Free Press Election Reporting

We begin this celebratory GREEP zoom #208 with TATANKA BRICCA giving us some background of Joe Biden’s announcement that LEONARD PELTIER will be released from prison on February 18.

SHAWNA HOGAN-MOORE tells us about her meeting where she & asked Prez Biden to release Leonard.

Our poet laureate MIMI GERMAN gives us a poem about the duality of this amazing moment.

Crusader VINNIE DESTEFANO, who also worked to free Julian Assange, weighs in.

Co-convenor MIKE HERSH reminds us of the great & powerful life of racial justice campaigner Marcus Garvey, pardoned today.

From the American Indian Movement and NDN we hear from LYDIA PONCE.

Activist/author/poet DANIELA GIOSEFFI takes us back to Selma and reminds us of the triumphs of Martin Luther King, whose day it is.

Amnesty International’s GAVRILAH WELLS reminds us of the years of work that went into this campaign for justice.

New York activist MICKI LEADER talks of exploring the range of podcasts amidst a lifetime of social change.

The feminism pioneer Martin Luther is evoked by MARC IMLAY.

We start GREEP Zoom #207 with a report from the burning city of Los Angeles that it’s long past time to shut the two reactors at Diablo Canyon, before they could pour a radioactive cloud into a city/county with 11 million.

The great ROSE STYRON….poet, activist, co-founder of Amnesty USA….tells us to get active to help us save Leonard Peltier out of prison before he dies.

Rose is joined by ALEX MATTHEISSEN adds to the request in the name of his father, Peter, renowned author of IN THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE.

Alex also helps us celebrate the coming of congestion pricing to New York City and elsewhere.  

TATANKA BRICCA gives us a report on this campaign from the perspective of the tribes and the Pope, who we hope will convince Biden to spare this man’s life.

Maryland State Senator JEFF WALDSTREICHER introduces us to the opening day of the legislature in Annapolis….and the revival of Progressive values in the face of the advent of Donald Trump.  Jeff also warns of an attempt to use private prisons to hold large numbers of political prisoners.

Our poet laureate MIMI GERMAN leads off GREEP Zoom #205 with two beautiful short poems.

Our deep dive into public waste fluoridation with DOUG CRAGOE, followed by LYNN FEINERMAN, MYLA RESON, DR. RUTH STRAUSS and DR. NANCY NIPARKO.

We'll revisit at a future date the life-and-death complexities of this vital issue.

JOHN FITZGERALD then gives us a thorough analysis of the petition demanding that the Congress deal with the 3d section of the 14th Amendment.

That law stipulates that someone who has participated in insurrection against the government of the United States.

Fitzgerald explains that Congress has the power to decide whether a candidate can actually become a President or member of Congress.

Two Supreme Courts (Colorado & Maine) & three Congressional Committees have branded Donald Trump an insurrectionist, leaving Congress the option to disqualify him from office.

MIKE HERSH emphasizes the non-partisan nature of the Constitution.

LORI GRACE adds her support to the effort to have the Congress deal with this astonishing political football.

TATANKA BRICCA opens with a report on LEONARD PELTIER and the desperate need to get him out of prison alive.
Petition: https://www.amnestyusa.org/campaigns/free-leonard-peltier

MYLA RESON follows up with a key point of information on how, hopefully, to do that.

Our Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN gives our GREEP Zoom #204 a perfect opening poem.

MIKE HERSH hearkens back to the formation of the US republic with a warning on the horrors of fascism.

DAVID SALTMAN explains Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, banning insurrectionists from holding public office.

From western Massachusetts, ANNA GYORGY reminds us (https://www.traprock.org) that Inauguration Day, 2025, (Jan. 18 event Poster at bottom) will be Martin Luther King Day.

BARBARA HARRISON adds a plea to fight for democracy

MELISSA HALL asks about calling the White House to help free Leonard.

CATHERINE STEARNS lets us in on resistance organizations in Oregon….including the Civil Liberties Defense Center.

We start GREEP Zoom #203 with a gorgeous poem from our Laureate MIMI GERMAN, enhanced by our meeting on BEETHOVEN’S birthday.

We then, with a shout-out from MYLA RESON, visit the horrendous case of LEONARD PELTIER, as well as the one of STEVE DONZIGER.

TATANKA BRICCA promises to contact CHASE IRON EYES for next week’s gathering.

JOHN STEINER reminds us that 34 Members of Congress have written Biden asking for Leonard’s freedom.

KARLA SAND and HEDY TRIPP report in from Minnesota on choices for a new Chair of the Democratic National Committee.

The great JERRY ASHTON reports in on his campaign to erase medical debt, having helped retire many billions in medical debt.

We are then joined by the great GREG PALAST who tells us what we do & do not know about mass disenfranchisement in the 2024 election.

ELENA RUMIANTSEVA, LYNN FEINERMAN, CHARLOTTE DENNETT, DONALD SMITH also contribute important insights.

Engineer STEVE CARUSO adds his belief that all is not well with the 2024 outcome.

YONNA PATTON & STELLA FAIR introduce the diversity issue to our screen.

ROB KALL checks in from Op Ed News.

We thought it was a fitting day to send out a press release about our Study of the Drop-off Factor in the 2024 Presidential Election, along with the questions that the study raises about the election results. Below is the full press release. We hope you will share this widely. Share it with local, state and national media. Share it online. Share it with your friends, family and networks. It is a thorough and clear presentation of the issue designed to stimulate thought and conversation.

If we don’t talk about these issues, it will be much harder to solve them. The first step is to have the courage to express our doubts.

Drop-off By State & By County

The Free Press has been a leader in the fight for fair elections, beginning with the stolen election in 2004 (Kerry vs Bush). Working with the Green Party, we orchestrated election observer programs from 2006 to 2014. We covered the 2020 election which was not stolen. At the time, we attributed that to changes in the systems, including having paper trails on all machines, establishing audit procedures, and the like.

After listening to a former crybaby Orange President blather on about stolen elections for 4 years, the country, including this author, is loath to Trump-cry about this election

being stolen. Nonetheless...

Nonetheless...there are credible computer scientists and data scientists who are credibly claiming serious issues with the last election that likely indicate that Trump may have stolen this election by manipulating votes at the tabulator level, possibly with Elon Musk involvement.

STEPHEN SPOONAMORE: I’m a network engineer..

I build hardware. Most of it is for the credit card or satellite communications business.

I find it statistically almost impossible, as do a significant number of other people who are who are statisticians, that Trump won seven out of seven swing states just outside the margin of error.

There's an additional analysis… two of them that have been completed since then…one of them is absolutely stunning. It looks at what's called the 208 hinge counties. They’re the counties that are of a scale that tend to be the lead associated with the changing of election.

I can send the link from sub stack there's a long article about it on subsidy looked at the data analysis of those 208 counties and the only ones that flipped toward trump. And they all encounter to the general down ballot activity in those 208 counties. That’s across not just the swing states but many states.  There's a full analysis of every county of every swing state with what is the drop off votes which would include both bullet ballots drop off ballots what they're called shell ballots.

The data is just from my mind completely weird.

TATANKA BRICCA updates the attempt to free LEONARD PELTIER to open GREEP Zoom #202, asking us to contact the White House.

We then explore “Catch 2024” with STEPHEN SPOONAMORE and the possibility that Elon Musk bought this year’s election.

The legendary CLINT CURTIS introduces his movement to get the 2024 ballots counted.

JOHN BRAKEY follows with his report from Arizona & digital imaging insights.

We dive further into the electoral madness with RAY LUTZ.

ELEANOR LECAIN calls out the Democrats for the traditional lack of interest in election protection.

LYNN FEINERMAN raises the issue of Opus Dei and its dark fight against democracy.

PAUL STOKES, DANIELA GIOSEFFI, MELISSA HALL join in with critical comments.

ADAM THUNDERFACE adds more to the campaign to free Leonard Peltier.

The chaos in the Middle East is then addressed by CHARLOTTE DENNETT & DAVID SALTMAN.

We also address the brilliant recent piece on war by LUCIAN TRUSCOTT IV.

…and we will see you again next week for our final session of the tragic year 2024.