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Coastal California Sunflower Is Latest Endangered Species Act Success
EUREKA, Calif., March 30, 2022 — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today changed the Endangered Species Act status of beach layia, a small sunflower that grows only in California’s coastal dunes, reclassifying it from endangered to threatened. The change is due to reduced impacts from offroad vehicles, grazing, and development throughout much of the species’ range....
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2022 1:45pm PDT
"From Selma To Sausalito" Journalist Jeremy Portje Press Conference In Sausalito
A press conference was held to announce the filing of a lawsuit against the Sausalito police for the attack and arrest of independent journalist Jeremy Portje. Homeless and people living in boats also talked about the continuing violent assaults on them by the Sausalito police. They charged that the police have flagrantly violated First Amendment and basic human rights by the physical and abuse that journalists have faced....
Posted: Tue, Feb 22, 2022 9:40am PST
Challenging Colonialism s01e03: Weapons of Mass Destruction (p.II)
Part II: A History of Resistance
Part two of a four-part episode outlines dams as a colonial project, and centers Indigenous science in the historical and ongoing indigenous resistance to eco-genocide....
Posted: Mon, Feb 7, 2022 7:11am PST
Journalists Under Attack,The CA Shield Act & The Cases Of Brian Carmody & Jeremy Portje
David Snyder, the executive director of the First Amendment Coalition talks about the cases of independent journalists Bryan Carmody and Jeremy Portje who have both been illegally assaulted by police and had their equipment seized despite the California Shield Act which is supposed to protect them. He also discusses the judges who have issued warrants to take this action....
Posted: Sun, Jan 16, 2022 9:04pm PST
Good News for Salmon Leaving Coastal Streams Entering the Ocean
According to a story in NW News Network the NOAA Fisheries are reporting some of the best conditions for young salmon leaving coastal rivers and streams and entering the Pacific Ocean. That’s because of a strong upwelling bringing nutrients up from the deeper parts of the Ocean and making nutrients available for the organisms young salmon eat....
Posted: Tue, Jan 11, 2022 8:47am PST
Salmon Reach Old Spawning Grounds In Heavy Rains For First Time In Years
The heavy rains of December and January have brought endangered coho salmon up into the small tributaries of the San Geronimo Valley for the first time in years, as did the early rains of October, which brought Chinook salmon in Woodacre Creek for the first time ever documented....
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2022 1:09pm PST
Pt. Reyes Station Protests January 6 Insurrection
Small town has big turnout...
Posted: Fri, Jan 7, 2022 4:22pm PST
Turtle Island Restoration Network Salmon Tours Featured on San Francisco Chronicle Page 1
On January 4th 2022, the San Francisco Chronicle published a Page 1 story on Turtle Island Restoration Network’s (TIRN/SPAWN) Salmon Tours in Marin County, titled, “A good year’ to see coho salmon make their annual return to Marin creek’s." when Chronicle reporter Tara Duggan joined a TIRN/SPAWN public tour in Samuel P. Taylor State Park....
Posted: Thu, Jan 6, 2022 4:30pm PST
SPAWN Announces New Residential Internship Opportunities in Marin County, CA Redwoods
Marin County-- SPAWN announces new residential internship opportunities for recent college graduates to gain training and opportunities in habitat restoration, salmon biological monitoring, native plant propagation, and effective environmental advocacy....
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2022 8:17am PST
WorkWeek:Homeless/Journalist Attacked, South Africa Clover Strike & UAW Columbia Grads
WorkWeek covers the attack on Sausalito Homeless & Journalist Jeremy Porje, Next we cover the South African GIWUSA Clover Workers Strike & UAW Columbia Graduate Students Strike. We also program the SF Mime Troupe's "Red Carol"...
Posted: Sat, Jan 1, 2022 1:02pm PST
Sausalito Homeless Protest Police Attacks & Arrest Of Journalist Jeremy Portje
Homeless are under attack in Sausalito as well as an independent journalist Jeremy Portje. California Homeless Union counsel Anthony Price is interviewed about these struggles....
Posted: Fri, Dec 24, 2021 12:40pm PST
Protest in Sausalito Against Police Brutality
Advocates of Sausalito's unhoused and anchor-outs demand removal of Sgt. Thomas Georges...
Posted: Sun, Dec 12, 2021 11:28am PST
California Delays Some Dungeness Crab Fishing to Protect Whales
Announcement Comes After Humpback Entanglement in Crab Gear...
Posted: Tue, Nov 2, 2021 11:02am PDT
Witches Gather at Mission San Rafael for Indigenous Activists
A group of Witches gathered at Mission San Rafael during Sunday mass in support of the Indigenous Peoples Day 5 protestors who will return to court this week....
Posted: Sun, Oct 10, 2021 7:55pm PDT
Vallejo Joins Nation With Its Own Women's March
From City Hall, through farmers market and waterfront...
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2021 10:53pm PDT
Point Reyes Women’s Protest
Over 50 gathered in small West Marin town...
Posted: Sat, Oct 2, 2021 9:41pm PDT
Time and Again: An exhibition centering on Rigo 23’s statue of Native activist Leonard Peltier
This exhibit centers on "Leonard Peltier - Waiting," a mixed media 12 X 6 X 9 foot statue that is based on a painted self-portrait that Peltier painted from prison. The statue has been exhibited in four other venues, in Washington, DC; Los Angeles and San Francisco, according to Rigo 23....
Posted: Fri, Sep 24, 2021 2:16pm PDT
Victory in Sonoma County
JULY 28TH, 2021 - Wellpath, one of the nation’s largest providers of prison healthcare services, has grown accustomed to securing no-bid contracts for its services in California. But NUHW members who work for Wellpath at the Sonoma County Jail this month successfully blocked a five-year contract extension that Wellpath thought was a done deal....
Posted: Thu, Jul 29, 2021 1:47am PDT
Resistance at Sausalito Camp Eviction
An encampment near Dunphy Park was destroyed and residents evicted as the city of Sausalito forced residents out of their community. Resistors fought bravely but were told their new home would have to be an area that is muddy and close to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ debris yard, where boats are taken from the water for destruction....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2021 2:43am PDT
Flowers and Candles Form Tribute to Black Lives Murdered
Photos from a vigil held in Mill Valley on May 25th....
Posted: Sat, May 29, 2021 1:07am PDT