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write a politician Keep pressure on the governor, other elected officials, and the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). Tell them that throwing money at the utilities to bail them out does absolutely nothing to solve the underlying problems driving the crisis. If we are going to spend money, we need to take over power plants and the grid and establish conservation, efficiencey, and green energy programs that really work!
Governor Gray Davis
State Capitol Bldg.
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916...
Posted: Sat, Jan 6, 2001 12:00am PST
jan feb 2001 news 2/4/01 teach-in in Berkeley: report | video | Medea Benjamin
Hundreds marched through SF in protest on Jan. 24th.
One person was arrested.
More photos of 1/24/01
See video from Jan 5 and Jan 9 protests in SF.
Just say NO to a bailout.
And say YES to a state power authority and
YES to reliable, clean, affordable energy.
Do something to make a difference!...
Posted: Sun, Feb 4, 2001 12:00am PST
put the genie back in... Put the deregulation genie back in the bottle:
RE-REGULATE!...
Posted: Sat, Jan 6, 2001 12:00am PST
movement Community leaders and other Californians have been petitioning Gov. Davis to stop using sorely-needed tax dollars for the bailout of utility companies. Instead, the utilities should go bankrupt and be taken over by the state (this would not involve any interruption of electricity to consumers).
Activists are rallying to build a movement that will turn the utility companies into public power
utilities, answerable to consumers, not high-paid executives. This campaign attempts to bu...
Posted: Mon, Jan 1, 2001 12:00am PST
Other places In New York, 1st Rochdale
Cooperative, the country's first urban electricity
cooperative, started preparing three years ago for energy
deregulation by organizing housing cooperatives in New York
City to purchase their own electricity. Now it provides the
lowest kilowatt price per hour in the area.
Oregon passed an energy
deregulation b...
Posted: Tue, Jan 2, 2001 12:00am PST
Other factors - Enron, Bush, etc. Power supplier Enron Corporation was George Bush's largest campaign contributor. Now we know that this had a direct bearing on
Bush's refusal to consider a cap on electricity prices. Hear
former Energy Sec'y Bill Richardson talk about the California energy crisis, Burma and his expectations about Bush's energy policies (Jan. 2001).
Texas manufactures California energy crisis (Feb. 2001)...
Posted: Sun, Feb 4, 2001 12:00am PST
What IS the solution? Work for Public Power in your area. The State of California had the
legal right to take over the whole electricity system, from the power plants to the distribution grid to the
lines that run into our homes. This would have given us back control over 80% to 85% of the electricity we need
and allowed us to dramatically reduce our reliance on out-of-state power. Gov. Davis refused to do this, even
though he had said that the deregulated, free-market electricity system is a "colossal ...
Posted: Sat, Oct 6, 2001 12:00am PDT
What is Governor Davis doing? Giving away our money! Davis and the state legislature authorized $400 million to buy
electricity at these outrageous prices. Then he wanted to sign long-term contracts (up to ten years!) at prices
roughly double those of a year ago. This would cost the state BILLIONS that should go to schools and health care
and get nothing in return. He finally started offering to buy the grid, but at twice its value. This was obviously a
further bailout, but the energy corporations tried to ca...
Posted: Sun, Apr 22, 2001 12:00am PDT
PG&E says it's a victim Are they lying?
YES! PG&E still produces half its own electricity ... which it sells to itself at the same outrageous prices the out-of-state price gougers do! Hard to believe but true. PG&E owes half its debt to ITSELF!!!
Now, power producers are inappropriately citing increased demand to justify building new plants, while the fact
is that demand in California is on par with previous years....
Posted: Sun, Jun 3, 2001 12:00am PDT
DID PG&E go bankrupt? Maybe, but only because they got the federal government to declare that
California could not make them sell off their billions in
out-of-state
assets to cover their debts. PG&E is laying off lower-level employees while the power company CEO's "earn"
millions per year.
| Listen to an audio expose...
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2001 12:00am PDT
WHY are prices so high? Deregulation allowed private, for-profit, out-of-state corporations
(Duke, Enron, etc.) to corner the market on electricity and drive up prices by 10 times in the past year.
More factors: bad planning, mismanagement, and greed.
Listen to interview with energy activist
Harvey Wasserman. | For the $2 billion spent in the first quarter
of
2001, we could have bought all the plants that the utilities sold to private companies that are now gouging
us. | Deregulation price...
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2001 12:00am PDT
feb 01 news 2/24/01 Rally in SF: Medea Benjamin | Brian
Belknap | George Vouros
2/11/01 Teach-In: Teatro Campesino video Off tha Grid, audio Tim Redmond of SFBG
2/9/01: Governor Davis' solution: Environmental Destruction...
Posted: Sat, Jan 6, 2001 12:00am PST
People have the power 10/11/01 Approximately 2,500 people attended the People Have the Power rally 1 | 2 in San Francisco.
Speakers from a variety of organizations spoke in favor of the creation of a Municipal Utility District....
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2001 12:00am PDT
Nov 6, 2001 SF Vote Both Propositions F (creating a city-run water & power agency) and Prop I (creating a municipal utility district) lost amidst questions about the ballot-counting process and serious election fraud concerns. Absentee and provisional ballots were engulfed in murky late-night happenings .
On election night, "Anthrax" scares created confusion and ballot boxes were moved around without supervision. The SF Bay Guardian reports that "Jim Stearns ... told us that he went over to the building an...
Posted: Tue, Nov 6, 2001 12:00am PST
Davis' Bailout Governor Davis' bailout is now disguised as the $7 billion purchase of the transmission system which has a book value of only $3.8 billion. We should pay less than book value;
these utilities say they're near bankruptcy (though their parent corporations are fat with assets they bought
with our last bailout)." --Medea Benjamin, February 24, 2001. Meanwhile, California legislators have been
dismantling the state's pollution-control regulations in order to build
cheap energy plants....
Posted: Sat, Feb 24, 2001 12:00am PST
Power Companies; Vote Power Companies Have Perpetrated a Monumental Rip-Off.
The Recourse: PUBLIC/SOLAR
POWER MEASURES ON SF BALLOT Nov. 6:
YES on B, F, H & I...
Posted: Tue, Nov 6, 2001 12:00am PST
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