Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour 10.31.24

Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Hour

Voices from the Middle East; Bringing out the Voters; Band of Sisters; Swap Your Vote

We begin GREEP #196 in the Middle East with DENNIS BERNSTEIN and ANITA BARROWS. RUTH STRAUSS warns of burning drop boxes and has some advice for the Harris campaign. Getting Out the Vote is the expertise of the great ANDREA MILLER whose non-partisan Center for Common Ground website shows us how to direct voters to the polls. From Florida we get the latest update on rampaging fascism from JIM NATHAN. Atlanta-based RAY MCCLENDON guides us to Communities United for Justice, which supports canvassers in the field. MARGOT KING & JOHN STEINER update us on the Band of Sisters, which supports women’ reproductive rights. Swap the Vote is explained by MIKE HERSH as a way to use the Electoral College to balance support for 3d parties in “safe states” versus major candidates in swing states. Andrea Miller reminds us that leaving messages increases turnout by 5%, and that it’s key to let citizens know that early voting can be decisive. We must, says Andrea, let voters know they are invited to the dance, & the dance is democracy. We adjourn early to make phone calls to potential voters…and we hope you will too….