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Year end Bonus : A Uniquely Powerful Conversation With Amory Lovins on the Great Solartopian Revolution! (Audio Excerpt)
Todays presentation features the great AMORY LOVINS in a monumental recorded conversation on the rise of a renewable/efficiency-based economy.
This discussion was presented at a Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection zoom (#157, Part 2) on November 13, 2023.
In 1975, Amory gave a pioneer talk at the TOWARD TOMORROW FAIR in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Amory’s landmark vision introduced the world to the coming realities of a totally green-powered Earth.
In his later Road Not Taken, published by Foreign Affairs Magazine, Amorys breakthrough insights have helped lay the foundation for one of humankinds most critical technological revolutions”and one of it biggest industries, with revenues reaching into the multi-trillions, and job-creating in the multi-millions.
Amory later personally delivered the basic memorandum to Jimmy Carter, helping to birth (among other things) the establishment of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
We are proud and honored to present this cordial, productive and mind-boggling conversation with one of our most impactful green heroes.
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #161, December 18, 2023
Killing Democracy In FL & OH; Digital Derangement; Poems From The Heart
GREEP zoom #161 begins with WENDI LEDERMAN & CAROLINA AMPUDIA reporting on the Florida “Democratic” Party decision to cancel its presidential primary.
This astounding, unprecedented attack on electoral democracy accompanies a concerted attempt by the Republican Party to kill a popular referendum meant to preserve the right to abortion. Despite having gathered more than 1.4 million signatures, Florida’s right wing is working overtime to deny the public the right to decide.
From Ohio, STEVE CARUSO reports that $4.3 million in fossil/nuclear bribes have found their way to the Chair of the Public Utilities Commission, now indicted and on trial. E-mails between CPUC Chair Sam Randazzo and nuclear reactor owner FirstEnergy show an astonishing line of corruption aimed at bailing out Ohio’s decrepit fossil/nuke burners.
CAMILLA REES then introduces DR. NICHOLAS KARDERAS, author of Glow Kids and Digital Madness as well as a wide range of medical and professional studies on the impacts of algorithms on our brains.
Dr. Kardaras gives us a terrifying tour of the devastating impacts of digital addiction—especially when it comes to our children. Among other things, we are exposed to the horrifying impacts sedentary hours in front of a screen can have on us and our kids. These assaults range from depression, anxiety, OCD, psychosis and much much more. The epidemic of social media with zero nuance has ravaged the mental wellness of an entire generation.
This “weakening of the American mind” means the demise of critical thinking, creating an emotional brittleness and a “Stockholm Syndrome” that makes us love the tech oligarchs who imprison our narrowing minds by deliberately spreading dark chaos, the essential ingredient for fascism.
MIKE HERSH, LYNN FEINERMAN, DR. NANCY NIPARKO, JUSTIN LEBLANC, STEPHEN KAISER, DONALD SMITH, DAVID SALTMAN, ERIC LAZARUS, MYLA RESON add to our fond farewell to 2023.
As that happens, RON LEONARD helps us dedicate ourselves to preventing fascism in 2024.
We end with the brilliant, moving poems of Mimi German, hoping she’ll become our very own poet laureate.
See you then!!
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #160, December 11, 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.
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #159, December 4, 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
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #158, November 27, 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.
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #157, Parts 1 and 2, November 13, 2023
Part 1 Post November 7 Election Coverage:
OHIO GOP ATTACKS CHOICE/POT REFERENDA; CENSORSHIP ON THE MIDDLE EAST; GRASSROOTS WIN IN VA
We open our greep zoom #157 with TATANKA BRICCA’s brief journey into the world of Unidentified Flying Objects (now become Unidentified Airborne Phenomena) and a new federal agency confirming what officials have denied for decades.
STEVE CARUSO then updates us on the monumental popular victories in Ohio approving referenda on a woman’s right to choose and legalizing pot.But as Steve tells us, the gerrymandered right-wing Ohio legislature wants to overturn both popular votes.
This truly astounding attack on democracy itself comes prior to a widely expected new assault on fair redistricting, which the public has repeatedly endorsed, but which the state’s GOP simply does not want to accept.
DENNIS BERNSTEIN then joins LYNNE FEINERMAN, MYLA RESON and others to take us through the horrifying deathscape of the Middle East war and the press censorship surrounding it.
Finally, ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground explains the truly earth-shattering victories of grassroots organizing in Virginia.
“We made history in Virginia,” says Miller, with huge jumps in young, black and female representation in the former capital of the Confederacy.
By all accounts, the kinds of organizing central to the GREEP calls made the difference in Virginia. Join us to hear how!!
Part 2 Energy:
A COMPREHENSIVE DEEP DIVE INTO A SMALL MODULAR RENEWABLE SOLARTOPIA WITH AMORY LOVINS et. al.
Our Earth-Shattering GREEP zoom #157 takes us on a unique two-hour journey into the brave new world of renewable energy.
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.
The great SCOTT DENMAN then takes us through monumental collapse of NuScale’s Small Modular Reactor scam.
NuScale has been at the center of the so-called “Nuclear Renaissance” for large reactors which collapsed 2007-2012.
That fantasy gave way to a “resurgence” of Small Modular Reactors which has just collapsed.
NuScale went to Utah municipal utilities to buy into the SMR scam.
But this past week, as Scott tells us, the SMR scam has collapsed.
Great green guru AMORY LOVINS follows with a magnificent overview of the global conversion to renewable energy.
Carbon + cost + speed are the keys to the green transition, he says.
Renewables have added 986x net capacity than nuclear in 2022, he says.
In September 2022-October 2023, solar is running way faster than anybody can keep up with, he adds.
With an “integrate design,” and an “unimaginably big” cornucopia of renewables, we can meet our de-carbonization goals.
New grid materials brighten the equation.
Big reactors now cost 5-8x renewables; small reactors are 20-32x more expensive than renewables, even with mass production.
Solar and wind generate “variably” in predictable ways, widening the cost gap nukes must overcome to match renewables.
“Baseload” from nuclear has now become both obsolete and detrimental.
Lovins cites ten means of firming supply/demand reliability at extremely low cost compared to fossil/nukes.
JUSTIN LEBLANC, RON LEONARD, WENDI LEDERMAN and MYLA RESON join in on the discussion.
We also hear from ROY MORRISON on how to do community-owned renewable power.
Amory also recommends X-Change at RMI.org and Applied Hope on renewables and cars.
At the end we learn it’s Amory’s birthday, contributing to the truly beautiful, powerful spirit of this gathering.
Don’t miss it!!! & we’ll see you in Solartopia…..
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #156, November 6, 2023
LABOR RISING, VA FOR SALE, WHILE NUKES BANKRUPT GEORGIA
Our GREEP zoom #156 opens as 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 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 is 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 and the globe.
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 everybody!!
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #155, October 30, 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.
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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….
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #153, October 16, 2023
IN THE STREETS FOR DEMOCRACY IN FLORIDA, OHIO & AT THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS/POWER PLANTS
GREE-GREE # 153 begins with the great WENDI LEDERMAN’s harrowing accounts of gathering signatures for Florida’s pro-choice referendum.
You can’t hear these stories without worrying for the lives of those pounding the pavement for what’s left of our democracy.
RUTH STRAUSS and JUSTIN LEBLANC join in the dialog on this incredibly important life/death isue.
Ohio’s RACHEL COYLE explains the astounding “you can’t make this stuff up” madness that’s overtaken the Buckeye State on the issues of abortion, pot, democracy and more.
At a key moment she connects with the great RAY MCCLENDON, hopefully leading to more grassroots democracy in the swing state heartland.
STEVE CARUSO and SANDY BOLZENIUS also report in from Columbus with the latest mich-a-gass.
Wendi then reports again, this time about the hideous Cop City project in Atlanta with a terrible fascistic crack-down on the basic rights of pro-democracy protestors.
In our second hour we leap into the nuclear power issue and the desperate need to shut the Diablo Canyon reactors and all others throughout the world.
The great KEVIN KAMPS of Beyond Nuclear joins LINDA SEELEY of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace (www.mothersforpeace.org) to discuss the strategies of fighting sick atomic reactors in Michigan and California.
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.
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #152, October 9, 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 DONZIGER 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.
Major Radiation threat and ongoing (documented) from Ohio legislature inserted into recent, forced through, budget bill.
Make the connection: Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power
“Without civil nuclear power, there is no military nuclear power, and without military nuclear power, there is no civil nuclear power.” ~ French President Emmanuel Macron
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #151, October 2, 2023
GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING AT ITS BEST
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.
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.
TATANKA BRICCA and JOEL SEGAL jump in with their unique long-term political wisdom.
VINNIE DESTEFANO explains to us the latest on the JULIAN ASSANGE case.
We are then 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.
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.
And by ROBERT FREEHLING, whose brilliant economic analysis brightly illustrates the path toward Solartopia being blazed by the renewables revolution.
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.
Don’t miss it.
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour – 9.28.23
SHUTTING THE DIABLO NUKES: A PDA SPECIAL BROADCAST
On Sunday, September 24, the Progressive Democrats of America presented a special one-hour Town Meeting that featured LINDA SEELEY, of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, and Harvey Wasserman, host of PRN.live’s GREEN POWER & WELLNESS SHOW.
The discussion focussed on the Mothers’ new federal lawsuit against allowing Diablo Unit One to refuel before being thoroughly inspected for embrittlement and other internal defects.
The suit became necessary when California Governor Gavin Newsom betrayed his previous agreement to a broad-based agreement meant to shut the two Diablo reactors by 2025.
Pacifica Gas & Electric has been convicted of more than 90 felony manslaughter charges and has zero capability of taking responsibility for a major nuclear catastrophe.
The need to protect our nation by shutting these two obsolete nukes has never been more desperate. Tune in to hear why. No Nukes!!!
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #150, Sept. 18, 2023
GREEP #150: NUCLEAR POWER & PACIFICA RADIO
Our Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection show begins with a deep dive into the curse of atomic power that continues to plague our planet and species.
We start with MARY BETH BRANGAN and JIM HEDDLE of the Environmental Options Network, who tell us about their spectacular new documentary “The San Onofre Syndrome,” due to be released in Los Angeles on Sunday, October 8, with virtual availability on October 15.
The film documents the magnificent citizens movement that against all odds shut units 2 & 3 at San Onofre, only to see the company and the regulators leave multiple tons of radioactive waste lying on the beach, within mere yards of the high tide line.
LINDA SEELEY of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace lays out the hard realities of fighting to shut the two reactors at Diablo Canyon, where a refueling outage will allow major testing to take place….if the regulators are forced to do so.
During this shut-down the safe energy movement will demand testing for embrittlement, pipe cracking, seismic stability, evacuation planning and other safety factors before the plant can re-open.
This huge confrontation will define the future of energy in California. The reactors are surrounded by 13 earthquake faults and are operated by Pacific Gas & Electric, a criminal operation defined by more than 80 federal manslaughter convictions.
California has more than enough renewable energy to power the state cheaply, cleanly and safely, and has no need whatsoever for this insanely dangerous power source.
Likewise Michigan’s Palisades, where the great KEVIN KAMPS tells us how this dangerous, decrepit atomic jalopy has been shut….and is now insanely being given hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to reopen.
TATANKA BRICCA asks about strategic planning to mount civil disobedience resistance to these nuclear nightmares.
ROBIN HARPER, MYLA RESON and MIMI SPREADBURY chime in with critical California perspectives.
LIBBE HALEVY, author of YES I GLOW IN THE DARK, an up-close-and-personal account of the nightmare at Three Mile Island, connects us with her excellent NUCLEAR HOTSEAT podcast.
We are then honored with the presence of the great JAN GOODMAN, cofounder of the New Day Pacifica organization aimed at saving the treasured network.
MIKE HERSH, MYLA RESON, DAVID SALTMAN and others dig into the utter madhouse of the Pacifica nightmare.
Saltman asks the all-important question: “Where’s the dead camel buried?”
WENDI LEDERMAN, STEVE KAISER and LYNN FEINERMAN wrap these two amazing discussions, which we will resume in two weeks, after the Jewish New Year.
No Nukes! Save Pacifica!!
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #149, Sept. 11, 2023
OHIO/WISCONSIN MADNESS MEETS THE RABBI, THE UNIONIST, THE PINE TREE ALLIANCE, THE CONSTITUTION & THE KIDS
Our GREE-GREE #149 starts by commemorating the dual 9/11 catastrophes of 2001’s exploding World Trade Centers and the 1973 CIA murder of Salvador Allende, the duly elected Socialist leader of Chile. [Robert Reich’s superb piece on this horrible coup is not to be missed]. The combination of these two world-changing crimes marks us with a dual tragedy we still struggle to overcome.
With the great NORM STOCKWELL of progressive.org we go down the rabbit hole of the Wisconsin GOP’s latest assault on the state supreme court. Long-time Wisconsin pol CHUCK CHVALA deepens our understanding of this insane situation, while STEVE CARUSO fills us in on the parallel madness in Ohio.
Legendary radio talk host DENNIS BERNSTEIN of KPFA’s Flashpoints Show adds his usual brilliance to the electoral mix.
Then LUCY HOCHSCHARTNER of Maine’s Pine Tree Alliance explains that state’s grassroots Montana movement to take over its two much-hated private utilities and create the nation’s first totally statewide public owned electric company.
RAY MCCLENDON of Georgia chimes in with his powerful perspective on grassroots organizing.
MYLA RESON and LYNN FEINERMAN add their support to the idea of post-nuclear public power.
AARON “GOOD TROUBLE” WAZLAVEK of the Teamsters gives us a much-needed view from organized labor at a time of great push and progress.
At the top of the hour we’re honored by the legendary RABBI ART WASKOW, the incredibly articulate spiritual Godfather to a generation of religion-based activists fighting for peace, social justice and environmental survival.
Solar pioneer RON LEONARD contributes his own deep insider understanding of the Solartopian transition we so desperately need to survive.
JUSTIN LEBLANC and JOHN STEINER contribute to the electric atmosphere. So does the great author/attorney MAYA VAN ROSSUM, with her riveting account of the recent landmark victory by young climate activists in Montana aimed at saving the Earth.
TATANKA BRICCA, WENDI LEDERMAN and others flow into a truly warm, embracing and enlightening dialog that stretches well into a third hour.
Don’t miss this wonderful, uplifting, fun and lovingly comfortable landmark conversation.
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #148, August 28, 2023
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.
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WHY NUCLEAR POWER SUCKS!
https://grassrootsep.org/why-nuclear-power-sucks
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #147, August 14, 2023
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….
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #146, July 31, 2023
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!
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #145, July 24, 2023
Full show audio only:
| THE HIGH-POWERED LOW-DOWN ON OPPENHEIMER AND THE BOMB(S)!! The surprising blockbuster success of Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER comes to the 145th zoom of the Green Grassroots Election Protection Coalition. We hear from legendary music and political journalist GREG MITCHELL, whose op ed on the Bomb appears in the Los Angeles Times. SETH SHELDON from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons joins us from the United Nations. Seth’s work is derived from the global treaty to abolish atomic weapons continues to demand global attention. From Long Island, KARL GROSSMAN recalls his lifetime of activism against nuclear extinction, including his detailed critique of this important new film. LYNNE FEINERMAN wonders why we would ever bother with this film. TATANKA BRICCA shows the connection between atomic power reactors and Bomb production. Reporting from DeSantisland, WENDI LEDERMAN criticizes the idea that nuclear power might be some kind of “human right.” MARY DOUGLAS challenges our assumptions about campaigning for peace. DAVID SALTMAN recounts his amazing, unique childhood under the cloud of a removed security clearance. From DENNIS BERNSTEIN we learn that the film “isn’t playing all that well” among Japanese viewers in large part because it fails to deal with the radioactive impact on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In our second hour we hear from FOLABI OLAGBAJU about the Greenpeace Campaign for democracy, and the terrible struggle against a $100 million SLAPP suit filed to destroy the organization. And we get a great report from SUZANNE ALMEIDA on Common Cause’s work against the Moore law, Gerrymandering and for clarity on the voting districts in Alabama, Ohio and elsewhere. In sum, this amazing session excites and enlightens us for the on-going anti-fascist campaign against the Atomic Bomb and for democracy. Don’t miss it!! |
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #144, July 17, 2023
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.
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #143, July 10, 2023
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.
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #142, June 26, 2023
VOTE PACIFICA!!
WWW.NEWDAYPACIFICA.ORG
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KIDS’ SURVIVAL SUIT
Maya Van Rossum
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RADIOACTIVE ROADS?
Dr. Lisa Nagy
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Does Ohio Hate Democracy?
Rachel Coyle
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Minnesota Miracle
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Zapo Under Attack
https://freepress.org/article/108-ways-nuclear-power-plants-suck
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #141, June 19, 2023
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.
“When Gandhi Shows up” Randy Kehler
Antonio Gisbert: Oregon Rebate/UBI
Julie Weiner and pending anti-paper ballot legisation.
Pat Marida and Ohio Radiation Ambitions,
This is a deeply moving program about a truly great historic figure who will be deeply missed and never forgotten.
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #140, June 12, 2023
ALABAMA EX-GOV. DON SIEGELMAN ON DEMOCRACY, THE DEATH PENALTY and the ANTI-LGBTQ RIGHTS
We start GREEP Zoom #140 with the great GOVERNOR DON SIEGELMAN of Alabama.
The heroic former Secretary of State, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor and then Governor of Alabama gives us the run-down on voter suppression history in this country.
He brilliantly denounces the death penalty, of which he has a disturbing personal history.
And he then explains the latest surprising “Milligan” decision by the US Supreme Court which actually overturns a deep anti-black gerrymandering rule in Alabama.
After an important string of questions for Governor Siegelman, we gives way to BRYNN TANNEHILL, who gives us a detailed look at anti-LGBTQ rights.
Brynn shows us the massive numbers of LGBTQ citizens who are fleeing their homes in droves unseen since the horrors of European Jews fleeing the Nazis.
Brynn’s brilliant analysis comes with important graphics and pivotal first-person overviews that truly clarifies the national overview.
Don’t miss either of these important, powerful presenters.
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #139, June 5, 2023
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.
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #138, May 22, 2023
Hour 1: NORTH CAROLINA ON THE BRINK
We are joined in GREEP #138 by the young new leadership of the North Carolina Democratic Party.
ANDERSON CLAYTON, age 25, is a grassroots organizer from rural NC who is now the chair of the state’s Democratic Party
Her First Vice Chair is JONAH GARCON, an energetic young attorney with a long history in grassroots organizing.
They’re joined by ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground; RAY MCCLENDON of the Georgia NAACP; ROBERT WILSON, former NC Assistant Secretary of State;
legendary Charlotte-based organizer JOEL SEGAL; PR specialist ILENE PROCTOR and many more.
The challenge of moving North Carolina to real democracy ;remains at the core of saving America as a whole.
Our gathering seriously moves us ahead in that direction.
Hour 2: THE LEGENDARY STEVE DONZIGER FIGHTS FOR OUR FREEDOM
We are joined at the GREE-GREE zoom #138 part 2 by STEVE DONZIGER, whose fights for the Amazon & legal rights in America are unprecedented.
He explains the incredible struggle against Chevron and against a legal system hideously rigged against him.
With WENDI LEDERMAN, VINNIE DESTEFANO and many others we also explore the horrendous persecution of JULIAN ASSANGE.
WENDI also explains the latest terrifying developments in the conversion of Florida into outright fascist state.
Our lives and freedoms are on the line in America as never before.
We must use these gatherings as a non-partisan tool to figure out how to survive.
Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #137, May 15 2023
RADIOACTIVE WASTE FLOWS TO NM & ONTO FL ROADS; WOMEN OF 3 MILE; COP CITY SLAUGHTER
We lead off our 137th GREE-GREE Zoom with the great KEVIN KAMPS of Beyond Nuclear, WHO gives us the bad news about the licensing of a nuclear waste dump in New Mexico, soon to be heavily opposed by voters and government officials in NM..
Long-time No Nukes stalwart MYLA RESON adds her unique view on how to stop this latest nuke madness.
WENDI LEDERMAN reports on the insane idea of spreading radioactive wastes on Florida’s highways…and other Ron DeSantis madness.
SHAWNA FOSTER updates us on her campaigns for democracy and ecological protection.
RON LEONARD tells us about Dow Chemical’s purchase of four (4) new mini-nukes.
Gun Control hero JOHN ROSENTHAL gives us our first MONDAY MASS MURDER REPORT.
In the second half of our show we’re joined by the great JEFF COHEN of Roots Action.
A founder of the legendary Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, Jeff explains his critically important view on how to monitor and affect national media.
Jeff is both a commentator and an activist who has had an enormous impact on our country’s information flow.
Jeff hosts questions from MIKE HERSH, MYLA RESON, JOHN STEINER, ANNA GYORGY, JUSTIN LEBLANC, ALFRED MEYER
who reminds us of the lunacy of Small Modular Reactors.
Until we rest assured the climate crisis has been solved, we must shut the ofd generation of nukes and sub-in the new one of wind and solar.
Then we can once again SEE YOU IN SOLARTOPIA!!!
Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #136, May 8 2023
THE GREAT GREG PALAST TALKS ELECTIONS & NUKES
GREEP zoom #136 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.
Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #135, May 1, 2023
HOW TO RETIRE BILLION$$$ IN DEFAULTED MEDICAL DEBT
Our premier guest JERRY ASHTON has retired Billions of dollars in medical debt, freeing millions of American citizens from the burden of servitude to global corporate loan sharks.
Ashton’s legendary RIP Medical Debt organization uses contributions to pay off overdue bills run up in hospitals and elsewhere, but bought by predatory collection agencies and then turned against ordinary citizens.
Begun at the Occupy Wall Street actions many years ago, Ashton has used thousands of private donations to liberate many many families from unsustainable financial burdens.
RIP Medical Debt was famously featured by John Oliver on his “Last Week Tonight” Show, in which Oliver donated Big Money to liberate many many families from their overdue payments.
Jerry is a captivating, personable presenter who gives us a full hour of breakthrough brilliance that has made a very real difference in many many lives. Don’t miss his wonderful presentation!
And much, much more!
Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #134, April 24, 2023
#134: OHIO & FLORIDA PLUNGE DEEP TO THE DARK SIDE, TAKING THE US WITH THEM
We start our Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection zoom #134 with RACHEL COYLE’s truly astonishing report from the Ohio Heartland.
She starts with the “Education Destruction Act” poised to decimate learning throughout the state.
She then explains the gerrymandered legislature’s attempt to gut the referendum process while assaulting women’s ability to control their own bodies.
She follows with a horrifying account of the legislature’s defiance of the state Supreme Court in defense of the illegal gerrymandered maps that keep it in power.
MARY JANE BORDEN chimes in with a mind-boggling account of the struggle to legalize marijuana in Ohio, which has made remarkable progress cutting through the fascist fog.
WENDI LEDERMAN then explains the horrible official murder of the 27-year-old activist TORTUGUITA, who was shot dead—while seated, with his hands up—with 57 cop bullets in his body.
The fight over the 85-acre Cop City police center in a public forest in Atlanta continues to spiral down into tragic violence.
Meanwhile, the city of Fort Lauderdale is being overwhelmed with flooding, raw sewage and toxic pollution, threatening human and all other life.
Wendi’s joined by fellow activist LEANN BARBER as we navigate the horrifying swamp of our bought-and-paid-for government.
Together, they forces of justice and sanity must prevail…or we go extinct.
PART TWO
GreeGree #134 Second Hour:
THE FIGHTS OVER NUCLEAR POWER & THE GLOBAL PLASTIC TSUNAMI CONTINUE TO ESCALATE
The MOTHERS FOR PEACE are among the nation’s greatest activists, and from them has come the wonderful LINDA SEELEY.
Linda updates us on the desperate struggle to shut the Diablo Canyon nuclear reactors before they blow up and contaminate all of California.
Indeed, because Diablo is upwind of most of North America it threatens the entire United States with deadly fallout.
The infuriating strong-arm tactics of Gavin Newsom have ignited a furious resistance that must prevail if humankind is to survive.
DR. NANCY NIPARKO follows with her powerful explanation of how plastics are utterly destroying our oceans and global eco-systems.
Nancy’s compelling presentation underscores the desperate need to replace plastic with stuff that can, in fact, bio-degrade.
MYLA RESON, JUSTIN LEBLANC, TATANKA BRICCA, RUTH STRAUSS, JEFFREY BARKDULL, DOROTHY REIK, PAUL NEWMAN. JOAN SEEMAN and other great activists hugely contribute to this monumental discuss.
JOIN US to save the Earth…and we’ll see you next week.
Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #133, April 17, 2023
NATIONAL GRASSROOTS NETWORKING FROM VIRGINIA TO FLORIDA & NO NUKES IN GERMANY
Our Green Emergency Election Protection Coalition Zoom #133 begins with ANDY MOORE of the National Association of Non-Partisan Reformers, a nationwide coalition of organizations working for election reform.
The great ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground fills us in on her great grassroots push in Virginia.
NORM STOCKWELL of Progressive.org then explains the aftermath of the progressive movement’s huge Supreme Court victory in Wisconsin, which will stretch deep into the 2024 presidential election.
We then hear from the great ANNA GYORGY about German’s monumental decision to shut down ALL its atomic reactors, which finally closed on April 15.
In tandem we hear about the world-changing ENERGIEWENDE, Germany’s incredibly rapid and effective shift toward a 100% green-powered energy supply in the world’s 4th-largest economy.
Anna is joined by SCOTT DENMAN and by LINDA PENCE, both legendary long-term safe energy activists with great things to say about this European dawn of Solartopia.
PART TWO: SECOND HOUR…..please also put this on the air where you can…
STEVE DONZIGER & HIS AMAZING, INCREDIBLY POWERFUL FIGHT FOR PLANETARY SURVIVAL & CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
We hear from the astounding STEVE DONZIGER about his now-legendary fight against Chevron’s destruction of the Ecuadorian rain forest.
Steve has endured unconscionable assaults from Chevron and a completely corrupted legal system.
His persistent resistance has made him a global legend. Join us to hear why.
We are then joined by DEEPA DRIVER with a powerful report from London on the latest developments in the fight for the freedom of JULIAN ASSANGE.
And we hear from VINNIE DE STEFANO on American support work for both Donziger and Assange.
If you are at all concerned about the future of the global ecology and the American legal system, don’t miss this show.
STEPHEN DONZIGER https://youtu.be/ZKo_vIMMQjU?t=4922
Tatanka Bricca https://youtu.be/ZKo_vIMMQjU?t=6670
Anti-Fossil Hero CHEVRON’s Nemesis
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Andrea Miller https://youtu.be/ZKo_vIMMQjU?t=1232
Norm Stockwell https://youtu.be/ZKo_vIMMQjU?t=1925
Wisconsin Supremes’ Big Grassroots Win
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Anna Gyorgy: https://youtu.be/ZKo_vIMMQjU?t=2552
Germany Shuts ’em ALL Down
Scott Denman Small, Nuclear Fails https://youtu.be/ZKo_vIMMQjU?t=3100
Linda Pentz Gunter https://youtu.be/ZKo_vIMMQjU?t=3477
Tatanka Bricca https://youtu.be/ZKo_vIMMQjU?t=3983
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Deepa Driver https://youtu.be/ZKo_vIMMQjU?t=4603
https://youtu.be/ZKo_vIMMQjU?t=7196
Vinnie De Stefano https://youtu.be/ZKo_vIMMQjU?t=7619
on Julian Assange
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Andy Moore National Association of Non-Partisan Reformers
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #132, April 3, 2023
WISCONSIN BEFORE LIGHTENING STRIKES; ANTI-TRANS WARFARE
Our GREE-GREE #132 foreshadows the major victory in Wisconsin’s critical state Supreme Court race that is being widely ranked as “the most important election of 2023.”
We hear from ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground, NORM STOCKWELL of Progressive.org, and THOMAS NELSON of grassroots Wisconsin on the coming of what would be a huge victory for the Progressive movement.
We know as you’re listening to this that the left-leaning “Judge Janet” Protasiewicz won this crucial judgeship by a substantial margin. She beat a MAGA Republican.
So if you want to know how this happened, listen in to the powerful views of a critically important trio of organizer/activists who helped make this progressive victory happened.
We then turn to BRYNN TANNEHILL and her uniquely brilliant systemic presentation on the national assault against the rights and freedoms of trans Americans.
Among much more, Brynn tells us that “gun rights” stalwarts who NEVER want to limit gun ownership now want to make it illegal for trans citizens to own a gun.
[IN OUR SECOND HOUR, FOR NEXT WEEK:
PRESIDENT MICHELLE? A ROMERO ADMINISTRATION? LIVING EARTH MOVEMENT; MORE NUKE MADNESS
In our latest GREE-GREE gathering, we’re joined by legendary journalist/producer DAVID SALTMAN, presents the possibility of MICHELLE OBAMA running for President.
Though there are obvious doubts, Saltman reads a long passage from the former First Lady that would seem to indicate she’d be open to the idea should Joe Biden decline to re-run
Along the way we hear from LYNN FEINERMAN, JUSTIN LEBLANC and others.
TATANKA BRICCA lays out the Romero Institute’s on-going campaign to establish a full-blown government leadership apparatus, prepared to take and use power as the corporate Democrats and Trumpite Republicans fade away.
IGNACIO CASTUERA of the Living Earth Movement explains his organization’s powerful campaign to insure that we get to world peace.
The movement focuses in particularly on guaranteeing detente with China, thus avoiding a war between the world’s two biggest economies.
Finally the brilliant LINDA PENCE GUNTER of Beyond Nuclear confirms that Germany will, in fact, shut its last reactors around April 15.
Thus the world’s fourth-largest economy goes post-nuclear, with (hopefully) the fifth-largest (California) soon to follow.
Linda also fills us in on the uselessness of Silly Mythic Reactors, and the on-going dangers at Ukraine’s besieged Zaporigia.
We also hear about the use of Depleted Uranium (DU), armor-penetrating shells that spread lethal atomic radiation throughout the landscape.
Linda is joined by MYLA RESON who further explains the dangers of DU and atomic waste.
This wide-ranging excursion should not be missed. NO NUKES!!
Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #131, Mar. 27, 2023
XI-PUTIN & THE ASIAN CENTURY; WISCONSIN SUPREMES; DEMS DESTROY NEVADA; THE WAR VS. LGBTQ & THE DESANTIS DISASTER
Our GREEP #132 starts with the “deal of the century” as Xi & Putin lay the foundation for an end of the American Century and the dominance of the dollar.
As part of that excursion we visit “The Big Short” and other critical documents on the most recent fall of the American economy.
KFPA/Flashpoint’s DENNIS BERNSTEIN, LYNN HEIDIKOPER and others help us with the horrendous details.
From there we go to the all-important race for the deciding seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, where grassroots organizing will make all the difference.
JOHN STEINER fills us in with critical details.
We also hear from JUDITH WHITMER, recently purged as chair of the Nevada Democratic Party for being too progressive & grassroots. Where have we heard that before?
One place is New York, where JULIE WIENER and RON LEONARD explain how the utterly feeble Democrats blew it for the entire US House.
BRYANN TANNEHILL fills us in on the national war against LGBTQ citizens. WENDI LEDERMAN gives us the ugly details from DeSantis’s Florida, where Disney (!!!) is fighting back.
This incredibly powerful gathering proceeds for another 90 minutes, so join us at http://www.electionprotection2024.org.
No Nukes!!!
Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #130, Mar. 20, 2023
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“Three Mile Island Revisited” Karl Grossman • Three Mile Island…
A New Program from SCRUTINEERS w Emily Levy
WISCONSIN SUPREMES Another Dem Disaster?
October Surprise Confirmed!! Reagan Stole 1980 Election!!!
DeFascist FL List Wendi Lederman, Carolina Ampudia
Carlson Loves Assange?!
Women of 3 Mile Island Heidi Huttner Special Trailer Showing
Karl Grossman Shares his experience with TMI Recent incident at GA Vogtle nuclear startup https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-co…
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #129, Mar. 13, 2023
GUILTY GUILTY GUILTY IN OHIO!!! WI SUPREMES…BIZ 4 DEMOCRACY….GREEN AMENDMENTS
On our GREEGREE #129 we celebrate a big hit of justice in Ohio as the infamous House Speaker Larry Householder is found guilty of taking a $61 million bribe to give the nuclear industry a $1 billion bailout.
Householder and an associate face up to 20 years in a VERY rare instance of a corrupt official actually being convicted of selling the government to a corporation—and an atomic one at that.
We briefly discuss the crucial Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, where the Democratic party as usual appears fast asleep.
FRANK KNAPP of Businesses for Democracy tells us how his sustainable cohorts are fight for the right to vote and other basics of a free society.
Then WENDI LEDERMAN introduces us to MAYA VAN ROSSUM whose Green Amendment proposes the revolutionary strategy of appending to state constitutions the core right to a clean environment.
Maya’s pathbreaking work aims to force state governments to acknowledge—UNDER THE LAW—the ability of human beings to protect their survival on a planet being brutally assaulted by corporate greed.
Maya’s strategy and successes are an inspiration and a guidepost to those working for environmental justice and global sustainability.
Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #128, Mar. 6, 2023
ASSANGE FILM, GA ASSAULTS ON DEMOCRACY, WI SUPREME SHOWDOWN
In GREEGREE #128, VINNIE DESTEPHANO fills us in on the on-going tour of “Ithaka,” the stirring documentary about Julian Assange, now touring the US.
We then hear from RAY MCCLENDON about the escalated attempts to crush democracy in Georgia.
Finally we do a deep dive on the critical Wisconsin Supreme Court race that could redefine national politics.
GREG LEWIS of Souls to the polls joins legendary journalists RUTH CONIFF and NORM STOCKWELL in dissecting the realities of what may be the most important election of 2023.
HOWIE HAWKINS of the Green Party also joins the discussion.
With control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court comes critical decisions on women’s rights, voting rights, gerrymandering and much more.
As Wisconsin is certain to prove critical in the 2024 election, this state Supreme Court race could decide much of the American future.
Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #127, Feb. 27 , 2023
WISCONSIN SUPREME VOTE & 2024 GRASSROOTS REFERENDA
GREEGREE #127 starts with the great ANDREA MILLER of the Center for Common Ground as she explains her legendary organization’s grassroots work in the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
Because the Court in WI is evenly divided (3-3) between progressives v. conservatives, this oddly timed (April 4) election will have huge impact.
As Andrea explains, a woman’s right to choose is on the line, as is redistricting, voter registration and much more in a state that could well decide the 2024 presidential campaign.
We hear further from KARLA SAND in Minnesota, who gives important detail on the unexpected victory of KEITH ELLISION for the AG office in Minnesota.
DR. RUTH STRAUSS asks Andrea about the Virginia election that has now sent the state’s first woman of color to the US Congress.
DOROTHY REIK and CYNTHIA PAPERMASTER also add to our discussion, in particular about the potential US Senate candidacy of Rep. Barbara Lee, the only Congressperson to vote again the Afghan War.
WENDI LEDERMAN then presents a crucial overview of the use of the state-wide referendum in protection critical rights like abortion, legal pot, medicaid expansion, democracy-based districts and more.
GEORGE RIPLEY tells us of the Ballot Initiate Strategy Center formerly affiliated with the great Senator Mike Gravel.
This discussion of grassroots referenda will be critical to our work all the way through the 2024 nation election.
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whistleblower legend
RAY MCGOVERN
Assange / 2024 / Ukraine
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OHIO GASSED & BRIBED
Article From Greg Swartz
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Can Referenda Upend Everything?
Wendi Lederman
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Gov. Bookburner (R-FL)
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Supreme Test in WI
Andrea Miller/Ctr. for Common Ground
Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #126, Feb. 13 , 2023
NY VOTING LAWS, BRIBERY & CHEMICAL NIGHTMARES IN OHIO, OUR REVOLUTION, PERU, E-CARS
Our Jam-packed GREEGREE #126 starts with NY’s JULIE WIENER reporting from the NY legislature on hackable voting machines.
Ohio’s RACHEL COYLE tells us about the astounding trial in Columbus about the $61 million a nuclear utility slipped to the speaker of the Ohio House to get a $1 billion bailout for two atomic reactors.
The question, says Rachel, is whether in the world of Citizen’s United, it is perfectly legal to buy (or rent) a state legislature.
“You couldn’t write a movie better than this,” she says. It’s a trial to legalize bribery, with major national repercussions.
PACO FABIAN then tells us about the successful and impactful progressive campaigning of OUR REVOLUTION.
We merge in the possibility of using referenda to help get out the grassroots vote, particularly on the issues of Choice, Gerrymandering, Marijuana and Expanding Medicaid.
Our Revolution also focuses on raising the minimum wage, as was tried in California, demanding clearer messaging.
LORENZO CANIZARES gives us the news from Peru, where a Revolution is definitely not being televised.
From LINDA GUNTER of Beyond Nuclear tells us about the threat of earthquakes to atomic reactors in Turkey and Greece, not to mention Ukraine and California.
From STEVE CARUSO and others we hear the horrible news about the 50-care derailment now poising much of the Ohio River Valley.
BEN EICHERT, MYLA RESON, TATANKA BRICCA and others update us on the Energy War in California, now raging over the expiring licenses at Diablo Canyon.
Next week we are off for President’s Day, but will be back February 27 with a new link. We will be joined then by the great RAY MCGOVERN.
NO NUKES!!!
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Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #125, Feb. 6 , 2023
THE FEDS HAVE ATTACKED INDEPENDENT CAMPAIGNS; THE RABBI CELEBRATES THE EARTH
At GREEGREE #125 Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party’s 2016 Presidential candidate, schools us in how the Federal Elections Commission protects America’s duopoly.
Stein is being PERSONALLY sued by the FEC for an independent campaign dating to seven years ago. It’s an astounding story of fascism in action with serious implications for grassroots campaigns going forward.
RAY MCCLENDON of the Georgia NAACP and co-convenor JOEL SEGAL confirm the need to transform how we connect with grassroots donors and volunteers to challenge the duopoly’s unyielding power.
“We need publicly financed elections, period,” says Segal.
With Stein’s terrible experience as background, the FEC must be changed to a non-partisan operation. “It’s all about the oligarchy,” says Stein.
TATANKA BRICCA tells us about Exxon now pouring trillions of dollars into Swiss “non-profits” to hide their money while promoting fossil/nuclear fuels which destroy the Earth.
We then hear from CAROLINA AMPUDIA about the fight for progressive policies within the Florida Democratic Party.
WENDI LEDERMAN tells us about the fight over privatization of water in the Sunshine State.
LORENZO CANIZARES updates us on the situation in Peru.
LINDA SEELEY from the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace tells us of the horrendous licensing scams being pulled at the Diablo Canyon atomic reactors.
RABBI ART WASKOW then takes us into a brilliant, fascinating tour of the destruction of Atlanta’s forest land along with the horrific murder of a young eco-activist with no less than 13 bullets.
Art is a long-standing activist based in Philadelphia who has joined radical Judaism with ecological protection. This broadcast is happening on the Jewish holiday, “the New Year of Trees…a fount of pleasure, of joy…” and much more.
His lifelong career has moved thousands of activists around the world, both within and outside the Jewish community, working for peace, social justice, protection of the Earth, an end to racism and anti-semitism and much more.
Art’s visit is punctuated with great comments by RON LEONARD, MYLA RESON and many more.
CATHY COWAN BECKER finally fills us in on the corrupt, anti-planet insanity from the lobotomized, fully bribed Ohio Legislature.
This is a fantastic, uniquely wonderful gathering. Don’t miss it!!!
Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #124, Jan. 30 , 2023
FOOTBALL MADNESS, BALLOT BREAKTHROUGHS IN ARIZONA, FASCISM IN FLORIDA…
We start GREEGREE #124 with the National Football League’s debacle as the SF 49ers lost FOUR (4) quarterbacks to injury, turning its 1/29 playoff game into an unwatchable disaster. TATANKA BRICCA, JOHN STEINER, DENNIS BERNSTEIN, ELISSA MATROSS, MARY STONEWALL AND DOROTHY REIK all pile on with their comments.
We then go to JOHN BRAKEY who updates us on extremely important pro-democracy legislation now brewing in Arizona.
Reports from Florida are less optimistic, as WENDI LEDERMAN, CAROLINA AMPUDIA and JOE BONASIA update us on the march of DeSantis through the Sunshine State.
PEASANT PROSECUTION IN PERU, NUKE MADNESS IN MI/CA/OH and GREAT NEW BREAKTHROUGHS IN RENEWABLES
In our second hour, we hear from LORENZO CANIZARES reporting on the horrifying fascist murders going on in Peru.
KEVIN KAMPS of Beyond Nuclear reports on the corrupt licensing reversals being perpetrated by the nuclear industry at Palisades, Michigan and Diablo Canyon, California.
Kevin’s clear message is that even though some at the NRC want the Commission to obey its own rules, the expectation is high that they’ll overrule them and let both Palisades and Diablo operate without either licenses or insurance.
Kevin further warns us about the insanity of complications at the 15 reactors in Ukraine as war rages around the possibility of building new reactors there.
STEVE CARUSO touches on the insane $61 million bribe used to buy the Ohio Legislature for a $1 billion bailout for decrepit nuke reactors.
RON LEONARD fills us in on the exciting news of major breakthroughs in renewable energy.
The hits just keep on coming….SEE YOU NEXT WEEK FOR THE AMAZING GREEN RABBI ARTHUR WASKOW….
AZ Paper
Ballots on Fire
FL in Turmoil!!
FL Mni Winconi
ALLIANCE 4
GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY
Did the Dems Lose
Their Data Base?
PERU’s War for Democracy
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Anti-Green Murder in Atlanta
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NRC Licenses in Limbo
Diablo & Palisades
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OH Nuke Bribe Trial
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Beyond Lithium
Another NLF Travesty:
Time for the Flags!!!
Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #123, Jan. 23 , 2023
Part 1: DAVID CROSBY, LEONARD PELTIER, THE ALLIANCE 4 GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY, DEATH IN ATLANTA, UPRISING IN PERU
We start our 123d GreeGree zoom with a heartfelt nod to the great DAVID CROSBY, whose brilliant music still warms the hearts of multiple generations.
David was a powerful No Nukes activist whose work to shut Diablo Canyon has been powerful and important. Thank You, David.
We then speak with TATANKA BRICCA at length about the on-going refusal of Joe Biden (preceded by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama) to free Leonard Peltier, or at least to give him a new trial.
We get great questions from JUSTIN LEBLANC, LYNNE FEINERMAN, MIMI SPREADBURY, MIKE HERSH, WENDI LEDERMAN, MARY BUTLER-STONEWALL, and more.
DENNIS BERNSTEIN, legendary host of KPFA’s Flashpoints show, fills us in on the Atlanta killing of the powerful young environmental activist Manuel Esteban Paez Terán.
DOROTHY REIK helps us mourn this young man’s passing and re-dedicate ourselves to protecting our Earth.
In response to a question from JEFFREY BARKDUL, the esteemed labor leader LORENZO CANIZARES then tells of the great pro-democracy uprising in Peru.
As Lorenzo says, the fight in Peru could push a domino that will help bring democracy to all of Latin America.
Don’t miss this discussion!!!
Part 2: ALLIANCE 4 GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY & GETTING PAST LITHIUM 4 BETTER BATTERIES
We hear from the great JOHN BRAKEY on the latest struggles for real democracy in Arizona & taking it national.
CAMILLA REES comes on to talk about that struggle, and to highlight her breakthrough work on 5G vs. the horrendous threats posed by universal wireless telecommunications.
Camilla then introduces TIMOTHY SCHOECHLE, who talk about the utility-sponsored debacle of “smart meters,” net metering and their utter collective failure.
Tim also talks about micro-grids and alternatives to centralized energy generation.
And about the rapid transition from lithium/cobalt
RON LEONARD, MARK ROEST and MARY BUTLER-STONEWALL chime in on solar in California along with JUSTIN LEBLANC and MIMI SPREADBURY.
Distributed energy from 1.5 million solar roofs (some with batteries) saved the CA grid twice in 100-degree temperatures. All this is here, says Ron Leonard. Let’s just DO IT.
More on this next week….and deep into the grassroots democracy future.
Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #122 Jan. 9 , 2023
Honoring Cliff Arnebeck
Paper Ballots with Clint Curtis
FREE ASSANGE & PELTIER
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PAPER BALLOTS, JULIAN ASSANGE & THE GREAT CLIFF ARNEBECK
In Green Grassroots Election Protection zoom #122 we pay tribute to pioneer election protection mainstay CLIFF ARNEBECK, who has just passed..
This heroic Ohio attorney joined with BOB FITRAKIS, CLINT CURTIS, JULIE WIENER & others who demanded an end to the 2004 electoral fraud that wrongly gave GEORGE W. BUSH a 2d term.
Clint gives us a tour of the paper ballot issue and questions the use of computerized ballot images to count the vote.
We then hear from DEEPA DRIVER and VINCENT DeSTEFANO about the situation with JULIAN ASSANGE.
Deepa delivers a brilliant talk on the absolute need for protected journalism and a public funnel for critical documents.
She is briefly joined by TATANKA BRICCA who promises to tell us in a later session about LEONARD PELTIER.
We’re further joined by Vince DeStefano, who explains the possibility that Australia’s change of government may open a door for Julian’s release.
We hope it comes next week, as we adjourn for MLK DAY, returning January 23. No Nukes!!
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LEONARD PELTIER, JULIAN ASSANGE, THE DIABLO CANYON NUKES & OUR GREEN-POWERED FUTURE
We’re joined on GREEGREE #122 by TATANKA BRICCA to discuss the horrific treatment being perpetrated against LEONARD PELTIER.
DEEPA DRIVER and VINCENT DE STEFANO give us more information about jailed journalist JULIAN ASSANGE.
We then hear from LINDA SEELEY about the madness, illegalities & extreme dangers at the DIABLO CANYON nuke reactors, which are surrounded by earthquake faults, threatening all of California.
Solar expert ROBERT FREEHLING follows with an astounding assessment of the fantastic prospects for renewables in CA & elsewhere….if only we could shut those damn atomic reactors.
Robert is a genuine genius &, along with all the others on this call, uniquely worth hearing.
No Nukes everybody….
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