Harvey Wasserman

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Harvey Wasserman is the author and co-author of a dozen books, and a safe energy activist and journalist/historian, fighting for a renewable green future and the restoration of democracy to the United States of America. He has been a featured speaker on Today, Nightline, National Public Radio, CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight and other major media. Wasserman is senior advisor to Greenpeace USA and the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, an investigative reporter, and senior editor of The Columbus Free Press and www.freepress.org, where his freepress.org coverage, with Bob Fitrakis, has prompted Rev. Jesse Jackson to call them "the Woodward and Bernstein of the 2004 election."[1]

1 Public appearances
2 Written works
3 Bibliography
4 Partial discography
5 References
6 External links

[edit] 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 the Zen Peacemaker Community, International. 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 the Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE), which staged 5 concerts organized by Wasserman in Madison Square Garden in 1979 shortly after the disaster at Three Mile Island, including New York City's 1979 "No Nukes" concerts and rally (featuring Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, CSN, James Taylor and others).

On behalf of Greenpeace USA, Wasserman addressed 350,000 concert-goers at the Woodstock 1994 Festival. He has been a frequent speaker at both the Starwood Festival [2] and the WinterStar Symposium (a Starwood interview is documented in the book People of the Earth by Ellen Evert Hopman). 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 at Columbus State Community College and Capital University. Based in Ohio, Wasserman works to replace the Perry and Davis-Besse nuclear power plants with renewables and efficiency, and has helped his friends shut a trash burning power plant, a proposed radioactive 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.

[edit] Written works

Wasserman's articles have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and other major newspapers, and in Rolling 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 by Howard Zinn), with approximate sales of 30,000 copies. (The book has been republished by Four Walls, Eight Windows (NY), and through www.harveywasserman.com.)

[edit] Bibliography

1972 - Harvey Wasserman's History of the United States (Harper & Row [1st ed.] edition) ISBN 0-06-090269-8
1979 - The Energy War: Reports From the Front (Independent Publishers Group) ISBN 0-88208-106-3
1982 - Killing our Own: the Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation (with Norman Solomon, Robert Alvarez and Elenaor Walters) (Delacorte Press) ISBN 0-385-28537-X
1984 - America Born & Reborn: The Cycles of U.S. History (MacMillan Pub Co; 1st Collier Books ed edition) ISBN 0-02-038110-7
2000 - The Last Energy War: the Battle over Utility Deregulation (Open Media) ISBN 1-58322-017-8
2002 - Harvesting Wind Energy as a Cash Crop: a Guide to Local-Owned Wind Power (with Dan Juhl) (Danmar.us)
2003 - George W. Bush vs. The Superpower of Peace (with Bob Fitrakis) (Columbus Alive) ISBN 0-9710438-4-1
2004 - Harvey Wasserman's History of the United States (Harveywasserman.com) ISBN 0-9753402-0-4
2005 - A Glimpse of the Big Light: Losing Parents, Finding Spirit (Harveywasserman.com) ISBN 0-9753402-2-0
2005 - How the GOP Stole America's 2004 Election and is Rigging 2008 (with Bob Fitrakis) (Harveywasserman.com) ISBN 0-9753402-8-X
2006 - Solartopia!: Our Green-Powered Earth AD 2030 (Harveywasserman.com) ISBN 0-9753402-4-7

[edit] Partial discography

The Spiral Path of American History - Lecture on cassette: recorded live at the Starwood Festival.

[edit] References

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) Interview.