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April 04, 2025 Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 4.3.25
UKRAINE, WISCONSIN, BURNING THE REICHSTAG & THE REALITIES OF GRASSROOTS / WEB ORGANIZING

We start GREEP Zoom #218 with our laureate MIMI GERMAN & her fabulous poetry.

With TATANKA BRICCA we then celebrate the birthday of the great CESAR CHAVEZ & The United Farmworkers Union.

The Green Party’s HOWIE HAWKINS & Ukrainian engineer DENYS BONDAR relate the realities of Putin's “hybrid nuclear war” that combines the horrors of atomic weapons and power plants.

Denys reminds us of the Budapest Memorandum in which Ukraine thought it had traded the warheads it inherited from the former Soviet Union in exchange for peace & security.

Howie tells us of the brave Ukrainians staying behind the maintain the Ukrainian reactors to keep them from causing another Chernobyl-sized disaster despite being tortured by the Russians.

We also hear that Putin has destroyed 70% of Ukraine’s wind power while Vampirizing the juice from Crimea’s solar panels.

The question of whether mass rallies can become more than photo ops through the use of QR codes is discussed by organizer GINI LESTER & computer guru LEE FELSENSTEIN.

Howie then wonders if organizers at April 5 rallies throughout the country.

Ohio’s SANDY BOLZENIUS lauds the decentralized nature of these pro-democracy rallies nationwide.

Solar homeowner PAUL NEWMAN of Healthcare For Us describes using cell phone hotspots to link into rallies.

We hear further MURTZA MURTI about using a MailChimp page to further working groups for democratic progress.

A call for a working group comes from Lee Felsenstein.

Howie refers us to the book subtitled THE MASS PROTEST DECADE & THE MISSING REVOLUTION.

Re-localization is advocated for us by MIKE HERSH.

The history of the farmworkers is revisited by Tatanka.

Recalling her radio interview with Dolores Huerta is LYNN FEINERMAN.

We finish with Tatanka conjuring up Communities of Resistance to carry us through the coming Reichstag Fire & fascist putsch, where we will begin again next week.
2 hr 10 min
March 28, 2025 Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 3.27.25
We start this monumental legal exposition with the great hero-attorney STEVE DONZIGER & the high-profile corporate attack on Greenpeace & the Indigenous community.

Greenpeace has been sued by Energy Transfer in a North Dakota court with a jury dominated by fossil-fuel workers and a pro-corporate judge.

Hawaii-based attorney NATALI SEGOVIA gives us detail on the particulars of this rigged indictment in a case meant to “target the environmental movement as a whole.”

Natali emphasizes that the land devastated by the contested pipeline is, by treaty rights, still Indigenous land.

Much-revered long-time campaigner CHARLIE CRAY explains that Greenpeace’s role in the Standing Rock demonstrations was to train people in non-violence, and that the corporate attack on the Greenpeace organizational structure has been misguided.

Steve Donziger then explains where the next legal battles will go amidst the long-standing campaign to weaponize the law against the human attempt to preserve our ability to live on this planet.

Charlie Cray explains that the courts refused to allow a live broadcast or official transcript of the court proceeds while the corporations used “pink slime journalism” to propagandize the local North Dakota population.

Natalie Segovia confirms that the willingness to ignore tribal sovereignty and fight against movement solidarity is at the core of the corporate attack, as she calls for courage among all of us.

Charlie & Steve remind us that a Dutch court will hear anti-SLAPP proceedings against the corporations trying to kill Greenpeace & its pro-ecological campaigning.

To start our second hour, we then get an on-the-ground report from journalist/filmmaker ROGER RAPOPORT about Michigan’s insane attempt to re-start the Palisades nuclear reactor.

An expert on air travel, Roger also reports on the real horrifying & infuriating reasons for the recent deadly crash at Washington DC’s National Airport.

Performance Artist TOM ENGLISH gives us a great poem about try to humanize our nation’s billionaire CEOs.

We then move into the nightmare of lithium battery storage & the horrifying disaster of a major fire at Moss Landing California.

Nationally syndicated Flashpoint host DENNIS BERNSTEIN talks to us about the human damage being done by this terrible fire & its fallout.

MICHELLE A. gives us a heads-up on water based batteries called Aqueous Metal batteries.

Western Massachusetts activist & no nukes organizer ANNA GYORGY tells us of her great victory over an unwanted lithium battery center in her neighborhood.

Activist/film-mater JILL LONG makes the connection between Moss Landing & the horrors of Three Mile Island.

Thanks to MYLA RESON we touch on upcoming supreme court election in Wisconsin, which we will revisit NEXT WEEK!

We sign off with PAUL SHERMAN & the Budapest Memorandum that should have prevented to war in Ukraine.
2 hr 12 min
March 21, 2025 Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 3.20.25
The Health Issues of Nukes, Lithium & Solar Panels
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> We open GREEP Zoom #216 with a deep dive into the horrors of our border patrols targeting tourists with horrendous torture and mistreatment.
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> We then explore health impacts of nuclear power reactors on nearby downwind communities.
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> The great JOE MANGANO of the Radiation & Public Health Project updates us on the multi-decade attempts to construct a data base on cancer rates & trends near nuclear power plants.
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> Three Mile Island film-maker JILL MURPHY LONG reports on her horrifying experiences with cancer survivors from around the notoriously stricken nuke.
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> Safe energy pioneer KARL GROSSMAN tells of his ground-breaking media contacts on the radiation issue.
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> Moss Landing resident BRIAN ROEDER gives us terrifying reports on the lethal fallout from the lithium fire that “clobbered” downwind victims.
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> With a report from SARAH AMINOFF we hear of the devastating impact on food production from the Moss Landing lithium fire.
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> Scientist MADELAINE ADAMCZESKI raises core issues about the lack of regulation & safety standards at such lithium battery centers.
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> Remembering the Karen Silkwood case, TATANKA BRICCA raises the prospect of large-scale health suits stemming from the Moss Landing disaster.
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> Health specialist RICHARD LEAR catalogs the potential role EMF filters can play in curtailing the devastating impacts of “dirty electricity" on human well-being.
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> Engineering legend TIM SCHOECHLE raises core issues about “badly designed equipment” harming people with solar panels using inferior inverters.
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> Our erstwhile engineer STEVE CARUSO talks about shielding to protect us from stray rays emitted by electronic devices.
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> Legendary researcher DONNA GILMORE outlines numerous problems with battery facilities that threaten human life.
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> Sodium-based batteries used by the Chinese BYD automaker are introduced by MYLA RESON.
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> The precautionary principle is raised by BETTY KISSILOVE.
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> Indivisible’s MIMI SPREADBURY emphasizes that there IS a lawsuit against Moss Landing & PG&E.
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> A switch to Iron Air versus lithium batteries is proposed by MELISSA HALL as we head off to a post-nuclear/post-lithium Solartopian green-powered Earth.
2 hr 11 min
March 14, 2025 Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 3.13.25
RESUME ATMOSPHERIC BOMB TESTS? ARE YOU NUTS?

We open with a beautiful poem from our Laureate MIMI GERMAN.

We then explore the origins of the 1963 Atomic Test Ban with the tragic tale of the premature death of Patrick Kennedy, the son of President John Kennedy and First Lady Jackie.

This terrible loss led directly to JFK agreeing with Nikita Khrushchev to ban nuclear explosions in the atmosphere.

We are then honored by the genius of ROBERT ALVAREZ, JOE MANGANO and KARL GROSSMAN on critical issues of radiation and health.

We celebrate a vital op ed on this by CHRISTIE BRINKLEY in the Kansas City Star, with McClatchy syndication.

We take a deep dive into the legendary “Baby Teeth” study, and Project 2025’s insane push for more nuke testing.

We hear from PAUL NEWMAN warning about Christian Nationalists who want an Armageddon to fulfill Biblical prophecy.

A spiritual contribution comes from LYNN MYSTIC-HEALER, and from MELISSA, who asks “Is this even legal?”

From LISA WHITE we hear about the movement in Fresno for post-nuclear sanity.

“How Project 2025 Will Ruin Your Life” is a new radio show from LYNNE FEINERMAN alerting us to the Evangelical push for nuclear war.

Ontario’s Doug Ford is exposed by MYLA RESON who questions his commitment to new nukes.

Reporting in from southern Ohio, PAT MARIDA and VINA COLLEY report from the Piketon-Portsmouth nuclear death plants & an upcoming 2/12 town hall.
2 hr 10 min
March 07, 2025 Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 3.6.25
GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING; DC HOME RULE; FIGHTING CELL TOWERS
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> We start with a wonderful offering (as always) from our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN.
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> For an excursion into the wonders of grassroots organizing we are led by the great ANDREA MILLER through the wilds of Wisconsin and Virginia.
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> “Despair is not a strategy,” she says, & shows us how to use elections as an instrument of freedom.
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> We’re joined with critical input by long-timer activists MARION EDEY and MYLA RESON.
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> Santa Monica solar homeowner PAUL NEWMAN chimes in with his usual brilliance, as does NICOLE UNG.
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> The burning issue of DC HOME RULE comes to us with co-convenor MIKE HERSH & DC's former SENATOR MICHAEL BROWN.
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> Georgia voting rights activist RAY MCCLENDON tells us of an upcoming march in Selma, in Atlanta & beyond.
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> Long-time organizer FATIMA ARGUN gives us the word from Arlington, across the water from DC.
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> Our expectations are challenged by MELISSA HALL, RONALD HALL, and LYNN FEINERMAN.
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> We then take a deep dive into the life-&-death issue of Electronic Magnetic Frequency from CAMILLA REES.
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> Camilla’s scientific cohort RICHARD LEAR gives us a brilliant excursion into the scientific & epidemiological landscape around EMF.
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> On the 704NOMORE legal front we hear from attorney SCOTT MCCOLLOUGH, who dissectstells us about the need for local resistance against cell towers.
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> Long-time activist and EMF victim JULIE LEVINE evokes the need for our activism.
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> The results of a “no EMF fast” that transcended the health impacts of wireless impacts are presented by TATANKA BRICCA.
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> The latest from Indivisible comes to us through Mimi S.
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> Mozilla browser is recommended by DR. RUTH STRAUSS.
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> The need to build our networks comes from DEB SCHINDLER…and....
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> JOIN US AGAIN NEXT!!! for a deeper view on the Ukraine war…. no nukes….see you in Solartopia….
2 hr 13 min
February 28, 2025 Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 2.27.25
WELCOME HOME LEONARD PELTIER! MEET THE KURDS…RIPPED NC ELECTION...& COMPUTER PIONEER LEE FELSENSTEIN

We start GREEP zoom #213 with KANI XULUM and a fascinating exploration of the repression of some 50 million Kurdish citizens.

The great JENNIFER ROBERTS of the Carter Center updates us on a terrifying NC challenge to election integrity.

With TATANKA BRICCA we celebrate the return of LEONARD PELTIER to his people after FIFTY YEARS in unjust captivity.

A boycott of major corporations for Friday, February 28, is announced by DANIELA GIOSEFFI.

DC Home Rule is now under attack, & we get a first-hand report from MIKE HERSH.

The big attacks on the Big 3 of MEDICAID, SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICAID get a new look from Prof. ERIC KINGSON.

We then examine the realities of MARTIAL LAW and what may soon be coming to the US.

The new EPA Chief’s attacks on funding for renewable energy elicits a question of what will happen with nuke power.

For a deep deep dive into the world of computerization, we then hear from the legendary LEE FELSENSTEIN.

As founder of the Earth-changing Homebrew Club that pioneered the digital revolution, Lee’s genius is now focussed on democratizing information.

Additional input comes from STEVE CARUSO and MYLA RESON on the nascent Eco-Broadcast Network.

Santa Monica’s PAUL NEWMAN has some key questions about the world wide net.

Our own DR. NANCY NIPARKO raises critical issues about the impacts of electronic devices on children.

JULIAN LELUTIU, DONALD SMITH, NICOLE UNG & MUTAZA MOGRI wonder about the future of mass demonstrations & more.

A truly great session. We will continue next week!!!
2 hr 19 min
February 21, 2025 Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 2.20.25
SAVING SOCIAL SECURITY, PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS, & GRASSROOTS FEMINIST ORGANIZING

We launch GREEP Zoom #212 with a lovely poem from our Laureate MIMI GERMAN, who tells us about the feminist community of Rohava in northern Syria.

Co-convenor MIKE HERSH introduces Prof. ERIC KINGSON takes us on a long journey for saving Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid, which he says have deep popular support.

MARGARET VILLANI expresses her concern about the lethal swoop now trashing Medicare & Medicaid.

ELLEN GOTTLIEB from Save Social Security & Medicare Now.com tells us of upcoming Florida events.

Longtime organizer DANIELA GIOSEFFI warns that the dispersal of personal from Social Security & Medicare comprise an urgent threat.

We hear from ROBERT COPLIN on California’s SSI shortcomings.

KEVIN EISENSTADT seeks guidance on the best time to take SSI benefits.

DONALD SMITH and MICKI LEADER warn about the need to sustain public support for these public institutions.

Grassroots organizing questions come from BRYAN BLAKELY.

Environmental broadcaster KEN GALE checks in from WBAI with vital green info about ECO-RADIO.

Plutonium at Livermore is also opposed by MARJORIE MIKELS, who tells us about upcoming demonstrations there.

The No Nukes community is thanked by HEIDI VIERTHALER who adds new about her Green Energy Economy work.

Safe Energy activist MYLA RESON evokes the Plutonium that’s contaminated the Greater Denver region & remembers the great Dr. Karl Johnson and the Rocky Flats guards who shot 3-headed rattlesnakes.

We hear from DAVID ANTOS about a young activist named NABILA SAYED.

BARBARA HARRISON ask for our Environmental Network.

Radio legend LYNN FEINERMAN asks if the US will ever have a Jewish president.

The highly democratic process of knowing your neighbors is outlined by MIMI, MIKE & LYNN.

Building local community is evoked by MURTAZA MOGRI.

Fighting white supremacists powers the inquiry MIMI S from California.
2 hr 19 min
February 14, 2025 Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 2.13.25
GREG PALAST EXPOSES HOW THE 2024 ELECTION WAS JIM CROW DISENFRANCHISED

We start GREEP Zoom #211 with “Resistance” from our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN.

We then welcome the great GREG PALAST for a full-bore excursion into how the massive Jim Crow disenfranchisement of millions of Americans put Donald Trump back in the White House.

Palast warns that “your ballot will be rejected” at an astronomical rate if you are a person of color, meaning the 2024 vote count was heavily coded by race to pull off the soul-killing death-of-American-democracy coup now in poisoned progress.

Palast’s VIGILANTES INC. is at www.gregpalast.com & is a must-see for anyone concerned about the preservation of what’s left of American Constitutional freedom.

We also hear from the uniquely power election protection audit expert RAY LUTZ, and from Greg’s associate PATRICE GALLAGHER.

Greg. Patrice & Ray are joined for clarifying comments from NATHAN TAYLOR, PAUL NEWMAN, HEDY TRIPP, CD BUCKLEY, JOHN SEELEY, MICHAEL MCMILLAN, LYNN FEINERMAN, JULIE WEINER, MICKI LEADER, ERINNE ROCHELLE, NICOLE UNG, BARBARA WRIGHT & other truly wonderful Greepster participants.

The upcoming national April 22 Earth Day broadcast is explained by prime organizer MYLA RESON, who will convene the breakthrough event in about two months.

Our co-convenor MIKE HERSH raises the question of whether there needs to be a dialogue as to whether there really is an anti-Christ and if what’s happening now in America qualifies as “Apocalyptic.”

We will reconvene on PRESIDENT’S DAY to revisit much of the research done by Greg and available through VIGILANTES INC at www.gregpalast.com.

See you on Prez Day with George & Abe, February 17, in Solartopia!!!
2 hr 4 min
February 07, 2025 Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 2.07.25
DISSECTING THE DOOMSDAYS UPON US

We start with a beautiful statement from Grammy-winner ALICIA KEYS on the power of diversity.

We explore the real culpability of the White House—NOT diversity—for the air crash that has (thankfully) not had an equal in 25 years.

Radio Host LYNNE FEINERMAN tells us that the fiscal sponsorship for her non-profit radio show has disappeared.

From Minnesota’s frozen tundra we hear HEDY TRIPP reports from a DEI conference on the anxiety being imposed on women on people of color.

MYLA RESON reports that there are massive demonstrations in Los Angeles and elsewhere against ICE actions targeting immigrants.

Co-convenor MIKE HERSH urges an end to the circular firing squad.

Our Alabama heart doctor RUTH STRAUSS questions Trump’s comprehension of tariffs.

Health Justice Monitor’s DON MCANNE terms the attack on USAID as “catastrophic.”

We get a warning on DEI and the DC helicopter crash from NICOLE UNG.

“Where are the Democrats?” asks New York’s JULIE WEINER, a truly great election protection activist.

Election expert RAY LUTZ gives us many of the ins/out about how the 2024 election was conducted and tabulated.

U. of Michigan grad NANCY NIPARKO questions how young men from her home state were impacted by the issue of war in the Middle East.

GREEP engineer STEVE CARUSO confirms his belief in the “conspiracy” theory of massive disenfranchisement around the US.

Solartopia co-host MYLA RESON introduces the idea of a national Eco-Broadcast Network.

The status of Leonard Peltier is raised by Indivisible’s MIMI S, followed by TATANKA BRICCA reporting that, thankfully, Leonard is in Turtle Island, NOT in federal prison.

From “Nuclear Hotseat" Podcaster LIBBE HALEVY we hear the latest about atomic power’s escalating insanity.

We get a Yoruba version of Happy Birthday from MICHAEL O. JOHNSON.

…and we will see you next week with the great GREG PALAST to find out who REALLY won the 2024 election.
1 hr 52 min
January 31, 2025 Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 1.30.25
PELTIER, ELECTION PROTECTION & the ECO-BROADCAST NETWORK

Our GREEP Zoom #209 begins with “Time” by our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN.

We hear the latest about Leonard Peltier from TATANKA BRICCA and LYDIA PONCE in concert with the Indigenous community supporting him: “I would like to be out of prison, but I am a free man.”

BARBARA WRIGHT reminds us to thank The Creator for the fact that Leonard is out of prison & with his people.

LIndsay Graham, Lisa Murkowsky & Susan Collins are summoned for praise by DANIELA GIOSEFFI.

Will Trump’s GOP wear itself out with a Rope-a-Dope of illegal acts, asks MYLA RESON.

We hear from MIMI S about the need to recognize what should have been with Bernie Sanders.

From Columbus, Ohio we hear from SANDY BOLZENIUS about the kinds of election fraud that turned the Buckeye State to Bush in 2004. .

From co-convenor MIKE HERSH we bemoan the Democrats’ lack of a backbone—except when disenfranchising people of color.

“How long can they keep this up?” wonders MELISSA HALL.

Massive disenfranchisement demands a class action case against the Democrats for failing to protect the vote, says DAVID SALTMAN.

Bring in Ray McClendon and the NAACP, says JOHN STEINER.

Our erstwhile engineer STEVE CARUSO evokes some of the carnage now damaging our planetary consciousness.

For the inauguration of the ECO-BROADCAST NETWORK we hear from green media activists LIBBE HALEVY, DOUG WOOD, JACK EIDT, ALEX SMITH, STEVEN STARR, URSULA RUEDENBERG about building a major media presence for a post-nuclear green-powered broadcast reality.

With this gathering we “made history” says Mike Hersh, & will continue next week with still more.
2 hr 11 min