Chicago’s people organize for a municipally owned electric utility to replace the capitalist one

We need PROFOUND DEMOCRACY in many ways.  Certainly in our political functioning, but also we need our ECONOMICS to be profoundly democratic.  We can replace capitalistic businesses with publicly owned alternatives that will serve the people as their top priority instead of exploiting people in order to serve rich stockholders.

Decades ago when Dennis Kucinich was the very young mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, he became famous nationwide by protecting Cleveland’s publicly owned electric utility from being sold to a private corporation.

My June 2019 TV program explains “Why the Public Should Own Our Electric Utilities.”  Watch the interview and/or read the thorough summary at this link:  http://parallaxperspectives.org/tv-why-the-public-should-own-our-electric-utilities

Some people in Olympia have been organizing for the City of Olympia to buy out Puget Sound Energy’s electric utility and creating a publicly owned municipal utility for within the city limits.  See www.olympiapublicpower.org

Now a movement is afoot in eastern King County to replace Puget Sound Energy there with a Public Utility District.  See this:  https://www.ekc-pud.org/

Another movement is afoot in the City of Chicago.  See this informative, encouraging article:

https://www.ecowatch.com/chicagos-campaign-electricity-public-control-2640437976.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=1dffb0a4d0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-1dffb0a4d0-85369701

 

 

 

 

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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org