8/26 SF MUD Free Concert for Public Power

On August 26, 2001 from Noon to 7 p.m., the campaign for a San Francisco-Brisbane Municipal Utility District, SF MUD, will have a free concert with information tables at Crissy Field, San Francisco. This concert includes Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Peaches, Bonnie Prince Billy aka Will Oldham, Bardo Pondo, Gospel Legends The Holmes Brothers, Jello Biafra, Mamadou Diabate, Tejano Music Pioneer Santiago Jimenez, Jr., Nels Cline Singers, Faust & Shortee, Psychofunkodiscodelic and much more.

This free concert is in walking distance from the 22, 29 and 43 buses and there will be a free bike valet provided by the San Francisco Bike Coalition. Crissy Field is north of the Exploratorium on the Bay side of the Presidio.

August 26 is also American Women's Suffrage Day, when we celebrate the adoption of the 19th Amendment on August 26, 1920 guaranteeing women's right to vote in the USA.

Women's Suffrage and SF MUD have one important element in common: They are all about Power to the People! SF MUD will remove the profit motive from the distribution of our electricity and gas and thus make possible lower rates and alternative energy programs such as the use of solar energy. Many other cities have municipal utility districts, including Los Angeles, Sacramento and Palo Alto. It is in fact long overdue that San Francisco have a MUD since it was mandated under the Raker Act of 1913. For more information on the theft of our power by PG&E, see the Bay Guardian, http://www.sfbg.com.

The concert kicks off the campaign season in San Francisco which will have the SF MUD campaign as the primary issue on the November 2001 ballot, affecting the city attorney and city treasurer races on the same ballot. For more information on the SF MUD campaign, after attending this concert, check frequently the SF MUD site at http://www.sfbmud.org (B=Brisbane). Please be sure to pick up your campaign literature and sign up for participation in the campaign as we need lots of volunteers to defeat PG&E's well-funded campaign against our precious SF MUD. PG&E's declared bankruptcy is not stopping them from spending the tax dollars we give them as a bailout from trying to defeat SF MUD. For more on the utilities, see http://www.consumerwatchdog.org For the bailout watch newsletter, see http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/utilities/st/

Such districts as SF MUD are models of what we should have at the state level, namely a California public utility district that operates the production and distribution of all electricity and gas facilities. It is long overdue that California stop subsidizing the private utility companies and take over the entire power system now. This is, of course, the position of California's Peace & Freedom Party, which expects to have a public power candidate for governor on the March 2002 ballot, where public power will be the primary issue that will defeat perhaps the worst governor in our history, Democrat Gray Davis, who is completely bought and paid for by the private utility companies and who does not hesitate to cut school budgets so he can give our tax dollars to PG&E. Both the Democrat and Republican candidates for governor will be "PG&E candidates" and we need a public power candidate to challenge this outrage. If you agree, join Peace & Freedom party now. Just check "Other" on your voter registration form and write in Peace & Freedom Party. For more information, see http://www.peaceandfreedom.org

Vote Yes on Prop F on the November 6, 2001 San Francisco ballot! Now is the Hour for Public Power! All Power to the People!