Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 must be saved from the brutal uncaring neglect perpetrated by the Trump fascists. 

Powerful new legislation would solarize the island and bring a new Marshall Plan to restore the decent housing, schools and infrastructure the people so rightfully deserve. 

We’re honored by legendary activists Joel Segal, Yesenia Perez and Guillermo Nicacio who lay out in critical detail how we can restore justice and sanity to this beloved community. 

Puerto Rico fights back

We are joined in solartopia by the great Yesenia Perez to discuss the terrible trials and massive resistance in Puerto Rico. 

Yesenia is a great activist currently based in North Carolina. She tells us of the criminal neglect perpetrated by the trump junta against the american citizens in her native island. 

The solarization that now powers san Juan’s children’s hospital must be spread across the entire island. So too rebuilt housing and reconstructed infrastructure, along with decent medical care and education.   The repeal of the jones act also must happen. 

Trump has done to Puerto Rico what bush did to New Orleans says Yesenia. It must be changed

THE PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE & PROGRESSIVE.ORG

 

We’re joined in Solartopia by NORM STOCKWELL and BILL LEUDERS, erstwhile editors of The PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE and Progressive.org website.

 

Based in Madison. these two insightful stalwarts fill us in on the key developments in critical Wisconsin, ranging from the truly awful Gov. Scott Walker to the prospects for a progressive replacement for the equally awful Paul Ryan.

 

Norm and Bill have tracked our political realities through a publication formed in 1909 by the great activist Governor/Senator/Presidential candidate and party founder Robert M. LaFollette.  

 

Their work has never varied in its commitment to the common good and the brilliance of their insights.

 

And their ideas and ideals continue to feed our optimism and hope.  Don’t miss this upbeat, astute performance.

HUGE NUKE BAILOUTS IN NEW YORK & NEW JERSEY are with us today in Solartopia.

 

We’re joined by legendary expert/activists SUSAN SHAPIRO, JOE MANGANO & KARL GROSSMAN to dissect the $7.6 billion handout NY’s “Democratic” Gov. Andrew Cuomo has earmarked to keep four dying upstate nuke reactors operating upstate.  We also look at the additional $400 million New Jersey wants to squander on collapsing nukes now poisoning the Garden State.

 

These insane rip-offs will gut the NY-NJ economies and put the entire region at huge risk from more Three Mile Island-Chernobyl-Fukushima disasters.

 

They will also worsen global warming by slowing the progress of renewable energy, which would otherwise preserve the climate, create thousands of jobs and save ratepayers billions of dollars.

 

Susan, Joe and Karl are all major leaders in the movement to halt this madness.  Don’t miss their brilliance.

RUSSIA GATE & THE PROSPECTS FOR PEACE

Our honored guest is the great DAVID SWANSON, Nobel nominee and lifelong peace activist.

We discuss the RUSSIA connection to Donald Trump & our elections.  

Is Trump in financial debt to Putin?  Does that affect our prospects for peace?  

Would a “President” Hillary Clinton now have us in a nuclear war?

A resident of Charlottesville, David is a uniquely articulate and persistent advocate for peace.

Don’t miss hearing him

CIVILITY IN POLITICS & A DYING PLANET are our topics today at the Green Power & Wellness Hour.

We’re joined by long-time Democratic Party stalwart and enviro-activist LANCE SIMMENS and ANDREA LEON-GROSSMAN of Food & Water Watch.

The two brilliant southern Californians fill us in on issues of civility in politics, the decline of the Democratic Party and the need to cool our roasting planet.

When Trump attacked Rep. Maxine Waters, Party leaders Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer were slow to defend her.

 But when Maxine called for confronting Cabinet officials and other GOP functionaries, Pelosi and Schumer attacked her.

And now, when temperatures in California have climbed above 115 degrees, they are nowhere to be found.

We get off fossil fuels and we get onto renewable energy…. or we die, say our guests.  Don’t miss their brilliance.

 

GOOD RIDDANCE TO SCOTT PRUITT & HELLO SOLARTOPIA

 

We're joined in Solartopia by 3 great activists—-JOEL SEGAL, BOB FITRAKIS & BILL GALLEGOS—-to celebrate the departure of the horrendous Scott Pruitt from Trumputin's Environmental Destruction Agency.

 

The incredibly corrupt Pruitt led a wrecking crew assault against our Mother Earth.  Together we hope for hearings that will help unify a national eco-uprising that can reverse climate chaos and move us toward a green-powered Solartopia.

 

Joel has also drafted major legislation for the solarization of Puerto Rico.  Bob is at the cutting edge of community power in central Ohio.  And Bill is helping lead the charge against the massive oil/gas drilling that threatens all of Los Angeles county.

 

Together the social Democrats who are driving real change in this country continue to confront both Trumpocalytpic assault on all things sane and decent, and the Corporate Democrat blood clot that has prevented real social change….until NOW!!!

NUCLEAR IDIOCY IN SPACE & NEW YORK fill our world today in Solartopia.

We’re joined by the great KARL GROSSMAN, long-time activist, author, professor and radio/TV commentator for a devastating history of the nightmare of nukes in space, which (of course) Trumputin wishes to fund with our Social Security and Medicare.

We also host the brilliant SUSAN SHAPIRO, now helping to spearhead the lawsuits against the massive bailouts being perpetrated by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to prop up dying nuke reactors in NY State.

The depth of the corruption, cupidity and stupidity involved with these bailouts, and with the Star Wars resurrection, is pretty much beyond comprehension.  

You might want to drink some calming herbal tea before listening in on this show. 

FAKE EMERGENCIES & PROLONGING NUKE DISASTERS make us worry in SOLARTOPIA about the sanity of our so-called leaders.

We’re joined by TIM JUDSON of the NUCLEAR INFORMATION & RESOURCE SERVICE,  KEVIN KAMPS of BEYOND NUCLEAR and ANGELA BISCHOFF of the ONTARIO CLEAN AIR ALLIANCE to confront the insanity of keeping uneconomical nukes operating with massive public subsidies.

In the US, court fights are proceeding to stop the insane subsidies scammed through by NY Governor Andrew Cuomo to keep four upstate reactors operating despite huge money losses and far cheaper renewables.  Likewise Ohio's FirstEnergy wants 80 coal and nuke burners subsidized by tax and ratepayers where wind and solar are much much cheaper.

In Canada, a new premier wants to spend $55 billion in public money to upgrade more than a dozen reactors that would otherwise shut in a province awash in cheap, clean hydro and wind power.

This massive health, ecological and economic death wish is sponsored by a corrupt, obsolete nuke power industry that can’t operate without huge public subsidies.  

Find out all about it in this week's SOLARTOPIA Show...

WILL THE GOP STEAL THE 2018 ELECTION?

We cover the terrain of how the Trump Republicans can steal the 2018 election. 

 It ranges from rigging the census to stripping the voter rolls, installing flippable machines, eliminating precincts, ending early and Sunday voting, and much more.

We are joined by GREAT experts SUSIE SHANNON (of the Democratic National Committee), DOROTHY REIK (Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains), JOHN BRAKEY (the “Brakey Method” of digital scanned ballots) and BOB FITRAKIS (Ohio-based election protection attorney & author).

This is a deep, detailed discussion of what has happened to voting in the US and how it needs to change to prevent a complete fascist takeover in 2018 and 2020.  Don’t miss it.