Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour
Harvey Wasserman embraces your views with a Solartopian vision of the people’s politics, ecology, holistic health and much more.
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 8.14.25
Thursday, August 14, 2025
ELECTION PROTECTION & THE INSANITY OF A NUKE CORPSE RESTART We start with MIMI GERMAN and her laureate poem, as always. Then we hear from “America’s Mayor” HEIDI LAMPERT of the latest miasma from Waldport, Oregon. Legendary democracy activist JOHN BRAKEY tells us of his anti-democracy arrest in Las Vegas. Former Arizona state Senate president & Secretary of State KEN BENNETT gives us the 5-point program to guarantee American rights. Gerrymandering expert MIKE HERSH gives us a report on the latest assault on our right to representative government. Legendary activist MARION EDEY...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 8.7.25
Thursday, August 7, 2025
HIROSHIMA @80; TEXAS GOES NUTS; SYDNEY WHAT’S HER NAME; DEFUNDING CPB/NPR/PBS Our fabulous Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN gives us her usual transcendent poem. Singaporean native HEDY TRIPP talks of her father suffering through Japan’s Gulag & her decades of powerful No Nukes work ever since. Noted film reviewer ED RAMPELL tells us of the powerful documentary “Atomic People” and its devastating impact on our view of the nuclear Bombings. Radio host LYNN FEINERMAN questions the military calculations behind dropping those Bombs at all. Network maven DAVID SALTMAN chimes in on the sh...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 7.31.25
Thursday, July 31, 2025
THE EPSTEIN ORIGIN STORY, GERRYMANDERING, AMERICA’S MAYOR & NUCLEAR CATASTROPHE We start with “America’s Mayor,” HEIDI LAMPERT of Waldport, Oregon. We then meet the dastardly Jeffrey Epstein as presented by the great DR. BOB FITRAKIS, who broke the first stories about Epstein's financial roots in Central Ohio. Long-time activist JOHN STEINER raises the specter of gerrymandering and how we must fight it. KPFA mainstay DON GOLDMACHER raises the issue of re-districting California to match the gerrymandering in Texas and other warped “rotten boroughs.". “Policy is the answer” say...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 7.24.25
Thursday, July 24, 2025
EV PARNAS & THE TRUMP INSANITY; The incredible LEV PARNAS tells us an astonishing story of the dark money & deep betrayal that is Donald Trump. Born in Ukraine, Lev was raised in the mobbed-up corners of Brooklyn, leading to the unlikely depths of the Trump miasma. As the star of “From Russia with Lev” by Rachel Maddow, Lev answers some of the most critical questions of Trump’s pending demise. In this is an unforgettable insider hour; Lev gives us unique, powerful insights into the seismic Trumpian madness now shaking our world. Solartopia co-host MYLA RESON introduces Donal...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 7.17.25
Thursday, July 17, 2025
From Jeffrey Epstein to Bob Fitrakis & A Green-Powered Dodger Stadium We open GREEP Zoom #230 with another wonderful poem from our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN. Waldport, Oregon Mayor HEIDE LAMPERT then fills us in with the latest on the fascist assault on democracy itself. Monumentall, we honor the legendary DR. BOB FITRAKIS, who broke the ORIGINAL stories about Jeffrey Epstein. In his presence, we take a deep dive into the miasma that is the Epstein hurricane. Radio hero LYNN FEINERMAN explores some of the conspiratorial aspects of Epstein’s alleged Mossad contacts. KPFK b...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 7.3.25
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 ...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 6.26.25
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...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 6.19.25
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...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 6.12.25
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...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 6.5.25
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...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 5.22.25
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 ...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 5.15.25
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...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 5.8.25
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...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 4.24.25
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...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 4.17.25
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 ...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 4.10.25
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...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 4.3.25
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...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 3.27.25
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...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 3.20.25
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...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 3.13.25
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...