Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 12.26.24

An Appeal to Biden to Free LEONARD PELTIER; MLK Day Coming; Back to the Founders


TATANKA BRICCA opens with a report on LEONARD PELTIER  and the desperate need to get him out of prison alive.

MYLA RESON follows up with a key point of information on how, hopefully, to do that.

Our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN gives our GREEP Zoom #204 a perfect opening poem.

MIKE HERSH hearkens back to the formation of the US republic with a warning on the horrors of fascism.

DAVID SALTMAN explains Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, banning insurrectionists from holding public office.

From western Massachusetts, ANNA GYORGY reminds us that Inauguration Day, 2025, will be Martin Luther King Dan.

BARBARA HARRISON adds a plea to fight for democracy.

MELISSA HALL asks about calling the White House to help free Leonard.

CATHERINE STEARNS lets us in on resistance organizations in Oregon….including the Civil Liberties Defense Center.

MICHAEL JOHNSON digs deep into the January 3 insurrection and its on-going impacts.

Next week, December 29, we will reconvene, hopefully to celebrate the freedom of Leonard Peltier…& the partial redemption of Joe Biden.

 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 12.19.24

We start GREEP Zoom #203 with a gorgeous poem from our Laureate MIMI GERMAN, enhanced by our meeting on BEETHOVEN’S birthday.

We then, with a shout-out from MYLA RESON, visit the horrendous case of LEONARD PELTIER, as well as the one of STEVE DONZIGER.

TATANKA BRICCA promises to contact CHASE IRON EYES for next week’s gathering.

JOHN STEINER reminds us that 34 Members of Congress have written Biden asking for Leonard’s freedom.

KARLA SAND and HEDY TRIPP report in from Minnesota on choices for a new Chair of the Democratic National Committee.

The great JERRY ASHTON reports in on his campaign to erase medical debt, having helped retire many billions in medical debt.

We are then joined by the great GREG PALAST who tells us what we do & do not know about mass disenfranchisement in the 2024 election.

ELENA RUMIANTSEVA, LYNN FEINERMAN, CHARLOTTE DENNETT, DONALD SMITH also contribute important insights.

Engineer STEVE CARUSO adds his belief that all is not well with the 2024 outcome.

YONNA PATTON & STELLA FAIR introduce the diversity issue to our screen. 

ROB KALL checks in from Op Ed News.

PAUL NEWMAN gives kudos to Greg from Santa Monica.

MELISSA RICHARDSON HALL & STEVEN HOFFMAN add critical insights.

MIKE HERSH introduces his pal PAT ELDER, who takes us on a deep dive into the filthy world of military waste & PFAS.

DOUG KRAGOE promises us to bring some expertise on fluoridization for our December 23 gathering.

See you then!!!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 12.12.24

WILL LEONARD LIVE?  WAS THE 2024 ELECTION BOUGHT BY MUSK? WHAT NEXT IN SYRIA?


TATANKA BRICCA updates the attempt to free LEONARD PELTIER to open GREEP Zoom #202,asking us to contact the White House. 

We then explore “Catch 2024” with STEPHEN SPOONAMORE and the possibility that Elon Musk bought this year’s election.

The legendary CLINT CURTIS introduces his movement to get the 2024 ballots counted.

JOHN BRAKEY follows with his report from Arizona & digital imaging insights.

We dive further into the electoral madness with RAY LUTZ.

ELEANOR LECAIN calls out the Democrats for the traditional lack of interest in election protection. 

LYNN FEINERMAN raises the issue of Opus Dei and its dark fight against democracy.

PAUL STOKES, DANIELA GIOSEFFI, MELISSA HALL join in with critical comments.

ADAM THUNDERFACE adds more to the campaign to free Leonard Peltier.

The chaos in the Middle East is then addressed by CHARLOTTE DENNETT & DAVID SALTMAN.

We also address the brilliant recent piece on war by LUCIAN TRUSCOTT IV.

…and we will see you again next week for our final session of the tragic year 2024. 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 12.5.24

Deep Dives on Whether the 2024 Election Stolen & What’s REALLY Happening in the Middle East

 

We begin with a riveting, totally unique analysis of the questions surrounding the legitimacy of the 2024 election.

 

Thus GREEP Zoom #201 opens with renowned computer expert STEPHEN SPOONAMORE, whose deep dives into election protection date back to 1999...and whose questions about the 2024 election have stirred huge controversy nationwide, for very good reason, as we’ll hear.

 

Digital image activist JOHN BRAKEY, the godfather of digital ballot imaging,  reports from Arizona.

 

Audit Master RAY LUTZ enhances the dialogue with far-reaching technical analysis of the need for hand counting.

 

JOHN BONIFAZ & SUSAN GREENHAIGH add to the deep investigation of whether this election might have been stolen.

PATRICIAN GRACIAN promises to contact CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) about potential legal avenues regarding election integrity concerns.

Master Engineer STEVE CARUSO will post the AI transcript of meeting on grassrootsep.org website.

 

 

MIMI KENNEDY gives us a detailed report on election procedures in Los Angeles.

 

On life-and-death questions of the Middle East, CHARLOTTE DENNETT gives us a comprehensive look at the region’s oil/energy geopolitics.

DAVID SALTMAN enhances Charlotte’s devastating presentation with his own world-class expertise born of an astonishing career in broadcast journalism.   

 

Through this powerful, riveting and vitally important 140-minute session, with more than 100 participants, we also hear from PAUL STOKES, MIKE HERSH, MYLA RESON, and more.

 

GREEP 202 will return next week with even deeper looks at  the 2024 election, the Middle East & the desperate Solartopian drive to green-power Los Angeles & the world.

 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 11.21.24

AFTER THE DELUGE, & AWAITING THE ATTACK ON RENEWABLES & DEMOCRACY:  WE NAVIGATE THE AFTERMATH at GREEP Zoom #200

 

We begin the GREEP zoom #200 with JEN KARIUS, who worked the polls in Pennsylvania & asks for others to contact her.

 

Then the great JOHN BRAKEY checks in from Arizona with his deep understanding of what a fair election really looks like.

 

MYLA RESON introduces DAVID FELDMAN of “the Mop Up,” and tells us that letters are going to Kamala Harris, asking her to investigate the election outcome.

 

Myla reads the “Duty to Warn” letter from computer expert Steven Spoonamore sent to the Democrats.

 

From Asheville, North Carolina, ILENE PROCTOR reports on an election outcome that gave down ballot Democrats a victory along with Trump.

 

Legendary “Flashpoints” host DENNIS BERNSTEIN warns of federal legislation designed to attack progressive non-profits.

 

BRENDA DAVIES gratefully informs us about HR815, set to destroy activist groups nationwide.

 

KPFK’s erstwhile Chair TATANKA BRICCA warns of explosions set to go off possibly this summer.

 

We then hear from MARGOT KING that HR 815 has been (temporarily) defeated.

 

RUTH STRAUSS says she un-scribed from the Washington Post but thinks folks should join back up.

 

One Payer States.org President CHUCK PENACCIO tell us of a major event coming up through his website.

 

Central Ohio’s native Nazis and their “social dementia” are called out by our engineer STEVE CARUSO.

 

BLUESKY, a new internet service & an alternative to Twitter/X is introduced by Myla Reson.

 

DR. ALAN TASMAN and DR. KEN THOMPSON brief us on a new community-based way of enhancing social cohesion, which we will explore in a few weeks.

 

For a deeper dive into the election aftermath we host the audit expert RAY LUTZ, who is always full of important information.

 

Santa Monican PAUL NEWMAN asks about the disturbing role of Starlink.

 

KEVIN KAMPS arrives to introduce Trump’s new Secretary of Energy, an outspoken opponent of renewable energy.

 

DAVID SONNEBORN tells us that the Friend Committee on National Legislation won the US Peace Award.

 

MIKE HERSH gives us powerful words with which to organize, as always.

 

We will not meet next week…see you after Thanks giving!!!.

 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 11.14.24

We start with an amazing, uplifting poem from our poet laureate MIMI GERMAN.

MIKE HERSH tells us that “everything is hackable.”

www.seesaynow.org is recommended to us by our erstwhile engineer STEVE CARUSO.

MYLA RESON call for an autopsy & a forensic investigation, with a well-deserved slam on Bill Clinton

From balmy Minnesota we hear from HEDY TRIPP enumerate the disturbing vote breakdown in Minneapolis.

An intriguing interactive chart of voter preferences comes to us from DONALD SMITH.

The mechanics of our election are examined by the great RAY LUTZ, one America’s true experts on vote count audits.

Infiltration of the vote counting process is examined by KPFK Board Chair TATANKA BRICCA.

Legendary No Nukes activist JOHN LA FORGE reminds us of his life-long opposition to nuclear weapons and tells us about a truly great Judge.

The Christian Nationalist/Zionist alliance is analyzed by radio host LYNN FEINERMAN.

Jeremy Rifkin’s AQUA PLANET is summoned for us by JOHN STEINER, who reminds us that it’s a “time for Bothisattvas”.

ERIC LAZARUS reminds us that “autocracies like Russia are not fun to live in” and commends to us a book entitled “Autocracy Inc”.

From much-acclaimed news documentarian DAVID SALTMAN we are guided toward a forward strategy, including that rarest of animal: the benign billionaire.

If the billionaires bought the election, wonders JUSTIN TRUONG, shouldn’t Biden have dropped out earlier…& how can we fight them?

…and as TATANKA wonders if Steve Jobs was murdered, we look deep into a dark new era of which we’ll make total sense NEXT WEEK!!!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 11.7.24

CALIFORNIA SOLARTOPIA IN TRUMP’S WAKE

 

We regroup after the Trump Debacle to talk about solarizing California and the world.

 

DENNY ZANE, former mayor of Santa Monica, guides us through the ropes of running a referenda for a tax fund for solarization.

 

Co-hosts TATANKA BRICCA and MYLA RESON help guide us on our way, along with some great callers.

 

We also inaugurate the idea of a NEW SOLARTOPIA, comprised of CA, OR, WA & HI.  

 

JOIN US!!!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 10.31.24

Voices from the Middle East; Bringing out the Voters; Band of Sisters; Swap Your Vote

 

We begin GREEP #196 in the Middle East with DENNIS BERNSTEIN and ANITA BARROWS.

 

RUTH STRAUSS warns of burning drop boxes and has some advice for the Harris campaign.

 

Getting Out the Vote is the expertise of the great ANDREA MILLER whose non-partisan Center for Common Ground website shows us how to direct voters to the polls.

 

From Florida we get the latest update on rampaging fascism from JIM NATHAN.

 

Atlanta-based RAY MCCLENDON guides us to Communities United for Justice, which supports canvassers in the field.

 

MARGOT KING & JOHN STEINER update us on the Band of Sisters, which supports women’ reproductive rights.

 

Swap the Vote is explained by MIKE HERSH as a way to use the Electoral College to balance support for 3d parties in “safe states” versus major candidates in swing states.

 

Andrea Miller reminds us that leaving messages increases turnout by 5%, and that it’s key to let citizens know that early voting can be decisive.  

 

We must, says Andrea, let voters know they are invited to the dance, & the dance is democracy.

 

We adjourn early to make phone calls to potential voters…and we hope you will too….

 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 10.24.24

GREEP Zoom #195:  From Election Protection to Renewable Energy to Outer Space


We start with a beautiful poem by MIMI GERMAN, as only our poet laureate can do.

ANDREA MILLER kicks us off with a deep dive into the world of phone banking aimed at enhancing voter turnout in this apocalyptic election.

Former Charlotte two-term Mayor JENNIFER ROBERTS gives us the latest from Mecklenberg County.

RAY MCCLENDON of Communities United tells us what is happening in the critical swing state of Georgia.

Widely popular radio host EGBERTO WILLIES reports in from Texas.

Co-Convenor MIKE HERSH encourages us to see the bigger picture on the democracy for which we are fighting.

JIM NATHAN lays out the astounding deterioration of the dictatorial state of Florida.

KPFA radio host DENNIS BERNSTEIN chimes in to invite our guests to a rally for Donald Trump with Greg Palast, producer of “Vigilantes, Inc.”

From Michigan, ROGER RAPOPORT reports on the nuclear madness gathering in the Great Lakes.

Radio host LYNNE FEINERMAN of “Women Rising Radio” discusses the impact of the Mid East war on the US election and the need for joy in these hard times.

ELISSA RICHARDSON HALL decries the impact of the mainstream media.

KEVIN KAMPS of Beyond Nuclear warns that the Biden Inflation Reduction Act calls for gargantuan handouts to the scam atomic power industry.

The predatory nature of the nuke power industry is underlined by both MYLA RESON and RAY LUTZ.

The brave new world of UFO investigation is introduced by TATANKA BRICCA in intriguing detail.

Engineer STEVE CARUSO tells us that China has called for “No First Use” of nuclear weapons….

…a fitting way to end today’s astounding session, and to invite you all to join us next week!!!

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 10.17.24

FROM INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY TO ELECTION PROTECTION 2024 TO THE MIDDLE EAST    

We start with the legendary Indigenous leader-lawyer CHASE IRON EYES, who gives us a brilliant overview of the current state of Indigenous America & Leonard Peltier.

The great grassroots organizer ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground gives us a guide to phone banking to spark voter turnout in critical states.

JASON BERLIN of Field Team Six fills us on his unique phone banking operation, focussed especially on young potential voters.

MYLA RESON asks Jason about what the polls are saying, especially in Montana, Texas & Florida.

The idea of switching and offsetting votes from fringe parties in and out of swing states comes from RUSSELL GREENE.

Threats to FEMA disaster workers in North Carolina are exposed by ILENE PROCTOR in Asheville.

MIKE HERSH gives us a quick introduction to a civil discussion of the situation in the Middle East.

Civilian deaths, land development issues, economic resources and spiritual forces are discussed by LYNN FEINERMAN.

STEVE CARUSO raises issues about the horrifying slaughter in Gaza.

Massive underground oil resources are discussed by DAVID GRACE.

CONNOR MURRAY of the Council for a Livable World tells us how his legendary organization fights against nuclear weapons.

TATANKA BRICCA expands on the links between nuclear power & the Atomic Bomb(s).

To conclude we cope with Thom Hartmann’s terrifying outline of the various ways this year’s election could be stolen.

We will go deeper into this profoundly unsettled situation the next week.  STAY TUNED!!!