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“Do It or Shut the Fuck Up” 
That blunt statement basically sums up this recently released zine by political prisoners Jeffrey ‘Free’ Leurs and Rob ‘Los Ricos’ Thaxton....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 3:38pm PDT
GE Strikes A Deal to Clean Up PCBs in the Hudson Federal authorities and General Electric have struck a deal on dredging polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB, contaminated sediment from the Hudson River. We have a discussion between an EPA administrator and an attorney from Riverkeeper....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 6:59am PDT
Viva New Mexico! Aspasrtame Finally Imperiled! The Nation's eyes are on New Mexico. State Statutes on poisonous substances and adulteration can preempt federal. new Mexico set a precedent for the world to follow. Hearing to ban aspartame in July....
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 11:16pm PDT
Central Valley Earth First!ers organizing Earth First!ers are needed to organize in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley (aka Central Valley) to bring visibility to corporate logging corporations like Sierra Pacific Industries, suburban sprawl in wetlands habitat, potential extinction of endangered species as loss of vernal pools continues, effect of toxic pesticide drift used by corporate agribusiness, dams blocking anadromous fish migrations, etc.....
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 1:54pm PDT
Bicycle Film Festival Starts TONIGHT! 
Come see films about bicycling, including the Critical Mass documentary, Still We Ride....
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 12:52pm PDT
Reversing Global Warming The Next Industrial Revolution is exploding!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2005 1:45am PDT
10/5: Sustainable Farming in Berkeley? >
>When: Wednesday, October 5th, 3.30-5.00 pm
>Where: Gill Tract (1050 San Pablo Ave, Albany)
>...
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 9:28pm PDT
New Illegal Logging by Maxxam/Palco May Indicate More to Come The Humboldt Watershed Council raised concern today that recent illegal logging by Pacific Lumber Company may be a "warning shot" by the company, in preparation for future illegal logging in the Freshwater and Elk River watersheds....
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 8:19pm PDT
Critical Mass is Thirteen: The Culture War is Older (and far from over) 
Amazing to think it's been 13 years since the first “Commute Clot” brought together about 50 bicyclists at “PeeWee” Herman Plaza at the foot of Market Street in San Francisco. Within a few short months it had gained the moniker “Critical Mass” and the excitement and euphoria and sheer novelty of an “organized coincidence” that fills the streets with bicycles instead of cars was rapidly reproducing itself across the planet....
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 8:14pm PDT
Mirkarimi Sponsored Ordinance: Trilingual Signs Warning of Mercury in Fish "San Francisco's ordinance is a groundbreaking initiative that should be replicated across California and nationwide," said Eli Saddler, a public health specialist and attorney for GotMercury.org and the Turtle Island Restoration Network, a marine conservation group in Marin County. "More consumers will protect their families from the dangers of eating fish contaminated with mercury by educating people in three languages and by strengthening enforcement of Prop. 65, which requi...
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 4:51pm PDT
OCTOBER IS HELL MONTH FOR NATIONAL COAL CO. NCC is currently blasting the top off of Zeb Mountain in eastern TN to
get their greedy hands on the coal that lays beneath. Using so called
“cross ridge mining” (we call it mountain top removal) they are
destroying our beautiful mountains in the name of profit. Here’s how you
can get a hold of them and let them know what you think. Feel free to visit them at their office and GIVE ‘EM HELL ALL OCTOBER!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 3, 2005 2:27pm PDT
Critical Mass 13th Anniversary (video/quicktime 19.1MB) Video highlights from the ride, including the Broadway and Stockton tunnels....
Posted: Sat, Oct 1, 2005 1:18pm PDT
Critical Mass 13th Anniversary 
A large crowd of cyclists converged in the streets of San Francisco for the 13th anniversary of Critical Mass on Friday. Several confrontations between drivers and cyclists occurred, but consisted mostly of arguing over right-of-way. One pedestrian on Market Street shouted, "You're blocking traffic," to which a cyclist replied, "We are traffic!"...
Posted: Sat, Oct 1, 2005 8:45am PDT
"Levees May Fail" says Calif Flood Control Board - "You're Fired" says Schwarzen Schwarzenegger Fires Flood Control Panel
The state Reclamation Board had begun resisting development along vulnerable levees.
By Nancy Vogel, Times Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday fired all six members of the state Reclamation Board, an agency that oversees flood control along California's two biggest rivers and had recently become more aggressive about slowing development on flood plains.
The Republican governor replaced the members — who serve ind...
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 3:54pm PDT
Hoes Down Organic Farm Festival in Capay Valley Full Belly Farms presents the 18th annual Hoes Down Festival in the Capay Valley....
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 10:57am PDT
Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Slapped with Logging Violation Notice ...
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 10:09am PDT
Still We Ride -- Video Screening 
Still We Ride will be shown after Critical Mass tonight....
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 8:30am PDT
Mercury emissions expose extreme right’s ‘family values’ hypocrisy On Sept. 13 the U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a bipartisan resolution offered by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) that would have maintained a firm timetable for the reduction in mercury emissions from power plants....
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 7:12am PDT
10/1 - Screening of film GO FURTHER, starring Woody Harrelson, for Bike Aid October 1 at 7:30pm - Global Exchange's Bike-Aid Program and New College Media Studies M.A. Program will be hosting this special screening of Go Further. This semi-documentary film of Woody Harrelson and friends on a biking adventure gives a humorous and insightful perspective on living in a more sustainable way. New College, 777 Valencia St., San Francisco....
Posted: Thu, Sep 29, 2005 10:19pm PDT
House guts Endangered Species Act, cutting species protections, big $$ for property owners The House on Thursday passed legislation that could greatly expand private property rights under the environmental law that is credited with helping keep the bald eagle from extinction but also has provoked bitter fighting....
Posted: Thu, Sep 29, 2005 4:04pm PDT
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