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Environmental Alert: Action Needed To Save Santa Rosa Lands On June 5 The Mesa Distributing company is planning to develop a massive project in a agricultural area and next to some residences without an Environmental Impact Report. Support is needed for a hearing to voice protest this environmentally damaging project that will be held on June 5, 2008....
Posted: Sat, May 24, 2008 2:48pm PDT
Special Report on Washington D.C. Salmon Collapse Hearing The following is a special report from Roger Thomas, Golden Gate Fishermen's Association, and Dick Pool, American Sportfishing Association, on the House oversight hearing regarding the West Coast salmon disaster held in Washington D.C. on May 15.
In spite of the court’s recent decision and most independent biologists' opinions that the massive increases in water exports at the state and federal pumps in the California Delta were a primary cause of the Central Valley collapse, Mr. Rod McGi...
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2008 9:15am PDT
DEBUNKING MOTH MYTHS - UC Scientists Speak Out (video/x-flv 35.6MB) According to two UC scientists, not only can the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) not be 'eradicated' by the forced aerial pesticide spraying of the San Francisco Bay Area planned for this summer by a state agency, but it poses no real threat to agriculture in the first place....
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 12:53am PDT
6/8: Stop the Spray Live Concert 
A Benefit Concert to Stop Aerial and Ground Pesticide Spraying...
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 11:36am PDT
No Spray Forces Converge In SF For Town Hall Meeting Bay Area Stop the Spray forces held a Town Hall Meeting in San Francisco Thursday night to share information and develop ways to keep the crop dusters grounded in the light brown apple moth controversy....
Posted: Fri, May 9, 2008 2:48pm PDT
Fish Swim In Water, Not Promises! "Fish Swim in Water, Not Promises."
Zeke Grader, executive director of PCFFA
The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA) praised the U.S. Secretary of Commerce for issuing a fishery disaster declaration on May 1, but said that the emergency relief is only the first of many steps needed to avoid the total destruction of the West Coast salmon fishery. The fishery disaster was caused by collapse of Central Valley chinook salmon populations, the result of massive water e...
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2008 9:31am PDT
The Last Hike The casual account of a day in the life of a field botonist, interrupted when my travels took me to the site of a major quarry site for rock to be used in the channelization of the delta. It is currently open range land in Sonoma County....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2008 1:04pm PDT
Tibetan in San Rafael harassed for his activism The humble ex-monk is beseiged:
"KILL TIBET TERRORIST! TIBET WILL ALWAYS BE A PART OF CHINA!! DALAI LAMA GO TO HELL!" read one message via e-mail....
Posted: Sat, Apr 12, 2008 1:07pm PDT
Plan To Spray Toxic Biological Chemicals Over San Francisco Announced People of the world, the US Government is planning to poison more than two million people, in California, using an untested biological "pesticide" this summer. The chemical to be sprayed is classified by the EPA as a "pesticide" and the plan is to douse cities with this chemical designed to stick on everything for 90 days or longer....
Posted: Wed, Mar 12, 2008 1:07pm PDT
Indybay Urgently Needs Your Financial Support Now INDYBAY NEEDS TO RAISE $5000 in order to continue operating.
Indybay has expenses that amount to several hundred dollars every month for hosting this website. Indybay also has other smaller expenses that relate to outreach and having a mailbox. It's been over a year since Indybay last had a fundraising drive and now we need to ask for donations again to cover our costs into the foreseeable future. We'll be happy to end this drive as soon as we reach our goal. Please donate now so we ca...
Posted: Fri, Feb 29, 2008 8:11pm PST
The Haiti Experience: A Photojournalism Exhibit at Sonoma State University (3/5) 
“The Haiti Experience: a Struggle for Liberty,” featuring the work of Haitian photojournalist Wadner Pierre, opens for a week Monday, March 3, at Sonoma State’s Student Union in the Center for Culture, Gender and Sexuality....
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 3:36pm PST
Nation Joins State Senate Race in Blow to Migden Monday, February 11, 2008 : Former Marin County Assemblymember Joe Nation announced Saturday that he is joining Mark Leno and Joe Alioto Veronese in the State Senate race against Carole Migden. Nation’s entry makes him the only Marin-based candidate in the contest, and immediately weakens Migden’s base in that county. Internal polls have shown Migden holding an edge in name recognition in Marin over her other competitors, but now Nation is likely to take votes from the incumbent in that count...
Posted: Mon, Feb 11, 2008 7:26am PST
CodePINK Monthly Bridge Walk - January 2008 (video/quicktime 49.5MB) Three-minute QT movie. 49MB....
Posted: Fri, Feb 8, 2008 12:39pm PST
Urgent Actions for Marin's Salmon Streams Will Be Announced Today 
County Supervisor Steve Kinsey and SPAWN executive director Todd Steiner will announce the conclusions of confidential negotiations to protect endangered salmon habitat and conduct much-needed studies in the San Geronimo Valley of the Lagunitas Creek Watershed. The news comes on the heels of an announcement this week that the Lagunitas Watershed coho spawning run was the lowest in 12 years....
Posted: Wed, Feb 6, 2008 10:37am PST
Marin Coho Salmon Populations Plummet The spawning returns for endangered coho salmon in Lagunitas Creek and other Marin County watersheds are the worst recorded in 12 years, causing high levels of concern by biologists who have been working to monitor and restore the endangered populations following a decade of stable or slightly increasing spawning numbers. Here is the press release from SPAWN:...
Posted: Mon, Feb 4, 2008 2:38pm PST
The Political Economy of International Migration 
Chatino indigenous immigrants from Oaxaca live outdoors in a field in Sonoma County's wine country....
Posted: Sun, Feb 3, 2008 12:46pm PST
No Wetlands Landfill Expansion! Take action now to stop Waste Management from building a 16-story mountain of trash in San Francisco Bay!...
Posted: Sat, Feb 2, 2008 9:42am PST
Marin Screening: War Made Easy : A Benefit for Media Alliance 
Lark Theater
549 Magnolia Avenue
Larkspur, CA
(Doors open at 3:30pm)...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 5, 2008 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jan 28, 2008 2:54pm 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
Federal Criminal Investigation Opens into 58,000-Gallon Oil Spill in San Francisco Bay Monday, November 12, 2007 :
The oil spill has shut down over a dozen beaches and killed at least 60 birds. Ecologists warn that it could take months to clean up and that it threatens the Bay's diverse ecosystem, including several endangered species. We speak to Sejal Choksi, Program Director at San Francisco Baykeeper....
Posted: Mon, Nov 12, 2007 8:58am PST
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