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DESCRIPTION:Stop the Spray San Francisco\nJuly 21, 2008\nIn This Issue\nSTS-SF Meeting 
 on Thursday\nQ&A 101 Flyer\nTake Back Local Control\nMore 
 Madness...\n\n   1. SIGN\n      THE PETITION\n   2. SPREAD\n      THE 
 WORD\n   3. CONTACT\n      THE GOVERNOR\n   4. CONTACT\n      FEDERAL 
 OFFICIALS\n   5. ATTEND\n   6. VOLUNTEER\n   7. DONATE\n\nJOIN OUR\nSOCIAL 
 NETWORK\nSPRAY 
 ALERT\nstopthespray.org\ncassonline.org\nlbamspray.com\nsprayalert.org\nplaynotspray.org\nmomasunite.wordpress.com\nJoin 
 Our Mailing List\n	\nDear (Contact First Name),\n\nEven though the smoke 
 from all the wildfires has finally lifted, we're still encountering the 
 California Department of Food & Agriculture's (CDFA) 
 smokescreen!\n\nWe've still got lots of concerns about their toxic ground 
 program (which may include truck fogging of same or similar pesticide 
 formulas and permethrin splats on thousands of telephone poles in our 
 neighborhoods - permethrin being a neurotoxin and toxic to bees and humans) 
 and how they will define which "forested, agricultural and rural" areas 
 will be targets of aerial spraying still planned for the Light Brown Apple 
 Moth (LBAM).\n\nIt's a waiting game, and they may think we'll all lose 
 interest and go away, but they are mistaken.\n\nWe're researching and 
 gearing up for the next phase of this effort, which includes working to 
 reverse State Preemption of Local Authority to Regulate Pesticide, support 
 ecologically sound methods of pest and weed control, and promote 
 biodiverse, organic farming.\n\nAnd you can help!\n\nStop the Spray-SF 
 General Meeting\nThursday Night, July 24th\n6:00 - 7:30 pm\n776 Haight 
 Street at Scott (Sophia Healing Center)\n \nCome for information or to take 
 action.\nQUESTIONS & ANSWERS 101\n\nThere is a lot of confusion in the 
 community about where the Light Brown Apple Moth Eradication Program 
 stands. Many people mistakenly believe the whole program is over since the 
 State announced it was removing aerial spraying over urban areas. Our 
 friends at Stop the Spray Marin have created a Q & A Flyer to address 
 some of the questions that have been arising in the community. Please help 
 us clear up the confusion. Download and distribute or forward this flyer to 
 anyone you know who is following this issue.\n\n\nTAKE BACK LOCAL CONTROL 
 OF PESTICIDES\n\nJoin a growing movement across the state working to 
 protect public health by taking back the right of local governments to 
 control pesticide use.\n\nCalifornia has a pesticide pre-emption law, which 
 says that "no ordinance or regulation of local government-- may prohibit or 
 in any way attempt to regulate any matter relating to the registration, 
 sale, transportation, or use of pesticides," This law prevents towns, 
 cities and counties from making local pesticide laws to protect public 
 health, such as requiring neighbor notification about pesticide use or 
 deciding that certain pesticides are too dangerous to be used 
 locally.\n\nState Assemblywomen Fiona Ma (SF District 12) introduced AB977 
 to overturn the state law that prohibits local control on pesticides. The 
 bill may be heard by the Senate Environmental Quality Committee August 4, 
 2008. We need to ensure the bill stays in the Environmental Quality 
 Committee and does not get referred to the Senate Ag Committee where it 
 would be certain to face instant death. You can help!\n\nTHIS WEEK, please 
 call local and state representatives and urge them to vote to overturn the 
 pesticide pre-emption law by supporting AB977.  And please urge your 
 friends and family to do the same, for a healthier California!\n\nTo take 
 action, go here.\n \nWILL THIS MADNESS EVER END?\n\nWe hate to be the 
 bearers of more bad news, but, if the LBAM spray wasn't enough to worry 
 about, we have just learned that the annual spraying of toxic pesticides 
 along the shorelines of the Bay Area, done by the Spartina Project, is 
 fully underway. The first applications of this program were scheduled to 
 begin early this month in Marin County, including aerial spraying in 
 Alameda County last week, and the San Leandro and Hayward shores this 
 week.\n\nPlease find more details at the link below, and consider urging 
 the people responsible for this program to put a stop to it before they 
 poison aquatic and other life forms in these fragile habitats.\n\nThe map 
 of areas to be treated (a few do not involve pesticides - see schedule for 
 details):\n\nhttp://www.spartina.org/maps/maps/2008-2010_Treatment_Sites.gif\n\nThis 
 is what they're spraying (imazapyr and 
 glyphosate):\n\nhttp://dontspraycalifornia.org/imazapyr.pdf\n\nand\n\nhttp://www.alternatives2toxics.org/catsoldsite/round.htm\n\n\nFor 
 contact information for the people responsible for 
 this:\nhttp://www.spartina.org/about.htm#staff\n\n\nThank you for your 
 support!\n\nMichelle Darby, Chair\nStop the Spray - San Francisco 
 Team\n\nFEATURED ACTION OF THE WEEK\nTAKE BACK LOCAL CONTROL OF 
 PESTICIDES!\nJoin a growing movement across the state working to protect 
 public health by taking back the right of local governments to control 
 pesticide use. Help pass resolutions supporting local control and make 
 calls immediately to support Assembly Bill 977, introduced by 
 Assembly-woman Fiona Ma, that overturns the state law which prohibits local 
 control of pesticides.\nMORE INFO\nFeatured Event\nSpecial Town Hall and 
 Potluck\nAerial Spraying and Moth Eradication\n"It's Not 
 Over!"\nWHEN:\nMonday July 28 in San Rafael\n6:00 pm Potluck Dinner\n7:30 
 pm Town Hall Forum\nWHERE:\nFirst United Methodist Church\n9 Ross Valley 
 Drive, San Rafael\nCome for dinner then join leading activist Frank Egger 
 and medical expert Dr. Ann Haiden for an enlightening update on the Stop 
 the Spray campaign.\nThe State of California recently postponed and 
 modified its plan to conduct aerial spraying of the Bay Area, due to 
 enormous public outrage and opposition from local officials, 
 environmentalists, scientists and doctors. But the State still plans to 
 eradicate the Light Brown Apple Moth. Long-time Fairfax council member and 
 environmental leader Frank Egger will tell how a wonderful grassroots 
 campaign continues to fight California's powerful state-sponsored 
 agricultural industry, including plans for litigation. Dr Ann Haiden's 
 presentation will draw from her recent report on health hazards of 
 particles and toxins in the spray, and will cover public safety issues. A 
 short documentary film will also be shown.\nFor information contact Craig 
 Slater at 721-7241 or craigyes@sbcglobal.net.\nSponsored by Marin Peace and 
 Justice Coalition and First United Methodist Church\n\nput up by pres. of 
 \n\n http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/23/18519218.php
SUMMARY:Stop the Spray San Francisco
LOCATION:Stop the Spray-SF General Meeting\nThursday Night, July 24th\n6:00 - 7:30 
 pm\n776 Haight Street at Scott (Sophia Healing Center)\n \nCome for 
 information or to take action
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