- Harvey Wasserman
Harvey Franklin Wasserman is an author, journalist and advocate for
renewable energy . He has been a strategist and organizer in theanti-nuclear movement in the United States for over 30 years. He has been a featured speaker onToday , Nightline,National Public Radio ,CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight and other major media outlets. Wasserman is senior advisor toGreenpeace USA and theNuclear Information and Resource Service , [ [http://freepress.org/columns.php?strFunc=display&strID=1561&strYear=2007&strAuthor=7 Mother Earth can't live without a Solartopian vision] ] an investigative reporter, and senior editor of TheColumbus Free Press where his coverage, with Bob Fitrakis, has prompted Rev.Jesse Jackson to call them "the Woodward and Bernstein of the 2004 election." [ [http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0509/S00310.htm How The GOP Stole Election 2004 & Is Rigging 2008] ]Anti-nuclear work
In 1973 he helped pioneer the global grassroots movement against atomic reactors, and coined the phrase "No Nukes" in 1974. He was a media spokesperson for the
Clamshell Alliance , and helped organize mass demonstrations at Seabrook, N.H. against reactors being built there.Rolling Stone Magazine featured Wasserman in its 1979 cover story on theMusicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE), which staged 5 concerts organized by Wasserman inMadison Square Garden in 1979 shortly after theThree Mile Island accident , including New York City's 1979 "No Nukes" concerts and rally (featuringBruce Springsteen ,Bonnie Raitt ,Jackson Browne ,CSN ,James Taylor and others).Public appearances
Wasserman's widespread appearances throughout the major media and at campuses and citizen gatherings have focused since the 1960s on energy, the environment, nuclear power, United States history, and election protection. In 1968 he helped found the legendary anti-war
Liberation News Service , and Massachusetts' communal/organic Montague Farm, now home to theZen Peacemaker Community, International.On behalf of
Greenpeace USA, Wasserman addressed 350,000 concert-goers at theWoodstock 1994 Festival. He has been a frequent speaker at both theStarwood Festival [ [http://www.freetimes.com/story/3493 Circle Of Ash Starwood Festival cover story in Cleveland Free Times] ] and the WinterStar Symposium (a Starwood interview is documented in the book "People of the Earth" byEllen Evert Hopman [ Bond, Lawrence &Ellen Evert Hopman (1996) "People of the Earth: The New Pagans Speak Out" (reissued as "Being a Pagan: Druids, Wiccans & Witches Today" in 2002 Destiny Books ISBN 0-89281-904-9) Harvey Wasserman Interview] . According to records from the Greater Talent Network (NY), he has addressed several score campus audiences since 1982 on issues of energy, the environment, politics and history.Wasserman has been an instructor of history at
Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, and in Ohio atColumbus State Community College andCapital University . Based in Ohio, Wasserman works to replace the Perry andDavis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant with renewables and efficiency, and has helped his friends shut a trash burning power plant, a proposedradioactive waste dump, the two Zimmer and Perry nukes, a refuge-threatening housing development and a McDonald's. He currently works through Farmers Green Power in Ohio and elsewhere to promote farmer/community owned wind power and other renewables.Written works
Wasserman's articles have appeared in the
New York Times ,Los Angeles Times ,Boston Globe , and other major newspapers, and inRolling Stone Magazine ,The Nation ,Mother Jones Magazine and other magazines.His first book, "Harvey Wasserman's History of the United States", was first published by Harper & Row (NY) in 1972 (introduced byHoward Zinn ), with approximate sales of 30,000 copies. (The book has been republished by Four Walls, Eight Windows (NY), and through www.harveywasserman.com.)Bibliography
* "Harvey Wasserman's History of the United States" (1972)
* "The Energy War: Reports From the Front" (1979), Independent Publishers Group ISBN 0-88208-106-3
* "Killing our Own: the Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation" (with Norman Solomon, Robert Alvarez and Elenaor Walters) (1982), Delacorte Press ISBN 0-385-28537-X
* "America Born & Reborn: The Cycles of U.S. History" (1984), MacMillan Pub Co
* "The Last Energy War: the Battle over Utility Deregulation" (2000), Open Media ISBN 1-58322-017-8
* "Harvesting Wind Energy as a Cash Crop: a Guide to Local-Owned Wind Power" (with Dan Juhl) (2002), Danmar.us
* "George W. Bush vs. The Superpower of Peace" (with Bob Fitrakis) (2003), Columbus Alive ISBN 0-9710438-4-1
* "Harvey Wasserman's History of the United States" (2004) Harveywasserman.com ISBN 0-9753402-0-4
* "A Glimpse of the Big Light: Losing Parents, Finding Spirit" (2005), Harveywasserman.com ISBN 0-9753402-2-0
* "How the GOP Stole America's 2004 Election and is Rigging 2008" (with Bob Fitrakis) (2005), Harveywasserman.com ISBN 0-9753402-8-X
* "Solartopia!: Our Green-Powered Earth AD 2030" (2006) Harveywasserman.com ISBN 0-9753402-4-7Partial discography
* "The Spiral Path of American History" - Lecture on cassette: recorded live at the Starwood Festival. ACE
References
External links
* [http://harveywasserman.com Harvey Wasserman official site]
* [http://www.solartopia.org/ Solartopia site]
* [http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7 Free Press Website]Video
* [http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/17/harvey_wasserman_on_new_ohio_voting Harvey Wasserman interview on "Democracy Now!"] , December 17, 2007
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