[KFCF Friends] SPECIAL PROGRAMMING - Energy Summit

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Hi folks,
    Just wanted to let everyone know about this special programming coming
up Friday August 27th on KFCF that will replace regular programming. It will
be  hosted by Larry Bensky. This has only come together in the last 24
hours, so there hasn't been a lot of advance publicity.

The California Emergency Energy Summit to be held tomorrow (Friday) in
Sacramento will be broadcast & webcast in its entirety by KPFA-FM, Berkeley
(94.1 FM -- also heard on KFCF-FM, Fresno - 88.1 FM).
The broadcast/webcast will start at 10 a.m. and conclude at 5 p.m.

An agenda and a copy of the letter from Medea Benjamin about the hearings
are reproduced below. Enjoy the broadcast and we hope to see many of you at
the Gatherin' of The Okies Sunday at Club Fred in Fresno!
-Rych Withers
KFCF/Fresno Free College Foundation  President
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TENTATIVE AGENDA
The Emergency Energy Summit For Affordable, Clean Public Power

Friday, April 27, 2001  ­  10am-5pm
Lorenzo Patiņo School of Law - 1012 J Street, Sacramento

10:15-10:30am. Welcome by Global Exchange Founding Director Medea Benjamin
10:30-11am.  Overview of the Energy Crisis by TURN Director Nettie Hoge
11am-11:45am
Renewable Energy: What Can It Do To Alleviate California's Energy Crisis?
Dr. Donald Aitken, Union of Concerned Scientists
Sim Van Der Ryn, EcoDesign and former energy advisor to Gov. Jerry Brown

11:45pm-12:30pm
Panel on the Health/Environmental Impact of Existing and Planned Power
Plants
Bradley Angel, Director, Greenaction
Mike Boyd, California Renewable Energy
Barbara George, Womenšs Energy Matters

Lunch Workshop 12:45pm-1:30pm
Public Response: Action Ideas
Discussion led by Nettie Hoge, The Utility Reform Network

1:45pm- 3pm
Panel on Public Power
David Thompson, spokesperson for Davis Municipal Utility District
Junona A. Jonas, General Manager, Alameda Power and Telecom
John DiStasio, Sacramento Municipal Utility District
Ross Mirkirimi, Coordinator of the San Francisco Municipal Utility District
Campaign
Cynthia Wooten, Former legislator and energy consultant working on East Bay
MUD

3pm-3:15pm
How the Energy Crisis is Affecting the State Budget
To be determined

3:15pm- 4pm
How to Bring Wholesale and Retail Energy Prices Down
Michael McCaully, Consumers Union
Lenny Goldberg, TURN
Representative of the Public Utilities Commission

4:00pm-4:30pm
Presentation on Energy Efficiency & Conservation
Bill Magavern, Sierra Club
George Matthews, Community Energy Services Corporation

4:30pm-5pm
Wrap-up Session on Strategies, Upcoming Actions, Networking


And a note from Medea Benjamin on the hearings:

Medea Benjamin
Global Exchange
2017 Mission Street #303
San Francisco, California 94110

Dear Friend,

Global Exchange, together with CALPIRG, The Utility Reform Network
(TURN), Women's Energy Matters, and Greenaction, invite you to the
state-wide Emergency Energy Summit to be held on Friday, April
27th in Sacramento. The purpose of this emergency summit is to
form a coalition of diverse groups concerned about the energy
crisis to advocate more effectively for clean, affordable, public
energy systems for the 21st century.

The summit will be held from 10am-5pm on Friday, April 27th at the
University of Northern California's Lorenzo Patiņo School of Law,
1012 J Street in Sacramento. We are inviting a wide range of
interested groups, including environmentalists, consumer groups,
unions, representatives of public utilities, community representatives
and small "green energy" businesses. Each of the 100 or so
participants should represent an organization or community,
or have experience working on energy issues.

Issues addressed at the summit will include how to stop energy
corporations and utilities from gouging ratepayers; how PG&Ešs
bankruptcy affects our options; the possibility of imposing a
windfall profits tax on the generators or taking over their
facilities through eminent domain; path-breaking programs for
conservation/ efficiency/renewable energy; stop polluting power
plants and oppose nuclear power; achieving more control over our
energy resources with a state power authority, municipal utility
districts, and other public power options.

The format will include presentations by experts in the above areas,
as well as workshops. Confirmed speakers include Dr. Donald
Aitken, Union of Concerned Scientists; Nettie Hoge, Director of
TURN; Sim Van Der Rym, energy advisor to former Gov. Jerry Brown;
Bill Magavern, Sierra Club; Junona A. Jonas, General Manager of
Alameda Power and Telecom; Robin David of International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW); Bradley Angel of
Greenaction, George Matthews of Community Energy Services
Corporation, among others.