Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

The legendary PAUL KRASSNER is the star of this Solartopia Show.

We

join Paul in his California home to run through his astonishing

lifetime as a “guerilla satirist,” stand-up comedian, author, activist,

videographic expert, psychedelic pioneer and much much more.

Paul has been with us in Solartopia before, but his boundless experience and wit make him always an A-List guest.  

Today

we discuss Ken Kesey, Tim Leary, the CIA, LSD and the Agency’s

inadvertent role in introducing psychedelics to the counter-culture.  

Since

Paul was the founder of “Yippie,” the hippie/left offspring of the

1960s anti-war movement, we also ruminate on what “might have been” had

Mayor Richard Daley granted permits to the demonstrators (me among them)

at the 1968 Chicago Convention.

We also then plunge into today’s

booming world of on-line pornography.  Paul was a writer for Hustler

when its publisher Larry Flint was shot, and has written extensively

about the industry that has become the most-watched phenomenon in all

the world of video.  The discussion is fascinating but unfinished, so

we’ll have to have Paul back with us again soon!

Election theft has run rampant through the primary season as

electronic irregularities, precinct elimination, racially unbalanced

long lines and much more have again made a mockery of our alleged

democracy.

Myla Reson of southern California opens the show with

descriptions of the upcoming Golden State primary.  She also tells us of

a major upcoming election protection event in Santa Monica Sunday, May

29, at 3pm, featured at www.Solartopia.org.

John

Brakey tells us of his lawsuit attempting to force a new primary in

Arizona where precinct elimination resulted in long lines, massive

disenfranchisement and an unlikely victory for Hillary Clinton.

Lori

Grace of the Sunrise Center in the Bay Area tells of an attempt to

establish independent exit polling in California, where it has been

abolished for this critical primary.

Attorney Cliff Arnebeck

discusses the new lawsuit filed in Columbus, Ohio, demanding original

raw exit polling data to find out who actually did win the Buckeye

State’s primary.

Attorney Bob Fitrakis, my co-author of The Strip Flip Selection of 2016: Five Jim Crows Electronic Election Theft,

explains how at least 10 of this year’s primaries would be disqualified

under international law, and how Bernie Sanders should probably be the

legitimate democratic presidential nominee.

If you care at all about a real democratic process in this country, don’t miss this show….

Solartopia celebrates the amazing

life unmatched activism of the legendary MICHAEL MARIOTTE, a truly

one-of-a-kind No Nukes activist, pamphleteer, researcher and strategist

who recently passed away from pancreatic cancer.

Michael’s

legendary career as a nuke-buster, grassroots organizer, writer,

speaker, rock drummer and husband/parent/friend has inspired a whole

generation.  For decades he has been at the core of fighting the nuke

industry in general, with particularly powerful impact at Calvert Cliffs

in Maryland, the uranium project in Louisiana he helped defeat, and

much much more.

Our tributes begin with MARY OLSON from the

NUCLEAR INFORMATION RESOURCE SERVICE, which Michael has helped

lead since the 1980s.  PAUL GUNTER then joins us, along with KEVIN

KAMPS, both from BEYOND NUCLEAR.  

ALFRED MEYER chimes in from

PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY along with BOB BACKUS from the

Seabrook fight, ROCHELLE BECKER from Diablo Canyon, TIM JUDSON (the new

Executive Director of NIRS), DIANE D’ARRIGO of NIRS, ALLISON FISHER from

PUBLIC CITIZEN, attorney DIANE CURREN, Michael’s band-mate and more.  

For those of us who knew him, the hole Michael leaves in our movement and in our hearts will be impossible to fill.  

There are few greater things one can do to further our power and wellness than what Michael accomplished in his lifetime.  

Thank you, brother.  We hope you enjoy the show….

The Prospects Business of Marijuana Legalization are center stage in Solartopia.  

We

talk with the great Eric Stirling, legendary long-time pioneer activist

and founder of numerous key groups in the struggle to end pot

prohibition.

We also speak with David Dinenberg, a founder of

KIND Financial, a Los Angeles-based company providing “seed-to-market”

services for the marijuana industry.

At the heart of the

discussion is the question of how to navigate toward full legalization

of an industry that is now illegal federally, legal for medical purposes

in a number of states, and fully legal in others.  It’s also a schedule

one drug where a number of insiders believe it’d be better to stay that

way than to downscale to level two.  

In other words, we look at

a multi-billion-dollar industry with a wide range of unique and very

high stakes challenges, ranging from mass incarceration to mass

marketing and mass cash flow.

From a hot button political issue

to a major financial entity, this is a fascinating case study in

cultural transition.  Turn on, tune in and join the brave new world of

legal pot.

The Trans Pacific Partnership is a catastrophe poised to kill what’s left of our nation, says Dr. Margaret Flowers. Long-time activist and Green Party candidate for Senator from Maryland, Margaret works to FLUSH THE TPP

and warns that this proposed trade deal is “NAFTA on steroids”. These

terrible trade deals turn every ounce power over to giant corporations

who rig our economies to the benefit of the super rich. NAFTA utterly

destroyed America’s industrial base, and the TPP will be even worse,

says Flowers.

We’re joined 30 minutes in by Bob Fitrakis,

who recalls the dynamics of the Democratic campaign of 1992, when NAFTA

was downplayed by candidate Bill Clinton, only to have him pass it once

in the White House.

The question then becomes: now that Donald

Trump has labelled NAFTA “the worst trade deal ever signed,” how will

Hillary duck the issue in the upcoming presidential contest. And would

she, once in the White House, stick it to the American economy the way

she and Bill did in the 1990s.

Sadly, the question answers

itself. Is the only answer that Bernie Sanders must now run as a Green

with Jill Stein?  Stay tuned!!!!

From victim to victorious, we hear the astounding story of Dee

McMillan a young Texas student who at age 14 is bullied by her

classmates and then turns that into an energy to help save the world.

 Called a “fat whale” she decides to take it head on.  She prints up

“fat whale” t-shirts and starts a campaign to—you guessed it—save the

whales.  It’s an inspiring, energizing story told to us by Maris

Stidenstecker of Monterey, California, whose long-standing organization

used more than $10,000 raised by Dee to help clean the oceans.

We’re

then joined by the great Libbe Halevy, long-time No Nukes activist and

radio host who spoke with me at the Uranium Film Festival in Los

Angeles, on a panel that included the actress Mimi Kennedy, actors Esai

Morales and Lou Gossett, JR. along with actress/organizer Kat Kramer.

Among the films we saw were NUCLEAR SAVAGES, THE LAST PICTURE, and THE MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD.

The MAN WHO SAVED THE WORLD features Kevin Costner in one of the most

interesting and powerful films about the near-avoidance of nuke war one

could ever image.

Libbe is a fascinating host discussing a great important topic.  Please do join us to save the world…

ATOMIC RADIATION is threatening us all as we hear from a great

documentary filmmaker and two of America’s most important health

researchers.

Adam Horowitz tells us of his award-winning documentary NUCLEAR SAVAGE focused on the atomic bombing of the Marshall Islands and the horrifying death toll that followed.

When

the US tested a nuclear weapon on Bikini atoll in the South Pacific it

caused the death and destruction of hundreds of lives of native people

it dismissed as “nuclear savages.”

Adams’ devastating film was fined

in part by PBS, which then pulled it from a nationwide showing that

might have informed millions of Americans of this horrible tragedy.

 Adam’s film

will show at the Uranium Film Festival at Los Angeles’s Raleigh Theater on April 27.

Legendary

health researchers DR. Janette Sherman and Joe Mangano then tell us

about the terrifying death toll from the Chernobyl accident, which

happened, 30 years ago.

In 2009 three Russian scientists published

studies indicating a million people have been killed by this fallout

from this 1986 catastrophe. Working through the Radiation and Health

Project, Mangano and Sherman now estimate a similar death toll resulting from the disaster at Fukushima.

They

also show that when a nuclear power plant opens, death rates in the

area rise; when they shut, death rates go down, especially among

children. In the four counties around Indian Point, near New York City, the thyroid cancer rate is 70% higher than normal, a plague we’re now seeing around Fukushima.

These

tragic findings demand our action to shut down ALL reactors. We are in

debt to Adam, Janette and Joe for their great work, and for their

eloquence on this important Solartopian show.