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2 hours 2 minutes | Thursday, July 3, 2025
US REP JAMIE RASKIN & THE ATTACK ON US DEMOCRACY & ECOLOGY We begin GREEP Zoom #229 with citations for  “The Choreography of War” by our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN, whose latest poem is compacted into a brilliant three lines. Green Party Presidential nominee HOWIE HAWKINS discusses the nitty-gritties of Ranked Choice Voting & instant runoff. The great MARIANNE WILLIAMSON gives us a brief hello & a promise to come visit us again soon. Beyond Nuclear’s KEVIN KAMPS reminds us about how powerful is the rise of renewables worldwide along with the demise of nuke power. Co-host MIKE ...
2 hours 13 minutes | Friday, June 27, 2025
PROTECTING OUR ELECTIONS AMIDST PSYCHO-NUKE TERROR & GENERAL STRIKES   We start GREEP zoom #227 with the great ANDREA MILLER who gives us the up-to-date rundown of grassroots election protection in the former Confederacy of Virginia, with further info on the Integrated Election Protection Platform.   Then the legendary RAY MCCLENDON gets us current with the Jim Crow Vigilante strategy for stealing the upcoming elections in Georgia.   Alabama native RUTH STRAUSS affirms the need to protect the vote in 2026.   Long-time activist DIANE CAMERON raises the issue of working with labor unions, e...
2 hours 11 minutes | Thursday, June 19, 2025
WILL THE “NO KINGS” MOVEMENT SAVE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY? At GREEP Gathering #227 we mourn the horrific MAGA murders in Minnesota with St. Cloud resident HEDY TRIPP. We look in growing detail at the “Christian Nationalist” movement with radio host LYNNE FEINERMAN, who discusses ANDRA WATKINS & her great work on right-wing cults. From Indivisible we hear MIMI “SPRINGTIME” about her Episcopalian roots & their warped Evangelical off-shoots.   A wonderful award-winning poem from DANIELLA GIUSEPPE underscores the larger female hippocampus which provides more empathy than men can comman...
2 hours 18 minutes | Friday, June 13, 2025
STANDING UP TO FASCIST ASSAULTS in Los Angeles & Oregon AS THE AMERICAN REICHSTAG BURNS Our great Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN opens with some of her treasured verse. Then elected-removed-reinstated MAYOR HEIDE LAMPERT updates us on the latest grassroots stand for democracy in the face of fascism. Safe energy legend KARL GROSSMAN skewers the latest shish kabob of “hot” pro-nuclear executive orders from the radioactive White House. New York activist HEIDI VERKAMPT reminds us of emergency efforts surrounding the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. Long-time No Nuker ANNA GYORGY expl...
2 hours 13 minutes | Thursday, June 5, 2025
GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY IN WALDPORT, OREGON; HOMELESSNESS; GA NUKE ELECTION THEFT; NUKES ON FIRE Our great poet laureate MIMI GERMAN kicks us off with her usual genius at the GREEP zoom #225 from Monday, June 2, 2025. Mimi additionally fills us in on the astounding fight for real grassroots democracy in the allegoric & all-too-real “Mayberry” on the Oregon coast. Homelessness advocate SUSIE SHANNON gives us a full & powerful report on the horrific Budget Bill’s ugly assault on the tragically unhoused. Minnesota’s KARLA SAND questions the role of Medicaid qualifiers for elder citi...
2 hours 10 minutes | Thursday, May 22, 2025
Waldport, Oregon, Fights for Democracy While Attacks on Voting Rights Proceed in Georgia Our esteemed Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN opens the Green Grassroots Emergency Election Zoom with one of her great poems: “A Thousand Grains of Sand”. We pay homage to BROOOCE SPRINGSTEEN and his stellar defense of democracy as well. We follow with MAYOR HEIDE LAMBERT of Waldport, Oregon and her astonishing parallel fight for democracy. In the wake of a meeting with Christie Brinkley and Alec Baldwin, the legendary KARL GROSSMAN tells us the Democrat Governor Kathy Hochul is now pushing nuke ...
2 hours 13 minutes | Thursday, May 15, 2025
FASCIST ATTACKS ON MAYORS, JUDGES & MORE; QR CODES FOR MAJOR RALLIES; PLANNING FOR A PROGRESSIVE FUTURE We start with our great poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN & her usual mystic verse. From Waldport, Oregon, we hear from ousted & now re-instated MAYOR HEIDI LAMBERT about her incredible saga on the way to remaking this pivotal spot in the American MAGA/saga. This far-and-wide astonishing attack on democracy by the MAGA Klan is dissected by co-host MIKE HERSH.  Tough questions come from SCOTT KLATT who wants to know why Heide let herself get drafted for Mayor. From the LAProgressi...
2 hours 13 minutes | Thursday, May 8, 2025
FASCIST ATTACKS ON JUDGES & A MAYOR * CINCO DE MAYO * WINNING ECO-BATTLES   We start with “Kidnapping the Rubicon” from our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN.   The duly elected MAYOR HEIDE LAMBERT of Waldport, Oregon has been arrested by a fascist city council in an attempted coup; the activist progressive Mayor shares her amazing tale as we hear her plans to get re-instated.   Our co-convenor MIKE HERSH assures us all that the fight-back will inspire deep regrets among the Trumpist attackers.   LAProgressive.com editor-publishers SHARON KYLE & DICK PRICE give us the scoop on the Trump attack agai...
2 hours 8 minutes | Friday, April 25, 2025
KEEPING THE FAITH WHILE FIGHTING FOR A SOLARTOPIAN GREEN-POWERED EARTH WHILE FINALLY BURYING THE NUKE POWER INDUSTRY We start our GREEP Zoom #221 with DR. NANCY NIPARKO & her exhortation to keep the faith & not lose hope, however difficult the times may be. The FAR OUT documentary film is endorsed by DR. RUTH STRAUSS who also demands the return of Abrego Garcia after he’s been disappeared to El Salvador. The name of this terror victim is shouted out by MYLA RESON with the warning that this could happen to any and all of us at the whim of Donald Trump. ON ENERGY: From DOROTHY REIK we hear a...
2 hours 8 minutes | Thursday, April 17, 2025
PRESIDENTIAL DEMENTIA; VETERANS’ MEDICAL DEBT; A GENERAL STRIKE & THE NEED FOR DIGITAL ORGANIZING Medical specialist DR. NANCY NIPARKO opens GREEP Zoom #220 with a direct quote from Donald Trump and a diagnostic prognosis. Financial organizer JERRY ASHTON tells us his organizing has helped retire $45 billion in medical debt for more than 5 million people, including thousands of veterans, many of whom have thus avoided suicide. Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN tells us of HEIDI STRANGE-SKY LAMBERT,  who was duly elected mayor of Waldport, Oregon, only to be forcefully removed by the bad ...
2 hours 10 minutes | Thursday, April 10, 2025
WHAT DID THE RALLIES MEAN?  WHO ADVISED ON THE TARIFFS?  HOW DO WE END HOMELESSNESS? Greep Zoom #219 opens at the giant multi-million global marches that tried to confront the Trump regime. One performer at LA’s Pershing Square gathering is CLIFFORD TASNER of the Southern California Americans for Democratic Action who introduces us to Trillionaires for Trump. The fictional Trump “tariff advisor” Ron Vara is exposed by TATANKA BRICCA as a mythological economy crasher. Our co-convenor MIKE HERSH chimes in with his usual wisdom. The great DAVID SALTMAN raises the issue of a ge...
2 hours 10 minutes | Thursday, April 3, 2025
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 Sov...
2 hours 11 minutes | Thursday, March 27, 2025
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. Mu...
2 hours 11 minutes | Thursday, March 20, 2025
The Health Issues of Nukes, Lithium & Solar Panels > > > We open GREEP Zoom #216 with a deep dive into the horrors of our border patrols targeting tourists with horrendous torture and mistreatment. > > We then explore health impacts of nuclear power reactors on nearby downwind communities. > > 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. > > Three Mile Island film-maker JILL MURPHY LONG reports on her horrifying experiences with cancer survivors fro...
2 hours 9 minutes | Thursday, March 13, 2025
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 t...
2 hours 13 minutes | Thursday, March 6, 2025
GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING; DC HOME RULE; FIGHTING CELL TOWERS      > > We start with a wonderful offering (as always) from our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN. > > For an excursion into the wonders of grassroots organizing we are led by the great ANDREA MILLER through the wilds of Wisconsin and Virginia. > > “Despair is not a strategy,” she says, & shows us how to use elections as an instrument of freedom. > > We’re joined with critical input by long-timer activists MARION EDEY and MYLA RESON.  > > Santa Monica solar homeowner PAUL NEWMAN chimes in with his usual brilliance, as does NICOLE ...
2 hours 19 minutes | Friday, February 28, 2025
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,...
2 hours 19 minutes | Thursday, February 20, 2025
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 Florid...
2 hours 4 minutes | Thursday, February 13, 2025
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 VIGIL...
1 hour 52 minutes | Friday, February 7, 2025
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...
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