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26th National Pesticide Forum - March 14-16 at UC Berkeley
Reclaiming
Our Healthy Future: Political change to protect the next generation,
the 26th National Pesticide Forum, will be held March 14-16, 2008 at the
University of California, Berkeley. This exciting event is convened by
Beyond Pesticides, Californians
for Pesticide Reform (CPR) and Pesticide
Action Network North America (PANNA)....
Posted: Sat, Jan 5, 2008 7:20pm PST
NOT ONE MORE - WRAN Calls for Moratorium on Cellular Antennas and WiFi in Santa Cruz County
Please call, write and/or attend the Santa Cruz County Planning Commission Hearing on Wednesday, January 9, 2008, at 7:00pm.
701 Ocean Street, 5th Floor, Santa Cruz
Cell tower installation is planned by Metro PCS near Shoreline Middle School, Simpkins Family Swim Center and Schwann Lake Park on Ledyard Co. property, 1005 17th Ave, Santa Cruz. – There is an existing cell tower at Brommer & 17th....
Posted: Sat, Jan 5, 2008 6:06pm PST
643 Documented Complaints after Aerial Pesticide Spraying
A Review of 643 Documented Complaints of Adverse Reactions
Following the CDFA’s Aerial Spraying of two Pesticides based on
Pheromones over Densely Populated Neighborhoods in Santa Cruz and
Monterey Counties in September, October and November 2007...
Posted: Sat, Jan 5, 2008 5:59pm PST
Older Homeless Man Reports Being Driven Out Into the Rain Friday
Craig Canada, a homeless blogger [http://www.palmspringsbum.com/blog/], reported yesterday by phone that during the heavy rain two SCPD officers drove him out from under the eaves of the flower shop on Cathcart between Pacific and Cedar Sts into the foul weather....
Posted: Sat, Jan 5, 2008 1:59pm PST
California prepares massive cuts in response to budget crisis and economic woes
Saturday, January 5, 2008 :The growing economic crisis in the US and the collapse of the housing market is beginning to have major ramifications on state budgets throughout the country. Nowhere is the impact more acute than in California, where the state government, under the leadership of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, is preparing for massive spending cuts over the next year....
Posted: Sat, Jan 5, 2008 9:18am PST
Spineless Mayor Gavin Newsom - led by Diane and Nancy to build stadium on very toxic site
We have a spineless Mayor Gavin Newsom led by the Senile, Senator Diane Feinstein and Congressperson Nancy Pelosi - armed with $82 million trying to abate a site that really needs $2 Billion - is one of the ten worst polluted sites in the Nation - called Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Ripe with very serious, radiological woes. The community has NOT been consulted and the rogue policy makers - sneak in and out - have fake Press Conferences - and declare that indeed the stadium is needed for Bay...
Posted: Fri, Jan 4, 2008 3:06am PST
The California Nurses Association/NNOC statement about the death of Nataline Sarkisyan
California nurses group says insurer CIGNA has 'blood on their hands'
The family of a 17-year-old California girl who died after being initially denied payment for a liver transplant is suing the teen's insurance company, an attorney for the family said Friday.
Nataline Sarkisyan, who died Thursday night after her family removed her from life support, had been in a vegetative state for weeks due to complications following a bone marrow transplant. Insurer CIGNA HealthCare had first deni...
Posted: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 10:40am PST
Parking Lot Panic Law Used to Disperse Drummers
On two successive Wednesdays, police have ordered the peaceful drum circle to leave their traditional spot in the public parking lot behind Tacqueria Vallarta and Logos using Mayor Coonerty's Ban on Public Assemblies in parking lots. The new merchant-backed law prohibits lingering in a parking lot or garage unless you have a vehicle there (and then only for fifteen minutes). It removed ten blocks of public space from public use....
Posted: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 10:37am PST
Is There Equal Justice Under the Law?
This is the first report I have written on the death of my friend, Pamela Kincaid, since August 18, 2007. I thought it was time to bring everyone up to date. The photo below is Paul, Kayla, and Pam in 2000....
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 10:36pm PST
California’s Historic RN-to-Patient Hospital Staffing Ratios Upgraded Again with New Year
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 : California’s historic safe hospital staffing law, achieved through years of advocacy by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, completes its phase-in period as ratios on several units were lowered on January 1, 2008 to meet state mandates for minimum safe care. Over the five year course of their phase-in, these ratios have revolutionized hospital care and improved patient safety by mandating that hospitals maintain minimum, specifi...
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 5:46pm PST
"I Heard That" -- Black Exodus from San Francisco
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 : 2008 promises to be hot in the City! The exodus of Blacks has become a major issue; so much so that Reverend Amos Brown, Senior Pastor Third Baptist Church, and President San Francisco NAACP called an emergency meeting on Sunday December 23, at the church to address the critical subject! Earlier last year, Mayor Gavin Newsom issued a press release that stated his concerns over the declining African American population in the City, appointed the African American Ou...
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 6:51am PST
Yes on 92 Student Conf. Call > Support Community Colleges
end of meeting a guess - call info further down...
Event Date: Thu, Jan 3, 2008 3:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Jan 2, 2008 12:14am PST
The huge scale grading by LENNAR - the constant bombardment of the population by Parcel A.
Lennar BVHP LLC continues to do damage to the community living in and around Parcel A. The residents by Middle Point Public Housing, Kiska Road Public Housing, those living by Navy Road in the Oakdale Public Housing suffer the most. Daily - the area is bombarded by Heavy Metals, Particulates, Asbestos Structures. At the moment some company - is laying down the infrastructure - the clean and waste water pipes, man holes, catchment tanks - and in the bargain - disturbing the crushed Asbestos Du...
Posted: Sun, Dec 30, 2007 4:46pm PST
Why Blacks Are Leaving San Francisco Faster Than Any Other City In The Country
Black Plight Black Flight san Francisco...
Posted: Sat, Dec 29, 2007 3:09pm PST
Modesto Radical Mental Health Dicussion Meeting
Space to talk about mental, emotional, and other problems caused by this alienating society....
Event Date: Fri, Dec 28, 2007 6:27am PST
Posted: Fri, Dec 28, 2007 5:32pm PST
New Orleans Xmas Solidarity Rally at Sen. Feinstein's home in SF
Call Feinstein's office in SF (415) 393-0707 or LA (310) 914-7300 to STOP the demolition of public housing in New Orleans and to demand support for S.1668, "Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act of 2007" for a UNIT FOR UNIT replacement of demolished public housing.
10 min. Utube video of rally (link provided)...
Posted: Thu, Dec 27, 2007 3:01pm PST
Misinformation about a SF stadium on land that is toxic and land that belongs to the State
The Main Media pressed on by Senator Diane Feinstein, Congressperson Nancy Pelosi, Mayor Gavin Newsom, the Fishers, and others all filthy rich - want to develop land near Candlestick Point - without any meaningful dialog with the community. This time around - the community is organized - and this time around - we will fight them to do what is right. We really do not want a stadium without addressing Cumulative Pollution - in and around Candlestick Point....
Posted: Thu, Dec 27, 2007 6:45am PST
SCPD Covering Up False Police Report From Councilmember Mike Rotkin?
The following correspondence between me and Trisha Husome, Records Keeper of the Santa Cruz Police Department shows their reluctance to release a public record documenting Councilmember Mike Rotkin's inappropriate call to the SCPD in order to demand my arrest for merely attending a public ACLU meeting with a sign. Could this be to protect the 3-time Mayor? It seems to have that effect....
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2007 10:32pm PST
The Precautionary Principle and Hunters Point Naval Shipyard - which a Superfund Site
The Bayview Hunters Point is the last frontier. The land once belonged to the Muwekma Ohlone and was stolen from them. Years later - the United States Navy - used Eminent Domain to take the land - to support World War II efforts. In the interim - the U.S. Navy conducted the most polluted experiments - depleted uranium, buried radiated large animals, radials, lead, mercury, and sand blasts polluted elements from the ships and submarines that were part of the Atomic Experiment - off the Bikini ...
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2007 12:51pm PST
President George Bush has nothing to do with the 49ers and Hunters Point proposed stadium
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and Senator Diane Feinstein are using their personal clout to bring some $82 million - to do a little clean up that will require minimum $1 Billion at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. No one is their RIGHT MIND shouldl ever dream to build a stadium that is plagued with Radiological Elements. Depleted Uranium was experimented upon at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Nancy Pelosi is vested at Hunters Point and so is Diane Feinstein, the Senior, Senile Senator. $82 milli...
Posted: Wed, Dec 26, 2007 8:01am PST