Free Press Election Reporting
We begin GREE-GREE #113 with a celebration of Indigenous People’s Day led by TATANKA BRICCA and the reminder that whatever democracy and freedom we enjoy in America is rooted with our native peoples---especially with the Hodenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy.
JOEL SEGAL fills us in on the fight of Puerto Rico to rise again from yet another horrific storm, one that’s also brought terrifying death and destruction to much of Florida.
We then hear from CHRISTIAN NUNES, President of the National Organization for Women, as she and WENDI LEDERMAN take us on a deep dive into the core of women’s issues in the world today. Roe v. Wade is “on the ballot” and, as Christian tells us, the issues cut far deeper than abortion.
What we're seeing, we hear, is about men trying to deepen their control over women, creating more slavery, autocracy and privilege among the rich.
The attack on a woman’s right to control her own body is inseparable from the fight for democracy and the desperate need to save our planetary ecology.
One of the most conspiracy-minded “con artists” who sought to elevate and enrich himself by posing as a technical expert during the Arizona Senate GOP’s flawed review of the 2020 presidential election is returning to Maricopa County on October 1, where he is pushing a new – and easily-debunked – conspiracy theory about how 2020 votes were forged.
Thankfully, we’re joined by the uniquely powerful JUDITH WHITMER, rebel Chair of the Democratic Party of Nevada, where an uprising of grassroots activists has transformed the playing field.
Judith has helped lead the charge to at last put the Democratic Party apparatus in reach of grassroots activists who actually support a progressive agenda….and who are willing to fight for a progressive agenda.
We learn from GREG COLERIDGE that the horrendous Citizen’s United does not protect dark money’s ability to buy primaries, as they’re themselves the bailiwick of private corporations, ie the political parties.
Thus we realize the possibility of actually having fair and accessible systems to choose partisan candidates, a revolutionary development to say the least.
DOROTHY REIK, THERESA BONPANE, JUSTIN LEBLANC, MARY STONEWALL and others chime in with great questions.
We’re FURTHER joined by WENDI LEDERMAN, who has compiled a brilliant and extremely important roster of non-partisan grassroots organizations around the country.
Lawsuit Filed Against Wake County Director of Elections for Violating the
Constitutional Rights of a Wake County Voter in Retaliation for her Advocacy
Contact:
TylerBrooks, Esq., 336-707-8855 btb@btylerbrookslawyer.com
Lynn Bernstein, 910-764-8328 transparentelectionsnc@gmail.com
Case # 5:22-cv-00277-BO
Link to legal documents & exhibits: https://bit.ly/3Raegnf
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We are then joined by the legendary KEITH ELLISON, Attorney-General of Minnesota and lead prosecutor in the legendary George Floyd case.
Keith is a former multi-term US Representative and Vice-Chair of the national Democratic Party.
We discuss with him the relatively safe, democratic voting conditions in Minnesota and the desperate need to replicate them nationwide.
Keith is gratefully joined by RAY MCCLENDON of the Georgia NAACP, connecting powerful pro-democracy organizers in critical states where conditions are very different.
Joining them also are BOB FITRAKIS, JULIE WIENER, WENDI LIEDERMAN, HEDI TRIPP, TATANKA BRICCA and others.
The need for a national organization of progressive state Attorneys-General and secretaries of state has never been more critical.
We finish this amazing hour with JAMIAH HARGINS and his truly mind-boggling organization promoting urban farming and water conservation.
DANETT ABBOTT, MYLA RESON, PAUL SHERMAN, CYNTHIA PAPERMASTER and others chime in to this fantastically hopeful and powerful course of action for greening all of Los Angeles & ALL the world’s cities.
Our Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection zoom this week features the great Texas commentator JIM HIGHTOWER.
Jim’s brilliant populist screeds have been enlightening the airwaves and op ed columns for decades.
Irreverent, witty and often downright belly-laughable, Hightower brings to this show a critical grassroots perspective that virtually no one else can offer.
His reports on the bottom-up campaigning now transforming Texas politics help transform our view of what’s possible in a Lone Star state undergoing a top-to-bottom demographic transformation.
Everywhere beloved for his legendary commitment to “small d” democracy, Jim’s unique perspective bursts our hour at the grassroots seams.
Do not miss this genius screed from deep in the belly of the southern Heartland.
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September 14, 2022 - TUCSON, AZ: AUDIT Elections USA, a nonpartisan, nonprofit public interest organization based in Arizona, filed an appeal in the State of Arizona Court of Appeals on March 31, 2022, against the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors for their refusal to make ballot images available to the public. AUDIT USA is asking the Appeals Court to order the Maricopa Board of Supervisors to follow the law and release electronic copies of the 2.1 million ballot images from the November 2020 General Election and all elections thereafter.
#108 Gree-Gree Zoom August 29, 2022
DIABLO ARMAGEDDON, *ARIZONA BRAKEY*, GRASSROOTS CONGRESS
Our Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection zoom opens with a tribute from WENDI LEDERMAN to Women’s Equality.
We also honor the great HOWARD ZINN, who would have been 100 years old this month. Zinn completely upended the popular view of our nation’s story, and his PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES remains a foundational document. Thank you, Howard!!!
We then do a deep dive into the decrepit, dangerous, earthquake-surrounded Diablo Canyon Nukes at San Luis Obispo, CA. Governor Gavin Newsom is pushing to keep them open indefinitely despite a broad-based agreement to shut them in 2024-5. The ramifications for the future health, safety, economy and ecological survival of the human race are without parallel.
We hear from DONNA GILMORE, KEN COOK, DANETT ABBOTT, ACE HOFFMAN, MYLA RESON, JUSTIN LE BLANC, TATANKA BRICCA, LINDA SEELEY and many more.
Arizona’s great JOHN BRAKEY tells us of major victories there.
John Brakey – Audit USA
In our GREEN GRASSROOTS EMERGENCY ELECTION PROTECTION zoom #107 we open with WENDI LEDERMAN explaining how Florida’s extreme right-wing Gov. Ron DeSantis has arrested 20 citizens for the crime of voting while black. Despite a huge public referendum win confirming the right of ex-felons to vote, DeSantis and his fellow vigilantes are intent on terrorizing the electorate.
The great GREG PALAST then introduces his new film VIGILANTE: GEORGIA’S VOTER SUPPRESSION HITMAN. Legendary investigative reporter Palast introduces the astonishing reality of Georgia’s Gov. Brian Kemp, scion of an historic slave-owning family, and his all-out assault on the ability of thousands of Georgia citizens to cast ballots at all. Greg’s hour-long presentation includes powerful questions from DANNETT ABBOTT, DR. RUTH STRAUSS, RAY MCCLENDON, DENNIS BERNSTEIN, MARY BUTLER-STONEWALL, STEVE SPITZ, ALEX WILLIAMS, PAUL SHERMAN, GEORGE RIPLEY and many more.
HELENA BUCHMANN tells us how grassroots organizing defeated anti-choice conservatives in Kansas.
At GREE-GREE #106, WENDI LEDERMAN starts us off with an astounding listing of grassroots 2022 groups around the US workin on election protection.
We also hear from ZURIE POPE about fascist chaos in Ohio.
And from SUZANNE GORDON on the shafting of the Veterans Administration nationwide.
We then do a deep dive on the atomic chaos in Zaporizhzhia, California and elsewhere.
KEVIN KAMPS of Beyond Nuclear, MYLA RESON & TATANKA BRICCA, DOROTHY REIK, DENNIS BERNSTEIN and others in California and elsewhere.
We’re finally re-joined by BRYNN TANNEHILL to discuss the fascist reaction to the FBI on Mar-a-Lago.
What comes next? It’s up to you...