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BILL RUSSELL, GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING IN GA/NC, HEALTH CARE, MONEY OUT OF POLITICS, LOCAL WINNERS, ABORTIONGreen Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Zoom #104 opens with the legendary Bill Russell, the Greatest professional athlete/civil rights activistn all sports based on having won 11 NBA championships in 13 years, including the last two as the first African-American coach of a major professional team.  Russell did all this while serving as one of critically important pioneering activists of equal rights for all citizens. He will be incredibly missed, as will NICHELLE NICHOLS, Star Trek's first African-American female, one of the great icons of our culture (&counter-culture).RAY MCCLENDON clarifies the on-going very much alive & well prosecution of Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia.  Ray further updates us on the escalating grassroots campaign in GA leading into the 2022 mid-terms.JOEL SEGAL connects that GA campaign to his work in NC…and then explains in great detail the considerable impact of the new Biden-Manchin bill, not yet passed, on our national health care system.RON LEONARD, RAY LUTZ and TATANKA BRICCA illuminate the huge leap forward this bill also offers to the solar industry which has been under terrible attack from the US fossil/nuke dinosaurs.GREG COLERIDGE of MOVE TO AMEND then covers his organization’s spectacular work—along with SAM ROSENTHAL---to reverse the horrendous SCOTUS Citizens United decision allowing big corporate money to buy our elections. Greg is followed by three great grassroots candidates supported by Progressive Democrats of America:   JASON CALL from WA, RACHEL VENTURA and JOHN LAESCH from IL.And we hear from DR. RUTH STRAUSS, WENDI LEDERMAN, DOROTHY REIK, DANNETT ABBOTT, JUSTIN LEBLANC and many more who fit the critical mass of moving ahead with American democracy.As a parting shot, we jump briefly into the world of psychedelics, reminding all our participants for future sessions to see:  FANTASTIC FUNGI & the 4-part HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND.

ROOFTOP SOLAR v. NUCLEAR NEWSOM, RAY MCCLENDON & GRASSROOTS GEORGIA, STATE-BY-STATE w. ROE…& TRUMP’S 1/6 TREASON

 

 

We open GREE-GREE #103 with TATANKA BRICCA and RON LEONARD updating us on the fossil/nuke industry's assault on rooftop solar, which is being defended by Florida’s right-wing Ron DeSantis but betrayed by California’s alleged progressive Gavin Newson.

 

From Georgia the NAACP’s great RAY MCCLENDON updates us on the campaign to fund grassroots campaigning, which holds the fate of the Peach State and with it the nation.  Ray also updates us on the Fulton County DA’s move to indict Trump.  Ray is joined by Flashpoint’s DENNIS BERNSTEIN with key questions on the Donald’s traitorous travesties.

 

HOWIE HAWKINS of the Green Party updates upon the Democratic Party’s assault on the Green and other third parties, a never-ending attack on democracy.

 

JOEL SEGAL emphasizes the importance of the “Georgia Miracle” organizing paradigm.

 

LULU FRIESDAT, DR. RUTH STRAUSS, MYLA RESON, DANETT ABBOT, JUSTIN LEBLANC, HAL GINSBERG, SAM BELL, BRIAN STEINBERG and many more great activists chime in on January 6, Roe v. Wade and much much more.  

 

In this most vitally critical mid-term season, please be sure to join us on these fascinating, compelling and inescapable issues.  See you now!!!  See you next week!!!

MICHIGAN’S PRO-CHOICE REFERENDUM; GRASSROOTS IN GA, NC, OR, FL; CA GREEN NEW DEAL; BANNON’S FASCIST WET DREAM

 

 

We hear from BRIAN STEINBERG about Michigan’s amazing statewide referenda to win a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing a woman’s right to control her body, and to make it easier for ordinary citizens to exercise their democratic rights. 

 

 An astonishing 750,000+ signatures have been gathered, guaranteeing a sea change in Michigan politics that should be matched throughout the country if the progressive movement was actually awake.

 

JOEL SEGAL, WILLIE FLEMING, RAY MCCLENDON and ROBERT WILSON then fill us in on the all-important grassroots/relational organizing in North Carolina and Georgia, two states that would swing the entire nation.

 

Florida’s JIM LANGFORD joins Oregon’s LAWRENCE TAYLOR & SHERRY HEALY to update the Progressive Democrats of America’s work to democratize the Democratic Party.

 

TATANKA BRICCA then updates us on California’s campaign for a Green New Deal and the desperate attempt to get the horrendous Diablo Canyon shut before it unleashes an apocalyptic cloud killing millions of people and permanently destroying the American ecology and economy.

 

 

At the top of the second hour we’re joined by MARK KARLIN, founder/editor of BUZZFLASH.  

 

Mark has broken a mind-boggling expose of Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley’s being poised take control of the country in the absence of Mike Pence.

 

We then hear from STEVE BANNON in a one-minute clip of his pre-election celebration that DONALD TRUMP was about to abolish elections and make himself king.

 

This astonishing, unprecedented ranting rivals the Hitler Inner Circle's celebrations of the burning of the Reichstag.

 

For anyone who cares about American democracy, this one-hour excursion into the attempted Trump coup is absolutely essential.  Don’t miss it.

CRISIS AND SOLUTIONS AT THE PACIFICA RADIO NETWORK

 

 

We spend a landmark hour examining the extremely critical history and current status of the priceless and irreplaceable Pacifica Radio Network.

 

We start with the great ALAN MINSKY, long-time KPFK Program Director and current Executive Director of the Progressive Democrats of America.  

 

As only he can, Alan gives us a brilliant overview of how the network has functioned and what its immense political value really can be.

 

HARVEY WASSERMAN then recounts the tragic assault against the most recent attempt the reform the Pacifica by-laws by a New Day organization that won the popular vote by 55% to 45%, thus mandating the rules change desperately need to save the network.

 

New Day Pacifica Founder JAN GOODMAN then explains the detail of the by-laws change going forward.

 

She is joined by New Day supporter MYLA RESON who further explores the realities of this astonishing anti-democracy coup which has cost the progressive movement its most powerful broadcast voice.

 

If you believe the progressive movement needs a democratically elected and run broadcast network, don’t miss this vital discussion.

GEORGIA, GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGNING, PACIFICA RADIO, NUKES V. SOLAR & THE ROE CATASTROPHEGREE-GREE #100 begins with the great ANDREA MILLER of Center for Common Ground telling us how grassroots organizing and Democracy Centers can make a real difference, and could decide the 2022 election.She’s joined by STEVE ROSENFELD and RAY MCCLENDON who fill us in on the political realities in the Peach State, including the likelihood of a Trump indictment and what’s needed to save the races for Stacy Abrams and Raphael Warnock in the fall.JAN GOODMAN then tells us of the hard battles to save democracy at the Pacifica Radio Network, which has been ravaged by a series of stolen elections and insider destruction.KPFK’s DENNIS BERNSTEIN, host of the legendary Flashpoints Show, adds vital background to the fight over the progressive nation’s most valuable piece of media real estate.We also hear from TATANKA BRICCA on the California showdown between the lethal madness of the Diablo Canyon nukes vs. the desperate need to protect rooftop solar and a real green revolution. In the second hour we go to the insane overturn of ROE v. WADE with WENDI LEDERMAN, LYNN FEINERMAN, DANNETT ABBOTT-WICKER and many many more. We scroll through the moral, ethical, political and spiritual realities of what may be the most critical decision of the decade and what the impacts might be on the apocalyptic upcoming 2022 midterms. We will be off for July 4.  But in the meantime, as the national political scenes shakes and quakes, don’t miss this show.

ON JUNETEENTH WE VISIT AUSTRALIA, DEFUND THE FASCISTS & SAVE PACIFICA RADIO

 

 

We open the GREE-GREE zoom #99 with CLAIRE ATKIN of Check My Ads and its brilliant, cutting-edge campaign to strip internet-based income from fascist media mavens like Steve Bannon.  

 

Launched in early June, Claire’s pathbreaking strategy includes grassroots campaigning against the violent-laced hate-mongering of the extreme right  wing.

 

Claire is followed by LEHMAN WEISCHSELBAUM’s call for whistleblowers to unearth fraud and theft in the 2016 election that put Donald Trump in the White House.

 

We hear from RAY MCCLENDON, NAACP Political Director for the NAACP in the state of Georgia about the possibility of indicting Trump in Fulton County.

 

From Australia DR. CAROLYN ORR describes the huge turn-around in parliamentary politics with the unseating of a horrendous anti-environment conservative and the installation of a pro-democracy pro-environment coalition.

 

In our second hour, we are joined by ALAN MINSKY, JAN GOODMAN and MYLA RESON for a deep dive into the anti-democracy crisis now threatening the future of the PACIFICA RADIO NETWORK.  

 

That full hour of detailed discussion can be found at https://youtu.be/keAkQycl7Bg?t=3865  .

 

GREE-GREE #100 on June 27 will go deep into Georgia to learn if Fulton County will indict Trump, and whether the “Georgia Miracle” can be repeated in the fall.

A NEW PROGRESSIVE COALITION & A DEEP DIVE INTO THE JANUARY 6 HEARINGS

 

Our 98th GREE-GREE (Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition) Zoom starts with a critical new progressive alliance and culminates at the January 6 Hearings.

 

We begin with TATANKA BRICCA who introduces us to DREW GLOVER, the charismatic new Executive Director of the National Progressive Action Coalition.

 

Drew explains to us in riveting in-depth detail how the NPAC will at last draw the left out of its silos and into the kind of unified political campaigning our country so desperately needs.

 

We then hear from ROGER HALLUM in England about the Extinction Rebellion and the huge demonstrations they’ve led in Great Britain.

 

In our second hour we’re joined by the legendary TV / documentary producer DAVID SALTMAN who gives us the insider’s overview of the first night of the January 6 hearings.

 

David is joined by our legendary co-convenor JOEL SEGAL and by DENNIS BERNSTEIN, nationally syndicated host of KPFA’s FLASHPOINTS.

 

Brilliant commentary also comes from our listenership, as always, including WENDI LEDERMAN, DR. RUTH STRAUSS, LYNN FEINERMAN, DANNETT ABBOTT-WICKER and many more.

 

We will follow in Zoom #99 with more vital analysis of the 1/6 coup.  Join us!!

DANNY SHEEHAN & BRYNN TANNEHILL SOUND THE WARNINGS

 

Our latest masterful Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection (GREE-GREE) gathering is powered by two great observer/activists in the devastating miasma that has become the American political scene.  

 

BRYNN TANNEHILL takes us through the dire straits we face in the electoral process as laid out in her book AMERICAN FASCISM.  It takes root especially with gerrymandering scams completely gutting our democracy.  The GOP advantage in the US Senate skews 7% toward the Republican Party, which is now an overt fascist juggernaut.  And that’s just a small part of the internal authoritarian cancer that’s sending our nation toward dictatorship.

 

In our second hour, the great DANNY SHEEHAN gives us a tutorial on the legal and other challenges we face in hanging on to the last shards of our democracy.  With his unique, incredibly extensive understanding of the legal system, the Indigenous community, the environmental issue and much more, Danny’s time with us is absolutely essential to understanding where we must go to survive.

 

Along the way, we hear from CHUCK O’NEAL about a legal victory (!) for the environment; from TATANKA BRICCA about the battle for renewables and against nuclear power in California; from PAT MARIDA about the Ohio’s insane attempt to revive nuclear power, and much more.  

 

We also hear from our great GREE-GREE stalwarts about a wide variety of critical issues, including the Alaska Congressional candidacy of SANTA CLAUS for the US House, in competition with Sarah Palin, THE WICKED WITCH OF THE NORTH.  We hope you are among the hard activist core we now need so much to survive.  Please do JOIN US in this call and in our upcoming zooms.

SHUTTING DOWN THE DEADLY NUKE POWER PLANTS

 

 

The legendary Kevin Kamps joins us for a wide-ranging exploration of the nightmare of nuke power and the desperate need to shut America’s remaining 92 reactors.

 

The last of the US nukes (there are 400+ worldwide) average 39 years of age.  

 

They are losing huge amounts of money, uninsured, riddled with structural, maintenance, workforce, economic and other issues that threaten our existence.

 

They are also surrounded by earthquake faults that could turn them to radioactive rubble,, as at Fukushima, Diablo Canyon, Perry, North Anna and far too many more.

 

Meanwhile, the Biden Administration and its Energy Secretary want to use federal money to keep them operating.

 

KEVIN KAMPS is one of the world’s top experts and activists on this issue.  Don’t miss this in-depth hour-long No Nukes conversation.

 

Our brilliant, intense, path-breaking hour-long exploration of the imminent demise of Roe v. Wade is led by the great Christian Nunes, President of the National Organization for Women.  

 

Christian’s incisive, uncompromising view of this latest Puritan attack on women sets the tone for an important examination of Calvinist fascism and its heartless autocracy, especially as they come with the race-based slaughter of 10 African-Americans in Buffalo.

 

As this 95th Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection (GREE-GREE) zoom unfolds, we also discuss the INDIGENOUS ORIGINALISM of thousands of years of tribal law in which a woman’s ability to control her own body was never questioned.

 

In the course of our discussion we hear further from MARY BUTLER-STONEWALL, CHARLOTTE DENNETT, DENNIS BERNSTEIN, JOEL SEGAL, NEIL PENN, DR. RUTH STRAUSS, MICHAEL BRACKNEY and many more.

 

JULIE WEINER tells us about the fight over voting machines in New York, which has also had big news about Gerrymandering.

 

SUSAN PYNCHON reports on the incredible battles in North Carolina over voting rights, and in Arizona over the “Brakey Bill” which protects and archives electronic ballots for the first time in US history.

 

We further hear from TIM WHITE, ERIC LAZARUS, WENDI LEDERMAN, JEFFREY BARKHDUL, SUE DORFMAN, RAY LUTZ and many more great activists and commentators.

 

Amidst America's most profound historic crisis over women’s rights, this is a discussion you must not miss.