Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 9.7.23

A MONUMENTAL ORGANIZING MOMENT….& VICTORY IN ECUADOR

 

 

This breakthrough two-hour networking session joins RAY MCCLENDON and ANDREA MILLER of the “Georgia Miracle” with RACHEL COYLE and COURTNEY FLYNN of swing state Ohio, where a major grassroots victory has been won protecting the referendum process.

 

Ray tells us he has now helped form a new multi-state organization to help spread the grassroots tactics and strategies that famously turned two US Senate seats from Georgia into a reshaped majority in the nation’s upper house.

 

Andrea explains some of the key organizing principles that have made her work at the Center for Common Ground so critically important to protecting democracy throughout our nation.  

 

Rachel then explains how the grassroots forces in the Buckeye State beat back a GOP attempt to destroy the referendum process.

 

She’s joined by Courtney Flynn from the Ohio Voter Rights Coalition, which helped turn this seemingly un-winnable fight into a landmark victory for democracy.

 

Joining these great multi-state organizers will hopefully help yield a transcendent campaign operation that will spread from the Ohio/Georgia axis throughout the US in the coming years, especially in the lead-up to 2024.

 

Joining the dialog is VINNIE DESTEFANO of the Julian Assange campaign who is full of brilliant campaign tactics—banner drops and more—usable by grassroots groups throughout the world.

 

JOHN STEINER and WENDI LEDERMAN add to the critical dialog.

 

ERIC LAZARUS joins the great RUSSELL GREENE to fill us in on the major march coming up at the United Nations on September 17.  Russell continues to break barriers with his signature brilliance and perseverance.

 

FOREST BEAUDOIN-FREED and MARK HARRISON contribute to the dialog.

 

MYLA RESON warns that despite his progressive reputation, US Senator SHELDON WHITEHOUSE has been a dangerous advocate of atomic power.

 

For our second hour, we’re joined by Teamster organizer AARON WAZLAVEK who celebrates his union’s hard-won wins and promises to join us again.

 

In our second hour, the great STEVE DONZIGER tells us of the monumental victory of the Ecuadorian people, who’ve become the first national population to vote a ban on oil drilling.  

 

Steve has become a major figure in the progressive movement as a result of Chevon’s attacks against him, and will be feted at a fundraising event in Topanga Canyon, California, headlined by JANE FONDA, JODIE EVANS and others.

 

Steve’s fundraiser host, DOROTHY REIK, fills us in on the big mistake the oil industry has made in taking away attorney Donziger’s law license.  What a travesty!!! 

 

JUSTIN LEBLANC, TATANKA BRICCA, MIMI SPREADBURY, JEFFREY BARKDULL and MARY STONEWALL-DOUGLAS expand the dialog.

 

The great CAMILLA REES punctuates the drama with critical references to the fight to shut the Diablo Canyon nukes.

 

Thank you all for joining us in this monumental dialog.  No Nukes!  And we wish the people of Ecuador success in protecting the beloved Amazon.  

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 8.31.23

WHY NUCLEAR POWER SUCKS!

 

This breakthrough full-hour interview conducted by the legendary activist CAMILLA REES lays out—from bottom to top—why nuclear power has no role to play in saving our Earth from Global Boiling.

 

With your host HARVEY WASSERMAN, Camilla runs us through the full array of atomic issues, from health and safety to the economic, engineering and ecological disarray that has doomed this industry.

 

From the first Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission Lewis Strauss (the “bad guy” in “Oppenheimer”) promising energy “too cheap to meter”…. to the catastrophic $10 billion disaster at VC Summer, nuke power has been an unparalleled failure.

 

While confronting our “Global Boiling” imperative to slash heat and carbon emissions, nuke power makes both significantly worse.  

 

On the other hand, 100% green SOLARTOPIAN energy keeps getting stronger, cheaper, more powerful, more job-creating, more unavoidable.

 

Under Camilla’s erudite questioning, Harvey lays out a comprehensive, irrefutable case for shutting all atomic reactors and moving straight to a 100% sustainable energy future based on wind, solar, batteries, efficiency and more.

 

No nukes, everybody!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 8.17.23

CATASTROPHE IN MAUI; OHIO / MONTANA VICTORIES; THE NYTIMES AWAKENS TO RENEWABLES

The horrifying disaster in Maui is Mother Nature’s way of telling us that with global boiling, there are no more safe places.

JOHN & MARGO STEINER say where to send our ALOHA IN ACTION support for those in this stricken paradise.

TATANKA BRICCA, MYLA RESON, DOROTHY REIK, JEFFREY BARKDULL and JUSTIN LEBLANC give us their mahalo in a time of tragedy.

@15:40 RACHEL COYLE then reveals the inside story of the HUGE people’s victory over Ohio’s fascist Issue One, meant to erase the public right to democratically amend the Buckeye constitution with a simple majority….enshrined in Ohio law since 1912.

@44:45 WENDI LEDERMAN describes Florida’s strongman/torturer Ron DeSantis’s purges of duly elected public officials, making Florida the place where democracy and freedom go to die.

The great eco-activist RUSSELL GREENE invites us to his September 17 mega-march in New York aiming to end fossil/nuke climate destruction.

PETER FIEKOWSKY explains his mega-engineering approach to decarbonizing the atmosphere.

We explore the critical dynamics surrounding the defining battle at the DIABLO CANYON NUKE, joined by MIMI SPREADBURY, TATANKA BRICCA & MYLA RESON.

Russell explains what’s happening at the climate emergency summit while DOROTHY REIK invites us to her September 9 fundraiser in Topanga for Steve Danziger.

RON LEONARD dissects California’s escalating war against solar while we celebrate a front-piece piece from the NYTIMES finally citing Solartopian inevitability.

We hear also of major advances in solar panels and moving lithium-based batteries to sodium, a MUCH cheaper route to the Solartopia future.

Wendi reminds us of MAYA ROSSUM’s superb GREEN AMENDMENTS book.

And we thank the great JOEL SEGAL for authoring landmark legislation for 100% green energy.

NO NUKES! everybody….see you in Solartopia….

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 8.03.23

IS AN ATOM-POWERED ARMAGEDDON UPON US?


GREEP zoom #146 opens with KPFA's great talk show host DENNIS BERNSTEIN telling us of the astonishing nuclear dangers at Hanford, Washington’s atomic graveyard.  

 

Host of “Flashpoints” at KPFA-Pacifica/Berkeley, Dennis’s brilliant reporting led him to witness some of the real horrors at the devastated Hanford Reservation in Washington state.  

The fallout from the development there of the plutonium bomb that destroyed Nagasaki ruined the lives of thousands of innocent Americans, as Dennis powerfully explains.  

LINDAY SEELEY of the San Luis Obispo Mothers For Peace then updates us on the latest developments in the grassroots campaign to permanently close Diablo Canyon.

The two reactors on the central California coast 9 miles west of San Luis Obispo pose a profound, mega-lethal death threat to tens of millions throughout California and across the United States.

Seeley and many many others have long been working to finally get those reactor closed.  A critical chance will arise this fall, when Unit One may close for refueling.  

 

GREGG SEMLER informs us of an intriguing new green energy device that harvest electric power from water power systems throughout the world, hopefully letting us fight climate boiling (in part) by flushing our toilets.

We then hear from RACHEL COYLE and JULIE WEINER about the latest election theft dirty tricks playing themselves out—alongside some actual victories---in Ohio and New York.  

Along the way we hear from MYLA RESON, GREG SCHWARTZ, RON LEONARD, MARY DOUGLAS, JUSTIN LeBLANC, JEFFREY BARKDULL, NANCY NIPARKO,  WENDI LEDERMAN, DAVID GURAN, STEVE CARUSO, MIKE HERSH, DOROTHY REIK, et. al.

 

NO NUKES EVERYBODY….SEE YOU IN SOLARTOPIA!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 7.20.23

NUCLEAR TERROR IN UKRAINE

 

We plunge into the radioactive horror show in Ukraine for our 144th Green Grassroots Election Protection Zoom being rebroadcast during the Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Show on PRN.

 

We are joined by the great MEDEA BENJAMIN of Code Pink who makes the plea for peace and an end to the horrific planet-threatening slaughter in Ukraine.

 

We hear further from DENYS BONDAR, who is now circulating a petition to the United Nations General Assembly to sent peacekeepers to guarantee a demilitarized zone around the six atomic reactors at Zaporizhzhia.

 

These reactors are in various stages of shut-down.  But the nearby spent fuel pools are in danger of losing their coolant.  

 

Exposure of the rods stored therein could result in radioactive fires releasing enough lethal fallout to kill millions of humans an other living things in an apocalyptic event that would dwarf the killing power of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima and all other catastrophic events in human history.

 

KARL GROSSMAN, TATANKA BRICCA, LYNN FEINERMAN, WENDI LEDERMAN, DOROTHY REIK, MARY DOUGLAS and many others add to the dialog.

 

This terrifying threat to all future life on this planet must be dealt with NOW!!!

 

 

 

In the second hour of the GREEP zoom, which is available via www.electionprotection2024.org, we  hear from JOSH FOX, legendary film maker and anti-fracking activist.  

 

Josh announces his kickstarter fund for his new upcoming documentary on REBEKAH JONES, powerful whistleblower on Ron DeSantis’s fascist insanity in Florida.

 

We are also joined by DAVID BROWN, progressive candidate for the state legislature in Pennsylvania.  

 

David is a musician, an environmentalist and a likely player in the future saving of our planet.  

 

David is also an activist on behalf of the separation of church and state and host of the podcast UnReasonable. 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 7.13.23

FROM OHIO MADNESS TO JULIAN ASSANGE & UKRAINIAN WEAPONS OF MASS OUTRAGE FEEDING A POTENTIAL NUKE APOCALYPSE

 

 

For our GREEP Zoom #143 at Green Power & Wellness, RACHEL COYLE explains how Ohio is trying to gut the referendum process while facing statewide votes to protect a woman’s right to choose both abortion and marijuana.

 

WENDI LEDERMAN adds in the bad news from Florida, where she is being physically harassed in the course of gathering signatures for a referendum there whose rules have already been rigged.

 

VINNIE DESTEFANO gives us the latest reporting on the murderous case of Julian Assange in contrast to the hand-wringing over Evan Gershkavitz, the Wall Street Journal reporter being held in Russia for reasons barely parallel to whatever Assange has done.

 

MIKE HERSH informs us about a critical petition now circulating from Reps. Barbara Lee and Mark Pocan to finally slash some of the excess money being wasted on the military budget.  

 

DAVID SALTMAN explores the dirty realities of cluster munitions, land mines and depleted uranium in Ukraine.

 

MYLA RESON ends our first  hour with the lethal realities of the aerosolization of depleted uranium, leaving a death toll of cancer in its wake.

 

 

IN OUR SECOND HOUR...

 

Abut the failures of Ukraine/Russian diplomacy we hear from TATANKA BRICCA and DOROTHY REIK.

 

Then HOWIE HAWKINS, 2020 Green Party Presidential nominee, and LINDA GUNTER of Beyond Nuclear, alert us to the terrifying nightmare at Zaporizhzhia.

 

The UN General Assembly is now being asked to send peacekeeping forces to protect the six reactors & fuel pools at Zapo as they were used to prevent World War at Suez in 1956.

 

Linda also shows that the International Atomic Energy Agency is promoting atomic power while it allegedly tells the truth about Zapo.

 

Likewise Japan is poised to dump a million tons of irradiated water into the Pacific Ocean with no concept of what it might do to the global ecology.

 

DR. LISA NAGY fills us in on the specter of radioactive phosphorus being melded into the paving of our global highways.

 

RON LEONARD adds in the latest news in the war for renewables, which never ceases to amaze.

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 7.06.23

> UFOs, OLIVER STONE, KIDS’ GREEN SUIT for the PLANET & OUR FUTURE
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> Our GREEP Zoom #142 opens with a challenge to Oliver Stone to debate atomic power after his ridiculous pro-nuke propaganda film. Oliver, if you’re there, I’ll debate you anywhere/any time.
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> We will of course deal with the terrible dangers at the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia reactor site under dire apocalyptic threat being played out before our terrified eyes.
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> MAYA VAN ROSSUM, author of THE GREEN AMENDMENT, tells us about a monumental action in Montana, where a group kids is suing the fossil industry to protect our planet and future. 
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> Maya’s brilliant, inspiring presentation opens a whole new approach to finding a way to survive on this Earth.
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> The great KARL GROSSMAN chimes in on Maya’s great work, as do RUTH STRAUSS and DENNIS BERNSTEIN.     
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> RACHEL COYLE then reports from Ohio on the anti-democratic assault on education, voting rights and an upcoming vote to gut the right to referenda.
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> RAY MCCLENDON of the Georgia NAACP reports on favorable redistricting news from Louisiana, Tennessee and elsewhere due to an unexpected pro-democracy ruling from the US Supreme Court.
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> CAROLINA AMPUDIA gives us a heads-up on the impending UPS strike, which could become the biggest in US history.
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> In our second hour, we join RON LEONARD  in dissecting the attack on green power in Texas, despite renewables saving the state from a catastrophic heat wave.
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> TATANKA BRICCA adds analysis from Putin and his integrated fossil fuel/enriched uranium and their high wheeling hammer.
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> He joins WENDI LEDERMAN to further elaborate on the powerful new foothold UFO studies have gained at the Pentagon and the military, especially as we face a climate apocalypse.
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> MYLA RESON, WENDI AND TATANKA then update us on the attempt to save the Pacifica Radio Network from a lack of money prompted by eminently improvable programming.
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> WE NEED YOUR HELP.  No Nukes….

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 6.22.23

A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE FOR DAN ELLSBERG     

 

 

Our GREEP Zoom #141 devotes the full first hour to the great DAN ELLSBERG.

 

Dan’s incredible life of brilliance and service has us all in awe.

 

Beautiful tributes come from NORMAN STOCKWELL (publisher of Progressive.org), DOROTHY REIK (Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains), DENNIS BERNSTEIN (KPFA’s “Flashpoints”), DR. RUTH STRAUSS, TATANKA BRICCA, WENDI LEDERMAN, ANNA GYORGY and many many more.

 

This is a deeply moving program about a truly great historic figure who will be deeply missed and never forgotten.  

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 6.15.23

THE GREAT & MOVING GOV. DON SIEGELMAN                  

 

We are joined in GREE-GREE session #139 by the great former Gov. of Alabama DON SIEGELMAN.

 

Gov. Siegelman was the very popular Alabama Chief Executive until Nixon/Bush dirty trickster Karl Rove had him thrown in prison.

 

Siegelman’s extreme integrity and reputation for competence made him a threat to Rove’s future manipulations.

 

So Rove had a crooked legal system take Don out.

 

Gov. Siegelman is now an extremely powerful and articulate opponent of the death penalty.  Do not miss his explanation of how and why.

 

In this hour HEDY TRIPP shows us critical voting statistics, and Arizona’s great JOHN BRAKEY updates us on key voting rights fights that he has immensely impacted.

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour - 5.11.23

THE GREAT GREG PALAST TALKS ELECTIONS & NUKES

 

GREEP zoom #135 is devoted to the great investigative journalist GREG PALAST.

 

With his stunning revelations about mass partisan disenfranchisement in the Florida 2000 presidential fiasco, Greg god-fathered the modern election protection movement.

 

He played a key role in the reporting that came out of Ohio 2004, and too many additional “irregularities” that have surfaced since.

 

He has continued this incredibly important work most recently with his documentary film VIGILANTE, about Jim Crow election theft in current-day Georgia.

 

Greg also has a long history in reporting on atomic energy, and gives us a deep, knowledgeable presentation on the latest “Nuke Renaissance.”

 

There is no one on the American media scene with more to say about where we’re at than Greg Palast.  Don’t miss this amazing show.

 

No Nukes!  No More Coup Selections.