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Water Contractors Blame Striped Bass for Decline of Delta Smelt, King Salmon! 
The state water contractors, under their organization "Coalition for a Sustainable Delta," are playing hardball. They now want to blame the striped bass for the decline of delta smelt, longfin smelt, king salmon and other fish in the California Delta in order to divert blame from the state and federal export pumps, even though the striped bass successfully coexisted with native species for over 125 years. The following piece is their press release issued on October 25.
The one big scienti...
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 5:47pm PDT
Governor Schwarzenegger Backs Aerial Biochemical Spraying That Harms Children 
Originally published October 25 2007
(NewsTarget) On September 9th, 2007 several planes hired by the State of California Food and Agricultural Department (CDFA) flying at an altitude of approximately 500ft sprayed the untested biochemical, CheckMate®OLR-F, on over 30,000 citizens in Monterey and other surrounding cities in California. This occurred without the permission of the citizens. The spraying continued for three nights from approximately 8pm to 5am. About 1,500 pounds of biochemica...
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 5:15pm PDT
Rally and March against the LRDP! 
Rally, with tables and speakers, begins 11:00am at the Baytree Plaza....
Event Date: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 11:00am PST
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 4:58pm PDT
Internet-based maps transform how communities share food resources. 
Internet-based maps transform how communities share food resources. A new website provides open source map technology....
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 3:38pm PDT
Appalachian Voices on Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Santa Cruz Public Library Meeting Room,
Central Branch...
Event Date: Sat, Nov 3, 2007 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 12:40pm PDT
Support the Berkeley Tree Sit! 
It's time for the community to come out in full force in support of the tree sitters & Mother Earth. Think Peoples Park. The University MUST be made to see the error of its ways. NO COMPROMISE IN DEFENCE OF MOTHER EARTH!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 4:55am PDT
Take Action to End Fluoridation Impure fluoride chemicals are added to drinking water supplies, not to purify it, but to medicate San Diego residents against tooth decay and against their will.
We want it stopped Nation-wide....
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 2:18am PDT
Assemblymember John Laird's Oct. 16 letter to Sec. Kawamura regarding LBAM 
October 16, 2007: Laird letter to Sec. Kawamura
http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a27/moth.htm...
Posted: Tue, Oct 30, 2007 12:40am PDT
Desert Preservation Conference Social Hall, Live Oak Recreation Center
1301 Shattuck Avenue
Berkeley, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Nov 3, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 10:48pm PDT
SURFERS RETURN TO TAIJI AND EXPOSE PILOT WHALE SLAUGHTER 
OSAKA - Less than 24 hours after professional surfer and Sea Shepherd supporter Dave Rastovich led an international group of surfers, celebrities, and musicians on a peaceful paddle-out ceremony to honor the spirits of the over 25,000 dolphins killed each year in Japan, the fishermen in the tiny village of Taiji resumed the slaughter that had been delayed by the increased worldwide media attention drawn by the group’s arrival in late October.
Photo credits: Peter Carrette / Icon Images /...
Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 10:25pm PDT
Lennar BVHP LLC will be punished by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Lennar BVHP LLC will be punished by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District to the highest level possible - fines imposed by to $25,000 a day. It would be nice if Lennar BVHP was fined $25,000 per day for the 385 days plus - it adversely impacted the community with intent. It did not have Dust Monitoring Equipment and Asbestos Monitoring Equipment in place during heavy grading - and defied the mandates set by Article 31 of the SF Health Department and other laws and regulations that are...
Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 7:36pm PDT
Fungus Fair 
Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak @ 10th Street
Oakland, CA 94607...
Event Date: Sat, Dec 1, 2007 10:00am PST
Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 4:57pm PDT
A Town Beseiged: Potrero Residents Battling Blackwater Now Suffer Ravages of Wildfire 
Potrero, California, the town that has gained national attention for standing up against Blackwater Worldwide's plan to build a private military-style training camp in their pristine backcountry community east of San Diego, now faces an even more formidable force. The Harris wildfire which began outside Potrero early Sunday morning has ravaged the small rural community, where many residents remain trapped without supplies four days after the fire began....
Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 1:41pm PDT
Step It Up! Berkeley Green City Gallery. 1950 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley 94704. one-half block north of University Ave. A large space with events from noon to nine p.m. Below is the schedule....
Event Date: Sat, Nov 3, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 12:26pm PDT
The Witch Fires & the War in Iraq: Making the Connection 
Protestors at an anti-war march in San Francisco on Oct. 27 call attention to the equipment and personnel deficits created by the Iraq War and their impact upon the California National Guard in responding to the Witch Fires....
Posted: Mon, Oct 29, 2007 11:51am PDT
PETITION: Stop fumigation of citizens [all people!] without their consent in California 
Target: Assemblymember John Laird, Senator Abe Maldonado
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-fumigation-of-citizens-without-their-consent-in-california...
Posted: Sun, Oct 28, 2007 11:39pm PDT
Critical Mass in Oakland Critical Mass in Oakland
Meet outside the 14th & Broadway BART station entry at Frank Ogawa Plaza (City Hall)
Gather around 5:30 to 6:00 and ride! at Critical Mass...
Event Date: Fri, Nov 2, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 28, 2007 10:53pm PDT
Stop the Spray March / Rally was a BIG success!! 
Photos from October 27, 2007....
Posted: Sun, Oct 28, 2007 10:46pm PDT
Peak Soil St. Lawrence Academy High School, 2000 Lawrence Ct., Santa Clara, CA (near Lawrence Expressway and Cabrillo Ave.)...
Event Date: Thu, Nov 1, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 28, 2007 10:17pm PDT
talk about UCSC's Long Range Development Plan 
Resource Center for Non-Violence, 515 Broadway...
Event Date: Thu, Nov 1, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 28, 2007 5:16pm PDT
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