Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 06.02.22

SHUTTING DOWN THE DEADLY NUKE POWER PLANTS

 

 

The legendary Kevin Kamps joins us for a wide-ranging exploration of the nightmare of nuke power and the desperate need to shut America’s remaining 92 reactors.

 

The last of the US nukes (there are 400+ worldwide) average 39 years of age.  

 

They are losing huge amounts of money, uninsured, riddled with structural, maintenance, workforce, economic and other issues that threaten our existence.

 

They are also surrounded by earthquake faults that could turn them to radioactive rubble,, as at Fukushima, Diablo Canyon, Perry, North Anna and far too many more.

 

Meanwhile, the Biden Administration and its Energy Secretary want to use federal money to keep them operating.

 

KEVIN KAMPS is one of the world’s top experts and activists on this issue.  Don’t miss this in-depth hour-long No Nukes conversation. 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 05.19.22

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.   

 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 05.12.22

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!!!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 05.05.22

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!!!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 04.28.22

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!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 04.21.22

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!!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 04.14.22

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!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 04.08.22

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.  

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 03.31.22

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.  

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 03.24.22

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!!!