Electric SF Protest

Research Continuing...at the SF protest today...
Harvey Rosenfield was there. He spoke to the mob, of which i, wearing
my yellow hard hat and my authentic "carpenter-at-lunch" overalls,
was gladly one. So did Medea, Ross ?lastname the CA GP coordinator for Ralph Nader's campaign, someone from TURN, and a few other folks. I caught it all,
holding my handmade sign

Green Party
LABOR
Says No to PGE

and carrying my lunch not-pail, but Winnie-the-pooh bag with thermos
and chips and yogurt. I had a good vantage point right in front of
the mosh-pit so to speak. Medea had earlier been jostled by the state
police. My friend, Dan the Handyman, who twerks tapes for the
Sf.indymedia.org people and maybe Media Alliance, got it all on video
too, and as of right now, 25 minutes or so of it is online at
http://www.indybay.org/search-process.php3?medium=video, click on
"Led by the Green Party..." to view real video with sound... you may
recall that Dan is the one who posted the Netanyehu protest you may
have seen that was culled from the 2 tapes yours truly shot for
Berkeley Channel 25, called "Two For Netanyehu", and "Zionism Sucks"
combined. That's on indymedia too.

As far as a resolution or proposal evolving out of this. One thing
was Medea and others called for folks to pledge to cut 9% of their
electric bills in response to the PUC action of raising residential
rates 9%. This is actually a .1% profit for the consumer as any
banker could tell you. Everyone was very supportive. This would be a
good resolution for the action circle re the Utility Crisis, to start
on anyway, there probably be more. I believe it was Harvey Rosenfield
who quite emphatically stated that all California municipalities
should own their own Municipal Utility Districts, there own power
company. The 9 or so cities that do, including Los Angeles, Santa
Monica, and Alameda, AREN'T getting squeezed on the market like PGE.
As I understood it, a lot of this mostly phony "crisis" was
manufactured by PGE parent corporation who owns wholesale generators,
turning around and selling the electric to *separate* PGE power
distribution company (what most people think of when they think
of PGE) at greatly inflated prices. Then when PGE company can't pay
PGE corporation greatly inflated price, then PGE company say bail us
out (so we can give the parent corporation much profit) -- IT's
definitely a scam, if even remotely true. The "free market" lingo is
pure con game. It reminds me of the Savings and Loan "deregulation"
for sure. And what was that? $500,000,000,000... 5 hundred billion
dollars stolen from the American wallet and socked away in a few
dozen Swiss bank accounts.
The consensus of the assembled beatitudes was that "bankruptcy" would
be fine, the STATE OF CA would take over, and could ALSO quite legally seize any reticent generator or
distribution network attempting to blackmail CA with threat of a
blackout, etc. Due process, right of return, ipso factum, get outta here, PGE.
Pacific Gas and Electric is shortly to become "Peoples
Gas and Electric" --- YAHOO!!

Action Circle should climb all over this one. Matt Gonzalez was
there. There was another SF Supe, a African American lady from
Hunters Point. She looked ready to jump into tha Green Room herself. I'm
telling ya, it's about to become a fad. The Democrats are the party
of the past. AWWW, too bad:-(

Later,
John
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