Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 4.17.25

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.

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 4.10.25

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.

 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 4.3.25

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.   

 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 3.27.25

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.

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 3.20.25

The Health Issues of Nukes, Lithium & Solar Panels
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> We open GREEP Zoom #216 with a deep dive into the horrors of our border patrols targeting tourists with horrendous torture and mistreatment.
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> We then explore health impacts of nuclear power reactors on nearby downwind communities.
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> 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.
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> Three Mile Island film-maker JILL MURPHY LONG reports on her horrifying experiences with cancer survivors from around the notoriously stricken nuke.
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> Safe energy pioneer KARL GROSSMAN tells of his ground-breaking media contacts on the radiation issue.
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> Moss Landing resident BRIAN ROEDER gives us terrifying reports on the lethal fallout from the lithium fire that “clobbered” downwind victims.
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> With a report from SARAH AMINOFF we hear of the devastating impact on food production from the Moss Landing lithium fire. 
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> Scientist MADELAINE ADAMCZESKI raises core issues about the lack of regulation & safety standards at such lithium battery centers.
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> Remembering the Karen Silkwood case, TATANKA BRICCA raises the prospect of large-scale health suits stemming from the Moss Landing disaster.
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> Health specialist RICHARD LEAR catalogs the potential role EMF filters can play in curtailing the devastating impacts of “dirty electricity" on human well-being.
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> Engineering legend TIM SCHOECHLE raises core issues about “badly designed equipment” harming people with solar panels using inferior inverters.
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> Our erstwhile engineer STEVE CARUSO talks about shielding to protect us from stray rays emitted by electronic devices.
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> Legendary researcher DONNA GILMORE outlines numerous problems with battery facilities that threaten human life.
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> Sodium-based batteries used by the Chinese BYD automaker are introduced by MYLA RESON.
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> The precautionary principle is raised by BETTY KISSILOVE.
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> Indivisible’s MIMI SPREADBURY emphasizes that there IS a lawsuit against Moss Landing & PG&E. 
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> 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. 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 3.13.25

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.

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 3.6.25

GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING; DC HOME RULE; FIGHTING CELL TOWERS     
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> We start with a wonderful offering (as always) from our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN.
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> For an excursion into the wonders of grassroots organizing we are led by the great ANDREA MILLER through the wilds of Wisconsin and Virginia.
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> “Despair is not a strategy,” she says, & shows us how to use elections as an instrument of freedom.
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> We’re joined with critical input by long-timer activists MARION EDEY and MYLA RESON. 
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> Santa Monica solar homeowner PAUL NEWMAN chimes in with his usual brilliance, as does NICOLE UNG.
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> The burning issue of DC HOME RULE comes to us with co-convenor MIKE HERSH & DC's former SENATOR MICHAEL BROWN.
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> Georgia voting rights activist RAY MCCLENDON tells us of an upcoming march in Selma, in Atlanta & beyond.
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> Long-time organizer FATIMA ARGUN gives us the word from Arlington, across the water from DC.
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> Our expectations are challenged by MELISSA HALL, RONALD HALL, and LYNN FEINERMAN.
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> We then take a deep dive into the life-&-death issue of Electronic Magnetic Frequency from CAMILLA REES.
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> Camilla’s scientific cohort RICHARD LEAR gives us a brilliant excursion into the scientific & epidemiological landscape around EMF.
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> On the 704NOMORE legal front we hear from attorney SCOTT MCCOLLOUGH, who dissectstells us about the need for local resistance against cell towers.
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> Long-time activist and EMF victim JULIE LEVINE evokes the need for our activism.
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> The results of a “no EMF fast”  that transcended the health impacts of wireless impacts are presented by TATANKA BRICCA.
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> The latest from Indivisible comes to us through Mimi S.
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> Mozilla browser is recommended by DR. RUTH STRAUSS.
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> The need to build our networks comes from DEB SCHINDLER…and....
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> JOIN US AGAIN NEXT!!! for a deeper view on the Ukraine war…. no nukes….see you in Solartopia….

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 2.27.25

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!!!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 2.20.25

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.  

 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 2.13.25

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!!!