Energy Crisis meet today April 8, Berkeley 2PM

EVENT: ENERGY CRISIS: SPEAKERS & WORKSHOPS
WHEN: SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 2001, 2PM-4PM
WHERE: Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, 1924 Cedar at Bonita,
Berkeley CA
SPONSORS: Social Action Committee of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian
Universalists and many Bay Area activists.
CONTACT: Richard Challacombe @ 510-233-3175, clairbooks [at] aol.com
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SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 2001
BERKELEY & EAST BAY RATEPAYERS DEMAND PUBLIC POWER BY RIGHT OF EMINENT DOMAIN
Outraged ratepayers from Berkeley and other Bay Area cities will gather at
the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, Sunday, April 8th,
2pm-4pm. Medea Benjamin, Charles Kalish and others will tell how our elected
officials are trying to duck the Energy Crisis, how P.G.&E. would escape into
bankruptcy, and how citizens must demand that government agencies seize the
power grids and generators by right of eminent domain.
Singers Carol Denney and Lellingby Boyce will rouse the audience with their
celebrated satirical lyrics about the P.G.&E. debacle. Denney’s “The P.G.&E
Song, or Write the Check and Shut Up� has been prominently featured at energy
crisis gatherings. Boyce’s “P.G.&E., Stop a’ pimpin’ off me� stopped the
PUC hearing on Tuesday, April 3, and was later shown on national TV.
This Berkeley meeting will be the third in a series of Town Halls at the
Fellowship on the Crisis. The presentations will be followed by a series of
hands-on workshops covering conservation, legislation, theater, media, and
speakers bureau to enable concerned citizens to organize and express their
demands for public power.
The threat, meanwhile, to public health, welfare and safety goes on. PG&E and
the other privately-held utilities have so violated the public trust they can
no longer be trusted and must be converted to public power. Governor Gray
Davis by his inaction is risking his governorship. By now his only hope of
regaining approval of the electorate is by declaring a State emergency and
seizing the power grids and generators by right of eminent domain.
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