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Blog: Join the Fight for Our Waterfront!

Be a part of history: residents are ready to gather signatures to get power plant phase out initiative on the ballot.

This is it. It is now or never. Your town, your neighbors, our children and future generations need you. This is a call to action!

The next few weeks will determine the fate of our waterfront for generations to come. Will we be doomed to 50 more years of a blighting our harbor and spewing toxins over our community? Or will we reclaim and restore our waterfront into something we can all be proud of? It is up to us.

NoPowerPlant.com is gearing up to gather signatures to get the Power Plant Phase Out initiative on the ballot. They will need to gather 9,500 signatures before the end of September, so it is time for all hands on deck!

If you want to join your neighbors, rid our waterfront of the blighting, polluting power plant, and be part of writing a new chapter in South Bay history, stand up and volunteer to gather petition signatures. You must be “eligible to register to vote in California” to help gather signatures. Send an email to dolfanmeli@yahoo.com to volunteer. Your fellow residents, our children, and generations to come need you—and, they need you now.

Volunteer and urge your family and friends to volunteer. Join the fight to take back our waterfront from a company in Virginia. They don’t live here. They don’t really care about our community. If they did, they would have fixed their steam vent problem years ago. If they cared about the communities their power plants pollute, they would not run any coal fired power plants anywhere. AES does what they must to get the permits and contracts to produce power. They get environmental when regulations force them or profits drive them to it. Their local president doesn’t live here. Their project manager doesn’t live here. They don’t have to look at the plant every day. They don’t have to breath their own pollution. They don’t raise their kids here.

We do. It is our town, not theirs. We must not sit by and allow them to bulldoze over us to build a power plant we don’t want and that we don’t need.

This is American democracy at its best, in the tradition of our founding fathers. Don’t let a company in Virginia bully us and dictate what happens to our waterfront. If we cower in fear and complacency, we get the pollution and blight, while they take their profits to Virginia.

Stand up and fight for our waterfront side-by-side with your neighbors!  Join the fight to take back our waterfront!

Get the latest updates at nopowerplant.com.

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Jeff & Melissa Ginsburg, Steve Aspel and Joan Irvine at our May 14th Election Watch Party
Deborah Shepard May 18, 2013 at 11:32 am
Big congrats to you Jeff. Please fill us in (Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach and Marina Hotel andRead More Visitors Bureau) on the hotel shuttle. Also, how do we get Riviera Village's newest hit, Rock N Brew to be called Redondo Beach vs. Torrance??
Joan Irvine May 16, 2013 at 08:08 am
Jeff, I am so pleased that you will be representing the residents of District 1 for the next fourRead More years.
Deborah Shepard May 18, 2013 at 11:56 am
Congrats to the boys and girls baseball/softball teams, showing the Redondo strength of body andRead More mind! Reading all sorts of good things about your teams! Great going players and coaches from the Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach and Marina Hotel staff!
john May 4, 2013 at 09:18 pm
And here I thought I needed to Drive to San Diego to experience craft breweries and bars. Nice job.
sheri patterson April 30, 2013 at 12:19 am
Mary, I read your posts throughout the Measure A campaign. You may want to re-read your posts whenRead More you cast stones about "dividing a city". There wasn't much substantiation to any of your posts-- mostly just attacks on Jim Light. Do Aspel and Ginsburg condone this sort of behavior since you are such a strong voice for them?
Jim Light April 28, 2013 at 03:41 pm
http://www.prado2013.com/ Voters should read this before casting their ballot. Dianne Prado,Read More former District 1 candidate, exposes the electioneering, intimidation and cronyism of this campaign.
Jim Light April 26, 2013 at 11:16 pm
Perhaps we should just turn our heads and let the City Council violate the law. Is that what youRead More would do Mr H? The City Charter is the law of Redondo. The Council chose knowingly to violate it. When the judge found them in violation, the same Council doubled the costs with a frivolous appeal. This time three judges threw it out. Had the Council followed the Charter, there would be zero costs. If you want to hold anyone accountable, it should be those who cast the vote to violate the City Charter and disenfranchise the voters of Redondo. You should not hold me and the over 200 residents who contributed to the lawsuit to uphold the City Charter responsible for the Council's illegal action.
David Mallen May 6, 2013 at 11:28 pm
We are still waiting for someone -- perhaps the author of this post -- to make a coherent,Read More fact-based argument in favor of Mr. Diels. With all due respect, conclusory hopes and dreams of "reform" will not get 'er done in the face of Mr. Diels' voting record as City Councilman. Thankfully, one good thing has come of the author's blog post. The facts and blog posts have vindicated the honesty and integrity of the campaigns run by Dawn Esser and Chris Cagle, against a baseless attack by Mrs. Diels. If I had a magic mand, I would wave it and change the City Charter so that Dawn and Chris could share the position of Treasurer.
David Mallen May 6, 2013 at 11:17 pm
Mr. Azouz: Thank you. I am glad some neighbors find value in what I do, but more importantly IRead More respect the fact that you take the time to do your own homework. If you have expertise in a particular area that can benefit the City, feel free to contact me off line. That goes for anyone. After the election, I have a "big idea" that I want to promote for our City. When Bill Brand and Steve Aspel both agree that my idea is promising, then I think we are on the right track. I'll be curious to learn what the City Manager has to say.
Rocketgerl May 6, 2013 at 10:51 pm
Correction - that's his email. Jimlightforcouncil.com is more fun! Although I'm sure he'd love toRead More hear from you at either address!
Bryan M_HighlandPark May 5, 2013 at 03:13 am
Good info! I will be attending to see my young nephew in the choir. Glad to know more of theRead More background of the piece!