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Restore the Delta Voices Opposition to Peripheral Canal at Congressional Hearing 
Restore the Delta, a Delta-based grassroots group, voiced its strong opposition to the Governor's proposed peripheral canal at a Congresisonal Resources Subcommittee hearing this morning in Vallejo....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 4:10pm PDT
San Francisco the City that knows how has NO sitting Epidemiologist San Francisco the City that knows how does not have a sitting Epidemiologist. Now, how could that happen with the current increase of AIDS and other such diseases. The bombardment of Asbestos Dust and other toxic dust in and around Parcel A - with the SF Health Department looking the other way. The SF Health Department with a $1 Billion dollar budget and growing is a disgrace to the human race. Some one must take responsibility - but before that Dr. Mitch Katz must go - he must resign....
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 8:22am PDT
Lennar keeps defying innocent constituents all over this Nation. Lennar Corp. keep defying the innocent constituents and continues to adversely impact thousands all over this Nation. Lennar tried taking on Mike Morgan a great guy who had the guts to question the dubious ploys of Lennar in Florida - read his web site. Closer to home we have been meeting City Officials in high places - who are pretending that they " know not " the dubious ploys of Lennar - even though many of them have been on the pay roll of Lennar BVHP LLC....
Posted: Sun, Jul 1, 2007 12:54pm PDT
The Joyful Alternative of Critical Mass 
For just a couple of hours on the last Friday of each month, hundreds to thousands of cyclists informally ride together to claim the streets which are normally ruled by automobiles. The gathering is part celebration and part peaceful protest. The main message: we still have a choice to live our lives in a way that is more thoughtful of the world's resources, to live in a way that is more nurturing of life and health, and to live our lives with more joy....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 1:09am PDT
Congress to Hold Hearing on Cheney’s Role in Klamath Fish Kill 
The House Natural Resources Committee will soon convene an oversight hearing about Dick Cheney's role in the change in Department of Interior policy that led to the Klamath River fish kill of 2002 - and to massive die-offs of juvenile salmon and steelhead every year since....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 12:20am PDT
Eric McDavid Update - Fundraising, Website Updated, and More We still have quite a way to go before we reach our goal of $15,000......
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Dick Cheney Engineered Klamath River Fish Kill of 2002 
This morning's article by Joe Becker and Barton Gellman in the Washington Post discloses how Dick Cheney engineered the Klamath Fish Kill of 2002, a move that inflicted irreparable harm on the lives of thousands of commercial fishermen, tribal fishermen and recreational anglers, as well as on the economy of Northern California and Oregon.
While an angler will get cited for keeping a coho salmon or using a hook that isn't considered barbless enough, corrupt officials like Cheney and his un...
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 3:02pm PDT
Help Win MILLIONS for Green Jobs Training: Support HR 2847 We're brimming with excitement here at the Ella Baker Center, because Representative
Hilda Solis has just introduced the "Green Jobs Act of 2007" in Congress!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 11:33am PDT
CSPA Advisory: Battle to Save the California Delta Continues 
John Beuttler, conservation director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, reviews some of the latest developments in the battle to save the Delta smelt and other fish on the California Delta....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 4:20pm PDT
Guerrilla Gardens 
For those of us living in our modern cities land is a foreign concept. Stories of land conjure romantic images of countrysides far from our crowded neighborhoods, images that seem irrelevant to our lives. Even though we inhabit a landscape smothered with buildings and concrete, the struggles for land fought by rural people hold many important lessons for us as we strive for control over our lives and communities. When we consider the landless state of most poor people the world round and h...
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 8:01pm PDT
Klamath News: Fish kill alert, Karl Rove, Lost River comments, job and more The Klamath River's juvenile salmon, currently migrating downriver, are in big trouble, spurring the Klamath Fish Health Assessment Team to increase its fish kill readiness alert to yellow. Here is the Klamath River News 6/22 from Regina Chichizola, the Klamath Riverkeeper....
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 4:37pm PDT
PiG&E's Lackey, Mayor Newsom, Might Veto Progressive Energy Policy Approved By SF Board 
WE NEED YOUR HELP URGENTLY!!!
After the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed Community Choice Aggregation 9-2 on Tuesday adopting a plan to put San Francisco on the way towards energy independence by financing a 360 MW solar network and making the community's power 51% renewable by 2017, rumors have circulated that Mayor Gavin Newsom is threatening to veto the Plan....
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 2:15pm PDT
Davis and Sacramento Residents Present Less-Toxic Alternatives at Vector Board Open House Sacramento and Davis residents will hold an a supplemental open house at the Vector Board's annual open house at the Sacramento/Yolo Mosquito Vector Control district office in Elk Grove on Saturday, June 23....
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 11:26am PDT
NEWSOM plans to Veto Community Choice (Public Power) in SF Call him NOW After 3 years he is ready to betray us; we can still pull it out...
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 4:32pm PDT
Restore the Delta Action Alert: Resources Committee Hearing in Vallejo on July 2 If you want to see the California Delta restored, don't miss the special House Resources Committee to be hold in Vallejo at 9 a.m. on July 2....
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 4:10pm PDT
Our Energy Just Got Greener Thursday, June 21, 2007 :Here's some very, very good news that you probably haven't heard. On June 19, the Board of Supervisors passed the Community Choice Aggregation Implementation Plan, which will aggressively move San Francisco to 51% renewable energy without raising our power bills. San Francisco is setting an example in the fight against climate change and we have every reason to celebrate....
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 10:34am PDT
Greens Blast Governor Schwarzenegger's Delta Canal Plan The California Green Party today strongly criticized Governor Schwarzenegger for his proposal to build a peripheral canal as "an antiquated plan" and "the wrong solution for the wrong problem." Meanwhile, the state and federal pumps continue to kill hundreds of threatened Delta smelt....
Posted: Wed, Jun 20, 2007 12:04pm PDT
Klamath River Conditions Ripe for Another Fish Kill 
The Klamath Fish Health Assessment Team (KFHAT), a collaboration of agencies, tribes, and restoration organizations that formed during the summer of 2003 with the purpose of providing early warning and a coordinated response plan to avoid, or at least address, a fish kill event such as occurred in the fall of 2002, has increased its fish kill readiness alert level to "yellow."...
Posted: Wed, Jun 20, 2007 8:12am PDT
Hoopa Valley Tribe Praises Thompson's Bill to Fund Trinity River Restoration Leaders of the Hoopa Valley Tribe praised Representative Mike Thompson for his introduction of H.R. 2733, a bill to adequately fund Trinity River restoration, in the House last Thursday....
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2007 4:36pm PDT
SF Supes Vote to Leave PG&E San Francisco Supervisors Approve Plan to Leave PG&E Power System;
Prepare To Launch Long-Awaited Innovative, Local Green Energy Plan
S.F. to build 50% renewable energy by 2017 —
Community Choice Aggregation gaining momentum statewide...
Posted: Mon, Jun 18, 2007 11:11pm PDT
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