It’s now Joe Biden’s decision whether Leonard Peltier lives or dies.
Biden can choose to be Leonard’s liberator…or his executioner. There is no middle ground. The outgoing president can never escape personal responsibility.
Back in the ‘80’s of the last century, we spent more than a decade documenting the impact of U.S. foreign, military and nuclear policies on the island nations and peoples of the Pacific. That body of work - including our PBS documentaries Strategic Trust: The Making of Nuclear Free Palau and Islands On the Edge of Time , and FREE ZONE - Democracy Meets the Nuclear Threat.
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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.
Social media censorship is a global phenomenon, but the war on pro-Palestinian views on social media represents a different kind of censorship, with consequences that can only be described as dire.
Long before the current devastating war on Gaza and the escalation of Israeli violence and repression in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices have been censored.
Some date the censorship to an agreement in 2016 that, according to the Israeli government, sought to “force social networks to remove content that Israel considers to be incitement.”
This was translated, almost immediately, to the shutting down of thousands of accounts and the barring of many social media influencers, with the hope of slowing down the vastly growing pro-Palestinian tendencies in all Meta-linked platforms.
Dr. Bob Fitrakis and Dan-o Dougan discuss a variety of holiday songs: gratitude songs from Thanksgiving by ZZTop, William DeVaughn, and Sly Stone; Christmas-oriented songs like Father Christmas, Christmas in Prison, River, and Run, Rudolph, Run; and more!
Listen live at 11pm December 20 and 27 streaming at wgrn.org or on the radio at 91.9FM
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Mondays at 2pm streaming December 23 and 30 at wcrsfm.org or on the radio at 92.7 or 98.3FM
Archived on Mixcloud here
Once upon a time during the winter solstice, the Friends of Serpent Mound, a group of supporters who donated time and labor to the site’s upkeep, were allowed to light up and honor Serpent Mound with sand bagged votives (pictured above). The winter solstice, of course, is the shortest day of the year and thus the longest night of the year.
This event – that some called the “Lighting of the Serpent” – drew more people to this marvel of ancient times than all the other days of the year and all combined at its peak. Fascinating is how the Serpent’s spiraled tail aligns with the winter solstice sunrise while its head aligns with the summer solstice sunset.