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.