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California Solartopia

California Solartopia

Relentless activism for a thriving planet.

Mondays • 4:00 AM • KPFK 90.7FM
Hosted by Harvey Wasserman, Myla Reson, Tatanka Bricca, & Kevin Kamps

About the Show

California Solartopia is your frontline call to action in the fight for our planet's future. Every week, hosts Harvey Wasserman, Myla Reson, Tatanka Bricca, and Kevin Kamps break down California's fiercest ecological battles — from the urgent push to shut down Diablo Canyon, to defending the Ballona Wetlands, stopping plastics, and exposing the dangers of nuclear energy and fracking. This is the show where local struggles meet global movements, and where people-powered activism takes center stage. If you're ready to stand up for clean energy, urban forests, and a world free of toxic threats, California Solartopia is your rally point. No nukes—just relentless, nonviolent resistance for a thriving, just tomorrow.

History & Legacy

Harvey Wasserman, Myla Reson, and Tatanka Bricca have long stood at the heart of California's environmental and anti-nuclear advocacy, bringing decades of activism and organizing to the airwaves. Their collective efforts have amplified frontline movements, especially around shutting down the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant and saving threatened ecosystems like the Ballona Wetlands. The anti-nuclear and clean energy work led by Wasserman in particular has spanned back to the 1970s, helping empower public resistance from California to national campaigns against nuclear power and fossil fuels. Through their broadcast work, the hosts have created a vital platform for environmental justice voices and nonviolent action, shaping public understanding and energizing local communities at critical moments in California's ecological history.

Hosts

Harvey Wasserman

Harvey Wasserman

Harvey Wasserman is a veteran journalist, activist, and organizer with deep roots in California's anti-nuclear and grassroots clean energy movements. He's been fighting for ecological justice and people-powered solutions for decades, bringing local stories and global urgency together on and off the airwaves. Harvey's voice stands with communities demanding a just, sustainable future—no nukes, no compromise.

Myla Reson

Myla Reson

Myla Reson is a longtime environmental advocate and on-the-ground organizer whose work bridges neighborhoods, natural spaces, and frontline movements across the Southwest. Whether working for Los Angeles to divest from Arizona's Palo Verde nuclear power plant or campaigning to save the Ballona Wetlands, Myla connects with listeners as a neighbor in the fight for healthy, just communities. She inspires steady resistance and shares hope in every battle.

Tatanka Bricca

Tatanka Bricca

Tatanka Bricca is a lifelong nonviolent activist whose journey spans from Vietnam draft resistance and UFW boycott organizing to co-founding Amnesty International West Coast with Joan Baez. A Métis Medicine Wheel teacher, Sundancer, and jazz pianist, Tatanka has worked alongside leaders from Ben & Jerry to Mikhail Gorbachev. His decades in solar energy and deep roots in community radio embody the intersection of ecological action and cultural wisdom that powers California Solartopia.

Kevin Kamps

Kevin Kamps

Kevin Kamps hails from Kalamazoo, Michigan. He participated in the Walk Across America for Mother Earth in 1992, and the Walk Across Europe for a Nuclear-Free World in 1995, 2,500-mile, 9-month peace marches against nuclear weapons and power, and for environmental justice. He became a board member of Don't Waste Michigan in 1992 and went on to co-found and -direct Kalamazoo's World Tree Peace Center from 1996-1999, including its Chornobyl Children's Project, hosting visually impaired Belarussian children. Kevin served as radioactive waste specialist at Nuclear Information and Resource Service (NIRS) from 1999 to 2007, and at Beyond Nuclear from 2007 to 2026, both headquartered in/near Washington, D.C. Over the past quarter-century, he has helped lead national grassroots environmental and EJ coalitions that have succeeded in blocking highly radioactive waste dumps: on Western Shoshone land at Yucca Mountain, Nevada; on the Skull Valley Goshutes Reservation in Utah; on Saugeen Ojibwe Nation land at the Bruce Nuclear Generating Station near Kincardine, Ontario, immediately upon the shore of Lake Huron; and in minority majority (Indigenous- and Latino-majority) areas of southeast New Mexico and west Texas. Kevin has also served as the president of the board of directors of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), a coalition of more than three-dozen community groups living in the shadows of the U.S. Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex. He now serves as executive director of Don't Waste Michigan. Kevin has watch-dogged the infamous Palisades atomic reactor on the Lake Michigan shore, just 35-miles upwind of his hometown, for 34 years.

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