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Hayden’s World Fifty years ago, Students for a Democratic Society released the Port Huron Statement. As one of the first American student activist movements of the ’60s, the group’s manifesto declared racism and Cold War alienation to be the two biggest issues facing Americans and humanity. Tom Hayden, later known as Mr. Jane Fonda in some circles, was the manifesto’s main author. The former California state legislator continues to work as both a chronicler and participant in activist movements. Hayden speaks on “Participatory Democracy: From Port Huron and Occupy Wall Street—What’s Next?” in an event sponsored by the Praxis Peace Institute and the Dominican green MBA program on Thursday, Nov. 15, at Dominican University. 50 Acacia Ave., San Rafael. 7:30pm. $20. 707.939.2973.
Savio’s Legacy BIGGEST FANS Though Sonoma County has natural resources for local energy, it may have to buy from an outside company.
Glow Local Sonoma County’s public power agency considers energy source options BY RACHEL DOVEY
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s towns across Sonoma County consider breaking with PG&E and forming Sonoma Clean Power, the energy sources that would light and warm local homes—as well as the company that would supply them—are still unknown. Last year, Sonoma County’s water agency began studying the
feasibility of creating a Community Choice Aggregation, or CCA, in which local governments would buy power from a supplier of their choice and sell it to residents in their jurisdiction. Since AB 117 was passed in 2002, Marin and recently San Francisco have formed CCAs, using PG&E’s lines while purchasing energy elsewhere. Consumers living in the area Marin Clean Energy supplies are given the chance to opt out and
stay with PG&E, and San Francisco is planning a similar policy for its fledgling organization. But although the two CCAs supply an energy mix generated partly from renewable sources to their customers, both have faced scrutiny for trading one gas and electric giant with a dubious environmental record for another: Shell. Marin Clean Energy signed a five-year contract with Shell Energy North America in February of 2010, and San ) 10
As the leader of the Free Speech movement at U.C. Berkeley, Mario Savio left an indelible mark on the school’s history of activism. “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part,” spoke Savio on the steps of Sproul Hall in 1964. “And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels . . . upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop!” Savio spent the last years of his life teaching at Sonoma State University, and recently, donors funded the establishment of the Mario Savio Speakers’ Corner on the northwest corner of Stevenson Quad at SSU. A dedication honoring the free speech leader’s life takes place on Thursday, Nov. 15, in Stevenson Quad at SSU. 1801 East Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park. Noon. Free.—Leilani Clark
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