Summary: <p>We’re joined in SOLARTOPIA by the great writer/activist / film critic ED RAMPELL. </p><br> <div> </div><br> <div>Ed is lead organizer for a major upcoming event celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King, to take place at the legendary Will Geer Theater in Topanga Canyon, California this coming <span class="aBn"><span class="aQJ">July 28</span></span>.</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>Ed recently organized a major four-hour event commemorating the Hollywood Blacklist which is now being featured at C-Span. The link to see this great show is here:</div><br> <div> </div><br> <div><a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?436033-1/hollywood-blacklist-70th-year-commemoration" target="_blank">https://www.c-span.org/video/?436033-1/hollywood-blacklist-70th-year-commemoration</a></div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>We discuss the new film the Young Karl Marx which Ed has reviewed for the Progressive Magazine. </div><br> <div> </div><br> <div> <a href="http://progressive.org/dispatches/raoul-peck-on-marx-trump-haiti-and-revolutionary-love-180302/" target="_blank">http://progressive.org/dispatches/raoul-peck-on-marx-trump-haiti-and-revolutionary-love-180302/</a> </div><br> <div> </div><br> <div> </div><br> <div> </div><br> <div>We also celebrate the announcement by Pacific Gas & Electric that it is dropping its pursuit of a license extension for its two reactors at Diablo Canyon, meaning they will definitively shut by 2025, though we are working harder than ever to get them shut earlier. </div>
