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Bailout $ could have bought power plants
For the $2 billion spent since mid-January, we could have bought all the plants that the utilities sold to private companies that are now gouging us....
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2001 8:18pm PST
Deregulation Price Tag: $40 billion
Deregulation Price Tag: $40 billion. Here¹s a partial, estimated itemization of what this colossal mistake has cost ratepayers so far:...
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2001 8:15pm PST
Energy Execs Call Re-Regulation Marxist
Executive officers of leading energy companies fear "discrimination" in favor of consumers, "setting a bad precedent" for deregulation elsewhere. Plus a healthy bit of Red-baiting....
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2001 1:35pm PST
Bailout Watch newsletter
Subscribe to the BAILOUT WATCH daily newsletter...
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2001 9:17pm PST
Lorenzo Komboa Ervin Denied Entry to Canada
A letter to Canadian friends...
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2001 2:33am PST
Public Power meeting 2/19
Teach-in report, plus:
Next general Campaign for Public Power meeting: Monday, Feb. 19 at 7pm at City Blend Cafe on 16th Street between Valencia and Mission...
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2001 6:25pm PST
2/14, Globalization Advocacy Training, in SF, Free
Shaping the Policies of Globalization: Legislative Training. Feb. 14, New College SF, 6:30 pm...
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2001 10:30am PST
CA energy crisis from Texas
California energy crisis manufactured in Texas.
Where is the Special Prosecutor who will investigate Bush's ties to the Oilies?...
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2001 12:04am PST
2/14 Citizen's Power Campaign
Come to a press conference Wednesday, February 14, 2001 at Noon on the West Steps of the Capitol in Sacramento...
Posted: Sun, Feb 11, 2001 11:55pm PST
PG&E - Mass rally 2/24
12 noon, Mission and 16th Street, SF, for speeches and street theater; then march to Dolores Park for music,
dance, food, and a celebration...
Posted: Sat, Feb 10, 2001 1:05pm PST
PG&E - BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING, MON., 2/12: COME!
This Monday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will be discussing the creation of a Municipal Utilities District.
Come to support this, plus......
Posted: Sat, Feb 10, 2001 12:52pm PST
2/11 PG&E Teach-In, SF
Bay Area wide TEACH IN
Sunday, February 11 at 3pm
Women's Building 3543 18th Street (at Valencia)...
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2001 12:41am PST
Utility Rate actions, 2/10 & 2/11
Campaign Against Utility Rate Increases (CAURI)
Mass Mobilization Sat, 2/10, SF
Teach-In Sun 2/11...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2001 7:28pm PST
PG&E organizing info
2/2 message re upcoming organizing meetings and rallies to stop the bailout of PG&E and SoCal Edison...
Posted: Sat, Feb 3, 2001 2:24pm PST
PG&E ACTION 1/31
Caravan to Sacramento today to Extricate California taxpayers from rescuing failed private corporations...
Posted: Wed, Jan 31, 2001 12:56am PST
1/31 PG&E Action in SF & Sacramento
Wed. January 31, 12 noon Action to STOP THE UTILITY BAILOUT! At Gov. Davis' offices in SF and Sacramento.
Protest his betrayal of the public trust....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2001 8:44pm PST
PG&E: the Sky's the Limit
The utility companies asked for increases of 75%, but as the wholesale prices are as much as 30 times higher, rates could soar. A bailout would only prolong things....
Posted: Sat, Jan 27, 2001 12:17am PST
Electric Utilities: benefits of City-Owned Utilities
City-Owned utilities provide more benefits for everyone. PG&E should not be bailed out, instead public power should be established in California....
Posted: Fri, Jan 26, 2001 11:31pm PST
PG&E Crisis: Teach-In Feb. 4th (Sunday), 3-6 PM
Emergency Town Hall/Teach-In on the Utility Meltdown, Sunday, Feb. 4th, 3 to 6 pm, at Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar at Bonita, Berkeley...
Posted: Fri, Jan 26, 2001 6:55pm PST
Prague protesters stopped at Czech border
Bicyclists and Activists on their way to Prague were prevented from entering Czechloslavakia....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2000 4:50pm PDT