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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!!!
Thursday May 15, 2025
Thursday May 15, 2025
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!!
Thursday May 08, 2025
Thursday May 08, 2025
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.
Friday Apr 25, 2025
Friday Apr 25, 2025
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.
Thursday Apr 17, 2025
Thursday Apr 17, 2025
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.
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
Thursday Apr 10, 2025
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.
Thursday Apr 03, 2025
Thursday Apr 03, 2025
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.
Thursday Mar 27, 2025
Thursday Mar 27, 2025
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.
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
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.
Thursday Mar 13, 2025
Thursday Mar 13, 2025