Free Press Election Reporting

This breakthrough two-hour networking session joins RAY MCCLENDON and ANDREA MILLER of the “Georgia Miracle” with RACHEL COYLE and COURTNEY FLYNN of swing state Ohio, where a major grassroots victory has been won protecting the referendum process.

Ray tells us he has now helped form a new multi-state organization to help spread the grassroots tactics and strategies that famously turned two US Senate seats from Georgia into a reshaped majority in the nation’s upper house.

Andrea explains some of the key organizing principles that have made her work at the Center for Common Ground so critically important to protecting democracy throughout our nation.  

Rachel then explains how the grassroots forces in the Buckeye State beat back a GOP attempt to destroy the referendum process.

She’s joined by Courtney Flynn from the Ohio Voter Rights Coalition, which helped turn this seemingly un-winnable fight into a landmark victory for democracy.

The horrifying disaster in Maui is Mother Nature’s way of telling us that with global boiling, there are no more safe places.

JOHN & MARGO STEINER say where to send our ALOHA IN ACTION support for those in this stricken paradise.

TATANKA BRICCA, MYLA RESON, DOROTHY REIK, JEFFREY BARKDULL and JUSTIN LEBLANC give us their mahalo in a time of tragedy.

@15:40 RACHEL COYLE then reveals the inside story of the HUGE people’s victory over Ohio’s fascist Issue One, meant to erase the public right to democratically amend the Buckeye constitution with a simple majority….enshrined in Ohio law since 1912.

@44:45 WENDI LEDERMAN describes Florida’s strongman/torturer Ron DeSantis’s purges of duly elected public officials, making Florida the place where democracy and freedom go to die.

The great eco-activist RUSSELL GREENE invites us to his September 17 mega-march in New York aiming to end fossil/nuke climate destruction.

PETER FIEKOWSKY explains his mega-engineering approach to decarbonizing the atmosphere.

The surprising blockbuster success of Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER comes to the 145th zoom of the Green Grassroots Election Protection Coalition. 

We hear from legendary music and political journalist GREG MITCHELL, whose op ed on the Bomb appears in the Los Angeles Times.

SETH SHELDON from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons joins us from the United Nations.  Seth’s work is derived from the global treaty to abolish atomic weapons continues to demand global attention.

From Long Island, KARL GROSSMAN recalls his lifetime of activism against nuclear extinction, including his detailed critique of this important new film.

LYNNE FEINERMAN wonders why we would ever bother with this film.

TATANKA BRICCA shows the connection between atomic power reactors and Bomb production. 

Reporting from DeSantisland, WENDI LEDERMAN criticizes the idea that nuclear power might be some kind of “human right."

MARY DOUGLAS challenges our assumptions about campaigning for peace.

DAVID SALTMAN recounts his amazing, unique childhood under the cloud of a removed security clearance.

The surprising blockbuster success of Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER comes to the 145th zoom of the Green Grassroots Election Protection Coalition. 

We hear from legendary music and political journalist GREG MITCHELL, whose op ed on the Bomb appears in the Los Angeles Times.

SETH SHELDON from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons joins us from the United Nations.  Seth’s work is derived from the global treaty to abolish atomic weapons continues to demand global attention.

From Long Island, KARL GROSSMAN recalls his lifetime of activism against nuclear extinction, including his detailed critique of this important new film.

LYNNE FEINERMAN wonders why we would ever bother with this film.

TATANKA BRICCA shows the connection between atomic power reactors and Bomb production. 

Reporting from DeSantisland, WENDI LEDERMAN criticizes the idea that nuclear power might be some kind of “human right."

MARY DOUGLAS challenges our assumptions about campaigning for peace.

DAVID SALTMAN recounts his amazing, unique childhood under the cloud of a removed security clearance.

The surprising blockbuster success of Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER comes to the 145th zoom of the Green Grassroots Election Protection Coalition. 

We hear from legendary music and political journalist GREG MITCHELL, whose op ed on the Bomb appears in the Los Angeles Times.

SETH SHELDON from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons joins us from the United Nations.  Seth’s work is derived from the global treaty to abolish atomic weapons continues to demand global attention.

From Long Island, KARL GROSSMAN recalls his lifetime of activism against nuclear extinction, including his detailed critique of this important new film.

LYNNE FEINERMAN wonders why we would ever bother with this film.

TATANKA BRICCA shows the connection between atomic power reactors and Bomb production. 

Reporting from DeSantisland, WENDI LEDERMAN criticizes the idea that nuclear power might be some kind of “human right."

MARY DOUGLAS challenges our assumptions about campaigning for peace.

DAVID SALTMAN recounts his amazing, unique childhood under the cloud of a removed security clearance.

The surprising blockbuster success of Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER comes to the 145th zoom of the Green Grassroots Election Protection Coalition. 

We hear from legendary music and political journalist GREG MITCHELL, whose op ed on the Bomb appears in the Los Angeles Times.

SETH SHELDON from the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons joins us from the United Nations.  Seth’s work is derived from the global treaty to abolish atomic weapons continues to demand global attention.

From Long Island, KARL GROSSMAN recalls his lifetime of activism against nuclear extinction, including his detailed critique of this important new film.

LYNNE FEINERMAN wonders why we would ever bother with this film.

TATANKA BRICCA shows the connection between atomic power reactors and Bomb production. 

Reporting from DeSantisland, WENDI LEDERMAN criticizes the idea that nuclear power might be some kind of “human right."

MARY DOUGLAS challenges our assumptions about campaigning for peace.

DAVID SALTMAN recounts his amazing, unique childhood under the cloud of a removed security clearance.

For our GREEP Zoom #143 at Green Power & Wellness, RACHEL COYLE explains how Ohio is trying to gut the referendum process while facing statewide votes to protect a woman’s right to choose both abortion and marijuana.

WENDI LEDERMAN adds in the bad news from Florida, where she is being physically harassed in the course of gathering signatures for a referendum there whose rules have already been rigged.

VINNIE DESTEFANO gives us the latest reporting on the murderous case of Julian Assange in contrast to the hand-wringing over Evan Gershkavitz, the Wall Street Journal reporter being held in Russia for reasons barely parallel to whatever Assange has done.

MIKE HERSH informs us about a critical petition now circulating from Reps. Barbara Lee and Mark Pocan to finally slash some of the excess money being wasted on the military budget.  

DAVID SALTMAN explores the dirty realities of cluster munitions, land mines and depleted uranium in Ukraine.

MYLA RESON ends our first  hour with the lethal realities of the aerosolization of depleted uranium, leaving a death toll of cancer in its wake.

IN OUR SECOND HOUR...

Dan’s incredible life of brilliance and service has us all in awe.

Beautiful tributes come from NORMAN STOCKWELL (publisher of Progressive.org), DOROTHY REIK (Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains), DENNIS BERNSTEIN (KPFA’s “Flashpoints”), DR. RUTH STRAUSS, TATANKA BRICCA, WENDI LEDERMAN, ANNA GYORGY and many many more.

This is a deeply moving program about a truly great historic figure who will be deeply missed and never forgotten.  

We start GREEP Zoom #140 with the great GOVERNOR DON SIEGELMAN of Alabama.   

The heroic former Secretary of State, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor and then Governor of Alabama gives us the run-down on voter suppression history in this country.

He brilliantly denounces the death penalty, of which he has a disturbing personal history.

And he then explains the latest surprising “Milligan” decision by the US Supreme Court which actually overturns a deep anti-black gerrymandering rule in Alabama.

After an important string of questions for Governor Siegelman, we gives way to BRYNN TANNEHILL, who gives us a detailed look at anti-LGBTQ rights.

Brynn shows us the massive numbers of LGBTQ citizens who are fleeing their homes in droves unseen since the horrors of European Jews fleeing the Nazis.

Brynn’s brilliant analysis comes with important graphics and pivotal first-person overviews that truly clarifies the national overview.

Don’t miss either of these important, powerful presenters. 

 

We are joined in GREE-GREE session #139 by the great former Gov. of Alabama DON SIEGELMAN.

Gov. Siegelman was the very popular Alabama Chief Executive until Nixon/Bush dirty trickster Karl Rove had him thrown in prison.

Siegelman’s extreme integrity and reputation for competence made him a threat to Rove’s future manipulations

So Rove had a crooked legal system take Don out.

Gov. Siegelman is now an extremely powerful and articulate opponent of the death penalty.  Do not miss his explanation of how and why.

In this hour HEDY TRIPP shows us critical voting statistics, and Arizona’s great JOHN BRAKEY updates us on key voting rights fights that he has immensely impacted.