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Socially Disadvantaged Farmers United to Change U.S. Food and Farm Policy 
2007 U.S. Food and Farm Policy can help California Black Farmers achieve basic access and equal opportunity. Nationwide there is a current of activity to mandate equal opportunity for socially disadvantaged farmers from California to Maine. Unique artificial barriers to equal access create the current U.S. Farm Bill policy that restricts minority participation with tax payer supported USDA administrative allocation. Minority farmers whom are primarily socially disadvantaged in most areas o...
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 10:12pm PDT
Skating against traffic through the streets of Manhattan 
Skateboarding's Critical Mass (Sort of)
1200 skateboarders celebrated Go Skateboarding Day last week.
By Alex Nathanson
The past Thursday, June 21, 1200 skateboarders came out to celebrate and promote skateboarding....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 5:34pm PDT
CSPA Advisory: Battle to Save the California Delta Continues 
John Beuttler, conservation director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, reviews some of the latest developments in the battle to save the Delta smelt and other fish on the California Delta....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 4:20pm PDT
Cockburn RIP: The Science Denying Crank-Global Warming A Fiction Left journalist Alexander Cockburn apparently has a problem admiting he is wrong....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 11:07am PDT
Department of Energy Names Berkeley a Top Solar City Monday, June 25, 2007 : Berkeley was one of 13 cities named a Solar America City last week by the U.S. Department of Energy, which will award the city up to $200,000 for a new solar program....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:47am PDT
Emeryville Critical Mass MacArthur Bart in Oakland...
Event Date: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Jun 24, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Guerrilla Gardens 
For those of us living in our modern cities land is a foreign concept. Stories of land conjure romantic images of countrysides far from our crowded neighborhoods, images that seem irrelevant to our lives. Even though we inhabit a landscape smothered with buildings and concrete, the struggles for land fought by rural people hold many important lessons for us as we strive for control over our lives and communities. When we consider the landless state of most poor people the world round and h...
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 8:01pm PDT
No Love for Golddiggers 
From the uselessness of the final
product to the dramatic environmental and social impacts of its excavation,
modern-day gold mining serves as an
absurd illustration of the dangers and
complexity of our global economy....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 3:55pm PDT
Vietnamese Delegation in U.S. to Sue Chemical Companies for Ongoing Effects of Agent Orange Friday, June 22, 2007 :
U.S. warplanes dumped about 18 million gallons of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese government says this has left more than 3 million people disabled.
We speak with two Vietnamese Agent Orange victims and their lawyers about how the toxin has affected their lives, and why they’re suing over three dozen U.S. chemical companies for manufacturing the toxin....
Posted: Sat, Jun 23, 2007 8:39am PDT
MGA TAGUMPAY NG KILUSANG MAGSASAKA SA PILIPINAS, SUMUSULONG ulat ngayon ng revolusyonaryong kilusan sa Pilipinas ang patuloy na pagsulong ng pakikibakang magsasaka at rebolusyong agraryo sa iba’t ibang bahagi ng Pili[inas.
Ayon sa sulat na sinipi sa internet, sa kabila ng panggigipit at pandarahas ng reaksyunaryong estado, tuluy-tuloy na umaani ng mga tagumpay sa mga pakikibaka nitong nagdaang 20 taon ang masang magbubukid sa bansa....
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 5:43pm PDT
Klamath News: Fish kill alert, Karl Rove, Lost River comments, job and more The Klamath River's juvenile salmon, currently migrating downriver, are in big trouble, spurring the Klamath Fish Health Assessment Team to increase its fish kill readiness alert to yellow. Here is the Klamath River News 6/22 from Regina Chichizola, the Klamath Riverkeeper....
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 4:37pm PDT
PiG&E's Lackey, Mayor Newsom, Might Veto Progressive Energy Policy Approved By SF Board 
WE NEED YOUR HELP URGENTLY!!!
After the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed Community Choice Aggregation 9-2 on Tuesday adopting a plan to put San Francisco on the way towards energy independence by financing a 360 MW solar network and making the community's power 51% renewable by 2017, rumors have circulated that Mayor Gavin Newsom is threatening to veto the Plan....
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 2:15pm PDT
Davis and Sacramento Residents Present Less-Toxic Alternatives at Vector Board Open House Sacramento and Davis residents will hold an a supplemental open house at the Vector Board's annual open house at the Sacramento/Yolo Mosquito Vector Control district office in Elk Grove on Saturday, June 23....
Posted: Fri, Jun 22, 2007 11:26am PDT
Santa Cruzans Needed For Urgent Oaxaca Solidarity Action 
This is a call out to the Oaxaca solidarity network, forest defenders and all other allies in Santa Cruz, Watzlan and the Bay Area. Our indigenous friends with the Consejo Indigena Popular de Oaxaca urgently need our support now in their defense of native forests, their traditional way of life and for their water rights....
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 10:21pm PDT
NEWSOM plans to Veto Community Choice (Public Power) in SF Call him NOW After 3 years he is ready to betray us; we can still pull it out...
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 4:32pm PDT
Restore the Delta Action Alert: Resources Committee Hearing in Vallejo on July 2 If you want to see the California Delta restored, don't miss the special House Resources Committee to be hold in Vallejo at 9 a.m. on July 2....
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 4:10pm PDT
White House Official Grilled on Alleged Censorship of Post-9/11 Contamination Risks Thursday, June 21, 2007 :
A new congressional study has revealed the Environmental Protection Agency misled Lower Manhattan residents about levels of indoor air contamination after 9/11. The report was released during a Senate hearing Wednesday on the EPA's response after the collapse of the World Trade Center. James Connaughton, the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, was questioned about whether the Bush administration manipulated public information about the healt...
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 10:44am PDT
Our Energy Just Got Greener Thursday, June 21, 2007 :Here's some very, very good news that you probably haven't heard. On June 19, the Board of Supervisors passed the Community Choice Aggregation Implementation Plan, which will aggressively move San Francisco to 51% renewable energy without raising our power bills. San Francisco is setting an example in the fight against climate change and we have every reason to celebrate....
Posted: Thu, Jun 21, 2007 10:34am PDT
Greens Blast Governor Schwarzenegger's Delta Canal Plan The California Green Party today strongly criticized Governor Schwarzenegger for his proposal to build a peripheral canal as "an antiquated plan" and "the wrong solution for the wrong problem." Meanwhile, the state and federal pumps continue to kill hundreds of threatened Delta smelt....
Posted: Wed, Jun 20, 2007 12:04pm PDT
Dr. James Hansen Amps Up Language on Climate A report to the British Royal Society was
released Tuesday in which America's top
climate scientist and five others spoke with
stronger feelings about the climate situation
than their usual drab scientific findings. They
were, of course, trying to wake people up to
the seriousness of the problems of our climate's
future....
Posted: Wed, Jun 20, 2007 9:28am PDT
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