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October 12, 2006 the SF Human Rights Commission, held a hearing to listen to the First People of the Bay Area and those supporters that wanted to focus on the pertinent issues linked with Federal Recognition, the Shellmounds, and other related issues. This was not the first time the Human Rights Commission had focused on this issue. In the early 1990s a Resolution was passed recognizing the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe as the indigenous people of San Francisco and the neighboring areas. Here is San F...

In the year 2011 the San Francisco Unified School Distric,t Board of Education; has chosen with INTENT to harm our children and parents that go to the many middle schools in the Bayview Hunters Point. In the past we have voiced our comments linked to Malcolm X, Willie L. Brown Academy, Gloria Davis, Bert Har. We all remember the fiasco that took place at Thurgood Marshall some years ago. While I have given some time writing articles, more time talking to the students and teachers - the time ...

John Laird, Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, is scheduled to provide an update (item 15A) regarding North Coast marine protected areas under the MLPA Initiative on April 7 at 9:30 a.m....

California Agriculture instruction could include education on agricultural history, nutrition, economics, or simply the planting of a school garden. A broader goal for California Ag Day will become the use of an inclusive education opportunity that commemorates agriculture's importance to all of California....

Susan L. Taylor will be joined by renowned activist and author Kevin Powell and Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome Author, Dr. Joy DeGruy. My hope it to gain new tools to "heal thyself" while continuing to work towards a renaissance for "Black Agriculture the foundation of Black Culture." The stolen legacy of the "African Founding Father of California," Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. and many, many others must be shared and built upon for a positive new way. Limited Space is still...

The Chagos Islands Marine Reserve, the largest in the world, was pushed through by the U.K. government, the Obama administration and nine prominent environmental NGOs, ranging from the Pew Charitable Trust to Greenpeace, despite outrage by the Chagossians and human rights groups throughout the world. “The fish have more rights than us,” said Roch Evenor, secretary of the UK-based Chagos Support Association, who left the islands when he was four years old....

Mark Franco, headman of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, challenged California Senator Dianne Feinstein's contention that the construction of the peripheral canal and new dams would lead to "peace on the river." Photo of Mark Franco at Winnemem Journey to Justice event in Berkeley February 3 by Dan Bacher....

Caleen Sisk-Franco, Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem-Wintu discusses the Balas Chonas or Puberty Ceremony-which honors a girls transition into womanhood, her decision to declare war against the U.S. government, and her tribes work to return indigenous salmon to the McCloud River, for International Women's Day....

"The Cucapa are doing the same thing they have been doing for 9,000 years," said Subcomandante Marcos. "The Cucapa and other Indian people called for this camp in defense of nature so they can fish without detentions or being put in jail." Subcomandante Marcos and Aura Bogado at an Otra Campana meeting in October 2006. On the following day, the Cucapa Tribe and Zapatistas jointly announced plans to set up a Zapatista Peace Camp in the Colorado River Delta to protest an unjust "marine prote...

During this widely-contested process, Reheis-Boyd and other task force members went out of their way to take water pollution, oil spills and drilling, military testing, wave energy projects, corporate aquaculture, habitat destruction and all other human impacts on the ocean other than fishing and gathering off the table in the so-called marine protected areas created under the privately funded initiative. Photo of Santa Barbara oil rig sunset image - some rights reserved by Jim Sneddon....