Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour - 05.25.18

The ALL-OUT CORPORATE ASSAULT AGAINST THE INDIGENOUS AND THE ENVIRONMENT is what threatens Solartopia as we talk today with the great SARA NELSON & DANNY SHEEHAN.

Danny are Sara are lifelong activists with the ROMERO INSTITUTE. 

 They’re defending in the courts and in the public forum the right of the Dakota Nation to stop horrendously destructive pipelines from ravaging their land and water.

The pipelines cross Indigenous land which does not belong to the United States government or the pipeline companies that are destroying it.  Not surprisingly, Donald Trump and Energy Secretary Rick Perry both have direct financial ties to those who are profiting from this disaster.

Danny are Sara are true national treasures, brilliant, dedicated and effective.  They are defending the great Indigenous activist Chase Iron Eyes, the right of ALL humans to protect their homes... and the sacred Earth on which we all depend.

Don’t miss hearing them in Solartopia. 

Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour - 05.17.18

The great DICK MUNSON joins us to talk about the latest insane attempts to bail out our failing nuke power reactors.

He also is the author of a major new biography of NIKOLA TESLA.

Dick is a brilliant writer/activist and a true national treasure. Don’t miss this show!

Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour - 05.11.18

OHIO IN TROUBLE & ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES are where we’re at in Solartopia today.

We start with BOB FITRAKIS who explains the vicious attack  waged by the Corporate Democrats against Dennis Kucinich.  With a boring candidate for governor, the Democrats may drag the superb US Senator Sherrod Brown into the lost column.

We also discuss Bob’s breakthrough work on gerrymandering.

We’re then joined by election protection activists JOHN BRAKEY and RAY LUTZ who fill us in on the progress being made with electronic voting machines that give us both a paper ballot and a digital ballot image.

This show is a primer for the election protection that’s essential to stopping the fascist Trump coup.  Don’t miss it. 

Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour - 05.04.18

ELECTION THEFT & PLASTIC POLLUTION are our Solartopian peaks today as we talk to two of America’s greatest activists.

 

MIMI KENNEDY, world-renown actress (“MOM”) and Chair of Progressive Democrats of America tells us about major new technology that can guarantee ballot images for hand-counted paper ballots.  It’s a critical breakthrough that might allow us to avoid the kinds of stolen elections that have left us with a true crisis of democracy from which we will struggle to recover.

 

Then we hear from DIANNA COHEN, founder of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, which is pioneering the global fight to transition away from fossil feed stock and into bio-renewables.  By 2050, she says, there could by weight be more plastic in the oceans than fish.  Her crusade to get rid of this anti-life scourge is epic, fascinating and vital!

 

Like Mimi, Dianna’s depth of knowledge and commitment are truly awesome.  Don’t miss these interviews.  

Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour - 04.30.18

CHERNOBYL at 32 is the tragic theme of today’s sojourn in Solartopia.  
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> We try to grasp the full meaning of a catastrophe that may have killed more than a million people, has created “zombie forests” that do not decay and has warped the genetic code of humans and other animals for generations to come.
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> LINDA PENTZ-GUNTER, PAUL GUNTER and CINDY FOKKERS of BEYOND NUCLEAR dissect the horrendous radioactive landscape that has emerged from Chernobyl’s apocalyptic fallout.
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> Among much more, downwind lands are still too radioactive to farm.  Wild as well as domesticated animals are too contaminated to consume.  And even after three decades the possibility of another major catastrophe at the Chernobyl site remains very real.
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> These three brilliant, pathbreaking experts make it clear that in the wake of this horrifying disaster, which essentially brought down the Soviet Union, much of Europe has fled the “nuclear option” and gone rapidly to wind and solar.  Most importantly, Germany is on path to shut all its reactors by 2022 and to break into an advanced economy based entirely on renewables.  
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> But with still more radioactive nightmares pouring into our air and water at Fukushima, and with things far from over in Ukraine, we can only shudder at what might happen if we fail to shut all reactors before the next Chernobyl hits our planet,

 

Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour - 04.19.18

BLACKOUT IN PUERTO RICO, GLOBAL WARMING WORLDWIDE are on the menu today.

Two great activists lead the discussion  

JOEL SEGAL of North Carolina tells us the shocking truth about two new grid collapses in Puerto Rico which have caused, among other things, a critical nationwide shortage of pain killers morphine and delaudid.

Anti-fracking leader DAVID BRAUN explains how this horrifying gas extraction technique is destroying land and water tables California and elsewhere.  David was instrumental in winning New York’s ban on fracking and hopes to do it again in the Golden State.

These are two brilliant, unique expert/activists.  Do not miss this show.

Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour - 04.13.18

NUKE REACTORS ARE SHUTTING & ELECTIONS ARE BEING STOLEN.

We start in Solartopia with legendary activists TIM JUDSON and KEVIN KAMPS telling us about TWENTY (of 100) US nuke reactors on the brink of shut-down and/or being bailed out.  Challenges everywhere are being waged by a wide range of grassroots environmental and consumer organizations

Four reactors in northern Ohio and Pennsylvania will shut if we can stop Donald Trump from handing them an $8 billion bailout.  Four more will shut in New York State if we can defeat Andrew Cuomo’s $7.6 billion bailout in court.  .

Three more reactors are being bailed out in Illinois.  At least nine more have near-term shut-down dates, again subject to demands by their owners for outrageous bailouts.  Join us to hear the whole list, and how you can help us win a nuke-free nation.

At the half-hour, we talk with JOHN BRAKEY about ELECTION THEFT.

Major lawsuits are being waged in Ohio and elsewhere demanding some kind of accountability in our voting process.  John has pioneered the “Brakey Method” of using universally available electronic ballot images as a backup to the voting process.  

Unless the electoral process is made transparent to the public, all the big hopes for a counter-balance to the madness in the White House will go nowhere. 

Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour - 03.29.18

We’re joined in SOLARTOPIA by the great writer/activist / film critic  ED RAMPELL. 

 

Ed is lead organizer for a major upcoming event celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, to take place at the legendary Will Geer Theater in Topanga Canyon, California this coming July 28.

 

Ed recently organized a major four-hour event commemorating the Hollywood Blacklist which is now being featured at C-Span.  The link to see this great show is here:

 

https://www.c-span.org/video/?436033-1/hollywood-blacklist-70th-year-commemoration

 

We discuss the new film the Young Karl Marx which Ed has reviewed for the Progressive Magazine.  

 

 http://progressive.org/dispatches/raoul-peck-on-marx-trump-haiti-and-revolutionary-love-180302/

 

 

 

We also celebrate the announcement by Pacific Gas & Electric that it is dropping its pursuit of a license extension for its two reactors at Diablo Canyon, meaning they will definitively shut by 2025, though we are working harder than ever to get them shut earlier.  

Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour - 03.22.18

A NEW ERA OF ELECTION PROTECTION comes to Solartopia with three great experts.

JOHN BRAKEY has been stumping the nation inspecting voting machines and advocating for paper ballots counted electronically, with a ballot image stored in the machines.  Simultaneously a paper ballot is produced and stored for verification.

He’s been joined in advocating this technology by TIM WHITE, long-time election protection advocate.

We are also joined by JONATHAN SIMON, author of CODE RED, now in its fourth edition, one of the foundational volumes on the question of how do we protect the sanctity of our elections in the Age of Trump.

As unelected fascists take power through the ruses of gerrymandering, the stripping of voter registration rolls, the flipping of electronic vote counts and more, the method of casting, counting and auditing our ballots becomes ever more crucial.  These three experts give us great insight into just how we must do that to survive as a democracy.

Solartopia Green Power and Wellness Hour - 03.19.18

FROM THREE MILE ISLAND TO FUKUSHIMA: UP CLOSE & PERSONAL

 

Amidst the horrors of atomic power and its catastrophic failure, we speak with three powerful women about their devastating personal experiences with nuclear radiation.

 

Talk-radio/podcast host LIBBE HALEVY was in central Pennsylvania when TMI melted.  Terribly traumatized, she returned to Los Angeles and eventually started her popular and influential NUCLEAR HOTSEAT podcast.

 

BEVERLY FINDLAY-KANEKO was in Japan when Fukushima exploded.  She and her family still deal with the disaster on an intensely personal basis.

 

STACY GRIFFITHS was ten years old and living near Three Mile Island when it spewed radiation throughout the region.  She is now surrounded by the dead and dying as the toll of the disaster has escalated over the decades.

 

This deeply moving exploration into the tangible consequences of our atomic folly is not to be missed.