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4/20: East Palo Alto Residents To March For Our Health And Environment Thursday, April 20th, 2006
Rally and March
Start at 4:45PM at Parking Lot of Home Depot (Donohoe Street and East
Bayshore)
End at 6:00PM at Pulgas and Bay Road...
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 8:34pm PDT
Lt. Governor Candidate Proposes Rail System The Peace and Freedom Party candidate for California lieutenant governor, Stewart Alexander, is proposing an elevated twin rail system to move commuters between Riverside and Orange County. This is a plan to reduce traffic congestion and pollution in Southern California. The candidate is opposing the present plan, to build a 10 mile tunnel, drilling holes in the Santa Ana Mountains and the Cleveland National Forest....
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 4:43pm PDT
The Big One and SF City Officials The Big One will come and that fact has been made very clear by many experts. Foremost the United States Geological Survey Agency. I have studied the maps for the last 15 years and what I see from the maps and very recent data makes the situation at hand very serious. As human beings we can take the precaution and wait. We cannot defeat Mother Nature - we saw that with the Tsunami and we saw it with the recent major Earthquakes. The pity is that we have inept City Officials in San Francisco t...
Posted: Sun, Apr 16, 2006 4:23pm PDT
CSPA Advisory: SB1612 (Peripheral Canal) Update/Action Alert Please send your letter now to stop this latest attempt to construct the Peripheral Canal. SB 1612 would be a disaster for the Bay-Delta ecosystem, now suffering from unprecedented fish and food chain declines, if it passes through the Legislature!...
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2006 12:49pm PDT
San Francisco Public Utilities continues to waste tax payers money making poor choices San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) continues to make very poor choices and will poorer leadership under Susan Leal wastes millions of dollars most of it from the tax payers. Mayor Gavin Newsom continues to back Susan Leal and her cronies that surround her. Susan picks persons who favor life style rather then qualification. How can San Francisco continue to waste millions but more entrust our infrastructure in the hands of any inept and corrupt Susan Leal and her cronies. Our cl...
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 10:07pm PDT
Mirkarimi Suggests Daily Fine of $10,000 for PG&E (video/quicktime 13.3MB) "Every day this power plant stays open, PG&E needs to return $10,000 a day to this community...." -- Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, speaking at the April 11th rally to shutdown
the PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant. Two-minute QT movie. 13MB....
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 8:14pm PDT
Bush to visit San Jose, West Sac - April 21, 22 
On April 21, Bush will visit Cisco Systems in San Jose to pitch the American Competitiveness Initiative.
The next day, Bush is to tour the California Fuel Cell Partnership in West Sacramento....
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 6:56pm PDT
"Green Scare" Prisoner Letter Writing Cafe Political prisoners represent the heart of the movement for social
justice and the struggle for earth and animal liberation. They are the
ones bearing the brunt of this struggles' resistance. With the recent
federal indictments, grand juries and convictions we must come
together in solidarity and support these and other political prisoners....
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 6:17pm PDT
Soccer field vs seasonal wetlands area Strawberry Point School (94941) getting ready to put up soccer field on seasonal wetlands...exactly what message are we teaching the children?...
Posted: Fri, Apr 14, 2006 4:34pm PDT
Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai protests the Hunters Point PG&E Power Plant (video/quicktime 11.1MB) Dr. Sumchai was one of those who spoke in the heavy rain April 11th at the gates of the polluting power plant.
Three-minute QT movie. 11MB....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 7:49pm PDT
TELL WELLS FARGOS SHAREHOLDERS AND EXECUTIVES TO FUND THE FUTURE! Protest the Wells Fargo Shareholder's Meeting:April 25th @ 1:30...
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 9:32pm PDT
Dirty & Outdated PG&E Plant Protested 
Fed up with PG&E’s refusal to set a specific date to close the PG&E Hunters Point power plant and tired of years of broken promises to shut it down, 100 people led by Bayview Hunters Point community residents and Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice protested April 11, 2006, at the gates of the polluting power plant to ensure it closes once and for all....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 9:16pm PDT
Earth Day Grand Opening and Open House at Recycling Center (4/22) The City of Santa Cruz invites everyone to the Grand Opening of their new Single-Stream
Recycling Facility on Earth Day, Saturday, April 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The new recycling facility is
a part of the City Resource Recovery Facility (RRF) at 605 Dimeo Lane, three miles north of the city
limits off Highway 1....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 5:45pm PDT
Bayview Hunters Point Protest Demands Closure of PG&E Hunters Point power plant 100 People Brave Rain, Block Entrances to PG&E Hunters Point Power Plant do demand closure of polluter, justice for community. Bayview Hunters Point residents, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice and allies protested April 11, 2006 to call for the immediate shut down of this dirty and old power plant....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 1:27pm PDT
Action Alert: Delta in Peril from New Peripheral Canal Scheme! I know it's hard to believe at a time when the Delta food chain is crashing, but State Senator Joe Simitian is sponsoring a bill advocating the construction of a new Peripheral Canal around the Delta. Here's an ultra-urgent alert from Mark Rockwell and Bill Jennings on the latest threat to the Delta ecosystem. Please get the word out and send your letter or make a phone call TODAY!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 10:18am PDT
An EIR in the Bayview that is fake and does not address Cumulative Impacts in toto All new housing should be stopped in the Southeast Sector much as it has been stopped in the Eastern Neighborhoods for now. An Environmental Impact Report (EIR) should address all Cumulative Impacts and this has not been done with the fake EIR linked to the Bayview Hunters Point. Sophie Maxwell and some ignorant Blacks like the head of the BVHP PAC are out to sell out the community. The community would like to see an EIR addressing Cumulative Impacts now. Mayor Gavin Newsom wants his 49er Cit...
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 7:43am PDT
The PG&E Protests in Hunters Point Many braved the rain yesterday to protest contradicting PG&E statements to set closure dates in Hunters Point. Five people, amongst about 30, lined up along Evans Street holding homemade dolls in their arms to represent the children that PG&E has killed. And masks on their face to show what residents need to protect themselves from the polluted air....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 7:27am PDT
Images of a Threatened Oldgrowth Forest 
These are pictures taken by forest defenders in a newly threatened oldgrowth stand....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 8:33pm PDT
Derrick Jensen at Vets Hall 03-29-06 (audio/mpeg 27.0MB) Part 1 of a Talk given by Derrick Jensen at The Santa Cruz Vets Hall on 03-29-06....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 8:29am PDT
¿Qué cambios le gustaría ver en el Medioambiente Natural para el año 2010? Ecology Action se ha asociado con la United Way de Santa Cruz para establecer metas para el medioambiente natural para el Proyecto de Evaluación de la Comunidad, un programa diseñado para establecer metas basadas en las inquietudes de la población sobre una amplia gama de cuestiones y registrar su progreso....
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 2:54pm PDT
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