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Prayer ceremony for Yellowstone buffalo: What a blustery wind can evoke 
Chief Arvol Looking Horse led a prayer ceremony for the buffalo inside Yellowstone National Park, outside of the Stephens Creek capture facility, from which a record number of buffalo have been shipped to slaughter. This is a report, (not of the prayer ceremony itself, which was not recorded), of the day in context of that and the current buffalo situation....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2008 12:56am PDT
Mayor Admits City’s Homeless Plan is a Failure (video/x-ms-wmv 10.3MB) Below is a 2:48 minute video of mayor Alan Autry of Fresno explaining how his policy on homelessness has been a failure....
Posted: Tue, Apr 15, 2008 6:40pm PDT
Write to oppose AB 2296 - "California Animal Enterprise Protection Act" Assembly member Mullin (San Mateo) has introduced AB 2296 which will be heard THIS TUESDAY. We need people to make quick and polite phone calls asking for a NO vote....
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 11:56pm PDT
Urgent Action Alert for AB 1806, Lois Wolk's Fish Rescue Plans Bill 
Assemblywoman Lois Wolk's AB 1806 covers mitigation for the Prospect Island fish kill and requires direct and indirect mitigation for fish losses from the state and federal water export pumps from the time they were started in the 1960's to the present. If this measure is passed, there would be millions of dollars of mitigation money available for restoration for chinook salmon, steelhead, delta smelt, longfin smelt, green sturgeon and other rapidly declining fish species.
In light of the...
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 6:57pm PDT
Police Accountability - The positions of Fresno City Candidates The following information regarding the positions of various candidates in this year's Fresno City elections was obtained from materials provided by the Central Valley Progressive Political Action Committee (www.cvppac.org)....
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 5:32am PDT
Video: Matt Gonzalez delivers keynote at California Studies Conference Matt Gonzalez is running as an independent candidate for Vice President, on Ralph Nader's ticket....
Posted: Sun, Apr 13, 2008 2:43am PDT
Coonerty to Face Challenge in Obama Delegate Selection 2 PM Sunday African-American activist Metteyya Brahmana urged all those voting in the Obama caucus at Cabrillo College Sunday April 13th to vote down Mayor Ryan Coonerty. The caucus will begin at 2 PM at the Environmental Horticulture Center, Room 5005 "Top of the Campus" 6500 Soquel Drive, Aptos. Delegate candidates will be competing for two seats for the 17th Congressional District, one male and one female. Brahmana forwarded me some e-mail correspondence between himself and the Mayor which shows C...
Posted: Sat, Apr 12, 2008 1:47pm PDT
ACLU Seeks Information from City on Torch Route Planning and Crowd Control 
Thursday, April 10, 2008 : The ACLU of Northern California filed a request today under the Sunshine Ordinance with the San Francisco Mayor’s Office and San Francisco Police Department seeking records relating to the Olympic torch relay. The letter, which expressed disappointment in the way the city handled the event, asked for information regarding the planning around the relay route and enforcement actions at Justin Herman Plaza, the site originally planned for the closing ceremonies....
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 9:31pm PDT
Chico Impeachment Forum Begins Process Last night in Chico, a panel discussion with the public indicated that impeachment processes should begin to remove GW Bush and Dick Cheney from their respective offices before the Jan 1st, 2009 deadline....
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 11:56am PDT
California teachers protest budget cuts Wednesday, April 9, 2008 :Some 200 teachers, parents and children marched outside Trabuco Hills High School in Mission Viejo, Californiain southern Orange County, between Los Angeles and San Diegoon March 31, to protest a proposed $19.3 million in cuts to the Saddleback Valley Unified School District....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 7:13am PDT
RNC 2008: Hotels Announced for California Delegation The hotels housing the California delegation to the RNC in Minnesota were announced....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 4:59pm PDT
Remembering Oakland Police Riot & Human Rights Violations-April 7, 2003 
Five years ago Oakland police attacked non-violent anti-war protestors at Port of Oakland...
Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2008 12:53am PDT
Chronicle’s Nevius Displays Ignorance About Daly, Tenderloin Friday, April 4, 2008 : Chronicle columnist CW Nevius took time away from bashing homeless advocates this week to criticize San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly for not doing something that nobody asked him to do. Nevius wants Daly to sponsor a law that limits the amount of shelf space that Tenderloin liquor stores can devote to fortified wine, even though no Tenderloin group has requested such a law or believes that it is a priority....
Posted: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 9:28am PDT
Aerial Spray Violates 23 Human Rights 
Aerial Spray Program Imposed by CDFA May Violate Human Rights and Incur Liabilities
A detailed outline of 23 international human rights violations...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 12:13am PDT
Daniel Ellsberg Speech for War and Law League 3/30/08 (audio/mpeg 39.2MB) “Pentagon Papers” leaker Daniel Ellsberg spoke on the illegality of the Iraq war and the planned attack on Iran, in which he expects the US to use tactical nuclear weapons. War and Law League sponsored his appearance at the Unitarian Universalist church in SF on Sunday March 30th 2008. Audio: 1 hr 8 min....
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 10:45pm PDT
California Democratic Convention identifies problems, not solutions 
The California State Democratic Party Convention held in San Jose was not about party platforms, legislative agendas, or even organizational decision-making. It was more of a media event and a giant sales meeting to market the party to its own delegates. Its objective was not solutions, but winning the White House....
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 2:20pm PDT
Yes on Proposition A--Every Child Deserves a Great Teacher Thursday, April 3, 2008 : It’s no surprise to anyone that California’s school funding formulas are seriously flawed – our state is 46th in the nation in per student funding, and if the Governor gets his way, we’ll likely fall to dead last on the list. For decades, local communities have sought to take matters into their own hands by assessing additional property taxes to make ends meet and free their schools from the periodic bust cycles brought on by wildly fluctuating state appropriations f...
Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 8:23am PDT
Beach Impeach 5 is Cancelled Brad Newsham states that Beach Impeach 5 will be called off for personal reasons....
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 10:45pm PDT
PeaceTalks: Upcoming Candidate Forums for State Assembly & County Supervisor (audio/mpeg 8.5MB) George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz 101.1 FM interviews Micah Posner, Director of People Power, about the upcoming candidate forums for State Assembly and County Supervisor....
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 11:30am PDT
Wed 11am KALW 91.7 fm Matt Gonzalez on "Your Call" Matt Gonzalez on Your Call...
Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 10:55am PDT
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