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I agree entirely with Richards that Schwarzenegger is "a forked-tongue devil." While Schwarzenegger has grandstanded at endless photo opportunities and press conferences about "green energy" and "climate change," he has waged a relentless war against fishermen, Tribes and the state's fish populations. There is nothing "green" about Schwarzenegger other than the toxic "green" of corporate money that he and his collaborators worship. Photo: Governor Schwarzenegger, joined by First Lady Maria...

Dept. 107 at Wiley Manuel Courthouse in Oakland (661 Washington at 7th Street)...

Email blasts from Johannes Mehserle support website below. Take the latest one as you will, the whole "Johannes the angel" message with no mention of his victim Oscar Grant. There will be pro-Mehserle events on November 4th and 5th in Los Angeles. Also, the fourth pro-Mehserle rally -- scheduled for September 17th in Martinez -- and a fundraising garage sale have been canceled....

The development of a unified marine protected area proposal on the North Coast is a great victory for fishermen, Tribes, seaweed harvesters, environmentalists and other stakeholders. Rather than being “divided and conquered” by the Schwarzenegger administration as has happened elsewhere in the MLPA study regions, they chose to work together and overcome their differences to submit a single proposal to the MLPA Blue Ribbon Task Force....

The MLPA initiative has taken oil drilling, water pollution, wave energy development, aquaculture, habitat destruction and all other human impacts on the ocean other than fishing and gathering off the table. It would prohibit Tribal fishing and gathering while allowing deep water drilling. The initiative has nothing to do with real ocean protection - it is only a thinly disguised scheme to greenwash Schwarzenegger's abysmal environmental legacy....

"It's irresponsible for the governor to make taking away peoples' right to fish and gather a notch on his belt -- a belt frayed by the precipitous decline in the state's condition during his tenure," according to today's editorial in the Eureka Times-Standard....

MLPA Initiative officials and their corporate "environmental" NGO allies tried to bypass the CEQA process in their fervor to fast-track the MLPA in an attempt to greenwash the abysmal environmental legacy of Governor Schwarzenegger, but massive opposition by fishing and conservation groups forced the state of California to comply with the law and begin an environmental review (http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?xid=z03lb1yk59habr)....

As we prepare for sentencing in the case of Johannes Mehserle, we must also prepare to radically shift our strategic orientation, or risk becoming obsolete. Our objectives, our strategies, our relations with the community: all must change or the murder of Oscar Grant will become just another police murder, and our street rebellions “just another riot.”...

Tribal members and fishermen praised Chesbro for calling for a delay in the implementation of the MLPA Initiative....

In an egregious example of conflict of interest, Don Benninghoven cast what turned out to be the deciding vote to approve the very closures he had helped to design. The closures violated sovereign Tribal gathering and fishing rights that are guaranteed under the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, the UN Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples....