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imageHidden Behind Concrete and Barbed Wire: Hearings Expose Torture in California's SHUs
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by Revolution Newspaper
On August 23, in Sacramento, attorneys, psychologists, religious leaders, and most of all former prisoners and their family members and loved ones testified on the savage treatment in California's Security Housing Units (SHUs). Their testimony revealed a prison system that can only be described as torture, a nightmarish system in which a prisoner can be thrown in solitary confinement for decades based on anonymous informants and rumors, a system which would be cruel and unjust if it were appl...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2011 9:01pm PDT
imageSign our petition!‏
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by Tanyita Yupanqui
The Peasant Patrols and the population of Santiago de Chuco, La Libertad require an audit in the Mixed Court of Santiago de Chuco, as the judge and the prosecutor are very biased. We make the petition to do a legal audit to them and they have to renounce their charge within fifteen days / since July 4, 2011 / !...
Posted: Tue, Jul 12, 2011 2:20am PDT
textCaltrans on "Humboldt Time"... by Jeff Muskrat
To catch up on this update, please refer to this prior post :http://saverichardsongrove.blogspot.com/2011/01/richardson-grove-roadwork-to-begin_16.html A short video(1:57) of Caltrans grader causing fence and tree damages also available at: http://humboldtforestdefense.blogspot.com/2011/01/caltrans-on-humboldt-time.html...
Posted: Sun, Jan 23, 2011 10:23am PST
textWikiLeaks Reveals Marine Reserve's Role in Denying Chagossian Right of Return by Dan Bacher
In May 2009, Colin Roberts, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) Director, Overseas Territories, told US embassy staff, “We do not regret the removal of the population,” since removal was necessary for the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) to fulfill its “strategic purpose.”...
Posted: Wed, Dec 8, 2010 1:11pm PST
textIndependent North Coast Journalist Reports on Cancun UN Climate Negotiations by Dan Bacher
"We are posting stories and video from the voices of people outside the meeting who have the real solutions to climate change," Stormy Staats, independent video journalist says. "We are trying to put the actual event in context for what it really is...a corporately hijacked, green washed vacation for those representing the governments who keep us on the track to profits over people."...
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2010 11:44am PST
imageTASEKO MINES PM STEPHEN HARPER EMBROILED IN IMPENDING GENOCIDE OF THE TSILHQOT'IN FIRST N
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by Ivona Vujica
TASEKO MINES AND PM STEPHEN HARPER EMBROILED IN IMPENDING GENOCIDE OF THE TSILHQOT'IN FIRST NATIONS THROUGH PROPOSED DESTRUCTION OF FISH LAKE...
Posted: Mon, Aug 30, 2010 11:45pm PDT
textMidwest Oil Pipeline Disaster Spreads; California's Love Affair with Big Oil Continues by Dan Bacher
"These oil disasters are a wake up call. The price of dirty energy is simply too high. We need our leaders to deliver a bold plan to end America's dependence on oil and put America on the path to become a leader in the global clean energy economy," concluded Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune....
Posted: Thu, Jul 29, 2010 7:34pm PDT
textHow can the corrupt MLPA fiasco be open and transparent? by Dan Bacher
Rather than being an "open and transparent" process as former Assemblywoman Virginia-Strom Martin claims, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's fast-track MLPA Initiative is a corrupt fiasco that represents the biggest threat to tribal gathering and fishing rights in the last 30 years....
Posted: Sat, Jul 3, 2010 3:53pm PDT
textFrom MAXXAM President to The Nature Conservancy Vice President - Dr. John Mick Seidl by Tomas DiFiore
Nature Conservancy, BP, ENRON, MAXXAM, MLPA Initiative, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation - The Nature Conservancy hired MAXXAM president Dr. John Mick Seidl also of (ENRON) to "protect intact ecosystems and biodiversity hot-spots" around the globe beginning in Costa Rica. This guy is Mr. Oil going back to the 60's. SAN FRANCISCO June 5, 2001 The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced the addition of Dr. John M. "Mick" Seidl as Director for the Foundation's environmental programs. Seid...
Posted: Tue, Jun 8, 2010 9:20pm PDT
imageGulf Coast Community to BP: Never Again!
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by Dan Bacher
The Commercial Fishermen of America is calling on the nation to ensure that those responsible for this travesty do everything possible to make the Gulf and its dependent communities whole. In the meantime, the organizations is urging the administration and Congress must do whatever is necessary to direct adequate resources and assistance to aid the people of the Gulf and the resource upon which they rely....
Posted: Thu, May 20, 2010 5:01pm PDT
textUpcoming Direct Action in Washington!! by Forest Student
The War is coming back to the port of Tacoma... but in the northwest we have a long history of resistance....
Posted: Sun, Oct 11, 2009 11:47pm PDT
textJOIN THE SEAWEED REBELLION – OIL EXTRACTION IS NOT AN OPTION by Tomas DiFiore
Mr. Charter is correct, the oil lobby is not "lurking behind" anything - they are right out in front making the key decisions. Catherine Reheis-Boyd, Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff for the Western States Petroleum Association was appointed to chair the Blue Ribbon Task Force of the Marine Life Protection Act by California Resources Secretary Mike Chrisman on August 11th, 2009....
Posted: Tue, Sep 1, 2009 9:19am PDT
textCLDC files tort claim notice against City of Eugene by CLDC r
Schlossberg, a local forest activist, was civilly informing bank customers of the irresponsible logging and harmful pesticide practices of Umpqua's chairman of the board, Allyn Ford....
Posted: Tue, Aug 25, 2009 9:36pm PDT
text27 Arrested For Erecting Anti-Logging Blockade in Oregon by via Democracy Now
Friday, July 10, 2009 :The blockade in the Elliott State Forest began on Monday and continued until yesterday when the last of the protesters were arrested. The activists were blocking access to a timber sale on 79 acres of forest land. They say logging practices in the Elliot are damaging old-growth forests and endangering spotted owls....
Posted: Fri, Jul 10, 2009 3:41pm PDT
textCoos Bay; Comments from Public on Jordan Cove LNG's EIS by Friends of Living Oregon Waters
Here is an online listing of the comments from members of the public regarding the Jordan Cove corporation's planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility planned for the north spit of Coos Bay, OR. In addition to risks from a severe seismic event on the Cascadia Subduction Zone, other risks include loss of eelgrass beds from dredging to allow the LNG tankers passage. Eelgrass is the base of the river's estuary food pyramid and loss of eelgrass beds from excess dredging would result in loss of...
Posted: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 11:13am PDT
textCarnivorous Colorado “Asset Forfeiture Bill” Postponed Indefinitely by D. Scott
Public Resistance Was Fierce...
Posted: Sat, Mar 28, 2009 8:54pm PDT
textMedical Marijuana Regulation Initiative--Draft Proposal by Pebbles Trippet (posted by Robert Norse)
Pebbles Trippet of the Mendocino Medical Marijuana Advisory Board forwarded me the following proposal she is kicking around for the Board of Supes to consider. I think she's interested in feedback. Either post it here, e-mail her at pebblestrippet@sbcglobal.net. ,or call her at 707-964-YESS....
Posted: Sun, Sep 28, 2008 7:56pm PDT
textThe Shortwave Report 6/20/08 Listen Globally! by Dan Roberts
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia....
Posted: Thu, Jun 19, 2008 4:34pm PDT
textWhen The US Congress Denied Masses Of Americans Their Possible Freedoms ! by Lawyers For Poor Americans
When the Wealthiest country in the world continues to allow the enslavement of the tens of thousands of their own innocent middle Class and Working Poor Americans to decades of false imprisonment,it's time to ask for international help!!!!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 9:39pm PDT
textSalem, OR; Rally Against Risky Expolsive LNG by NO CA Pipeline!
Great turnout for the Feb 6th public rally against the liquified natural gas terminal proposed for Coos Bay, OR for the exlusive benefit of PG&E and other CA utilities via pipeline. Health and safety concerns were raised by Coos Bay/North Bend residents who feel that the location of a highly explosive LNG terminal near a coastal region subject to tsunamis and other seismic activity is not a wise idea....
Posted: Thu, Feb 7, 2008 3:37pm PST
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