“A City-Owned Electric Utility Would Help Olympia’s People”

May 18, 2019 GlenAnderson Climate, Economics, Labor, Capitalism, Trade, Poverty (Also see Taxes), Energy Issues (Also see Oil, Climate, Environment), Environment, Examples of Parallax Views, Local Government, Olympia area, Organizing & Activism (Also see Nonviolence, Outreach), TV Programs: "Glen's Parallax Perspectives" Series 0

Local folks are starting to organize a campaign for the City of Olympia and other local cities to replace Puget Sound Energy here with a successful locally owned electric utility that will provide lower rates, better reliability, and sustainable energy – and will be ac-countable to the public instead of foreign stockholders. They plan to gather enough signatures of Olympia voters during the middle part of 2020 to qualify for Olympia’s ballot for the November 2020 election.

Here is one page listing four reasons why this would be a good idea:

A City-Owned Electric Utility Would Help Olympia’s People

 

Look in this blog’s “TV Programs” category for the June 2019 TV program about this topic:

“Why the Public Should Own Our Electric Utilities”

 

After I produced this TV program and posted it to my blog, my e-mail address changed from glenanderson@integra.net to glen@parallaxperspectives.org.  When you watch the TV video and/or read the linked document, please use my new e-mail address (and/or phone me at 360-491-9093) if you have any questions or want more information.

 

 

 

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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