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Restore the Delta has just unveiled its 2009 Platform in "Delta Flows," the group's e-newsletter. This is a vision based on environmental justice, in contrast to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's politically corrupt Delta Vision and Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) processes that are proposing more dams and a peripheral canal as a "solution" to the Delta's problems. In the same newsletter Restore the Delta applauds the lawsuit filed by the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance and ...

Activists and Community Organizations in Sonoma County are coming together this Sunday to network, hear about the various projects/campaigns/actions being organized in our region, and discuss possible ideas for collaboration among the many social justice groups here. This meeting will bring together groups that deal with, among other issues, immigrants' rights, police brutality, feminism and womyns rights, labor, anti-war, sustainable development, arts and culture....

Jim Martin and John Lewallen will talk about "environmental injustice" under Governor Schwarzenegger's fast tracking of the MPLA Process in Mendocino County on KZYX tonight at 7 p.m....

This is an excellent, balanced analysis of what the 2008 election will mean for California rivers by Steve Evans, conservation director of Friends of the River. "The expected focus of the Obama Administration on energy and global warming is hugely positive given the previous administration’s position of denial," said Evans. "But President-Elect Obama’s views on some key issues do raise a few red flags in regard to rivers, including his strong support for water-consumptive ethanol as an al...

Vietnam Veterans will be joining a delegation of Vietnamese women touring the U.S. to raise awareness of the lingering issues of Agent Orange and Dioxin poisoning in Vietnam, almost forty years after the end of the U.S. war there. From 2nd and 3rd generation birth defects to the continuing damage to crops and farmland, this enduring legacy of U.S. militarism and warfare demands attention, relevant law changes and intentional consciousness....

The 5th and Final George Bush Going Away Party/Evening of Political Comedy in 4 northern California cities runs October 22-25, with a *Sarah Palin Look-Alike Contest* featured the first night in San Francisco. I caught up with comedy producer Lisa Geduldig shortly after she ran into a dead ringer for Palin....

The billion.3 train tax in Sonoma and Marin (SMART), Measure Q, is a veiled attack on the environment and a Trojan horse for expanded development. Allied with the Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP) under NCRA (North Coast Railroad Authority), the train plans envision a combination of passenger and freight from southern Marin to Humboldt Bay. Serious environmental consequences of this plan have been subsumed by SMART and NCRA's pseudo environmental benefit message. The SMART train will also ...

Hundreds of unionists and their supporters are expected to rally Monday atthe trial of African American port workers beaten and arrested as they returned to work from lunch at the Port of Sacramento, located in West Sacramento....

Two environmental rights advocated were ordered to take down their freeway sign today, a sign that was calling attention to SMART's (Sonoma Marin Area Rail Transit's) harmful impact on endangered species in Gallinas Creek....

California's North Coast and the Oregon Coast are the target of wave energy development in a fast-track process by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). This aggressive development of wave energy without significant public participation and environmental analysis occurs as the Bush administration has lifted the moratorium on offshore oil drilling. To proceed ahead with any type of energy development on our coastal waters, whether wave energy or oil drilling, is insane when West...