Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

UKRAINE, WISCONSIN, BURNING THE REICHSTAG &amp; THE REALITIES OF GRASSROOTS / WEB ORGANIZING

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

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

The Green Party’s HOWIE HAWKINS &amp; 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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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 &amp; fascist putsch, where we will begin again next week.   
 

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 4.3.25

We start this monumental legal exposition with the great hero-attorney STEVE DONZIGER &amp; the high-profile corporate attack on Greenpeace &amp; 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 &amp; Steve remind us that a Dutch court will hear anti-SLAPP proceedings against the corporations trying to kill Greenpeace &amp; 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 &amp; 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 &amp; 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 &amp; its fallout.

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

Western Massachusetts activist &amp; 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 &amp; 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 &amp; the Budapest Memorandum that should have prevented to war in Ukraine.


Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 3.27.25

The Health Issues of Nukes, Lithium &amp; Solar Panels
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&gt; 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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&gt; We then explore health impacts of nuclear power reactors on nearby downwind communities.
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&gt; The great JOE MANGANO of the Radiation &amp; Public Health Project updates us on the multi-decade attempts to construct a data base on cancer rates &amp; trends near nuclear power plants.
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&gt; 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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&gt; Safe energy pioneer KARL GROSSMAN tells of his ground-breaking media contacts on the radiation issue.
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&gt; 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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&gt; 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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&gt; Scientist MADELAINE ADAMCZESKI raises core issues about the lack of regulation &amp; safety standards at such lithium battery centers.
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&gt; 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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&gt; 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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&gt; Engineering legend TIM SCHOECHLE raises core issues about “badly designed equipment” harming people with solar panels using inferior inverters.
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&gt; Our erstwhile engineer STEVE CARUSO talks about shielding to protect us from stray rays emitted by electronic devices.
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&gt; Legendary researcher DONNA GILMORE outlines numerous problems with battery facilities that threaten human life.
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&gt; Sodium-based batteries used by the Chinese BYD automaker are introduced by MYLA RESON.
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&gt; The precautionary principle is raised by BETTY KISSILOVE.
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&gt; Indivisible’s MIMI SPREADBURY emphasizes that there IS a lawsuit against Moss Landing &amp; PG&amp;E. 
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&gt; 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. 


Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 3.20.25

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