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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Green Power and Wellness Hour - 5-7-26
Thursday, May 7, 2026
Quick recap This was the 265th meeting of the Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition Zoom gathering, focusing on voting rights, election security, and current political issues. The discussion centered on the Supreme Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act and its impact on upcoming 2026 elections, with participants including Andrea Miller, Rodney Sadler, Chris Sampson, and Howie Hawkins sharing insights on organizing efforts in Virginia, North Carolina, and other southern states. The meeting also covered Ukraine's defense against Russian invasion, with Chris Sampson provi...
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Green Power And Wellness Hour - Sanctioned Rape? Orbanish Election Protection...& Stopping Insane Nuke Restarts
Thursday, April 23, 2026
We open GREEP Zoom #254 with MIMI GERMAN & a horrendous video that actually supports men raping women. This terrible tragedy is further opposed by insights from radio host LYNN FEINERMAN. Regular listener DR.RUTH STRAUS offers us all a message of solidarity. Co-host MYLA RESON shares her observations on how the community should respond. Regular Minnesota supporter HEDY TRIPP provides here own message of support. Mimi and Lynn will soon be convening a separate zoom. With JOHN BRAKEY we dive into the intricacies of election protection, starting in Arizona. John is joined former Arizona Sec...
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#263 & EARTH DAY SOLARTOPIA
Thursday, April 16, 2026
LEAVING MAGA, FINDING EARTH DAY SOLARTOPIA We start GREEP Zoom #263 with the wonderful MAGA refugee JENNIE GAGE reporting from Arizona and her brave new post-Trump/Mormon life. Amidst the aftermath of the now-iconic AI image of Donald Trump as Jesus, we hear from star Raw Story reporter ALEXANDRIA JACOBSON. According to both Jennie and Alexandria, the “trinity” of the Epstein Files, the Iran War and the economy is shredding the Trump MAGA camp forever. Viktor Orban’s monumental loss is tagged as a MAGA loss by Charisse Sebastian who emphasizes the need for “u...
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Solartopia Green Power - 3-26-26
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Quick recap This meeting focused on election protection, renewable energy, and a discussion about Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. The participants discussed the upcoming No Kings, No Nukes, No War marches planned for Saturday, with expectations of millions of participants, and explored concerns about election integrity in various states including Arizona, California, Georgia, and Texas. Ron Leonard explained the growing popularity of balcony solar as a way for individuals to generate their own clean energy, while John Brakey and Ray McClendon shared concerns about potential election manipu...
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Solartopia: Green Power with Harvey Wasserman - 3-19-26
Thursday, March 19, 2026
FROM MINNESOTA/TARGET TO ELECTION PROTECTION TO NO KINGS, IRAN & EPSTEIN We open the GREEP Zoom #260 with a report from HEDY TRIPP on the Minnesota boycott of Target & the on-going resistance there to the ICE/Gestapo. From MAYOR HEIDI LAMPERT of Waldport, Oregon, we hear that the recall against her has failed while the recall against the right-wing city council will proceed. Legendary California activist DOROTHY REIK lauds this year’s Academy Awards & Topanga Canyon’s upcoming March 28 NO KINGS/NO NUKES marches. No Nukes author/activist ANNA GYORGY tells us how to plug in for the March 28...
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Solartopia: Green Power and Wellness
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Quick recap This was the 259th Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition Zoom call, focusing on current issues including the war in Iran, ICE activities in Minnesota, and election protection efforts. The meeting began with reports from Hedy Tripp and Jonathan Kent about ongoing ICE operations in Minneapolis, where agents have gone underground but continue targeting communities through tactics like posing as community members. Joel Rubin, former Assistant Secretary of State under Obama, provided analysis of the Iran conflict, explaining how Trump's decision to attack Iran may ...
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Green Power and Wellness - 3-5-26
Thursday, March 5, 2026
Green Power and Wellness - 3-5-26 GREEP Zoom #258 opens with a report from HEDY TRIPP on the ICE attacks in MN. She’s followed by JONATHAN KENT’s report on Sunday’s demonstration for freedom at the Whipple Center in Minneapolis. We hear MYLA RESON’s report on the tragic de facto murder of the Rohinga refugee Neuril Amin Hashem Raham in Buffalo. From the great HEATHER BOOTH we hear inspirational calls to organized actions moving from “protest to power” through the Battleground Alliance and “Know Your Neighbor.” We’re also joined by the legendary writer/activist FRANCIS FOX PIVEN....
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Solartopia - Green Power with Harvey Wasserman - 2-26-26
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Quick recap The meeting focused on two major topics: voting rights and nuclear power. The discussion began with concerns about ICE's presence at polling places and the SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship for voter registration. The group then explored the dangers of reopening aging nuclear power plants, particularly Palisades in Michigan, where Holtec International faces significant challenges in meeting safety standards and documentation requirements. The conversation highlighted how both Democratic and Republican leaders are supporting nuclear power despite its cost and saf...
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Solartopia Green Power and Wellness - “GESTAPO”?, - Ballroom Homeless shelter, Reports MN, OR etc, Elmo's New Leaf, End Of Palisades
Thursday, February 12, 2026
IS ICE A “GESTAPO”? The Latest from MN, OR etc. ——————————————— WILL TRUMP’S BALLROOM BE A HOMELESS SHELTER? The Great Internet Housing Transition —————————————————————— HERR MUSK GOES TO SOLAR CELLS: What’s it Really Mean? ——————————————————————— NUKE NIGHTMARE AT PALISADES Is This Atomic End? ———————————————————————— BAD BUNNY, GREEN DAY & TRUMP THE LION KING --------------------------------------------------------------- Always find us at: https://grassrootsep.org/upcoming-zoom
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Green Power And Wellness Hour 2/5/26
Thursday, February 5, 2026
REPORTS FROM MN, OR, GA; US REP RO KHANNA; DEEP DIVE INTO PALISADES NUKE To start GREEP Zoom #255 we visit with HEDY TRIPP in St. Cloud, followed by her own state rep. From DR. MELISSA BIRD we get the latest news from Oregon’s anti-ICE resistance. Radio host LYNN FEINERMAN tells us that ICE is assaulting our democracy 24/7. Co-convenor MIKE HERSH introduces us to the great progressive US REP RO KHANNA (D-CA). Rep. Khanna pledges to help stop funding ICE while also phasing out the Diablo Canyon nukes & lower rates in CA. From Atlanta RAY MCCLENDON reports on the FBI raid ...
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Green Power and Wellness Hour - 1/29/26
Thursday, January 29, 2026
REP GRIJALVA WITH REPORTS FROM AZ, OR, MN, NC & FROM UKRAINE’S LETHAL NUKES Our Greep Zoom #254 opens with a first-person report from MYLA RESON on the beating of Mr. James, who’s since disappeared, to which she emphasizes the need to shut the Palo Verde atomic reactors. Our esteemed US Representative ADELITA GRIJALVA updates us on the latest developments in the US Congress. From DR. MELISSA BIRD we get an on-the-scene report from the streets of Oregon. The great former Charlotte Mayor JENNIFER ROBERTS gives us a mind-bending view of the ICE attacks in North Carolina, and thanks the country...
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Solartopia Green Power Wellness Hour 11.13.25
Friday, November 14, 2025
Election Follow-up, Hosts Mike Hersh, Myla Reson & Mimi German, Jennie Gage w/ Chris Volpe (Ohio Senate Race), Virginia, Georgia w/Andrea Miller & Ray McClendon, Erasing Veterans Medical Debt
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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...