We open GREE-GREE #103 with TATANKA BRICCA and RON LEONARD updating us on the fossil/nuke industry's assault on rooftop solar, which is being defended by Florida’s right-wing Ron DeSantis but betrayed by California’s alleged progressive Gavin Newsom.

From Georgia the NAACP’s great RAY MCCLENDON updates us on the campaign to fund grassroots campaigning, which holds the fate of the Peach State and with it the nation.  Ray also updates us on the Fulton County DA’s move to indict Trump.  Ray is joined by Flashpoint’s DENNIS BERNSTEIN with key questions on the Donald’s traitorous travesties.

HOWIE HAWKINS of the Green Party updates upon the Democratic Party’s assault on the Green and other third parties, a never-ending attack on democracy.

JOEL SEGAL emphasizes the importance of the “Georgia Miracle” organizing paradigm.

LULU FRIESDAT, DR. RUTH STRAUSS, MYLA RESON, DANETT ABBOT, JUSTIN LEBLANC, HAL GINSBERG, SAM BELL, BRIAN STEINBERG and many more great activists chime in on January 6, Roe v. Wade and much much more.  

Thursday, July 28, 12noon, on-line event requires advance registration

Learn about Voter Activation Network and Action Network!

As community organizations and organizers, we have many tools at our disposal. Using field tools for “issue organizing” can maximize the effort of your organizational goals, outreach, and campaign strategy. We are excited to have our Data and Digital Director, Adam Parsons, walk us through powerful field tools like “Reach,” “VAN [Voter Activation Network]” and “Action Network,” and talk about how to integrate them with text messaging and phone banks into community and issue organizing programs.

Note: this is a repeat of a training we ran in April; if you attended that one, you won’t need this one!

About the Trainer

Adam Parsons is the Data and Digital Director for Ohio Voice and assists partners with VAN [Voter Activation Network] administration, campaign planning and analysis, and digital outreach tools and methods. His background includes grassroots campaign infrastructure, volunteer management, and social media planning and advertising.

Terrapin Moon came on after the white-hot fireballs known as Electric Orange Peel (should say 'Atomic' Orange Peel). A Grateful Dead cover/tribute band whose version of China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider was spot-on, the mournful Rider insertion choking me up, my dear beautiful brother Bob having passed last year and it was like he was singing to me, "gonna miss me when I'm gone."

Before the song was over I was pedaling home, overcome by the sad refrain, missing my gone brother, the sunglasses I found in his basement hiding the tears pouring out of my sad eyes.

Two years of no music. Then one refrain from one Dead song with a borrowed blues motif and I'm reduced to nothing but humanness. Trust me, I don't think I'm special. But he was, my dear brother Bob. And so was that song.

Tuesday, July 26, 7-8pm, this on-line event requires advance registration

Join a fishbowl conversation with Ohio policy experts and community leaders to talk about life in a post-Roe Ohio.

Experts will be joining the conversation from Ohio Fair Courts Alliance, Equality Ohio, Faith Choice Ohio, Case Western Reserve Law School, plus Dr. Anita Somani, a practicing OBGYN.

We will discuss the connection between the courts, your rights, and gerrymandering; interfaith messaging and fairness; the law/impact of the Ohio Supreme Court; civil rights; and more.

RSVP for this event by using this link.

Hosted by Common Cause Ohio, Faith Choice Ohio, Ohio Voice, and Fair Districts Coalition.

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There are three great acts of naval rebellion in nautical history and the one that’s been the least celebrated in popular culture – until now – is (finally!) the subject of Trouble the Water. Ellen Geer’s stage adaptation of Rebecca Dwight Bruff’s 2019 novel of the same name dramatizes the remarkable real-life saga of Robert Smalls, who was born enslaved in 1839 and rose to become one of the Civil War’s great heroes and among America’s first Black Congressmen, initially elected during the Reconstruction Era.

Smalls’ stunning story is so phenomenal that it takes no less than two thespians to depict this Black Spartacus: A simmering Terrence Wayne, Jr. (whose credits include Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum’s production of Ibsen’s Enemy of the People) as the youthful slave-turned-revolutionary aptly nicknamed “Trouble,” and Gerald Rivers as the postwar Republican statesman who, having met Honest Abe during the Civil War, may have coined the phrase that refers to the GOP as “the party of Lincoln.” Rivers, a WGTB stalwart and, quite appropriately, a renowned Martin Luther King reenactor, also directs Trouble the Water.