Political Analysis

From the grassroots to Washington and beyond, the realities of politics and power are routinely cloaked in euphemism and evasion.
POLITICAL ANALYSIS – MEET THE BEAST – PART 6 WE ALL LIVE ON TREASURE ISLAND WITH GUEST BEASTBUSTER KATHRYN LUNDGREN – 05/29/14
May 29th, 2014 by progressiveradionetwork at 8:43 pm

Treasure Island resident whistleblower and activist Kathryn Lundgren joins Sandy LeonVest to blow the whistle on the radioactive crime scene that is Treasure Island, California — and to bust the beasts who are perpetrating the crime — and profiting from it.  Lundgren explains how and why she felt forced to stand up to San Francisco’s “corporate-military-political establishment,” and talks about the life and death struggle she is now fighting to save her family — and the entire community of  Treasure Island, California — from the devastating health and environmental impacts of living on a (non-designated) nuclear waste storage site.

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Political Analysis - Meet The Beast - Part 9: The Beasts of Treasure Island
May 22nd, 2014 by progressiveradionetwork at 8:22 pm

Tonight on Political Analysis, host Sandy LeonVest presents The Beasts of Treasure Island. Treasure Island, California is a radioactive crime scene. And veteran San Francisco reporter, journalist and activist Carol Harvey has been covering the story for years -- perhaps more thoroughly than any other reporter in the San Francisco Bay Area. She joins Sandy to talk about what's really happening on the island -- and to begin the process of unmasking and outing some of Treasure Island's deadliest Beasts.

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Political Analysis - Meet The Beast - Part 8: From Green Slime to Green Solutions
May 15th, 2014 by progressiveradionetwork at 8:37 pm

Tonight on Political Analysis, Sandy LeonVest presents part two of Green Slime, "From Green Slime to Green Solutions."   This week, Chuck McCune joins Sandy again to talk about everything from Energy Democracy to feed-in tariffs (FITS) to the imperative of localized clean energy generation, decentralization, community-owned microgrids -- and ultimately sustainability. 

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Political Analysis - Meet The Beast - Part 7 GREEN SLIME: The Slippery Side of the Solar Industry - 05/08/14
May 8th, 2014 by progressiveradionetwork at 8:33 pm

Tonight on Political Analysis, BeastBusting Broadcaster Sandy LeonVest is joined by activist, inventor and solar industry insider Chuck McCune for a conversation about energy democracy, solar power and paradigm shifts. They discuss why the solar industry needs to get back to its original, egalitarian vision, extract itself from the old energy paradigm and shift its focus from Wall Street to Main Street.     


There was a time when the movement for clean, safe, renewable energy was part of a larger movement -- one that sought to create a "better world" for our children -- and for our children's children. The clean energy movement, which initially seemed to take its inspiration from the peace and civil rights movements of the 1960s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 1970s and 80s, nurtured and promoted a vision that solar power could be a huge part of "saving the world." After all, it was a movement made up of idealists, "progressives" and visionaries. 

It was a movement which wholeheartedly believed its own PR, embracing the idea that energy produced from the sun was "free" and infinitely abundant -- and that the technology itself was inherently "more democratic." It was not so long ago (only a few decades), that egalitarianism was the driving force of the clean energy movement. There was the sense that solar power -- as opposed to power derived from nuclear or fossil-based sources -- was intrinsically good, and that the clean energy movement would forever change the way energy was produced distributed and consumed.   

But, what happened to the "Sea of Green" and the idealism that once inspired the movement? And how can the clean energy movement get back to its once noble vision of energy democracy and "free sun power for all" at a time when, according to a growing number of insiders, the solar industry itself feels more like a "shark tank" than a Sea of Green?  

You'll find out on "GREEN SLIME: The Slippery Side of the Solar Industry" -- the seventh in PRN's MEET THE BEAST series. 
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Political Analysis - Meet The Beast - Part 6 We All Live On Treasure Island With Guest BeastBuster Kathryn Lundgren - 05/01/14
May 1st, 2014 by progressiveradionetwork at 7:36 pm

Treasure Island resident whistleblower and activist Kathryn Lundgren joins Sandy LeonVest to blow the whistle on the radioactive crime scene that is Treasure Island, California -- and to bust the beasts who are perpetrating the crime -- and profiting from it.  Lundgren explains how and why she felt forced to stand up to San Francisco's "corporate-military-political establishment," and talks about the life and death struggle she is now fighting to save her family -- and the entire community of  Treasure Island, California -- from the devastating health and environmental impacts of living on a (non-designated) nuclear waste storage site.

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