Harvey Wasserman

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Harvey Franklin Wasserman (born December 31, 1945) is an American journalist, author, democracy activist, and advocate for

National Public Radio, CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight and other major media outlets. Wasserman is senior advisor to Greenpeace USA and the Nuclear Information and Resource Service,[1] an investigative reporter, and senior editor of The Columbus Free Press where his coverage, with Bob Fitrakis, has prompted Rev. Jesse Jackson to call them "the Woodward and Bernstein of the 2004 election."[2]
He lives with his family in the Columbus, Ohio, area.

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.[3]

Anti-nuclear work

In 1973, Wasserman helped pioneer the global grassroots movement against nuclear reactors, and helped coin the phrase "No Nukes" in 1974.

Crosby, Stills & Nash, James Taylor and others).[6]

Public appearances

On behalf of

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

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 restaurant. He currently works through Farmers Green Power in Ohio and elsewhere to promote farmer/community-owned wind power and other renewables.[8]

Written works

Wasserman's articles have appeared in

The Huffington Post,[10] the LA Progressive,[11]
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).)[12]

In the book Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation, Wasserman relates stories about people and animals living near

West Valley Reprocessing Plant in upstate New York, have also complained of defects and illnesses among their animals.[13]

References

  1. ^ "Mother Earth can't live without a Solartopian vision". Archived from the original on 2007-08-15. Retrieved 2007-11-10.
  2. ^ How The GOP Stole Election 2004 & Is Rigging 2008
  3. ^ "HW Bios". Archived from the original on June 21, 2012.
  4. ^ "Free Press bio". Archived from the original on 2009-02-17. Retrieved 2009-03-03.
  5. ^ Bios of Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis in Free Press
  6. ^ 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)
  7. ISBN 0-89281-904-9
    ) Harvey Wasserman Interview
  8. ^ "Harvey Wasserman Biography".
  9. ^ "Harvey Wasserman op-eds in the New York Times".
  10. The Huffington Post
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  11. ^ "Harvey Wasserman". [LA Progressive]. 15 October 2023.
  12. ISBN 0975340204
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  13. ^ "Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation" (PDF). pp. 7–8.

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