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Families Demand a Repeal of Peace Officers Bill of Rights! On August 18th Families from all over California whose loved ones died at the hands of Law Enforcement gather for a Rally & Protest in Sacramento California. The Families are demanding a Repeal of the Peace Officers Bill of Rights....
Posted: Mon, Aug 1, 2016 11:49pm PDT
2016 Sacramento Visit of Mexican Trade Unionist Two leaders of the trade union movement in Mexico will be coming to Sacramento to discuss the growing labor crisis, murders and repression...
Posted: Thu, Jul 14, 2016 11:41am PDT
Farming Community Rallies in Sacramento to Demand Protections from Agricultural Pesticides Residents from California’s most extensively farmed regions converged on Sacramento today to deliver more than 27,000 petition signatures and a letter representing hundreds of thousands of Californians, all demanding protections for their children from exposure to agricultural pesticides at school....
Posted: Tue, Jul 12, 2016 3:36pm PDT
State prosecutors hit Gerawan with fresh complaint Visalia, Calif., June 30, 2016 — Two months after the full Agricultural Labor Relations Board issued a unanimous 81-page decision decisively finding Fresno-based tree fruit grower Gerawan Farming Inc. guilty of repeatedly violating California’s farm labor law, state prosecutors issued a new complaint against the giant company alleging serious and repeated violations of the law....
Posted: Sat, Jul 2, 2016 11:53pm PDT
Officials Propose Allowing Oil Companies to Dump Waste Fluid Into Water Supplies California Officials Propose Allowing Oil Companies to Dump Waste Fluid Into Dozens of Underground Water Supplies...
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2016 3:57pm PDT
Shell Pipeline in Northern California Has History of Oil Spills, Documents Show TRACY, Calif., May 24, 2016 — A Shell pipeline that just spilled at least 21,000 gallons of oil near the Northern California city of Tracy has leaked at least twice before in the past year, according to state documents uncovered by the Center for Biological Diversity....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2016 11:44am PDT
California Announces Plan to Allow Oil Industry to Pollute More Underground Water SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 12, 2016 — California oil regulators today proposed exempting another underground water source from protection under state and federal laws. If approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the proposed “aquifer exemption” would allow the oil industry to inject waste fluid into the Round Mountain aquifer in Kern County....
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2016 5:31pm PDT
UFW improving farm worker lives through proactive union work Attending the United Farm Workers’ 20th Constitutional Convention May 19-22 at the Rabobank Convention Center in Bakersfield, Calif. are nearly 400 farm worker delegates and alternates representing their co-workers at ranches under union contract in California, Oregon and Washington state. The convention highlights how farm workers today are living out the legacy of Cesar Chavez and the farm worker movement....
Posted: Thu, May 12, 2016 4:14pm PDT
Farm labor board rules Gerawan guilty of ‘extensive’ and ‘illegal misconduct’ (04/16/2016) The full Agricultural Labor Relations Board issued a unanimous 81-page decision on Friday, April 15 decisively affirming the 192-page Sept. 17, 2015 opinion by an ALRB administrative law judge finding the giant Fresno-based tree fruit grower Gerawan Farming Inc. guilty of “commit[ing] numerous” violations of California labor laws (P. 68). Judge Mark R. Soble ruled last year after hearing sworn testimony from 130 witnesses in 2014 and 2015. The ruling by the Sacramento-based ALRB ...
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2016 9:26pm PDT
West Coast Fisher Denied Endangered Species Act Protection in Bow to Timber Industry PORTLAND, Ore., April 14, 2016 — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today denied Endangered Species Act protection to West Coast fishers, mid-sized forest carnivores that were proposed for federal protection in October throughout their range in California, Oregon and Washington. Following pressure from the timber industry, the Service withdrew the proposed protection despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the survival of the rare carnivores is threatened by logging, toxic chemicals use...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2016 3:32pm PDT
Lawsuit Challenges EPA Inaction on Dangerously Inadequate Air Pollution Plan for Alon Refinery BAKERSFIELD, Calif., April 13, 2016 — Concerned citizens and conservation groups today sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to protect the San Joaquin Valley’s air from the polluting Alon oil refinery project in Bakersfield, Calif. Valley residents already breathe some of the nation’s smoggiest air....
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2016 1:44pm PDT
Another man killed by Sacramento Police Despite any offense the deceased man may have committed, this case fits the pattern of increasingly militarized cops escalating the use of violence when other means are available. This incident is another reflection of a racist system that alienates people of color by using violence to deal with them instead of trying to deescalate the situation....
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2016 10:02am PDT
One Person Killed In Officer-Involved Shooting In Central Fresno Eye-witness reports that a Fresno Police officer shot and killed man after the individual had already tossed away a gun. In other words: Unarmed Man Shot and Killed by Fresno Police....
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2016 8:28pm PDT
Gloria La Riva, P&F Pres Candidate, Supports UC Davis Occupation As someone who took active part in two building takeovers at Brandeis University to defend affirmative action, I salute the student-led occupation inside the University of California Davis’ Mrak Hall. The students are justly demanding that Linda Katehi, the UCD Chancellor, resign immediately and are calling for educational reforms....
Posted: Sun, Mar 20, 2016 5:58pm PDT
ACLU Files Lawsuit Against Hospital For Denying Reproductive Health Care SAN FRANCISCO, December 29, 2015 — The ACLU and the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP have filed a lawsuit challenging Dignity Health’s use of religious directives to deny basic reproductive health care to its patients. Filed on behalf of patient Rebecca Chamorro and Physicians for Reproductive Health, the suit argues that withholding pregnancy-related care for reasons other than medical considerations is illegal in California....
Posted: Wed, Dec 30, 2015 1:38pm PST
Paris Panels to Explore International Movement to Ban Fracking PARIS— Two panel discussions at the Paris climate conference on Wednesday will explore the growing global movement to ban fracking and other extreme fossil fuel extraction....
Posted: Mon, Dec 7, 2015 4:24pm PST
California State University Faculty Votes to Authorize Strike Members of the California Faculty Association on the 23 campuses of the California State University voted “Yes by over 94% percent” to authorize a strike, CFA President Jennifer Eagan announced today at a news conference....
Posted: Wed, Nov 4, 2015 1:46pm PST
California State University Faculty Conclude Strike Authorization Vote Yesterday, members of the California Faculty Association (CFA) at the 23 campuses of the California State University system concluded a statewide vote on whether or not to authorize union leadership to call a strike if contract negotiations with management fail to result in a fair deal....
Posted: Thu, Oct 29, 2015 1:45pm PDT
Statement From PETA: Death Toll Rises at Dangerous Fresno Chaffee Zoo For Immediate Release: October 15, 2015...
Posted: Sat, Oct 17, 2015 2:44am PDT
On Behalf of My Sister, Nicole Deane My Sister, #BlackLivesMatter, The Oakland Police, a Warrant and the Kern County District Attorney....
Posted: Wed, Oct 14, 2015 7:08am PDT
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