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Friday Dec 22, 2023
Friday Dec 22, 2023
DEAD FUKUSHIMA FISH; INSANE KOP28 GOES NUKE-CRAZY; ENDING HATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
We start GREEP ZOOM #160 with a discussion of Ohio’s newly legalized pot access, and the insane interventions against abortion in Texas and Ohio.
KARL GROSSMAN explains some of the horrors of the radioactive release at Fukushima, Japan, which has been followed by the predicable mass death of millions of sardines and mackerel in northern Japan.
Karl has reviewed RADIOACTIVE: THE WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND by Heidi Hutner, featuring four stalwart women whose health and families have been decimated by radioactive fallout from the 1979 TMI disaster.
KAT KRAMER reminds us of her great work with Kat Kramer’s Films that Change the World which will feature the WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND, perhaps in March.
Karl further describes the KOP28 which was captured by the Emirates’ oil industry and nuke power promoters who want 3X the reactors we have now.
TATANKA BRICCA then joins in with a description of California Governor Gavin Newsom’s sabotage of the phase-out of two decrepit reactors at Diablo Canyon.
WENDI LEDERMAN, STEVE KAISER and JUSTIN LEBLANC add to the dialog.
We're then regaled by CAMILLA REES, JOHN STEINER & MIKE HERSH with the needs of the GREEP calls for financial support.
In our second hour, DR. KENNETH STERN & legendary newsman DAVID SALTMAN conduct a uniquely powerful session on the Middle East.
Dr. Stern represents the Bard College Center for the Study of Hate. He and Dave share powerful, unique knowledge of the history of this war-torn region that casts the current Gaza disaster in a new light.
LYNN FEINERMAN, JULIE WEINER, MYLA RESON, ELISSA MATROSS wrap us into a peaceful, powerful climax unlike virtually any other discussion of this polarizing ancient never-ending hell-storm.
Friday Dec 08, 2023
Friday Dec 08, 2023
VOTING RIGHTS & BRIBERY IN OHIO; HOW GOOGLE MANIPULATES PUBLIC OPINION; NUKE POWER ON THE ATTACK
We start with the great ANDREA MILLER and RAY MCCLENDON, who open GREEP #159 with their usual genius insights on voting rights, gerrymandering and more, primarily in the BIPOC south.
STEVE CARUSO joins to fill us in on the corrupt insanity of Ohio. Buckeye officials from the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Public Utilities Commission Chair and others are all implicated in the infamous $61 million bribe for “persuading” the Legislature for a $1billion nuclear power bribe. The former House Speaker, Larry Householder, has already begun a 20-year prison term.
CAMILLA REES then introduces DR. ROBERT EPSTEIN and his pioneer work in tracking the undue influence of Google and other internet giants in swaying public opinion. Dr. Epstein’s riveting, groundbreaking presentation
The presumption is that the influence is meant to be “pro-liberal,” but co-convener MIKE HERSH argues that the real agenda is pro-corporate, far to the right of the American mainstream.
Major media legend DAVID SALTMAN challenges the idea that such manipulation can tangibly shape voting behavior,
ERIC LAZARUS, JUSTIN LEBLANC, MARY STONEWALL-BUTLER, JULIE WIENER, WENDI LEDERMAN and others chime in on the anti-democracy wave drowning our nation in outright autocracy.
We’re then joined by the legendary clean energy pioneer KARL GROSSMAN, who reports on the corporate call for the world to triple its insane commitments to atomic energy.
At the latest global climate conference, a convening sheik amazingly asserts that the burning of fossil fuels has no impact on global climate.
STEVEN SONDHEIM, RON LEONARD and others chime in on the nuclear attack on our planet.
NINA BEETY raises the possibility that a breeder reactor may have been built by PG&E at Moss Landing, California.
MYLA RESON, newly elected member of the National Board of the Pacifica Radio Network, reminds us that the California Solartopia show she co-hosts with me (Harvey Wasserman) has returned to to KPFK 90.7fm in Los Angeles at 5pm PT Wednesday evenings. That show can be heard at KPFK.org.
We will see & hear you again on December 11. Until then…..NO NUKES….Shut Diablo
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Friday Dec 01, 2023
REDISTRICTING IN GA & OH; RECYLING AND TRITIUM IN THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER; OHIO’S ATOMIC VORTEX and MORE MIDDLE EAST EXPLORATION
RAY MCCLENDON & RACHEL COYLE join us from Georgia and Ohio to parse out the grotesquely anti-democracy shenanigans from the MAGA right.
CAROLINA AMPUDIA fills us in on the struggles of Florida’s teachers' unions to sustain the public school system in the face of Ron DeSantis’s fascist attacks.
JOHN KEARNEY reports to us from Minneapolis on his new high-tech Recycling Electronics for Climate Action, aiming to re-use large quantities of rare metals that would otherwise require very dirty mining operations.
JOHN LAFORGE of NukeWatch reports on the insanely dangerous tritium links at the Monticello nuke which threatens the Mississippi River with deadly radiation.
HEDY TRIPP, LINDA SEALEY, JUSTIN LEBLANC all chime in on the immense impacts of radioactive fallout.
MYLA RESON celebrates the return of our CALIFORNIA SOLARTOPIA show to KPFK/Pacifica radio in Los Angeles.
STEVE CARUSO and VINA COLLEY give us a devastating overview of the Portsmouth-Piketon recycling/enrichment facility in southern Ohio, the true vortex linking the commercial nuclear power industry to the real Death Star—the nuclear weapons complex.
WENDI LEDERMAN explains the attempt to pave Flordia’s road with radioactive waste.
MARY BUTLER pipes in from Spokane to remind us of the atomic mega-disaster at the Hanford reservation.
VINNIE DESTEFANO updates us on the Julian Assange case.
In our second round table on the Middle East, we hear from Code Pink’s CYNTHIA PAPERMASTER, LYNN FEINERMAN, MIKE HERSH, JULIE WEINER, FAISAL KHAN, SALEEM, OMER and others as we pursue more open, civil discussion on the world’s most complex and brutal ethnic war.
Friday Nov 17, 2023
Friday Nov 17, 2023
MAKE SURE YOU DOWNLOAD THE 2D HOUR, WHICH GOES FOR TWO HOURS.
THE FIRST HOUR IS JUST A SINGLE HOUR, & WE WON’T USE IT ON TODAY’S PRN.LIVE BROADCAST. THANKS!!
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> A COMPREHENSIVE DEEP DIVE INTO A SMALL MODULAR RENEWABLE SOLARTOPIA WITH AMORY LOVINS et. al.
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> Our Earth-Shattering GREEP zoom #157 takes us on a unique two-hour journey into the brave new world of renewable energy.
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> We start with LINDA SEELEY of the Mothers for Peace, who updates us on the multi-front fight to shut California’s Diablo Canyon Nukes.
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> The great SCOTT DENMAN then takes us through monumental collapse of NuScale’s Small Modular Reactor scam.
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> NuScale has been at the center of the so-called “Nuclear Renaissance” for large reactors which collapsed 2007-2012.
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> That fantasy gave way to a “resurgence” of Small Modular Reactors which has just collapsed.
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> NuScale went to Utah municipal utilities to buy into the SMR scam.
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> But this past week, as Scott tells us, the SMR scam has collapsed.
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> Great green guru AMORY LOVINS follows with a magnificent overview of the global conversion to renewable energy.
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> Carbon + cost + speed are the keys to the green transition, he says.
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> Renewables have added 986x net capacity than nuclear in 2022, he says.
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> In September 2022-October 2023, solar is running way faster than anybody can keep up with, he adds.
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> With an “integrate design,” and an “unimaginably big” cornucopia of renewables, we can meet our de-carbonization goals.
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> New grid materials brighten the equation.
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> Big reactors now cost 5-8x renewables; small reactors are 20-32x more expensive than renewables, even with mass production.
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> Solar and wind generate “variably” in predictable ways, widening the cost gap nukes must overcome to match renewables.
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> “Baseload” from nuclear has now become both obsolete and detrimental.
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> Lovins cites ten means of firming supply/demand reliability at extremely low cost compared to fossil/nukes.
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> JUSTIN LEBLANC, RON LEONARD, WENDI LEDERMAN and MYLA RESON join in on the discussion.
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> We also hear from ROY MORRISON on how to do community-owned renewable power.
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> Amory also recommends X-Change at RMI.org and Applied Hope on renewables and cars.
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> At the end we learn it’s Amory’s birthday, contributing to the truly beautiful, powerful spirit of this gathering.
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> Don’t miss it!!! & we’ll see you in Solartopia…..
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Friday Nov 10, 2023
LABOR RISING, VA UNDER FIRE, WHILE NUKES BANKRUPT GEORGIA
Our GREEP zoom #156 opens with the magnificent ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground tells us about the critical election in Virginia, showing us the astounding flood of money into these key races. It’s an amazing show of the power of corrupt funding in what’s left of our democracy.
From the labor movement we then hear PATRICK CROWLEY, AARON WAZLAVEK and JAY PONTI fill us in powerful developments in the green economy as strikes proliferate throughout the nation. The recent rise of organized labor is one of the great unexpected successes of the new century.
MYLA RESON and TATANKA BRICCA give us critical perspectives on all this.
Then WENDI LEDERMAN relates tells the horrifying on-going details of the Cop City assault on Atlanta, protestors and the actual law with a wave of brutal, illegal repression.
GEORGIA Public Service Commission candidate PATTY DURAND then explains in terrifying detail the horror show surrounding elections for the body that will decide who gets stuck with the $40 billion price tag for the insane Vogtle Nukes #3 & $4. Patty has fought for years to make clear how incredibly corrupt the building of these two worthless, hugely expensive and utterly senseless atomic reactors.
The great DAVE KRAFT from Chicago then fills us in on the horrific nuclear politics of the Windy City and the attempt there to prevent new Small Modular Nuclear Reactors from plaguing the region.
DOROTHY REIK, LYNN FEINERMAN, RON LEONARD AND STEVEN SONDHEIM wrap us up with their usual brilliance as the horse race between Solartopia and Armageddon continues to enthrall us all. NoNukes!!
Friday Nov 03, 2023
Friday Nov 03, 2023
ALL MOST NOW FOCUS ON THE DIABLO / NUKE CRISIS We focus in the GREEP Zoom #155 on the in-your-face crisis at California’s Diablo Canyon nuke reactors. While the 39-year-old Unit One is shut for refueling, a growing public movement demands the obvious—test this crumbling old nuke for embrittlement and much more BEFORE it’s allowed to re-open. After four decades of blasting heat, pressure and radiation, Diablo’s Reactor Pressure Vessels are fried to the point of shattering like glass should they be flooded with coolant water in an emergency. In other words….if the “brakes” are applied at uninsured Diablo during a major accident, the whole place will blow up. Steam, Hydrogen and fission explosions will blast apocalyptic radioactive cloud into the steady breezing blowing south to Los Angeles. Then it’ll go west into the Central Valley, then north to the Bay Area….and all across the continental United States. LINDA SEELEY of the Mothers for Peace explains how her long-lived, incredibly persistent group is fighting to keep Diablo shut in the court system, regulatory agency and Public Utilities Commission. As we learn from ROBERT FREEHLING and RON LEONARD among others, renewable energy has long since filled any possible supply gaps caused by Diablo’s closure. The billions in hand-outs being offered PG&E to stay open dwarf any help being given wind, solar, efficiency, etc which have already far outstripped nuclear power in price. Indeed, the nature of the grid now DEMANDS that base-load nuke supplies give way to flexible, cheaper, cleaner, safer and more reliable renewables. At the core of the issue, we seek the Plan B that will shut these nukes forever….in the midst of rumors Gov. Newsom may be “reconsidering” his insane decision to keep Diablo running.
Friday Oct 27, 2023
Friday Oct 27, 2023
JULIAN ASSANGE / DIABLO CANYON / GREEN AMENDMENTS / ISRAEL - PALESTINE PASSION
Our Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #154 opens with a timely, critical report on Julian Assange from VINNIE DESTEFANO in Los Angeles.
We then join LINDA SEELEY from the Diablo Canyon Mothers for Peace on the status of the critical fight to keep that insane nuke shut.
CATHY WOLF updates us from Portland on the Pine Tree Alliance campaign to take over the electric utilities in Maine.
MAYA VON ROSSUM fills us in further with the power of her GREEN AMENDMENTS in states where environmental protection has been taken to another level.
In the second hour we plunge into the Israel-Palestine horror show with a series of heartfelt, highly intelligent, carefully limited three-minute statements.
This powerful, uniquely civil section includes deeply moving statements from nearly 20 people, including DAVID SALTMAN, LISSA MATROSS, VINNIE DESTEFANO, DOROTHY REIK, DENNIS BERNSTEIN, WENDI LEDERMAN, MIKE HERSH, LYNN FEINERMAN, JUSTIN LEBLANC, MYLA RESON, STEPHEN FRASER, DR. RUTH STRAUSS and many more.
In a society tearing itself apart over the deep, passionate, extremely inflamed differences raging around this insane war, we prove that it’s possible to have a civil, productive, interesting and important session on a conflict that could easily devolve into the end of human life as we know it.
We hope this session will become a small but significant step in the opposite direction. SHALOM / SALAAM….
Friday Oct 20, 2023
Friday Oct 20, 2023
IN THE STREETS FOR DEMOCRACY IN FLORIDA, OHIO & AT THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS/POWER PLANTS
We also hear from DONNA GILMORE, TORGEN JOHNSON, TATANKA BRICCA, JIM HEDDLE, MARY BETH BRANGAN, JENNIFER TANNER, ROBERT FREEHLING, KARL GROSSMAN, PAT MARIDA , MYLA RESON and more help us navigate the absolutely essential path to making our state and world post-nuclear.
Friday Oct 13, 2023
Friday Oct 13, 2023
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY, OHIO URANIUM & RISING LABOR POWER
We begin GREEP #152 with the great LIBBE HALEVY, creator of the Nuclear Hotseat, who tells us about the triumphant debut of the award-winning documentary SAN ONOFRE SYNDROME.
This SOS masterpiece by MARY BETH BRANGAN & JIM HEDDLE of the Ecological Options Network join us later in the call to explain the great grassroots victory in shutting the two San Onofre reactors….followed by the horrific struggle to deal with their atomic waste.
In honor of Indigenous People’s Day, ANDREA MILLER shares some her amazing native brilliance rooted in her Cherokee background.
Introduced by MYLA RESON, we hear from ANNA RONDON of the southwestern tribes who are fighting to protect our Earth from the horrors of uranium mining.
TATANKA BRICCA reminds us of our Star Origins as well as our Indigenous roots amidst the struggle to call in powers of the Four Directions, and in hopes of freedom for the wrongly imprisoned LEONARD PELTIER..
From PAT MARIDA in central & southern Ohio we hear a brilliant dissection of the catastrophic Portsmouth/Piketon uranium enrichment/Bomb-making disaster in Shawnee/Miami land.
Legendary KPFA Flashpoints host DENNIS BERNSTEIN brings us the news from Alcatraz, and mourns the horrifying slaughter now proceeding in the Middle East.
From DAMACIO LOPEZ we hear about the 2024 Uranium Film Festival, which will criss-cross the nation with its powerful message aimed at free our Earth from the nuclear curse.
AARON WAZLAVEK of the United Auto Workers rejoins us to describe the fantastic rise of the labor movement throughout the nation.
And the great STEVE DANZIGER comes again to tell us again of the horrors rained down on the Amazon regions of Ecuador, along with his own struggles to regain his law license and win justice for both his Indigenous clients and his own family.
Steve shows us IN THE COURTS OF THE CONQUERER by Walter R. EcoHawk, which he terms the most important law book he ever read.
DOROTHY REIK, LYNN FEINERMAN, JUSTIN LEBLANC, BRIAN STEINBERG and WENDI LEDERMAN add in their always-valued perspectives to a truly memorable IPD gathering.
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Friday Oct 06, 2023
https://grassrootsep.org
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> GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING AT ITS BEST
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> We begin with ANDREA MILLER and RAY MCCLENDON, two of our greatest grassroots leaders, introduce their overview for how to organize on the ground with GOTV and democracy center strategies.
> As godparents of the Georgia Way/Miracle, they are at the core of the work we do in preserving democracy in this country.
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> With JOHN STEINER and CAMILLA REES and ROBERT DESMARAIS (from New Orleans) joining in, our co-producer STEVE CARUSO gives us a first-hand report from Ohio on fascist attacks you could not make up.
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> TATANKA BRICCA and JOEL SEGAL jump in with their unique long-term political wisdom.
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> We are the introduced by MIKE HERSH to the great Maryland State Senator JEFF WALDSTREICHER, with whom we begin a long excursion into the realities of what it will take to save this nation.
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> With Senator Waldstreicher we are joined by LINDA SEELEY of the San Luis Obispo MOTHERS FOR PEACE, who is fighting desperately to keep the Diablo Canyon nukes from destroying our Earth.
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> And by ROBERT FREEHLING, whose brilliant economic analysis brightly illustrates the path toward Solartopia being blazed by the renewables revolution.
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> With further input from RON LEONARD, CONNIE KLINE, JUSTIN LE BLANC, WENDI LEDERMAN and others, this becomes a massive 2+ hour excursion into the brilliant realities of a winnable grassroots solartopia future.
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> Don’t miss it.