Community Power founding board member George Crocker tells stories from his over 4 decades of experience organizing on energy democracy issues and has gratefully distilled these stories into useful lessons that are essential for the rest of us to know in his newly published book titled About Power: How to Democratize Electricity. The book is essential reading because Crocker articulately exposes the obsolete monopoly power structures in our energy utility system have slowed much-needed progress on climate justice and lays out to build the renewable economy in a way that can bring down these barriers. 

A good friend and longtime movement partner, Kristen Eide Tollefson, is providing an event space for George Crocker to tell about his newly published book, with personal anecdotes and his characteristic humor which will make the experience even more entertaining than simply reading it.

It will be at the Roots Cellar of the University Baptist Church, 1219 University Ave. S.E. Minneapolis, on Thursday, October 17 at 7pm.

While plenty of books will be available for purchase, this event invitation is not simplistically about just selling a book. It is about educating and organizing to build political power. The sweeping systemic change we need in our electric utility landscape will only happen in time if a critical mass of energy democracy organizers "understands with some precision, the energy future that we want and then organizes socially, economically and politically to get it." This event with more to follow provides grounds for an intriguing discussion of the vision that Community Power is working to accomplish, our CLEAR (Clean, Local, Equitable, Affordable, Resilient) Energy vision.