Dump overpriced water
I really sympathize with anyone who must buy water at exorbitant rates. Water is life.
Do like Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) did in 1938. Nationalize your water system, “expropriate” all private foreign and domestic companies!
Band together, everybody, refuse to pay your bill, share with your neighbors that still have water and force them to reduce rates by 75 percent. No money = no company. Force them to sell to the town of Lucerne. Form a “mutual” water company like Nice.
Nine Green, Nice
Let’s celebrate
This letter is directed toward all progressive people who believe in civil rights and equal protection of the law for all American citizens. Next month around the 9th of June, a very important and significant decision will come down from the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the L.G.B.T. community and their basic rights to marry the partner of their choice. When the decision is announced, this “old Rainbow reporter,” as I term myself on my radio show, will grab his big rainbow flag and head toward Austin Park. I am asking everyone who believes in Real equality of all American citizens to join me.
And I especially invite my brothers and sisters who are reluctant to come out. I have seen you through our communal way of greeting, called “gaydar,” at the local bus stops, grocery stores and coffee houses, an I’m very aware that you are present in our community although you seem to prefer a quiet secluded life.
It’s time, dear brothers and sisters, to step forth and leave shame and fear far behind us. We have hidden over love and identity much too long, and these precious things wither and die without sunshine. Now is our time to liberate our souls, to stand tall and proud with each other, knowing history and justice are on our side. Silence and pretense will no longer suffice, or mere survival — we are meant for better things. And the world needs our talents, our courage and joy that we take in a life that has treated us so abominably.
Whether we celebrate a victory in June or if we only continue the struggle, this old man of 81 encourages you to join him at the gazebo at Austin Park the moment the decision is handed down.
It will be in memory of those men and women who have died that we might be free men and women who will at last enjoy those “inalienable rights.”
Let’s make history on a local level, and, more important, meet each other eye to eye in friendship and love.
Harold Riley, Clearlake
