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REP. JAMIE RASKIN OF THE 1/6 COMMITTEE TELLS IT LIKE IT IS

 

 

 

Our 115th GREE-GREE Session is honored with the presence of US REPRESENTATIVE JAMIE RASKIN, Democrat of Maryland, prominent member of the 1/6 Committee.

 

We first pose to him the hope to remove the statue of General George McClellan from the streets of DC, and for official recognition of Sally Hemings as the third First Lady of the United States.

 

We hear from MIKE HERSH about the details of Rep. Raskin’s great career.

 

Rep. Raskin then lays out the case for federal criminal prosecution against Donald Trump.

 

Our own JOEL SEGAL tells of his long-standing friendship with Rep. Raskin, and then asks critical legal questions on prosecuting Trump and on preserving our democracy.

 

RAY MCCLENDON of the Georgia NAACP gives us a critical presentation of the desperate need to shift the Democratic Party to becoming an actual democracy organization with a shift to grassroots organizing.  

 

McClendon underscores the need to stop pouring millions of donor dollars into media advertising and switch to establishing the kind of GOTV / person-to-person campaigning that won the “Georgia Miracle” in 2021, shifting control of the US Senate.

 

BRYNN TANNEHILL informs the Rep. on the plight of trans citizens under Republican regimes.

 

DENNIS BERNSTEIN of the nationally-syndicated FLASHPOINTS radio show hears from Rep. Raskin on how to protect the vote in places like Florida and Arizona, as well as the danger of “madman” Putin using nuclear weapons.

 

JIM GARRISON of the Ubiquity Institute asks why Donald Trump is not yet in prison, to which Rep. Raskin responds with a strong second to that notion.

 

Next week’s session #116 will include DAVID HOGG of the Parkland Shooting exploring the impact of gun control on this year’s mid-term elections.

We start with TATANKA BRICCA talking to us about STEPHEN STILLS and his hearing loss. We hear from RICHARD LANGWORTHY in London expressing deep concern about a fascist victory in the US this November. CLIFFORD TASNER, President of the Los Angeles chapter of Americans for Democratic Action joins us. So does DOROTHY REIK of the Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains. We do a deep dive on the horrendous uproar surrounding the progressive City Council member KEVIN DELEON that has put Los Angeles in turmoil. PAUL SHERMAN and LEAH HERZBERG add in their opinions to the massive controversy. LINDA HUTCHINS-KNOWLES the talks to us about her work on green transportation. TATANKA BRICCA adds more critical information about the moves to EV and clean mobility. WENDI LEDERMAN and RON LEONARD add critical details. And then RAY LUTZ gives us the latest on the movement for election protection. NEXT WEEK we welcome REP. JAIMIE RASKIN of the January 6 committee.  Don’t miss us!!!

NDIGENOUS PEOPLE’S DAY & AN HOUR OF WOMEN’S ISSUES WITH CHRISTIAN NUNES OF NOW

 

 

We begin GREE-GREE #113 with a celebration of Indigenous People’s Day led by TATANKA BRICCA and the reminder that whatever democracy and freedom we enjoy in America is rooted with our native peoples---especially with the Hodenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.

 

JOEL SEGAL fills us in on the fight of Puerto Rico to rise again from yet another horrific storm, one that’s also brought terrifying death and destruction to much of Florida.

 

We then hear from CHRISTIAN NUNES, President of the National Organization for Women, as she and WENDI LEDERMAN take us on a deep dive into the core of women’s issues in the world today.  Roe v. Wade is “on the ballot” and, as Christian tells us, the issues cut far deeper than abortion.

 

What we're seeing, we hear, is about men trying to deepen their control over women, creating more slavery, autocracy and privilege among the rich.

 

The attack on a woman’s right to control her own body is inseparable from the fight for democracy and the desperate need to save our planetary ecology.

 

CYNTHIA PAPERMASTER, MARY DOUGLAS, DANNETT ABBOT-WICKER, HEDY TRIPP and LYNN FEINERMAN all contribute to this deeply moving excursion into the rise of the movement for matriarchal justice and power.

GREE-GREE #111 takes us deep into the ability of Big Corporations to buy what’s left of our democracy.  Thankfully, we’re joined by the uniquely powerful JUDITH WHITMER, rebel Chair of the Democratic Party of Nevada, where an uprising of grassroots activists has transformed the playing field. Judith has helped lead the charge to at last put the Democratic Party apparatus in reach of grassroots activists who actually support a progressive agenda….and who are willing to fight for a progressive agenda.We learn from GREG COLERIDGE that the horrendous Citizen’s United does not protect dark money’s ability to buy primaries, as they’re themselves the bailiwick of private corporations, ie the political parties.  Thus we realize the possibility of actually having fair and accessible systems to choose partisan candidates, a revolutionary development to say the least.DOROTHY REIK, THERESA BONPANE, JUSTIN LEBLANC, MARY STONEWALL and others chime in with great questions.We’re FURTHER joined by WENDI LEDERMAN, who has compiled a brilliant and extremely important roster of non-partisan grassroots organizations around the country.  Such groups have already vastly impacted our political process, at war with dark money.  We clearly need to grow this list, which now embraces some 500 groups—-a hard activist core that could revolutionize our politics….and not a moment too soon!!!

MINNESOTA ATTORNEY-GENERAL KEITH ELLISON ON FAIR & SANE ELECTIONSOur GREE-GREE #110 opens with EMILY LEVY with the latest report on Scrutineers on critical training and information on election protection.We are then joined by the legendary KEITH ELLISON, Attorney-General of Minnesota and lead prosecutor in the legendary George Floyd case.  Keith is a former multi-term US Representative and Vice-Chair of the national Democratic Party.  We discuss with him the relatively safe, democratic voting conditions in Minnesota and the desperate need to replicate them nationwide.Keith is gratefully joined by RAY MCCLENDON of the Georgia NAACP, connecting powerful pro-democracy organizers in critical states where conditions are very different.Joining them also are BOB FITRAKIS, JULIE WIENER, WENDI LIEDERMAN, HEDI TRIPP, TATANKA BRICCA and others.The need for a national organization of progressive state Attorneys-General and secretaries of state has never been more critical.We finish this amazing hour with JAMIAH HARGINS and his truly mind-boggling organization promoting urban farming and water conservation.DANNETT ABBOTT, MYLA RESON, PAUL SHERMAN, CYNTHIA PAPERMASTER and others chime in to this fantastically hopeful and powerful course of action for greening all of Los Angeles & ALL the world’s cities..

JIM HIGHTOWER HIGHLIGHTS THE LONE STAR LOW-DOWN AT GREE-GREE #109

 

 

Our Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection zoom this week features the great Texas commentator JIM HIGHTOWER.  

 

Jim's brilliant populist screeds have been enlightening the airwaves and op ed columns for decades.

 

Irreverent, witty and often downright belly-laughable, Hightower brings to this show a critical grassroots perspective that virtually no one else can offer.

 

His reports on the bottom-up campaigning now transforming Texas politics help transform our view of what’s possible in a Lone Star state undergoing a top-to-bottom demographic transformation.

 

Everywhere beloved for his legendary  commitment to “small d” democracy, Jim’s unique perspective bursts our hour at the grassroots seams.  

 

Do not miss this genius screed from deep in the belly of the southern Heartland.

DIABLO ARMAGEDDON*ARIZONA BRAKEY*GRASSROOTS CONGRESS

Our Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection zoom opens with a tribute from WENDI LEDERMAN to Women’s Equality.We also honor the great HOWARD ZINN, who would have been 100 years old this month.  Zinn completely upended the popular view of our nation’s story, and his PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES remains a foundational document.  Thank you, Howard!!!We then do a deep dive into the decrepit, dangerous, earthquake-surrounded Diablo Canyon Nukes at San Luis Obispo, CA.  Governor Gavin Newsom is pushing to keep them open indefinitely despite a broad-based agreement to shut them in 2024-5.  The ramifications for the future health, safety, economy and ecological survival of the human race are without parallel.We hear from DONNA GILMORE, KEN COOK, DANETT ABBOTT, ACE HOFFMAN, MYLA RESON, JUSTIN LE BLANC, TATANKA BRICCA, LINDA SEELEY and many more.  Arizona’s great JOHN BRAKEY tells us of major victories there.Led by Wendi Lederman, we hear from grassroots activists ????\

GREG PALAST * FLORIDA FASCISM *KANSAS VICTORY *POWER THE POLLS 

 

 

In our GREEN GRASSROOTS EMERGENCY ELECTION PROTECTION zoom #107 we open with WENDI LEDERMAN explaining how Florida’s extreme right-wing Gov. Ron DeSantis has arrested 20 citizens for the crime of voting while black.  Despite a huge public referendum win confirming the right of ex-felons to vote, DeSantis and his fellow vigilantes are intent on terrorizing the electorate.

 

The great GREG PALAST then introduces his new film VIGILANTE: GEORGIA’S VOTER SUPPRESSION HITMAN.  Legendary investigative reporter Palast introduces the astonishing reality of Georgia’s Gov. Brian Kemp, scion of an historic slave-owning family, and his all-out assault on the ability of thousands of Georgia citizens to cast ballots at all.  Greg’s hour-long presentation includes powerful questions from DANNETT ABBOTT, DR. RUTH STRAUSS, RAY MCCLENDON, DENNIS BERNSTEIN, MARY BUTLER-STONEWALL, STEVE SPITZ, ALEX WILLIAMS, PAUL SHERMAN, GEORGE RIPLEY and many more.

 

HELENA BUCHMANN tells us how grassroots organizing defeated anti-choice conservatives in Kansas.

 

MARTA HANSEN of Power the Polls explains the extreme importance of Poll Workers in the electoral process and how her grassroots organization works to bring them out.

 

WENDI LEDERMAN finishes by presenting our burgeoning list of more than 500 grassroots groups around the US.

 

Next Monday—-August 29—-GREEP #108 will feature Minnesota Attorney-General KEITH ELLISON in an organizing congress headlining major grassroots 2022 organizations from around the nation.  BE SURE TO JOIN US!!!

At GREE-GREE #106, WENDI LEDERMAN starts us off with an astounding listing of grassroots 2022 groups around the US workin on election protection.

We also hear from ZURIE POPE about fascist chaos in Ohio.

And from SUZANNE GORDON on the shafting of the Veterans Administration nationwide.

We then do a deep dive on the atomic chaos in Zaporizhzhia, California and elsewhere.

KEVIN KAMPS of Beyond Nuclear, MYLA RESON & TATANKA BRICCA, DOROTHY REIK, DENNIS BERNSTEIN and others in California and elsewhere.

We’re finally re-joined by BRYNN TANNEHILL to discuss the fascist reaction to the FBI on Mar-a-Lago.

What comes next?  It’s up to you...

A DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO GRASSROOTS VICTORY IN 2022…& THE GLOBAL NUKE NIGHTMARE, FROM UKRAINE TO DIABLO CANYON

 

 

On the GREE_GREE zoom #105 we offer a definitive template on the nuts and bolts of the grassroots organizing needed to turn the people’s will in the 2022 mid-term elections.

 

ANDREA MILLER and RAY MCCLENDON fill us in on the granular steps that forced the 2021 “Georgia Miracle” onto the changing face of American politics.  They’re followed by TATANKA BRICCA who adds to the narrative his hands-on experience organizing with the likes of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.

 

Co-Convenor JOEL SEGAL then joins ROBERT WILSON with their accounts of parallel campaigning in North Carolina.  Joel and Robert later introduce us to LARRY HALL, a critical leader of the NC Legislature.

 

On August 29 we’ll convene a National Congress of Grassroots 2022 Organizing to link on-the-ground groups together from all over the US.  WENDI LEDERMAN is compiling a master list of the nation’s on-the-ground operations to be represented as we further gather the progressive momentum needed to save this nation.

 

Hearing from DOROTHY REIK, DR. RUTH STRAUSS, LYNN FEINERMAN and more, we’re joined by Beyond Nuclear’s PAUL GUNTER, who provides the detail on the massive reactor bailouts included in the just-passed Biden-Manchine Inflation-Reduction Act.  

 

We also dive into the horrifying realities of six atomic reactors at Ukraine’s Zaporizyzya, six big nukes surrounded by heavy weaponry in the Russo-Ukrainian war zone.  

 

This ungodly nightmare of exploding reactors carries into California, as LINDA SEELEY of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace updates the fight to shut the insanely dangerous Diablo Canyon nukes as soon as possible.  

 

Overall this unique excursion into grassroots organizing and safe energy imperatives is not to be missed.