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 9.25.25
Thursday, September 25, 2025
JIMMY KIMMEL BECOMES PRESIDENT!!! SOLARTOPIA IN UKRAINE? WELCOME EMPATHY FROM A MAGA MAVEN. We open the 239th GREEP zoom with our Laureate MIMI KENNEDY & her usual beautiful poem. An update on the struggle for democracy is Waldport, Oregon keeps us going as we await MAYOR HEIDI to triumph over the MAGA reactionaries. Green Party stalwart HOWIE HAWKINS updates us on the nuclear insanity coming from Putin’s Russia as they try to crush both the Earth & Ukraine. From MICKI LEADER we hear a shocking warning of impending election theft in New York State. From DOROTHY REIK we get ...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 9.18.25
Friday, September 19, 2025
We start with our Laureate MIMI GERMAN’s usual brilliant poetry. We hear from the dis-incarnated Jeffrey Epstein about his money laundering with Donald Trump & V. Putin. We further discuss the nitty gritty of the Second Amendment and the perils of gun ownership with the great DOROTHY REIK. We here from former Mormon BRENT MILLER. Our co-convenor MIKE HERSH introduces the great JENNIE GAGE and her post-Mormon Denim Revolution. From Jennie we hear a fascinating account of how she broke away from her fundamentalist past. We later hear from JONATHAN BEARD about the idea of progressi...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 9.11.25
Friday, September 12, 2025
Compassion & Empathy versus Heartless Fascism; Our Resident Doctors Weigh in on Trump’s Health…& the Public's We begin GREEP Zoom #237 with the latest heart-felt poem from our Laureate, MIMI GERMAN. With a clarion call for action activist/professor CHUCK PENACCIO warns us that “fascism is here” & demands our mass movement for democracy & peace. Radio broadcaster LYNNE FEINERMAN mourns the murder of Yitzhak Rabin & the rise of fascism in Israel. Co-Convenor MIKE HERSH updates us on the history of the West’s mixed relationship with fascism, including the rise of Spain’s dictato...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 8.28.25
Thursday, August 28, 2025
FIVE EASY PIECES TO SAFEGUARD DEMOCRACY, EMPATHY & THEIR ROOTS IN THE 9TH AMENDMENT For GREEP Zoom #236, our beloved Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN opens with her usual brilliant verse from “Where Grasses Bend." We commemorate the passing of the great RICHARD LEE who founded Oaksterdam University, devoted to the cultivation of cannabis / marijuana & its immeasurable power. We then get updated by "America’s Mayor” HEIDI LAMPERT about the battle for democracy in Waldport, Oregon, the Mayberry of the deep west coast. Long-time activist MICKI LEADER shares her concerns about whether th...
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Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 8.21.25
Thursday, August 21, 2025
AMERICA’S MAYOR, LONG ISLAND’S NUKE ESCAPE, & JOURNALISTIC NITTY-GRITTY FROM UKRAINE Our esteemed Laureate MIMI GERMAN opens proceedings with another of her great poems. We follow with the high-road low-down from America’s Mayor, HEIDI LAMPERT, of Waldport, Oregon’s raging no-MAGA battlefield. We are reminded that while in Alaska, DONALD TRUMP was told by VLADIMIR PUTIN to get rid of mailed-in ballots—& thus democracy---which Trump immediately began to demand. Lifetime activist DIANE CAMERON celebrates a 10:1 victory over Maryland’s Highway From Hell in a monumental triumph from...
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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 ...
