES” OF GEORGIA & ARIZONA, 2021-2: HAS DEMOCRACY BEEN SAVED?
Our GREEGREE zoom #117 welcomes RAY MCCLENDON of the Georgia NAACP, JOHN BRAKEY of Arizona’s election protection “scanned ballot image” movement, and democracy journalist STEVE ROSENFELD. Together they outline the hard realities of the struggle—in many ways successful—to protect our democracy as seen in the outcome of the 2021 “Georgia Miracle” and the 2022 mid-terms. As a pillar of grassroots/relational campaigning, McClendon has played a key role in promoting the Get Out the Vote movements that made the difference in twin Senate victories in 2021, and that may hold the key to the “Manchin Runoff” in 2022. Working with Andrea Miller of the Center for Common Ground, McClendon has been at the core of shifting progressive campaign donations away from mainstream Democratic Party media buys and into the machinery of on-the-ground organizing. Based in Arizona, Brakey has pioneered the use of digital scanning in tandem with mailed-out hand-marked paper ballots. Making a mockery of the 2020 Cyber-Ninja recount fiasco, Brakey has made Arizona into a living laboratory for reliable vote casting and counting. Working the election protection beat, Rosenfeld has published innumerable articles on the 2021 double victory of Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossof, and in the on-going struggle to securable a reliable voting process. With these three critical players, we provide an absolutely unique and irreplaceable primer on how American democracy must proceed if our nation is to survive. Above all, we come to understand the pivotal, permanent role of female and Millennial/Zoomer voters in re-shaping the government core of the nation in the age of Trump fascism and eco-suicide.
The “PINK TRICKLE,” the "REACTOR GAP" & The WAR ON SOLAR
As the “Red Wave” turns into a pathetic ripple, we’re joined by TATANKA BRICCA and KEVIN KAMPS, two of America’s leading experts on election protection, nuclear power & solar energy.
We focus first on the stunning transformation of a pro-Trump “Red Wave” into at best a pink trickle.
The powerful rise of women voters and Millennial/zoomers born after 1980 dominated the electorate in an outcome that has shocked the punditocracy and may have repelled a pro-fascist assault on our democracy.
Like wise the California Public Utilities Commission seems now to be backing off its attempt to tax rooftop solar panels. It is messing instead with net metering paybacks, which could hurt but not kill the green energy industry.
But under intense public pressure, the CPUC may be retreating from an all-out attack on an industry that employs more than 70k workers in CA alone.
At the same time CA Gov. Gavin Newsom and MI Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are boosting dangerously decayed old atomic reactors for future operations.
Their apocalyptic potential fallout threatens the future of us all. Don’t miss hearing how we can stop them!!!
GUNS & THE YOUTH VOTE WITH DAVID HOGG & JOHN ROSENTHAL We devote the first hour of the GREE-GREE zoom gathering #116 with the great DAVID HOGG and a deep dive into two issues at the core of American politics: gun violence and youth turnout. Now a senior at Harvard University, Hogg has become a national icon in the movement to lower the death toll from guns and motivate the youth vote. David’s work, in tandem with JOHN ROSENTHAL, has significantly changed views of gun registration and control in Massachusetts and elsewhere. Hogg and Rosenthal have helped pioneer the AMERICA CALLING organization which aims to vastly expand the turnout among young voters. Rosenthal’s efforts, in conjunction with Hogg, have tangibly lowered the gun violence death rate in Massachusetts, and could do the same nationwide, saving more than 26,000 lives. These two grea activists are already legends in making real change in American politics. Rooted in the younger generations now taking control of the electorate, while simultaneously working to end gun violence, they are not to be missed.
REP. JAMIE RASKIN OF THE 1/6 COMMITTEE TELLS IT LIKE IT IS
Our 115th GREE-GREE Session is honored with the presence of US REPRESENTATIVE JAMIE RASKIN, Democrat of Maryland, prominent member of the 1/6 Committee.
We first pose to him the hope to remove the statue of General George McClellan from the streets of DC, and for official recognition of Sally Hemings as the third First Lady of the United States. We hear from MIKE HERSH about the details of Rep. Raskin’s great career. Rep. Raskin then lays out the case for federal criminal prosecution against Donald Trump. Our own JOEL SEGAL tells of his long-standing friendship with Rep. Raskin, and then asks critical legal questions on prosecuting Trump and on preserving our democracy. RAY MCCLENDON of the Georgia NAACP gives us a critical presentation of the desperate need to shift the Democratic Party to becoming an actual democracy organization with a shift to grassroots organizing. McClendon underscores the need to stop pouring millions of donor dollars into media advertising and switch to establishing the kind of GOTV / person-to-person campaigning that won the “Georgia Miracle” in 2021, shifting control of the US Senate. BRYNN TANNEHILL informs the Rep. on the plight of trans citizens under Republican regimes. DENNIS BERNSTEIN of the nationally-syndicated FLASHPOINTS radio show hears from Rep. Raskin on how to protect the vote in places like Florida and Arizona, as well as the danger of “madman” Putin using nuclear weapons. JIM GARRISON of the Ubiquity Institute asks why Donald Trump is not yet in prison, to which Rep. Raskin responds with a strong second to that notion. Next week’s session #116 will include DAVID HOGG of the Parkland Shooting exploring the impact of gun control on this year’s mid-term elections.
We start with TATANKA BRICCA talking to us about STEPHEN STILLS and his hearing loss. We hear from RICHARD LANGWORTHY in London expressing deep concern about a fascist victory in the US this November. CLIFFORD TASNER, President of the Los Angeles chapter of Americans for Democratic Action joins us. So does DOROTHY REIK of the Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains. We do a deep dive on the horrendous uproar surrounding the progressive City Council member KEVIN DELEON that has put Los Angeles in turmoil. PAUL SHERMAN and LEAH HERZBERG add in their opinions to the massive controversy. LINDA HUTCHINS-KNOWLES the talks to us about her work on green transportation. TATANKA BRICCA adds more critical information about the moves to EV and clean mobility. WENDI LEDERMAN and RON LEONARD add critical details. And then RAY LUTZ gives us the latest on the movement for election protection. NEXT WEEK we welcome REP. JAIMIE RASKIN of the January 6 committee. Don’t miss us!!!
NDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY & AN HOUR OF WOMEN’S ISSUES WITH CHRISTIAN NUNES OF NOW
We begin GREE-GREE #113 with a celebration of Indigenous People’s Day led by TATANKA BRICCA and the reminder that whatever democracy and freedom we enjoy in America is rooted with our native peoples---especially with the Hodenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
JOEL SEGAL fills us in on the fight of Puerto Rico to rise again from yet another horrific storm, one that’s also brought terrifying death and destruction to much of Florida.
We then hear from CHRISTIAN NUNES, President of the National Organization for Women, as she and WENDI LEDERMAN take us on a deep dive into the core of women’s issues in the world today. Roe v. Wade is “on the ballot” and, as Christian tells us, the issues cut far deeper than abortion.
What we're seeing, we hear, is about men trying to deepen their control over women, creating more slavery, autocracy and privilege among the rich.
The attack on a woman’s right to control her own body is inseparable from the fight for democracy and the desperate need to save our planetary ecology.
CYNTHIA PAPERMASTER, MARY DOUGLAS, DANNETT ABBOT-WICKER, HEDY TRIPP and LYNN FEINERMAN all contribute to this deeply moving excursion into the rise of the movement for matriarchal justice and power.
GREE-GREE #111 takes us deep into the ability of Big Corporations to buy what’s left of our democracy. Thankfully, we’re joined by the uniquely powerful JUDITH WHITMER, rebel Chair of the Democratic Party of Nevada, where an uprising of grassroots activists has transformed the playing field. Judith has helped lead the charge to at last put the Democratic Party apparatus in reach of grassroots activists who actually support a progressive agenda….and who are willing to fight for a progressive agenda. We learn from GREG COLERIDGE that the horrendous Citizen’s United does not protect dark money’s ability to buy primaries, as they’re themselves the bailiwick of private corporations, ie the political parties. Thus we realize the possibility of actually having fair and accessible systems to choose partisan candidates, a revolutionary development to say the least. DOROTHY REIK, THERESA BONPANE, JUSTIN LEBLANC, MARY STONEWALL and others chime in with great questions. We’re FURTHER joined by WENDI LEDERMAN, who has compiled a brilliant and extremely important roster of non-partisan grassroots organizations around the country. Such groups have already vastly impacted our political process, at war with dark money. We clearly need to grow this list, which now embraces some 500 groups—-a hard activist core that could revolutionize our politics….and not a moment too soon!!!
MINNESOTA ATTORNEY-GENERAL KEITH ELLISON ON FAIR & SANE ELECTIONS
Our GREE-GREE #110 opens with EMILY LEVY with the latest report on Scrutineers on critical training and information on election protection.
We are then joined by the legendary KEITH ELLISON, Attorney-General of Minnesota and lead prosecutor in the legendary George Floyd case.
Keith is a former multi-term US Representative and Vice-Chair of the national Democratic Party.
We discuss with him the relatively safe, democratic voting conditions in Minnesota and the desperate need to replicate them nationwide.
Keith is gratefully joined by RAY MCCLENDON of the Georgia NAACP, connecting powerful pro-democracy organizers in critical states where conditions are very different.
Joining them also are BOB FITRAKIS, JULIE WIENER, WENDI LIEDERMAN, HEDI TRIPP, TATANKA BRICCA and others.
The need for a national organization of progressive state Attorneys-General and secretaries of state has never been more critical.
We finish this amazing hour with JAMIAH HARGINS and his truly mind-boggling organization promoting urban farming and water conservation.
DANNETT ABBOTT, MYLA RESON, PAUL SHERMAN, CYNTHIA PAPERMASTER and others chime in to this fantastically hopeful and powerful course of action for greening all of Los Angeles & ALL the world’s cities..
JIM HIGHTOWER HIGHLIGHTS THE LONE STAR LOW-DOWN AT GREE-GREE #109 Our Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection zoom this week features the great Texas commentator JIM HIGHTOWER. Jim's brilliant populist screeds have been enlightening the airwaves and op ed columns for decades. Irreverent, witty and often downright belly-laughable, Hightower brings to this show a critical grassroots perspective that virtually no one else can offer. His reports on the bottom-up campaigning now transforming Texas politics help transform our view of what’s possible in a Lone Star state undergoing a top-to-bottom demographic transformation. Everywhere beloved for his legendary commitment to “small d” democracy, Jim’s unique perspective bursts our hour at the grassroots seams. Do not miss this genius screed from deep in the belly of the southern Heartland.
DIABLO ARMAGEDDONARIZONA BRAKEYGRASSROOTS CONGRESS
Our Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection zoom opens with a tribute from WENDI LEDERMAN to Women’s Equality. We also honor the great HOWARD ZINN, who would have been 100 years old this month. Zinn completely upended the popular view of our nation’s story, and his PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES remains a foundational document. Thank you, Howard!!! We then do a deep dive into the decrepit, dangerous, earthquake-surrounded Diablo Canyon Nukes at San Luis Obispo, CA. Governor Gavin Newsom is pushing to keep them open indefinitely despite a broad-based agreement to shut them in 2024-5. The ramifications for the future health, safety, economy and ecological survival of the human race are without parallel. We hear from DONNA GILMORE, KEN COOK, DANETT ABBOTT, ACE HOFFMAN, MYLA RESON, JUSTIN LE BLANC, TATANKA BRICCA, LINDA SEELEY and many more. Arizona’s great JOHN BRAKEY tells us of major victories there. Led by Wendi Lederman, we hear from grassroots activists ????\
GREG PALAST * FLORIDA FASCISM KANSAS VICTORY POWER THE POLLS In our GREEN GRASSROOTS EMERGENCY ELECTION PROTECTION zoom #107 we open with WENDI LEDERMAN explaining how Florida’s extreme right-wing Gov. Ron DeSantis has arrested 20 citizens for the crime of voting while black. Despite a huge public referendum win confirming the right of ex-felons to vote, DeSantis and his fellow vigilantes are intent on terrorizing the electorate. The great GREG PALAST then introduces his new film VIGILANTE: GEORGIA’S VOTER SUPPRESSION HITMAN. Legendary investigative reporter Palast introduces the astonishing reality of Georgia’s Gov. Brian Kemp, scion of an historic slave-owning family, and his all-out assault on the ability of thousands of Georgia citizens to cast ballots at all. Greg’s hour-long presentation includes powerful questions from DANNETT ABBOTT, DR. RUTH STRAUSS, RAY MCCLENDON, DENNIS BERNSTEIN, MARY BUTLER-STONEWALL, STEVE SPITZ, ALEX WILLIAMS, PAUL SHERMAN, GEORGE RIPLEY and many more. HELENA BUCHMANN tells us how grassroots organizing defeated anti-choice conservatives in Kansas. MARTA HANSEN of Power the Polls explains the extreme importance of Poll Workers in the electoral process and how her grassroots organization works to bring them out. WENDI LEDERMAN finishes by presenting our burgeoning list of more than 500 grassroots groups around the US. Next Monday—-August 29—-GREEP #108 will feature Minnesota Attorney-General KEITH ELLISON in an organizing congress headlining major grassroots 2022 organizations from around the nation. BE SURE TO JOIN US!!!
At GREE-GREE #106, WENDI LEDERMAN starts us off with an astounding listing of grassroots 2022 groups around the US workin on election protection.
We also hear from ZURIE POPE about fascist chaos in Ohio.
And from SUZANNE GORDON on the shafting of the Veterans Administration nationwide.
We then do a deep dive on the atomic chaos in Zaporizhzhia, California and elsewhere.
KEVIN KAMPS of Beyond Nuclear, MYLA RESON & TATANKA BRICCA, DOROTHY REIK, DENNIS BERNSTEIN and others in California and elsewhere.
We’re finally re-joined by BRYNN TANNEHILL to discuss the fascist reaction to the FBI on Mar-a-Lago.
What comes next? It’s up to you...
A DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO GRASSROOTS VICTORY IN 2022…& THE GLOBAL NUKE NIGHTMARE, FROM UKRAINE TO DIABLO CANYON On the GREE_GREE zoom #105 we offer a definitive template on the nuts and bolts of the grassroots organizing needed to turn the people’s will in the 2022 mid-term elections. ANDREA MILLER and RAY MCCLENDON fill us in on the granular steps that forced the 2021 “Georgia Miracle” onto the changing face of American politics. They’re followed by TATANKA BRICCA who adds to the narrative his hands-on experience organizing with the likes of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. Co-Convenor JOEL SEGAL then joins ROBERT WILSON with their accounts of parallel campaigning in North Carolina. Joel and Robert later introduce us to LARRY HALL, a critical leader of the NC Legislature. On August 29 we’ll convene a National Congress of Grassroots 2022 Organizing to link on-the-ground groups together from all over the US. WENDI LEDERMAN is compiling a master list of the nation’s on-the-ground operations to be represented as we further gather the progressive momentum needed to save this nation. Hearing from DOROTHY REIK, DR. RUTH STRAUSS, LYNN FEINERMAN and more, we’re joined by Beyond Nuclear’s PAUL GUNTER, who provides the detail on the massive reactor bailouts included in the just-passed Biden-Manchine Inflation-Reduction Act. We also dive into the horrifying realities of six atomic reactors at Ukraine’s Zaporizyzya, six big nukes surrounded by heavy weaponry in the Russo-Ukrainian war zone. This ungodly nightmare of exploding reactors carries into California, as LINDA SEELEY of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace updates the fight to shut the insanely dangerous Diablo Canyon nukes as soon as possible. Overall this unique excursion into grassroots organizing and safe energy imperatives is not to be missed.
BILL RUSSELL, GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING IN GA/NC, HEALTH CARE, MONEY OUT OF POLITICS, LOCAL WINNERS, ABORTION Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #104 opens with the legendary Bill Russell, the Greatest professional athlete/civil rights activistn all sports based on having won 11 NBA championships in 13 years, including the last two as the first African-American coach of a major professional team. Russell did all this while serving as one of critically important pioneering activists of equal rights for all citizens. He will be incredibly missed, as will NICHELLE NICHOLS, Star Trek's first African-American female, one of the great icons of our culture (&counter-culture). RAY MCCLENDON clarifies the on-going very much alive & well prosecution of Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia. Ray further updates us on the escalating grassroots campaign in GA leading into the 2022 mid-terms. JOEL SEGAL connects that GA campaign to his work in NC…and then explains in great detail the considerable impact of the new Biden-Manchin bill, not yet passed, on our national health care system. RON LEONARD, RAY LUTZ and TATANKA BRICCA illuminate the huge leap forward this bill also offers to the solar industry which has been under terrible attack from the US fossil/nuke dinosaurs. GREG COLERIDGE of MOVE TO AMEND then covers his organization’s spectacular work—along with SAM ROSENTHAL---to reverse the horrendous SCOTUS Citizens United decision allowing big corporate money to buy our elections. Greg is followed by three great grassroots candidates supported by Progressive Democrats of America: JASON CALL from WA, RACHEL VENTURA and JOHN LAESCH from IL. And we hear from DR. RUTH STRAUSS, WENDI LEDERMAN, DOROTHY REIK, DANNETT ABBOTT, JUSTIN LEBLANC and many more who fit the critical mass of moving ahead with American democracy. As a parting shot, we jump briefly into the world of psychedelics, reminding all our participants for future sessions to see: FANTASTIC FUNGI & the 4-part HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND.
ROOFTOP SOLAR v. NUCLEAR NEWSOM, RAY MCCLENDON & GRASSROOTS GEORGIA, STATE-BY-STATE w. ROE…& TRUMP’S 1/6 TREASON
We open GREE-GREE #103 with TATANKA BRICCA and RON LEONARD updating us on the fossil/nuke industry's assault on rooftop solar, which is being defended by Florida’s right-wing Ron DeSantis but betrayed by California’s alleged progressive Gavin Newson.
From Georgia the NAACP’s great RAY MCCLENDON updates us on the campaign to fund grassroots campaigning, which holds the fate of the Peach State and with it the nation. Ray also updates us on the Fulton County DA’s move to indict Trump. Ray is joined by Flashpoint’s DENNIS BERNSTEIN with key questions on the Donald’s traitorous travesties.
HOWIE HAWKINS of the Green Party updates upon the Democratic Party’s assault on the Green and other third parties, a never-ending attack on democracy.
JOEL SEGAL emphasizes the importance of the “Georgia Miracle” organizing paradigm.
LULU FRIESDAT, DR. RUTH STRAUSS, MYLA RESON, DANETT ABBOT, JUSTIN LEBLANC, HAL GINSBERG, SAM BELL, BRIAN STEINBERG and many more great activists chime in on January 6, Roe v. Wade and much much more.
In this most vitally critical mid-term season, please be sure to join us on these fascinating, compelling and inescapable issues. See you now!!! See you next week!!!
MICHIGAN’S PRO-CHOICE REFERENDUM; GRASSROOTS IN GA, NC, OR, FL; CA GREEN NEW DEAL; BANNON’S FASCIST WET DREAM We hear from BRIAN STEINBERG about Michigan’s amazing statewide referenda to win a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing a woman’s right to control her body, and to make it easier for ordinary citizens to exercise their democratic rights. An astonishing 750,000+ signatures have been gathered, guaranteeing a sea change in Michigan politics that should be matched throughout the country if the progressive movement was actually awake. JOEL SEGAL, WILLIE FLEMING, RAY MCCLENDON and ROBERT WILSON then fill us in on the all-important grassroots/relational organizing in North Carolina and Georgia, two states that would swing the entire nation. Florida’s JIM LANGFORD joins Oregon’s LAWRENCE TAYLOR & SHERRY HEALY to update the Progressive Democrats of America’s work to democratize the Democratic Party. TATANKA BRICCA then updates us on California’s campaign for a Green New Deal and the desperate attempt to get the horrendous Diablo Canyon shut before it unleashes an apocalyptic cloud killing millions of people and permanently destroying the American ecology and economy. At the top of the second hour we’re joined by MARK KARLIN, founder/editor of BUZZFLASH. Mark has broken a mind-boggling expose of Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley’s being poised take control of the country in the absence of Mike Pence. We then hear from STEVE BANNON in a one-minute clip of his pre-election celebration that DONALD TRUMP was about to abolish elections and make himself king. This astonishing, unprecedented ranting rivals the Hitler Inner Circle's celebrations of the burning of the Reichstag. For anyone who cares about American democracy, this one-hour excursion into the attempted Trump coup is absolutely essential. Don’t miss it.
CRISIS AND SOLUTIONS AT THE PACIFICA RADIO NETWORK We spend a landmark hour examining the extremely critical history and current status of the priceless and irreplaceable Pacifica Radio Network. We start with the great ALAN MINSKY, long-time KPFK Program Director and current Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats of America. As only he can, Alan gives us a brilliant overview of how the network has functioned and what its immense political value really can be. HARVEY WASSERMAN then recounts the tragic assault against the most recent attempt the reform the Pacifica by-laws by a New Day organization that won the popular vote by 55% to 45%, thus mandating the rules change desperately need to save the network. New Day Pacifica Founder JAN GOODMAN then explains the detail of the by-laws change going forward. She is joined by New Day supporter MYLA RESON who further explores the realities of this astonishing anti-democracy coup which has cost the progressive movement its most powerful broadcast voice. If you believe the progressive movement needs a democratically elected and run broadcast network, don’t miss this vital discussion.
GEORGIA, GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNING, PACIFICA RADIO, NUKES V. SOLAR & THE ROE CATASTROPHE
GREE-GREE #100 begins with the great ANDREA MILLER of Center for Common Ground telling us how grassroots organizing and Democracy Centers can make a real difference, and could decide the 2022 election.
She’s joined by STEVE ROSENFELD and RAY MCCLENDON who fill us in on the political realities in the Peach State, including the likelihood of a Trump indictment and what’s needed to save the races for Stacy Abrams and Raphael Warnock in the fall.
JAN GOODMAN then tells us of the hard battles to save democracy at the Pacifica Radio Network, which has been ravaged by a series of stolen elections and insider destruction.
KPFK’s DENNIS BERNSTEIN, host of the legendary Flashpoints Show, adds vital background to the fight over the progressive nation’s most valuable piece of media real estate.
We also hear from TATANKA BRICCA on the California showdown between the lethal madness of the Diablo Canyon nukes vs. the desperate need to protect rooftop solar and a real green revolution.
In the second hour we go to the insane overturn of ROE v. WADE with WENDI LEDERMAN, LYNN FEINERMAN, DANNETT ABBOTT-WICKER and many many more.
We scroll through the moral, ethical, political and spiritual realities of what may be the most critical decision of the decade and what the impacts might be on the apocalyptic upcoming 2022 midterms.
We will be off for July 4. But in the meantime, as the national political scenes shakes and quakes, don’t miss this show.
ON JUNETEENTH WE VISIT AUSTRALIA, DEFUND THE FASCISTS & SAVE PACIFICA RADIO We open the GREE-GREE zoom #99 with CLAIRE ATKIN of Check My Ads and its brilliant, cutting-edge campaign to strip internet-based income from fascist media mavens like Steve Bannon. Launched in early June, Claire’s pathbreaking strategy includes grassroots campaigning against the violent-laced hate-mongering of the extreme right wing. Claire is followed by LEHMAN WEISCHSELBAUM’s call for whistleblowers to unearth fraud and theft in the 2016 election that put Donald Trump in the White House. We hear from RAY MCCLENDON, NAACP Political Director for the NAACP in the state of Georgia about the possibility of indicting Trump in Fulton County. From Australia DR. CAROLYN ORR describes the huge turn-around in parliamentary politics with the unseating of a horrendous anti-environment conservative and the installation of a pro-democracy pro-environment coalition. In our second hour, we are joined by ALAN MINSKY, JAN GOODMAN and MYLA RESON for a deep dive into the anti-democracy crisis now threatening the future of the PACIFICA RADIO NETWORK. That full hour of detailed discussion can be found at https://youtu.be/keAkQycl7Bg?t=3865 . GREE-GREE #100 on June 27 will go deep into Georgia to learn if Fulton County will indict Trump, and whether the “Georgia Miracle” can be repeated in the fall.
A NEW PROGRESSIVE COALITION & A DEEP DIVE INTO THE JANUARY 6 HEARINGS
Our 98th GREE-GREE (Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition) Zoom starts with a critical new progressive alliance and culminates at the January 6 Hearings. We begin with TATANKA BRICCA who introduces us to DREW GLOVER, the charismatic new Executive Director of the National Progressive Action Coalition. Drew explains to us in riveting in-depth detail how the NPAC will at last draw the left out of its silos and into the kind of unified political campaigning our country so desperately needs. We then hear from ROGER HALLUM in England about the Extinction Rebellion and the huge demonstrations they’ve led in Great Britain. In our second hour we’re joined by the legendary TV / documentary producer DAVID SALTMAN who gives us the insider’s overview of the first night of the January 6 hearings. David is joined by our legendary co-convenor JOEL SEGAL and by DENNIS BERNSTEIN, nationally syndicated host of KPFA’s FLASHPOINTS. Brilliant commentary also comes from our listenership, as always, including WENDI LEDERMAN, DR. RUTH STRAUSS, LYNN FEINERMAN, DANNETT ABBOTT-WICKER and many more. We will follow in Zoom #99 with more vital analysis of the 1/6 coup. Join us!!
DANNY SHEEHAN & BRYNN TANNEHILL SOUND THE WARNINGS Our latest masterful Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection (GREE-GREE) gathering is powered by two great observer/activists in the devastating miasma that has become the American political scene. BRYNN TANNEHILL takes us through the dire straits we face in the electoral process as laid out in her book AMERICAN FASCISM. It takes root especially with gerrymandering scams completely gutting our democracy. The GOP advantage in the US Senate skews 7% toward the Republican Party, which is now an overt fascist juggernaut. And that’s just a small part of the internal authoritarian cancer that’s sending our nation toward dictatorship. In our second hour, the great DANNY SHEEHAN gives us a tutorial on the legal and other challenges we face in hanging on to the last shards of our democracy. With his unique, incredibly extensive understanding of the legal system, the Indigenous community, the environmental issue and much more, Danny’s time with us is absolutely essential to understanding where we must go to survive. Along the way, we hear from CHUCK O’NEAL about a legal victory (!) for the environment; from TATANKA BRICCA about the battle for renewables and against nuclear power in California; from PAT MARIDA about the Ohio’s insane attempt to revive nuclear power, and much more. We also hear from our great GREE-GREE stalwarts about a wide variety of critical issues, including the Alaska Congressional candidacy of SANTA CLAUS for the US House, in competition with Sarah Palin, THE WICKED WITCH OF THE NORTH. We hope you are among the hard activist core we now need so much to survive. Please do JOIN US in this call and in our upcoming zooms.
Nukes on their way Out
The legendary Kevin Kamps reports on the landmark shut down of Michigan’s Palisades nuke and its impact on saving our Earth from the next reactor disaster.
We deal with womens rights dating from the indigenous, whose matriarchal societies guaranteed that the human female controlled her own body.
And then there’s utter idiocy of our endless mass shootings. The Second Amendment demands that a gun owner belong to a well-regulated militia and that their being armed serves the security of a free state.
This important show does just that. Join us!!
THE PURITAN ASSAULT ON WOMEN & INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
Our brilliant, intense, path-breaking hour-long exploration of the imminent demise of Roe v. Wade is led by the great Christian Nunes, President of the National Organization for Women. Christian’s incisive, uncompromising view of this latest Puritan attack on women sets the tone for an important examination of Calvinist fascism and its heartless autocracy, especially as they come with the race-based slaughter of 10 African-Americans in Buffalo. As this 95th Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection (GREE-GREE) zoom unfolds, we also discuss the INDIGENOUS ORIGINALISM of thousands of years of tribal law in which a woman’s ability to control her own body was never questioned. In the course of our discussion we hear further from MARY BUTLER-STONEWALL, CHARLOTTE DENNETT, DENNIS BERNSTEIN, JOEL SEGAL, NEIL PENN, DR. RUTH STRAUSS, MICHAEL BRACKNEY and many more. JULIE WEINER tells us about the fight over voting machines in New York, which has also had big news about Gerrymandering. SUSAN PYNCHON reports on the incredible battles in North Carolina over voting rights, and in Arizona over the “Brakey Bill” which protects and archives electronic ballots for the first time in US history. We further hear from TIM WHITE, ERIC LAZARUS, WENDI LEDERMAN, JEFFREY BARKHDUL, SUE DORFMAN, RAY LUTZ and many more great activists and commentators. Amidst America's most profound historic crisis over women’s rights, this is a discussion you must not miss.
WILL ROE TURN AMERICA UPSIDE-DOWN? WILL WE GET BURNED OFF THE EARTH? The medieval demand that women be denied power over their own bodies has prompted one of GREE-GREE’s most powerful zooms ever. Beginning with the great MIMI KENNEDY, we said through a full hour of powerful discussion about what the back-stabbing assault on Roe v. Wade really means and how it will affect our upcoming elections. Plunging to the core of this horrific landmark, we also hear from LYNN FEINERMAN, DR. RUTH STRAUSS, MARY STONEWALL-BUTLER, MYLA RESON, WENDI LEDERMAN, JOEL SEGAL, JUSTIN LEBLANC, JULIE WEINER, ERIC LAZARUS, NANCY NIPARKO, TATANKA BRICCA and more. We then get a devastating report from climate scientist DR. CAROLYN ORR on the killer impacts of global warming and the pollution of our air. RON LEONARD updates on the grid in Puerto Rico, just recently the subject of an in-depth energy report in the New York Times. Next week, we do yet another full hour on Roe, this time with the great CHRISTIAN NUNES of the National Organization for Women. See you then!!!
GREEN CALIFORNIA, PROTECTED BALLOTS in AZ, A NATIONAL SUMMIT, STUDENT DEBT, TX/OH/NY
This brilliant marathon GREE-GREE #93 takes us first to a Green California with TATANKA BRICCA and BEN EICHERT.
We then spend an astonishing 40 minutes with JOHN BRAKEY & KEN BENNETT discussing major new legislation proposed in Arizona to protect the ballots and establish a digital image library to guarantee maximum accountability. Should it pass this could become the first such bill to pass anywhere in the US.
JOEL SEGAL takes our third section into the realm of a nationwide strategy for grassroots elections to be launched at a national summit zoom on June 11.
We also hear from ANTHONY GUTIERREZ of Common Cause about the horrors of race-based disenfranchisement in TX.
JULIE WIENER explains some welcome reforms in NY.
ERIC LAZARUS introduces an in-depth analysis of the economic benefits of cancelling student debt.
Congressional candidate PETER MATHEWS tells us of a “lost” campaign mailer.
RACHEL COYLE updates us on the insanity in Gerrymandered Ohio, with a nod to Florida from SUSAN PYNCHON & WENDI LEDERMAN.
This two-hour deep dive into democratizing our energy & elections is not to be missed!!!
VIOLENCE v. ELECTION WORKERS & OHIO MADNESS w. NINA TURNER et. al. Our action-packed GREE-GREE #92 begins with a devastating view from JOEL SEGAL of violence being perpetrated against poll workers, a direct assault on our democracy. We hear from HAL GINSBERG of Our Revolution on the move to prevent 1/6 Insurrectionists from taking over Congress at the polls. PAT MARIDA of Ohio fills us in on the state’s pro-nuke scam, while TATANKA BRICCA and RON LEONARD update us on the war against rooftop solar. Then the legendary NINA TURNER tells of her race to represent Cleveland in the US Congress. Ohio’s RACHEL COYLE explains the insane Gerrymandering disaster there, while NICOLE SANDLER and WENDI LEDERMAN do the same from Florida. We also hear from election protection greats JOHN BRAKEY and MIMI KENNEDY. This is a completely jammed two hours. Don’t miss it!
SAVING AMERICA WITH GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNS IN 2022 AND 2024; SAVING ROOFTOP SOLAR AS WELL
With the great ANDREA MILLER and JOEL SEGAL our GREE-GREE gathering #91 dives into the realties of grassroots campaigning.
While the major parties will blow tens of millions on TV advertising, we saw in Georgia 2021 how effective “relational campaigning” can be.
Andrea reveals the realities of a Democratic Party dependent on a foreign-owned data company, and unwilling to do the nitty-gritty work of getting on the ground.
If a right-wing wipe-out is to be avoided, democracy centers and door-to-door tactics will be key.
TATANKA BRICCA, WENDI LEDERMAN and RON LEONARD then fill us in on the war against rooftop solar. Anti-green moves in CA and FL are now at the cutting edge.
Join us to save both our democracy & our planet!!
GERRYMANDERED MADNESS & A GREEN ENERGY FUTURE
Utter chaos in Ohio’s gerrymandering war and the California’s big green shift define our GREE-GREE zoom #90. We are now officially the GREEN GRASSROOTS EMERGENCY ELECTION PROTECTION Coalition. Saving the planet is inseparable from saving our elections. Today’s amazing gathering deals with the blood war over Ohio’s Congressional and Legislative districts, now being sabotaged by a GOP determined to trash the will of the Buckeye State as expressed by two popular referenda demanding a fair districting process. We hear from COMMON CAUSE, the LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS, INDIVISIBLE and more on a battle that could determine control of the US House, the Ohio Legislature and thus our future. JOEL SEGAL fills us in on the Constitutional legalities. ANDREA MILLER briefs us on grassroots organizing for 2022. Then we hear from TATANKA BRICCA and SARA NELSON and more on fight to take California—and thus the United States and the world—to green power. WENDI LEDERMAN fills in from Florida. This is a powerful, packed excursion in the election and energy democracy. Don’t miss it!
For our meeting #89 we announce the GREEN-GREEP (Gree-Gree)…the Greening of the Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition to conjoin the battle for grassroots democracy with renewables and saving our planet from King CONG (Coal, Oil, Nukes & Gas). We’re first joined by BISI WILLIAMS, BRUCE MAU & AMARIS, who introduce us to the Massive Change Network. We then enter the deep mists of the nationwide Gerrymandering fiasco, starting with Ohio’s Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor. A veritable Profile in Courage, O’Connor has single-handed blocked four versions of an outrageous attempt by Buckeye Republicans to yet again hijack the state’s Congressional and State House districts. Now (of course) her fellow Republicans want to impeach her. The Ohio war is being duplicated in New York, North Carolina, Alabama, Texas, Nevada and everywhere else one of the major parties thinks it can steal a few Congressional/Legislative seats. As explained by Constitutional lawyer JOEL SEGAL, the legal miasma has taken a quantum leap with Federal Judge Mark E. Walker, who has ruled that Florida’s new election laws are racist, and demand the “pre-clearance” mandated by the Civil and Voting Rights Acts of the 1960s. His ruling’s journey to the US Supreme Court will denote one of the nation’s most critical legal journeys. With DENNIS BERNSTEIN, TATANKA BRICCA, WENDI LEDERMAN, JUSTIN LEBLANC and many more, we finally visit the apocalyptic battle to save renewable energy from King CONG (Coal, Oil, Nukes & Gas). The attempt to crush rooftop solar is the cutting edge of a fossil/nuclear holding action capable of destroying the future of human life on Earth. Join us to combine our commitments to democracy in both energy and elections.
SPECTACULAR GRASSROOTS ACTIVIST SUMMIT This week’s show is rooted in our monumental March 27 Summit in Santa Monica. On a warm, sunny southern California Day, dozens of local activists gathered to meet and hear brilliant movers and shakers from throughout the nation. The program was zoomed to the Progressive Democrats of America and the Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition. Speakers included: MIMI KENNEDY, PDA, “Mom,” “Midnight in Paris” ALAN MINSKY, Progressive Dems of America CHRISTIAN NUNES, Prez, Ntl. Organization. for Women JOEL SEGAL, Author, Affordable Care Act MENNA DEMASSIE, Congressional Black Caucus TATANKA BRICCA, Green California, Amnesty USA JAN GOODMAN, New Day Pacifica DAN SHEEHAN, Iran-Contra, Indigenous Rights SARA NELSON, Silkwood, Romero Institute DOROTHY REIK: Progressive Dems Santa Monica Mtns JOHN BRAKEY: AZ Election Protection JULIE LEVINE, 5G-Free California Prof. PETER MATHEWS, “Dollar Democracy” LIBBE HALEVY, Nuclear Hot Seat LINDE HOUCK, Actors’ Gang ANKUR PATEL, Progressive MYLA RESON, KPFK Local Station Board Convened by Harvey Wasserman, this historic event will live on as a major turning point. Don’t miss it.
CIVIC DUTY VOTING, CHAOS IN TEXAS, INSANITY IN OHIO
Our GREEP zoom #87 leaps into the issue of Civic Duty Voting with the great MILES RAPOPORT, former Secretary of State of Connecticut.
Miles has served as president of Common Cause and Demos. He is most recently the co-author, with E.J. DIONNE, of 100% Democracy being published this week by New Press.
Miles’s discussion of universal mandatory voting is groundbreaking and fascinating. He’s a great presenter and his hour with us is utterly riveting.
We then hear from MYLA RESON and election protection activists SUSAN YOUNG and TERRI BURKE about the major challenges facing voters in Texas. Leading that agenda is a brutal race for Attorney-General, where a grassroots victory could be a game-changer nationwide.
We follow with an astounding dive into the unreal rabbit hole that is Ohio. As we hear from RACHEL COYLE, DAVID DEWITT and STEVE CARUSO, GOP fanatics have trashed public mandates to draw fair and balanced districts for upcoming elections for the state legislature and US Congress.
The result is that Ohio does not have Congressional districts or state Legislative districts with which conduct a primary election. It would be hard to invent a wackier debacle. STAY TUNED!!!
DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS FORGED BY MONEY IN POLITICS At this 86th zoom session of the Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition we are joined by activist NICOLE DVORAK who has pioneered powerful new means of tracking the purchase of politicians by giant corporations. Nicole’s work offers a roadmap for building the critical data base needed to expose exactly how our democracy is being destroyed by big money. We also proudly host NANCY MACLEAN of Duke University, whose landmark DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS digs deep into the destruction of our essential government structured by a greedy Uber-rich class of fascists and autocrats who threaten us all. Nancy is interviewed by the great Tatanka Bricca, whose detailed knowledge of what plagues our electoral system sets a critical framework from a truly unique discussion. Central Ohio’s STEVE CARUSO also reports on the insane attempts of the Ohio Republican Party to sabotage efforts to draw fair representational districts in the Buckeye State. Those assaults have been shockingly resisted by Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor of the Ohio Supreme Court in one of the great sagas of actual courage in American politics. Unless we find more of it, this nation is doomed.
NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE IN UKRAINE As Putin slaughters thousands and wrecks Ukraine, he has turned its 15 atomic reactors into pawns of the apocalypse. The danger of explosions at Ukraine’s nukes has put the human race at the brink of extinction. We are joined by three of the world’s leading experts to dissect the crisis. LINDA PENCE GUNTER and PAUL GUNTER join us from Beyond Nuclear. JOE MANGANO comes from the RADIATION AND HEALTH Project. In tandem this trio knows more about the horror we now face than anyone you’ve seen anywhere on the major media. The story they tell is hideously dangerous, and you MUST know it all.
GERRYMANDERING GONE WILD…KILLING SOLAR…UKRAINE NUKES
We hear first from Pennsylvania, where citizen action has won a massive victory over some of the worst excesses of gerrymandering. We then hear from Ohio where Chief Justice Maureen O’Hara has single-handedly stopped a GOP hijacking of the districting process.
GERRYMANDERING CATASTROPHE, 5G & UBIQUITY UNIVERSITY
We start our Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #84 with the amazing network UBIQUITY UNIVERSITY, founded by JIM GARRISON, with GEORGE CAPPANNELLI and SHELLY ALCORN.
This HUGE global network offers the opportunity to link pro-democracy work throughout the globe.
Our deep dive into Gerrymandering features great, powerful organizers such as JENNIFER ROBERTS, ROBERT WILSON, JUDITH WHITMER, RAY MCCLENDON, MYLA RESON, DENNIS BERNSTEIN, RUTH STRAUSS, TATANKA BRICCA & many more fighting at the core of this life/death issue.
In Ohio, North Carolina, Nevada, Texas, Wisconsin and elsewhere, the mess of our election maps has moved the US to the level of a failed state.
Without a solution to this horrifying problem our democracy cannot survive.
We also hear from Julie Levine and Julian Gesser on the desperate dilemma of fighting life-threatening 5G, now being foisted on the entire nation.
Don’t miss this incredibly vital, powerful & important gathering.
GERRYMANDERING FIGHT BACK & RIGHT-WING TERROR
We start our Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #82 by celebrating a major victory for solar energy in California, and with Arizona’s GOP-led refusal to gut the electoral process there.
Though sane Republicans are an endangered species, there seem to be enough in some states to fight for our democracy.
We’re then joined by the great JENNIFER ROBERTS of the Carter Center to discuss serious push-back against partisan gerrymandering.
Unfortunately, we receive news during the zoom that the US Supreme Court has refused to uphold an Alabama lower court decision throwing out that state's horrific partisan re-districting. But it’s a provisional ruling, so there’s hope.
We’re then led by the great JOEL SEGAL in an in-depth discussion of how to fight back against the Trump/Bannon fascist coup being staged now in the US.
We’re also joined by HAL GINSBERG of Our Revolution, TATANKA BRICCA from the Romero Institute, MIKE HERSH from Progressive Democrats of America and many powerful others.
With comments from our numerous great participants, we face the reality of the desperate need for a national grassroots campaign to save what’s left of our democracy.
The stakes could not be higher. Be part of the solution!!!!
PDA / GREEP TOWN HALL TO SAVE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY In the face of the Trump Cult’s fascist assault on American democracy, the Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition has joined with the Progressive Democrats of America to present a uniquely powerful and comprehensive town hall. The meeting—which drew more than 300 citizen participants—featured more than two dozen top-of-the-line intellectuals, organizers and activists offering their brilliance and their guidance on election protection. We open with actress/activist MIMI KENNEDY and PDA Executive Director ALAN MINSKY with their deep insights into the forces attacking the remnants of our republic. We’re then joined by ANDREA MILLER and RAY MCCLENDON, creators of the crucial “Georgia Way,” which against all conceivable odds turned two US Senate seats in Georgia to progressive campaigners who unseated Mitch McConnell. They are followed by an astounding line-up of key players in saving American democracy, including: REV. RODNEY SADLER, CHRISTIAN NUNES, MIKE FOX, TATONKA BRICCA, SARA NELSON, DANNY SHEEHAN, LORI PESANTE, ROBERT WILSON, JAMES FUKUDA, DANNY GOLDBERG, KENNY BRUNO, JOHN BRAKEY and JAN GOODMAN. Nowhere in recent US history has there been such a powerful confluence of key grassroots pro-democracy organizers and thinkers. If you care about protecting our nation from a Trump Cult fascist take-over, do not miss this broadcast!!!
VOTING RIGHTS BILLS UNDER ATTACK ON MLK DAY…AND A PLAN TO FIGHT BACK
On Martin Luther King Day we confront the horrendous blitzkrieg against voting rights and the future of American democracy. At this GREEP ZOOM #79, we begin with the Ohio Supreme Court’s welcome overturn of a horrendous gerrymandering travesty. We get a report from MAYOR JENNIFER ROBERTS on the battle for voter rights in North Carolina and the work of the Carter Center. We hear about Wisconsin’s outrageous denial of drop boxes and the ability of voters to send in their ballots with family members. We hear from JENNIFER TANNER, TATONKA BRICCA, WENDI LIEDERMAN and RON LEONARD about the attack on solar in CA, FL and throughout the country. We hear from MYLA RESON on the denial of democracy at the Pacifica Radio Network. Then the great Constitutional attorney JOEL SEGAL presents the idea of a Presidential Executive Order to implement the voting rights acts. This extremely powerful, detailed, critically important discussion on how to preserve our democracy should not be missed.
GETTING GRANULAR ON GRASSROOTS ELECTION PROTECTION WHILE WINNING ARIZONA Today’s GREEP zoom #78 features a smack-down focus on the nitty-gritty grassroots realities of getting into our election boards and making sure the Steve Bannon fascists don’t seize control of our democracy and burn it outright. With TATONKA BRICCA, DANNY SHEEHAN, RAY MCCLENDON, LORI PESANTE and many more, we dig deep into exactly what we need to do to stop the election apparatus from being stolen. We hear of great work being done in California, Georgia and elsewhere, with a clear eye toward what our focus must be for the coming year. We also hear from JOHN BRAKEY and RAY LUTZ about the culmination of their amazing work in Arizona. This week's confirmation by the county of Maricopa and the state of Arizona that the grifter Cyber Ninjas demanding a pro-Trump recount were miles off-based is embodied in a 90+page report burying forever the idea that The Donald might’ve won that election. This powerful, content-laden exploration of what pro-democracy forces face in 2022 sets the stage for how our movement must work if we are to emerge with something other than a Bannonite dictatorship. JOIN US!!!
NUKES COLLAPSING IN EUROPE WHILE RENEWABLES RISE EVERYWHERE
We’re joined by the great LINDA PENCE GUNTER from Beyond Nuclear to celebrate the rapid demise of atomic power in Germany.
On December 31, 2021, Germany shut three of its remaining six reactors; the last three will shut December 31, 2022.
This means the world’s fourth-largest economy will be totally nuke free.
Meanwhile serious cracks in at least four French reactors threaten to shut that nation’s electricity supply in the midst of a very cold winter.
Worldwide as the epic failure of atomic power worsens, we see a massive rise in renewables.
From California the great TATONKA BRICCA tells us of the Green movement to completely convert the Golden State to 100% renewables.
But the fossil/nuclear industry is doing all it can to shut the spread of rooftop solar, which employs upwards of 50,000 and is providing cheap, safe, clean reliable energy statewide.
Tatonka also updates us on the critical move to make California a true democracy with protected election boards and transparent redistricting.
Don’t miss this critical discussion of true democracy in both energy and the ballot box.
CRACKS IN FRENCH NUKES & ATTACKS ON SOLAR POWER
We’re joined by the great LINDA SEELEY of the legendary San Luis Obispo MOTHERS FOR PEACE who fills us in on the latest battles at Diablo Canyon.
The two California nukes are scheduled to shut in 2024 and 2025, but in a fit of major insanity the Biden Administration is now lobbying to keep them open.
Linda updates us on the endless and worsening problems facing these two incredibly dangerous nukes.
RON LEONARD then fills us in on all the latest developments in the solar industry and the fossil/nuke attempts to kill it.
Solar taxes and other scams are being thrown at the solar industry by utility companies fearful of losing their monopolies.
Slave labor and other issues have seeped in from China.
But prices continue to drop and the industry seems to be holding its own….for now!
WISCONSIN, VOTING RIGHTS SUMMER, ASSANGE & PELTIER, GREECE, 5G
We cover a huge swath of the election protection universe in today’s GREEP #77 zoom gathering, with more than 90 people joining us.
We start with PETE PECKARSKY and STEVE ROSENFELD reporting on the fascist assault on voting rights in Wisconsin.
With JODIE EVANS and TATONKA BRICCA we deal with the government’s attempt to murder JULIAN ASSANGE and LEONARD PELTIER.
JOEL SEGAL introduces the magnificent concept of a VOTING RIGHTS SUMMER in which millions of young people would convene to save our electoral system from the fascist Trump/Bannon blitzkrieg.
We also hear from JULIE LEVINE about the horrifying dangers of 5G and what we need to stop it.
We hear from Europe about major mass mobilizations against the killing of a young boy in Greece.
And we CELEBRATE the victory of a millennial progressive in Chile. NO MORE PINOCHET!!!
JENNIFER ROBERTS, THE CARTER CENTER, FUNDING GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING. MILITARY MADNESS
We start with the great JENNIFER ROBERTS, former two-term mayor of Charlotte, NC. Jennifer is a world-class pioneer in Election Protection, green power and much more.
JENNIFER'S affiliation with the CARTER CENTER is a hugely important expansion of the reach of Election Protection and the future of our democracy.
She provides us with a detailed examination of many key power points relating to all we need to know about America’s balloting
We’re then joined by Ann Arbor’s BRIAN STEINBERG, whose grassroots fundraising and organizing has made a huge difference in outcomes in Michigan, Georgia and elsewhere.
Brian’s pioneer work in funding relational organizing has been extremely important, as his dissection of the use of Constitutional amendment referenda throughout the US.
Former Ohio organizer PAUL RYDER joins us to dissect the impact MILITARY POLICY has had on the careers of American presidents such as John Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Joe Biden.
We then hear briefly about the impact of undersea www activity on marine mammals (we will return to this next week).
And then we visit the case of JULIAN ASSANGE, REALITY WINNER, LEONARD PELTIER and other political prisoners.
It’s a critical hour, filled with cutting edge stuff. Don’t miss us!!!
KENNY BRUNO & DEFCON FOR DEMOCRACY
The Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition zoom #75 headlines the great long-time activist KENNY BRUNO in a devastating 90-minute discussion of what we need to do to save our democracy.
We start with a brief report from HEDY TRIPP in Minnesota who organized our GREEP #74 call with KEITH ELLISON, the state’s Attorney-General.
Kenny’s bio includes important work with Greenpeace USA, Pipeline Fighters Hub, the Ruckus Society, EarthRights International and more. He is co-author with Beth Handman and their daughter Antonia Bruno of a number of very cool children’s books.
Kenny’s current article “Trump Has Already Laid the Groundwork to Subvert the 2024 Election” appears at Truthout (https://truthout.org/articles/trump-has-already-laid-the-groundwork-to-subvert-the-2024-election/) with an overview of what we face to preserve what’s left of our democracy and protect ourselves from a devastating dictatorship.
Kenny is joined on the zoom by co-convenor JOEL SEGAL, radio host LYNN FEINERMAN, legendary organizers RAY MCCLENDON, JULIE LEVINE, RAY LUTZ, JULIE WEINER and MYLA RESON,Green Party Presidential candidate HOWIE HAWKINS, indigenous activist TATANKA BRICCA, LCV Founder MARION EADY and many more.
This is a truly unique and moving meeting. JOIN US!
MINNESOTA ATTORNEY-GENERAL KEITH ELLISON ON SAVING OUR DEMOCRACY Our 74th GRASSROOTS EMERGENCY ELECTION PROTECTION COALITION Zoom features the great KEITH ELLISON, Attorney-General of Minnesota in a riveting All-Star gathering that gets to the core of to save our democracy under fire. Keith was the lead prosecutor in the GEORGE FLOYD case and has been at the heart of the Black Lives Matter movement and much much more. He is a brilliant, personable, deeply dedicated grassroots politician who helped found the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Today he works to preserve the right of our citizens to safely cast ballots and have them reliably counted (what a concept!). Keith is joined by ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground, whose work in Georgia and elsewhere on voting centers and computerized mass mobilization has been pathbreaking and essential.and getting ever moreso… RAY MCCLENDON of the Atlanta NAACP tells us how the GEORGIA WAY of grassroots organizing is key to fighting off the fascist right-wing assault bearing down on our nation. HEDY TRIPP of St. Cloud, ALAN MINSKY of the PDA, JOHN BRAKEY of Audit USA, JAMES FUKUDA of LULAC, Indigenous organizer TATANKA BRICCA, voting rights pioneer LORI GRACE, REV. RODNEY SADLER, journalism ART LEVINE, GREEP’s great JOEL SEGAL and many more join in with AG Ellison to make this a truly critical gathering. Don’t miss it!!!
A GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT TO WIN THE VOTING RIGHTS ACTS & STOP FASCISM We’re joined at session #73 of the Grassroots Emergency Election Protection zooms by ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground and RAY MCCLENDON of the Atlanta NAACP. We face a crisis in the rise of fascism that can only be defeated with the restoration of voting rights and the defeat of Gerrymandering, facilitated by two major bills now before Congress. Long-term victory demands establishing DEMOCRACY CENTERS and meaningful, sustainable pro-democracy campaigns wherever possible. That means moving the millions of donor dollars that are wasted on TV ads into on-the-ground organizing that can restore our democracy. Thus the slogan NO MORE TERRY MCAULIFFEs as a reminder that boring, mid-road campaigners clog the arteries needed to deliver real public input. As JOEL SEGAL makes clear, these voting rights bills MUST be made law either by passing Congress, which will require defeating the filibuster, or by Executive Order. JAN BEN DOR joins us from Michigan to describe the grassroots efforts there to win back voting rights through a Constitutional Amendment proposed via referendum. And HEDY TRIPP sets the stage for January 29th’s special session with KEITH ELLISON, Attorney-General of Minnesota and a power in the Democratic National Committee. With our Republic and way of life under intense fascistic attack, these sessions are absolutely essential. JOIN US!!!
‘’I WILL NOT KILL”; OUR VITAL VOTER RIGHTS BILL; SAVING THE EARTH Our 72d Grassroots Emergency Election Protection zoom begins with FRANCESCO DA VINCI whose “I Will Not Kill” is an account of a lifetime of peace activism and of his resistance to the draft during the Vietnam War. He features photos of Jack and Robert Kennedy, Muhammed Ali, Dr. King and many more notables in his remarkable exposition on the need to stop military violence. JOEL SEGAL then plunges us into the deep intrigues surrounding the John Lewis Voting Act and the desperate need to protect what’s left of our electoral system. Evaluating such steps as an Executive Order, filibuster cut-out, reconciliation bill and more, Joel issues a call to action for a national, unified campaign to win this campaign and protect our elections. Nothing could be more vital. Except…the global environment. Solar industry expert RON LEONARD fills us in on the latest from the COP meeting in Europe, and on the embattled solar panel industry that holds the key to human survival. We note that President Biden is actually meeting with Chinese leader Xi. Finally we hear from Orlando, Florida, where CHUCK O’NEAL gives us an astounding tour of his pathbreaking work on winning legal rights for our Planet Earth. This must-hear exposition could re-define our ability to save our only home. Don’t Miss It!!!
WHERE IS THE “FREEDOM TO VOTE” ACT & THE FUTURE OF RECOUNTS / AUDITS
In the Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #70, with up to 80 people present, we’re led by the great JOEL SEGAL as we confront what’s happening with the premier voter protection Acts of our time.
Without federal legislation to guarantee the ability of our citizens to cast ballots and have them reliably counted, the future of our democracy is in the tank.
But the possibility that a single Republican—Lisa Murkowski of Alaska—might join the Democrats gives our fragile democracy a glimmer of light.
We also visit the fearsome Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial (he’s the kid who killed two demonstrators in Kenosha, Wisconsin) the soon-to-be catastrophic Virginia governor’s race, the “Georgia Way” project and much more.
Then we dive deep down into the issue of recounts and audits. With Trump calling “stolen” every election he loses, the certainty is that all future elections will be recounted and audited.
With RAY LUTZ, ERIC LAZARUS, SUSAN PYNCHON and many more, we delve to the core of how our future electoral contests will be certified and/or denied.
The need for uniform federal standards and enforcement could not be greater. We will be dealing with critical issue for years to come.
DISSECTING THE “GEORGIA WAY” FOR FUTURE GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING
Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #69
First we’re filled in by CYNTHIA PAPERMASTER of Code Pink on the efforts to free JULIAN ASSANGE from his unjust captivity and torture in the UK.
Then we hear for the bulk of the zoom from the great RAY MCCLENDON on how grassroots organizing in Georgia helped put Joe Biden in the White House and, truly miraculously, send a black and a Jewish Senator to the US Capitol.
Those two Senators gave the Democrats a 50-50 split in the Upper House and put the decisive vote in the hands of Vice President Katherine Harris, changing everything.
But how it was done also changed everything, as we hear from the Political Director of the Atlanta NAACP, who helped coordinate one of the most successful grassroots campaigns in US history.
This “Georgia Way” is now the subject of a major upcoming book and documentary film that will serve as a national paradigm for confronting the Trump-Bannon fascist assault on our democracy.
We also discuss with STEVE ROSENFELD, RAY LUTZ, JOHN BRAKEY and others the preliminary realities of a definitive guidebook on election protection recounts and audits. This will take up the bulk of our upcoming zoom #70.
In the meantime, we watch with a combination of hope and horror as the Democrats try to pass some kind of compromise legislation while 50 Republicans watch on in brain-dead uniformity.
DISSECTING THE 14 PILLARS OF THE AMERICAN FASCIST INFRASTRUCTURE. In this special overview edition #68 of the Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition Zoom, we take on the structural realities of the US fascist state. It is the institutional core of the Trump/Bannon dictatorial fortress. We do this holistic dissection to link the critical analyses of what we face and how we must dismantle the roots of autocracy to let our democracy breathe. The definition of fascism, as coined by Mussolini, is “corporate control of the state.” The 14 pillars of fascism in general were codified by Lawrence Brill. The 14 pillars of American corporate/fascist state are: THE SUPREME COURT, THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, GERRYMANDERING, THE 2010 REDMAP COUP, THE SENATE, THE FILIBUSTER, DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF NON-MILLIONAIRES OF YOUTH & COLOR, FASCIST CONTROL OF THE ELECTORAL APPARATUS, RIGGED RECOUNTS/AUDITS, THE DRUG WAR, MONEY IN POLITICS, THE MEDIA, ARMED VIOLENCE, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Join us to here how all this is tied together….and can be defeated..
WHY ARE THERE BILLIONS FOR NUKES IN THE BIDEN BILLS?
We confront the insane reality that these Biden bailout bills include huge sums—tens of billions of dollars—to once again subsidize the nuclear power industry. We’re joined by No Nukes legends PAUL GUNTER and KEVIN KAMPS of Beyond Nuclear to rip through the insanity of spewing ever more of our public money on this insanely dangerous, expensive failed technology. Long-time House staffer JOEL SEGAL now working nationally on the issue of homelessness also speaks. The forever whining of atomic proponents that they can’t compete in the marketplace and therefore must be perennially handed huge sums of cash has come home to roost amidst the fierce national debate over the various Biden plans to rebuild our nation. But any atomic reactor could in an instant destroy our national ecology and economy while killing millions of Americans. And there are 93 of them currently operating in the US, all of them old, embrittled and poised to blow. It’s time to forever bury this insane parasitic industry. Nobody says it better than these guys. Join us!
CAN WOMEN MAKE MID-EAST PEACE? CAN BIDEN’S PLANS BE SAVED?? CAN WE AVOID A DICTATORSHIP???
Women making peace in the Middle East is the subject of a new movement brought to us by LYNNE FEINERMAN and FATIMA ARGUN who announce a new series of zoom gatherings that could make a HUGE difference.
We then talk with JOEL SEGAL about the hard realities of the Biden infrastructure and remake America bills, including in-depth analyses of where we’re really at with Manchin, Sinema and the rock-solid McConnell Republicans who give no signs of budging.
We embrace the acknowledgement by the New York Times that the great work done by JOHN BRAKEY, STEVE ROSENFELD and RAY LUTZ in Arizona save the nation from a bogus, misleading and destructive fake recount set to be duplicated throughout the US was absolutely essential to the survival of the Republic.
We then take the deep dive into the diabolical plans of Steve Bannon and the possibility of turning the US into an actual dictatorship. Hint: the Constitutional highway is totally open, it could be done by 2024 and Bannon is clear on his intention to do it.
We begin the dialogue on this horrifying prospect and will continue it in two weeks, so DO YOUR HOMEWORK, because if you don’t we could all wind up at Guantanamo.
VICTORY IN ARIZONA, BATTLES FOR NATIONAL ELECTION PROTECTION & ACTION
Amidst the spectacular collapse of the absurd cyber-Ninja Arizona recount scam, we hear from JOHN BRAKEY, STEVE ROSENFELD and RAY LUTZ on how it happened.
It’s now clear that without their on-the-ground scrutiny and EP activism, Team Trump could easily have conjured up a “revised outcome” very different from what AZ’s voters actually wanted.
Instead Brakey’s insider contacts with honest brokers like Ken Bennet, Rosenfeld’s reporting and Lutz’s techno-audits made it impossible for the thugs and thieves to flip the outcome.
What comes next will be critical as Team Trump attempts to spread fake audit/recounts to whatever states they want to flip. A handbook/lessons-learned document now becomes crucial from these three great EP pioneers.
Meanwhile, JOEL SEGAL fills us in on the critical growth of the new Progressive Action Coalition and SmartALEC which will be coordinating more on-the-ground campaigns and authoring more legislation as we move forward.
TRUMP TERROR, GA/AZ/CA/OH ROUNDUPS, DEMOCRACY ON THE LINE
The great TATANKA BRICCA fires us up with an excursion into the land of TRUMP TERROR, as the deposed autocrat attacks anyone---especially moderate Republicans---who doubt his Divine Right to permanent power.
Joined by JOEL SEGAL we further explore the new PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION and its legislative companion, the SmartALEC, meant to move the legislative agenda toward the Green New Deal, Election Protection, DC Statehood and Social Justice, ending poverty, hunger, homelessness.
Joel also updates us on the all-important federal legislation to protect voter rights, which requires beating or end-running the filibuster.
With JOHN BRAKEY and STEVE ROSENFELD we jump through the rabbit hole into the insane miasma of Arizona’s ridiculous recount.
Steve and GLORIA TINUBU also tell of the Georgia Miracle Project and its upcoming book and movie.
From California we get the inside skinny on the recalled recall…and on the Golden State’s Green New Deal.
From Ohio we hear battle reports on GOP gerrymandering.
And there is SO much more…..Join US!!
CA RECALL, JULIAN ASSANGE, OH GERRYMANDERING, VOTING RIGHTS BILLS, DC STATEHOOD & A NEW PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION & Smart ALEC
Our Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition Zoom #64 covers the lot. We assess: 1. The California gubernatorial recall (destined to fail) anointing Gavin Newsom as a likely Presidential candidate; 2. The attempted extra-legal murder of journalist Julian Assange; 3. Gerrymandering in Ohio, a GOP ritual headed for the courts because of new laws passed to curtail it; 4. Voting Rights Bills FOR THE PEOPLE & JOHN LEWIS under intense attack, with all future elections on the line; 5. The birth of the PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION, meant for unified power from the diverse but focussed humanist left; 6. The birth of SmartALEC meant to draft and push progressive legislation; 7. DC Statehood...a full exposition of the critical issues with some of its most powerful advocates.
HIGH-POWERED PROGRESSIVES RESPOND TO THE ECO-CRISIS AT OUR NATIONAL JUSTICE ROUNDTABLE ZOOM! In a brilliant, unique national forum on unified progressive action, legendary activists NAN FARFAN and TATANKA BRICCA convene a powerful pathbreaking forum on saving our planet. This already-infamous hour-long excursion is part 2 of our broadcasts from the August 30 National Justice Roundtable zoom gathering of more than 230 major activists to network and coordinate a focused progressive movement to win social change. Among the participants presenting 3-minute of green wisdom in this amazing confab are: HEATHER BOOTH, Founder, Citizen Action; EMILY WURTH, Food and Water Watch; JOSIAH EDWARDS, Sunrise, LA; BETSY NICHOLAS, River Keepers, Chesapeake Bay; HOPE CANOY, Indigenous Visions; ALAN MINSKY, Executive Director, Progressive Democrats of America; RUDY ARREDONDO, President, National Latino Farmers & Ranchers Trade Association; RUDY MAGDELENO, long-time legendary organizer; HARVEY WASSERMAN, No Nukes/Solartopia; Professor EVA K. LEE, renewables expert, Georgia Tech; DREW GLOVER, green activist; MOLLY BASLER, Green Dream candidate for Los Angeles City Council. With focussed, hard-hitting presentations aimed at linking a unified environmental movement with DC Statehood, Election Protection and Social Justice, this is one of the most powerful hours of ecological organizing you will ever hear. Join Us!!!