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Here are two important dates that you should put on your calender!...

I wrote this Lyric Poem in regards to a comment interaction, concerning a piece at the Santa Cruz IMC, about a 200 year old Cypress cut down in a busy public area....

Thursday, August 16, 2007 :The Camp for Climate Action got under way Tuesday amidst a major police operation and provocative “terror” stories in the media. The week-long camp, which is to feature seminars and teach-ins on environmental degradation and its causes, is located near the site of a proposed third runway and sixth terminal building at London’s Heathrow airport....

This is the latest news update from Regina Chichizola, the Klamath Riverkeeper, about the struggle to restore the Klamath and bring PacifiCorp's dams down. A group of protesters locked down at PacifiCorp yesterday, demanding that the company's dams be removed....

Southwestern Oregon Community College Hale Performing Arts Center 1988 Newmark St. Coos Bay, OR...

I urge everybody to sign this petition protesting the give away of water to Westlands Water District, the "Darth Vader" of California water politics. At a time when populations of Delta smelt, longfin smelt, juvenile striped bass and theadfin shad are collapsing because of increases in water exports, the last thing we need is yet another give away of public water to a private entity, especially one that has caused so much environmental destruction over the years....

Protesters have locked down in front of the Pacific Power building at NE 9th and Multnomah to demand that the company shut down the four dams it operates on the Klamath river. At noon today three protesters blockaded the main entrance to PacifiCorp's headquarters (NE 7th and Multnomah). The protesters were joined by a rally of several dozen supporters, many of whom wore hazmat suits painted with fake blood to draw attention to the poisonous conditions on the Klamath River....

Police violently arrested five people at a nonviolent direct action at the regional Bank of America headquarters in downtown Asheville. The action was the culmination to the Southeast Convergence for Climate Action. See http://asheville.indymedia.org/ for press releases and photos....

While the corporate media completely buys Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's posturing as the "green" governor, his anti-environmental policies are destroying the California Delta and water quality throughout the state. Schwarzenegger is undoubtedly the worst governor ever for California's fish and the environment. The Executive Officer of the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Board) has acknowledged that the Board is so understaffed that it can’t meet its core regul...

Tuesday, August 14, 2007 :Green parties worldwide are already synonymous with spectacular renunciations of principle. Policies advocated, perhaps for decades, are dropped within hours of entering government. In return for some minor adjustments of environmental policy, Greens have assumed responsibility for aggressively advancing the interests of their own capitalists....