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PAN ALERT: URGENT - Updated Farm Bill Action for Californians TODAY, we ask that you send an immediate message to Senators Boxer and Feinstein urging them to support the “Grassley-Dorgan amendment” to the budget. http://action.panna.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=7046...
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 11:17pm PDT
PAN ALERT: Ask Congress to fund new initiatives in the Farm Bill Take Action Today to ensure that there is sufficient funding authorized in the 2007 Farm Bill to protect our environment, achieve energy independence and ensure sustainable, healthy food to all Americans....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 11:15pm PDT
Spring 2007 ~ California Agriculture Day ~ National Ag Week 
Spring 2007 ~ California Agriculture Day ~ National Ag Week...
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 9:40pm PDT
The Amazon is in danger... Let's really save it! I will now mention only three of the most visible and destructive: 1. The wood extration, 2. The introduction of cattle and 3. The plantation of soy for exportation....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 12:49pm PDT
Al Gore Seeking 500,000 Signitures to Congress Tomorrow. Please Sign his Petition Al Gore Seeking 500,000 Messages to Congress by the Time He Testifies There Tomorrow. Email from Al Gore, March 20, 2007....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 12:15pm PDT
Massive Egg Farm Unwelcome in the San Joaquin Valley 
Coalition of local and national animal welfare groups announce opposition to massive egg factory farm proposed in Stockton...
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 11:37am PDT
Leno-DeVore Measure to Allow Farmers to Grow Industrial Hemp Gains Traction from Poll 71% of Californians Support Changing State Law to Allow Hemp Farming;
AB 684 to be heard in Assembly Public Safety Committee on March 27th...
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 10:24am PDT
Video of Police brutality at Charles, WV coalmine protest At a protest over the location of a mountaintop removal coal mine near an elementary school, police start shoving around protesters including elderly in wheelchairs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jqENyow0cQ...
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 8:25am PDT
New Christy Minstrels benefit concert Palace of Fine Arts, 3301 Lyon St. San Francisco...
Event Date: Wed, May 9, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 6:56am PDT
Green Is...Not PG&E: Behind the Green Ink of This Nor Cal Utilities Company Walking around San Francisco, you might have noticed bright green ads featuring cutesy witticisms about what “green is,” sponsored by the local utility monopoly PG&E. My favorite ad prominently displays a piece of cow dung with the quote “Green isn’t always pretty.” Here, PG&E isn’t too far off; for them, green is… a lie....
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 9:01pm PDT
Beyond Petroleum: UC Berkeley Sells Out to Energy Giant With royal fanfare, British Petroleum just donated big money in research funds for UC Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, and the University of Illinois to develop new sources of energy—primarily biotechnology to produce biofuel crops. This comes on the anniversary of Berkeley’s hapless research deal with seed giant Novartis ten years ago. However, at 500 million dollars, the BP grant dwarfs Novartis’ investment by a factor of ten. The graphics of the announcement were unmistakable: ...
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 8:57pm PDT
East Bay Bicycle Coalition Meeting Tuesday (third Tues), March 20 at 7:30pm (following Board of Directors Mtg @ 7pm)
Rockridge Branch Library, 5366 College Ave @ Manila (5 blocks from Rockridge)...
Event Date: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 4:16pm PDT
CONGRESS INVESTIGATES YELLOWSTONE BISON SLAUGHTER WASHINGTON, D.C. On Tuesday, at the request of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands, Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) representatives will testify before Congress on the status of Yellowstone's wild bison....
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 1:25pm PDT
Urgent - Eric McDavid In Need of Funds for Legal Fees 
After paying for all of Eric's legal fees for over a year, his family is in need of assistance. His trial date is approaching and the legal fees are mounting. We need to raise $15,000 to ensure that Eric's legal fees - lawyer, investigators, etc - are covered through trial....
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 1:22pm PDT
"The Future of US Energy: The Oil Dependence Dilemma" World Affairs Council
2nd Floor Auditorium
312 Sutter St.
San Francisco, CA 94108...
Event Date: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 5:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 10:07am PDT
Lennar BVHP LLC must cease all operations on Parcel A at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Lennar BVHP LLC has been using money, spin, media, disinformation to carry on the dubious activities on Parcel A at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. The enforcing agencies have mandated to Lennar BVHP LLC to stop their operations by issuing Notice of Violations (NOV) but Lennar BVHP defies all logic and continue to defy mandates rules, regulation, and plain simple decency. One of the reason is because our foolish Mayor Gavin Newsom is backing Lennar BVHP LLC. Another reason the mostly Black sell...
Posted: Sun, Mar 18, 2007 10:27pm PDT
Preparation for Direct Action Against Chevron/Oil Wars 
At the Sunday March 18 Rally in SF:
Prepare for the nonviolent direct action at Chevron World Headquarters the following day.
Sunday March 18, 2pm and 4pm. Free.
At the March 18 Anti-war Rally, Grove St. near Larkin,
South East corner of San Francisco Civic Center Plaza....
Posted: Sat, Mar 17, 2007 11:25pm PDT
Are you a Friend of the Sea? SMS check seafood before you buy it! 
FRIEND OF THE SEA, a project for certification and promotion of sustainable seafood, allows now almost anybody around the world to obtain via SMS real-time seafood environmental status information, before purchase....
Posted: Sat, Mar 17, 2007 5:27pm PDT
Court Dismisses Irrigators’ Demand for Taxpayer Handout The U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington D.C. announced a significant victory today for coastal communities, salmon fishermen and others who depend upon a healthy Klamath River for their livelihoods....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 5:37pm PDT
NASA Climatologist Predicts Disastrous Sea Level Rise 
In an interview on Australian ABC Television program, The 7.30 Report, James Hansen, a prominent NASA climatologist, predicted the liklihood that the earth will pass a tipping point resulting in Sea Level Rise of up to a metre every 20 years. The trigger for this is an extra degree of global warming resulting in the runaway melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic Ice sheets....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 8:54am PDT
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