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{{Short description|American journalist and activist (1945-)}}
[[File:Harvey Wasserman - The Fukushima Threat 01.jpg|thumb|{{center|Wasserman speaking in 2013}}]]
'''Harvey Franklin Wasserman''' (born December 31, 1945) is an American journalist, author, democracy activist, and advocate for [[renewable energy]]. He has been a strategist and organizer in the [[anti-nuclear movement in the United States]] since 1973, and in the election protection movement since 2004. He has been a featured speaker on ''[[Today (NBC program)|Today]]'', ''[[Nightline (US news program)|Nightline]]'', [[National Public Radio]], [[CNN]] ''[[Lou Dobbs Tonight]]'', [[Democracy Now!]], [[Thom Hartmann]], [[The Young Turks]], [[Flashpoints (radio program)]], Egberto Willie's ''Politics Done Right'' broadcast on [[KPFT]] 90.1 fm Houston, Texas, and many other major media and internet outlets. Wasserman has been a senior advisor to [[Greenpeace]] USA since 1991, and at the [[Nuclear Information and Resource Service]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://freepress.org/columns.php?strFunc=display&strID=1561&strYear=2007&strAuthor=7 |title=Mother Earth can't live without a Solartopian vision |access-date=2007-11-10 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070815194602/http://freepress.org/columns.php?strFunc=display&strID=1561&strYear=2007&strAuthor=7 |archive-date=2007-08-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> an investigative reporter, and senior editor of The ''[[Columbus Free Press]]'' where his coverage, with [[Bob Fitrakis]], prompted Rev. [[Jesse Jackson]] to call Wasserman and Fitrakis "the [[Bob Woodward|Woodward]] and [[Carl Bernstein|Bernstein]] of the 2004 election."<ref>[http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0509/S00310.htm How The GOP Stole Election 2004 & Is Rigging 2008]</ref> He lives with his family in Los Angeles where he co-hosts the ''California Solartopia Show'' on Pacifica Radio's [[KPFK]] 90.7 FM Los Angeles, California. He also co-hosts Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition zoom gatherings most Mondays 2 to 4 pm Pacific Time.<ref>https://grassrootsep.org/</ref> 

==Education==
Wasserman received a Bachelor of Arts in American History from the [[University of Michigan]] in 1967, where he was a member of both the [[Phi Beta Kappa]] and [[Phi Kappa Phi]] academic honor societies. He also earned a Public Teaching Certificate from [[New York University]] in 1968, and then a Master of Arts in American History from the [[University of Chicago]] in 1974.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://web.me.com/windhw/harvey_wasserman/HW_Bios.html|title=HW Bios|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120621212850/http://web.me.com/windhw/harvey_wasserman/HW_Bios.html|archive-date=June 21, 2012}}</ref>

==Anti-Nuclear Work==
In 1973, Wasserman helped pioneer the global grassroots movement against nuclear reactors, and helped coin the phrase "No Nukes" in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.freepress.org/columns.php?strFunc=display&strAuthor=7 |title=Free Press bio |access-date=2009-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217153251/http://freepress.org/columns.php?strFunc=display&strAuthor=7 |archive-date=2009-02-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was a media spokesperson for the [[Clamshell Alliance]], and helped organize mass demonstrations at [[Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant|Seabrook, N.H.]] against reactors being built there.<ref>[http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7 Bios of Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis in Free Press]</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine featured  Wasserman in its 1979 cover story on the [[Musicians United for Safe Energy]] (MUSE), which staged five concerts organized by Wasserman in [[Madison Square Garden]] in 1979 shortly after the [[Three Mile Island accident]], including New York City's 1979 "No Nukes" concerts and rally (featuring [[Bruce Springsteen]], [[Bonnie Raitt]], [[Jackson Browne]], [[Crosby, Stills & Nash]], [[James Taylor]] and others).<ref>[http://edition.cnn.com/2007/US/10/11/nuclear.commentary/index.html ''Commentary: Stealth Nuke Effort Should be Stopped'' by Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Graham Nash & Harvey Wasserman: Special to CNN in Planet in Peril/CNN.com (October 12, 2007)]</ref>

==Public appearances==

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]] and the WinterStar Symposium (a Starwood interview is documented in the book ''People of the Earth'' by [[Ellen Evert Hopman]]).<ref>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</ref> According to records from the [[Greater Talent Network (GTN)|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 adjunct instructor of history at [[Hampshire College]] in Amherst, MA, and is currently on staff in Ohio at [[Columbus State Community College]] and [[Capital University]]. Based in Ohio, Wasserman works to replace the Perry and [[Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant|Davis-Besse]] nuclear power plants with renewables and [[Efficient energy use|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 restaurant. He currently works through Farmers Green Power in Ohio and elsewhere to promote farmer/community-owned wind power and other renewables.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://solartopia.org/bio/|title=Harvey Wasserman Biography}}</ref>

==Written works==
Wasserman's articles have appeared in ''[[The New York Times]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/harvey+wasserman|title=Harvey Wasserman op-eds in the New York Times}}</ref> ''[[The Huffington Post]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harvey-wasserman|title=Harvey Wasserman|website=[[The Huffington Post]]}}</ref> the LA Progressive,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.laprogressive.com/author/harvey-wasserman|title=Harvey Wasserman|website=[LA Progressive]|date=15 October 2023 }}</ref> and other newspapers and 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).)<ref>{{cite book|title=Harvey Wasserman's History of the United States|isbn=0975340204 |last1=Wasserman |first1=Harvey |date=March 2004 |publisher=Harveywasserman.com }}</ref>

In the book ''Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation'', Wasserman relates stories about people and animals living near [[nuclear weapons]] facilities, mining and waste storage sites, uranium processing plants, and nuclear power reactors. For example, farmers in central Pennsylvania whom he spoke to reported abnormalities in their animals in the wake of the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. Farmers living near the [[Rocky Flats Plant|Rocky Flats]] plutonium factory in Colorado, and near the [[West Valley Reprocessing Plant]] in upstate New York, have also complained of defects and illnesses among their animals.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ratical.org/radiation/KillingOurOwn/KOO.pdf|title=Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation|pages=7–8}}</ref>

==References==
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== Books ==
* ''Harvey Wasserman's History of the United States'' (1972) Harper & Row, {{ISBN|0060902698}} 
* ''The Energy War: Reports From the Front'' (1979), Independent Publishers Group {{ISBN|0-88208-106-3}}
* ''[http://www.ratical.org/radiation/KillingOurOwn/KOO.pdf  Killing our Own: the Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation] (PDF)'' (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'' (1983), Collier Books {{ISBN|0020381107}}
* ''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|0-9753402-4-7}}
* ''The People's Spiral of US History: From Jigonsaseh to Solartopia'' (2019) {{ISBN|9781646060504}}

==External links==
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*[http://www.solartopia.org/ Solartopia site]
*[http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7 Free Press Website]
*[https://grassrootsep.org/ Green Grassroots Emergency Election Protection Coalition]

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