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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!!!

 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 03.17.22

DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS FORGED BY MONEY IN POLITICS

 

At this 86th zoom session of the Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition we are joined by activist NICOLE DVORAK who has pioneered powerful new means of tracking the purchase of politicians by giant corporations.  Nicole’s work offers a roadmap for building the critical data base needed to expose exactly how our democracy is being destroyed by big money.

 

We also proudly host NANCY MACLEAN of Duke University, whose landmark DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS digs deep into the destruction of our essential government structured by a greedy Uber-rich class of fascists and autocrats who threaten us all.  Nancy is interviewed by the great Tatanka Bricca, whose detailed knowledge of what plagues our electoral system sets a critical framework from a truly unique discussion.

 

Central Ohio’s STEVE CARUSO also reports on the insane attempts of the Ohio Republican Party to sabotage efforts to draw fair representational districts in the Buckeye State. Those assaults have been shockingly resisted by Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor of the Ohio Supreme Court in one of the great sagas of actual courage in American politics.

 

Unless we find more of it, this nation is doomed.

 

 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 03.10.22

NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE IN UKRAINE

 

As Putin slaughters thousands and wrecks Ukraine, he has turned its 15 atomic reactors into pawns of the apocalypse.

 

The danger of explosions at Ukraine’s nukes has put the human race at the brink of extinction.

 

We are joined by three of the world’s leading experts to dissect the crisis.

 

LINDA PENCE GUNTER and PAUL GUNTER join us from Beyond Nuclear.

 

JOE MANGANO comes from the RADIATION AND HEALTH Project.

 

In tandem this trio knows more about the horror we now face than anyone you’ve seen anywhere on the major media.

 

The story they tell is hideously dangerous, and you MUST know it all.

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 03.03.22

GERRYMANDERING GONE WILD…KILLING SOLAR…UKRAINE NUKES

 

We hear first from Pennsylvania, where citizen action has won a massive victory over some of the worst excesses of gerrymandering.

 

We then hear from Ohio where Chief Justice Maureen O’Hara has single-handedly stopped a GOP hijacking of the districting process.

 

 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 02.24.22

GERRYMANDERING CATASTROPHE, 5G & UBIQUITY UNIVERSITY We start our Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #84 with the amazing network UBIQUITY UNIVERSITY, founded by JIM GARRISON, with GEORGE CAPPANNELLI and SHELLY ALCORN. This HUGE global network offers the opportunity to link pro-democracy work throughout the globe. Our deep dive into Gerrymandering features great, powerful organizers such as JENNIFER ROBERTS, ROBERT WILSON, JUDITH WHITMER, RAY MCCLENDON, MYLA RESON, DENNIS BERNSTEIN, RUTH STRAUSS, TATANKA BRICCA & many more fighting at the core of this life/death issue. In Ohio, North Carolina, Nevada, Texas, Wisconsin and elsewhere, the mess of our election maps has moved the US to the level of a failed state.   Without a solution to this horrifying problem our democracy cannot survive.  We also hear from Julie Levine and Julian Gesser on the desperate dilemma of fighting life-threatening 5G, now being foisted on the entire nation.   Don’t miss this incredibly vital, powerful & important gathering.

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 02.10.22

GERRYMANDERING FIGHT BACK & RIGHT-WING TERROR

We start our Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #82 by celebrating a major victory for solar energy in California, and with Arizona’s GOP-led refusal to gut the electoral process there.

Though sane Republicans are an endangered species, there seem to be enough in some states to fight for our democracy.

We’re then joined by the great JENNIFER ROBERTS of the Carter Center to discuss serious push-back against partisan gerrymandering.  

Unfortunately, we receive news during the zoom that the US Supreme Court has refused to uphold an Alabama lower court decision throwing out that state's horrific partisan re-districting.  But it’s a provisional ruling, so there’s hope.

We’re then led by the great JOEL SEGAL in an in-depth discussion of how to fight back against the Trump/Bannon fascist coup being staged now in the US.  

We’re also joined by HAL GINSBERG of Our Revolution, TATANKA BRICCA from the Romero Institute, MIKE HERSH from Progressive Democrats of America and many powerful others.  

With comments from our numerous great participants, we face the reality of the desperate need for a national grassroots campaign to save what’s left of our democracy.

The stakes could not be higher.  Be part of the solution!!!!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 01.27.22

PDA / GREEP TOWN HALL TO SAVE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

 

 

In the face of the Trump Cult’s fascist assault on American democracy, the Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition has joined with the Progressive Democrats of America to present a uniquely powerful and comprehensive town hall.

 

The meeting—which drew more than 300 citizen participants—featured more than two dozen top-of-the-line intellectuals, organizers and activists offering their brilliance and their guidance on election protection.

 

We open with actress/activist MIMI KENNEDY and PDA Executive Director ALAN MINSKY with their deep insights into the forces attacking the remnants of our republic.

 

We’re then joined by ANDREA MILLER and RAY MCCLENDON, creators of the crucial “Georgia Way,” which against all conceivable odds turned two US Senate seats in Georgia to progressive campaigners who unseated Mitch McConnell.  

 

They are followed by an astounding line-up of key players in saving American democracy, including:  REV. RODNEY SADLER, CHRISTIAN NUNES, MIKE FOX, TATONKA BRICCA, SARA NELSON, DANNY SHEEHAN, LORI PESANTE, ROBERT WILSON, JAMES FUKUDA, DANNY GOLDBERG, KENNY BRUNO, JOHN BRAKEY and JAN GOODMAN.

 

Nowhere in recent US history has there been such a powerful confluence of key grassroots pro-democracy organizers and thinkers.  If you care about protecting our nation from a Trump Cult fascist take-over, do not miss this broadcast!!!

 

 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 01.20.22

VOTING RIGHTS BILLS UNDER ATTACK ON MLK DAY…AND A PLAN TO FIGHT BACK

 

On Martin Luther King Day we confront the horrendous blitzkrieg against voting rights and the future of American democracy.

 

At this GREEP ZOOM #79, we begin with the Ohio Supreme Court’s welcome overturn of a horrendous gerrymandering travesty.

 

We get a report from MAYOR JENNIFER ROBERTS on the battle for voter rights in North Carolina and the work of the Carter Center.

 

We hear about Wisconsin’s outrageous denial of drop boxes and the ability of voters to send in their ballots with family members.  

 

We hear from JENNIFER TANNER, TATONKA BRICCA, WENDI LIEDERMAN and RON LEONARD about the attack on solar in CA, FL and throughout the country.

 

We hear from MYLA RESON on the denial of democracy at the Pacifica Radio Network.

 

Then the great Constitutional attorney JOEL SEGAL presents the idea of a Presidential Executive Order to implement the voting rights acts.  

 

This extremely powerful, detailed, critically important discussion on how to preserve our democracy should not be missed.  

 

 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 01.13.22

GETTING GRANULAR ON GRASSROOTS ELECTION PROTECTION WHILE WINNING ARIZONA

 

 

Today’s GREEP zoom #78 features a smack-down focus on the nitty-gritty grassroots realities of getting into our election boards and making sure the Steve Bannon fascists don’t seize control of our democracy and burn it outright.

 

With TATONKA BRICCA, DANNY SHEEHAN, RAY MCCLENDON, LORI PESANTE and many more, we dig deep into exactly what we need to do to stop the election apparatus from being stolen.

 

We hear of great work being done in California, Georgia and elsewhere, with a clear eye toward what our focus must be for the coming year.

 

We also hear from JOHN BRAKEY and RAY LUTZ about the culmination of their amazing work in Arizona.  

 

This week's confirmation by the county of Maricopa and the state of Arizona that the grifter Cyber Ninjas demanding a pro-Trump recount were miles off-based is embodied in a 90+page report burying forever the idea that The Donald might’ve won that election.

 

This powerful, content-laden exploration of what pro-democracy forces face in 2022 sets the stage for how our movement must work if we are to emerge with something other than a Bannonite dictatorship.  JOIN US!!!