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Harvey Wasserman is Free Press Senior Editor. He has been active in civil rights, peace, ecological, safe energy, and election protection issues since 1962. In 1966 he met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the Meredith voter rights march through Mississippi. Harvey helped coin the phrase "No Nukes" in the successful fight against twin reactors proposed nearby. In 1976 he helped organize the Clamshell Alliance, which staged the first mass demonstrations against the Seabrook nuclear plant. A co-founder of the global grassroots No Nukes Movement, in 1979 he helped produce the legendary MUSE Concerts in Madison Square Garden. In 1994 he spoke for Greenpeace USA, where he remains a Voting Member, to 350,000 semi-conscious music fans at Woodstock2.
A radio host, journalist and historian, he’s co/written some 20 books, including seven on election protection with Robert Fitrakis. Among those introducing his books are Howard Zinn, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Marianne Williamson, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. His People’s Spiral of US History will be published when Trump leaves the White House. Harvey and co-author Bob Fitrakis have been called "the Woodward & Bernstein of the 2004 election" by Rev. Jesse Jackson. Their HOW THE GOP STOLE AMERICA'S 2004 ELECTION & IS RIGGING 2008, published by the Columbus Institute of Contemporary Journalism, is the definitive digest on the theft of George W. Bush's second term. Their WHAT HAPPENED IN OHIO? (co-authored with Steve Rosenfeld) is the leading document book, published by New Press.
Harvey's journalistic writings and columns have appeared in major newspapers and magazines worldwide since 1967. He and Fitrakis co-hosted public access TV program "From the Democratic Left" and the "Fight Back!" radio program in Columbus, Ohio and have appeared on Lou Dobbs, Democracy Now! and other major US media. Harvey's SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH, A.D. 2030 is the first utopian visioning of a planet free from fossil/nuclear fuels. He hosts the Green Power & Wellness podcast at PRN.fm, and California Solartopia, broadcast at KPFK/Pacifica-Los Angeles.
Harvey speaks regularly to campus and citizen gatherings throughout the US. In 1967 he helped found the legendary anti-war Liberation News Service, which in 1968 moved to the Montague (Massachusetts) Farm, still in operation (under the stewardship of the Peacemaker Community) as one of the longest-standing organic communal farms in US history. Harvey has helped in successful campaigns to save a local wildlife refuge, shut a central Ohio's trash-burning power plant, stop a regional radioactive waste dump and ban McDonald's from the town of Bexley.
He has taught US History, Western Civilization, Ethnic Diversity, Globalization and journalism at Hampshire College, Capital University and Columbus State Community College. A widely travelled public speaker, his debate opponents have included Gen. William Westmoreland and Phyllis Schlafly.
Harvey hosts a Monday evening national "Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection" 90-minute Zoom call. The GRASSROOTS EMERGENCY ELECTION PROTECTION COALITION is built around a national network of organizers, activists, journalists, researchers and others working to guarantee a free and fair elections. PDA’s Mike Hersh now engineers those calls, which are broadcast on the Progressive Radio Network and elsewhere. Webinars are posted on FaceBook, YouTube and elsewhere.
Harvey and his wife Susan have five daughters, two grandchildren and and many grandchildren, for whom he wishes a future grounded in truly democratic elections and an ecologically sustainable way of being.
