Our GREEP zoom #192 begins with a furious renunciation of the death penalty in the wake of the unconscionable official murder of MARCELLUS WILLIAMS.

Mr. Williams’s extensive appeals have been rejected by a “pro life” Supreme Court despite the appeal by the family of the alleged victim and many others.

At a minimum more than 200 innocent victims have been put to death by “pro life hypocrites” despite overwhelming evidence of their innocence.

STEVE ROSENFELD then gives us a detailed exploration of the mechanics of the upcoming fall election, focusing on the contrast of the legal landscape alongside the administrative landscape.

Steve is joined by RAY MCCLENDON of Georgia and JOHN BRAKEY of Arizona in arousing massive popular turnout at the voting booth.

JOHN STEINER introduces DAVID NEVINS of The Fulcrum.us and The Overtime Project, also aimed at voter enthusiasm.

MIKE HERSH urges us to view VIGILANTES INC. by Greg Palast with its warning against voter suppression in 2024.

At the one-hour mark we hear from CAILEY UNDERHILL of the Solar Rights Alliance.  Cailey explains the horrendous anti-solar veto by CA. Gov. Gavin Newsom. 

The phenomenon of “mental health disorder” has become so influential that, according to recent studies, every second person has—or will have—at least one diagnosed mental illness in their lifetime. This figure presents an existential and statistical impossibility: when more than half of the population is inflicted with psychological abnormality, the norm has become abnormal.

How can it be that the majority of us are sick? To answer this troubling question, some point to modern realities—social media, social isolation, environmental doom—while urging for societal change.

Others see an aggravating factor. Maybe, they argue, there isn’t a true rise in mental illness, but that one distinctive force is inflating what is a relatively stable emotional landscape—no worse or better than before.

In such a scenario, the seeming escalation of mental illness is largely due to an increase in the identification of psychiatric disorder, and not a rise in genuine illness. That is, people are not suffering more, but rather, normal suffering is, more and more, being called “sickness.” 

Thursday, October 3, 6pm
Come in person to Enarson Classrooms Building Room 240 or attend online at tinyurl.com/CORSmeeting.
A presentation and discussion on the struggle for trans liberation!

A new book called Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre And The Struggle For An American City’s Soul by Aran Shetterly provides a detailed examination, in historical context, of a largely forgotten incident in which KKK and Nazi shooters (some of them veterans of the war on Vietnam), with the complicity of local and federal “law enforcement,” shot at black people in Greensboro, North Carolina, killing five, wounding many, and dragging social progress backwards.

I was nine years old and geographically not that far away but cannot recall hearing one word about the Greensboro Massacre at the time it happened, November 3, 1979. But on November 4, 1979, the “Iran Hostage Crisis” was launched as the biggest news story for over a year to come, yellow ribbons appeared on trees everywhere, and friends at school who made casual jokes about murdering black people but never imagined living near violence or Klan rallies began doing things like singing a song in a school show with the lyrics “Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran.” (More apologies owed the Beach Boys, and the threat to Iranians has never yet gone away.)