Now the Thurston County Public Utility District – which is owned by the general public of our own local community – is exploring the feasibility of buying out Puget Sound Energy’s business in Thurston County and operating it with local ownership, local management, and local employees. Instead of sending profits to Australia, it would support our local economy. Organizers cite many reasons for changing to public power, including lower costs, keeping revenue in our own community, better maintena...
Marie Poland, John MacLean, and Sash Sunday talk about local economics.
Bill Moyer, from the Backbone Campaign, shares strategies and creativity for building grassroots power. strategies, creativity, building grassroots power, Ikympia FOR, Glen Anderson
Doug Howell, Sierra Club, and KC Golden, Climates Solutions, discuss global warming, climate crisis, climate change, and greenhouse gas effect. They also cover our next strategies.
Olympia FOR explores the Occupy phenomenon that is sweeping the world. Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Washington D.C., and Occupy Olympia are discussed by Mary Abramson, Bill Moyer, Kyle Tenner, and Dana Walker. The Occupy Movement is diverse and inclusive.
Jim Dawson, Brendan Williams, and Chris Reykdal discuss sales tax, property tax, B&), tax exemptions, tax expenditures, and the regressive tax structure in Washington Tax.
Holly Gwinn Graham and others perform Holly’s timely and clever skit based on Little Orphan Annie.
Cut military spending. Use the savings to fund human needs and create jobs. Convert from a war economy to a peace economy. Zoltan Grossman: Excessive U.S. militarism around the world. Tony Lee: Shift federal budget priorities to fund human needs. Glen Anderson: Converting to a peace economy would create more jobs
Since 1988 our local community has built and sustained a strong relationship with a sister community in Nicaragua. The Thurston Santo Tomás Sister County Association (TSTSCA) has built peace and across thousands of miles of distance by interacting face-to-face with back-and-forth delegations and by collaborating on practical projects in Santo Tomás. Our TV program guests are two of the Evergreen student delegation delegates (Ellie Mansfield and Alex Becker) and two delegates from the July comm...
Juan Meléndez was an Innocent Survivor from Death Row for nearly 18 years! He shares his story of what living on death row is like and justice system that sentenced him even though the Prosecutor has the confession of the real killer.