Lawsuit Forces Federal Protection for Endangered Orcas' West Coast Habitat 
SEATTLE, April 12, 2019 — The Center for Biological Diversity has won a victory in the legal battle to force the Trump administration to protect the West Coast habitat of the last remaining Southern Resident killer whales....
Posted: Sat Apr 13, 2019 1:17PM
San Rafael Activists Demand Release of Entire Mueller Report 
Hundreds of Protesters excoriate Attorney General Barr for hiding Mueller’s report on Trump’s alleged crimes and violations of his oath of office. Steve Disenhof and Leon Kunstenaar, Pro Bono Photo...
Posted: Sat Apr 6, 2019 8:12AM
May Day: March & Rally for Worker & Immigrant Rights in Santa Rosa 
Santa Rosa: 777 Sebastopol Rd, Santa Rosa 95407 by Dollar Tree store...
Event Date: Wed May 1, 2019 2:30PM
Posted: Fri Apr 5, 2019 5:26PM
Lawsuit Aims to Protect West Coast Salmon for Starving Orcas 
Southern Resident Population Drops to 75 as Trump Administration Ignores Fisheries' Impact...
Posted: Wed Apr 3, 2019 7:43PM
Restaurants and Retailers Warned Against Illegal Sales of Foie Gras 
California businesses alerted they must comply with the law banning sale of cruelly-produced “gourmet” delicacy...
Posted: Tue Apr 2, 2019 2:38PM
170 Animal Activists March for Animals in Santa Rosa 
Group Alleges Criminal Animal Cruelty, Law Enforcement Cover-up...
Posted: Mon Apr 1, 2019 2:31PM
City of Vallejo Releases Video of Police Murder of Willie McCoy (video/mp4 243.1MB) Responding to pressure from community groups and news outlets to release the tapes, the City of Vallejo today posted a compilation video which includes police body camera footage and other media related to the police killing of Willie McCoy on February 9. While it's obviously packaged as a pro-police propaganda piece, lying about what's in the video, the footage is nonetheless disturbing and view discretion is advised....
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 5:37PM
Animal Rights: March & Rally for Animal Justice in Sonoma County 2019 
Old Courthouse Square, between 4th Street / Mendocino Ave / 3rd Street / Santa Rosa Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95404...
Event Date: Sat Mar 30, 2019 12:30PM
Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2019 1:43PM
Marin County Protests Trump's "Emergency" 
As part of nationwide protests on 2/18/2019 against Trumps "emergency" declaration, Marin County residents took to the streets in San Rafael, CA....
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 11:29PM
Crowd remembers rapper killed by Vallejo police 
Family members, friends and others touched by the death of Willie McCoy, who was fatally shot by Vallejo police on Feb. 9, gathered outside the Taco Bell where he was killed to remember him and protest the police on Sunday....
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 2:10PM
The Cost of Civil Rights Violations in Vallejo 
On February 9, the police in my hometown shot Willie McCoy to death in a Taco Bell drive-through. I hadn’t planned to write that when I began this post, which grew out of a dialogue with a neighbor frustrated by the crumbling schools, neglected parks, and casual brutality of this beautiful city....
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2019 1:05PM
Salmon fishermen urge Newsom to say NO to Trump administration water grab 
“The Trump administration won’t be able to get away with killing off our salmon runs if the state refuses to cooperate,” said GGSA director Noah Oppenheim, who is also executive director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations (GGSA), a group representing commercial fishermen on the West Coast. “We call on the Newsom administration to just say no to this attack on California’s salmon fishing families.”...
Posted: Thu Feb 7, 2019 2:46PM
Vallejo Police Assaulted Me While I Was Filming Them (video/mp4 4.4MB) I am a Black man born and raised in Oakland, California who was physically attacked by Vallejo PD officer David McLaughlin, last Tuesday, January 22....
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:12PM
Signs of the Times at Santa Rosa Women's March 
Please credit the photographer as follows:
Bill Clark, Probonophoto....
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 12:08AM
Will Kevin Cooper finally get a fair hearing? 
ON DECEMBER 24, exiting California Gov. Jerry Brown ordered new DNA tests of physical evidence in the case of Kevin Cooper, whose high-profile conviction three decades ago in a quadruple murder has been consistently challenged by Cooper, his attorneys and anti-death penalty activists....
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2019 12:59PM
Kevin Cooper: My thoughts on Gov. Brown’s executive order 
I write this missive to you so that you will hear from me about how I feel and what I think going forward in this fight for my life. Like all of you, I am happy that we have finally “won” something from some entity in this state. But after learning what exactly outgoing Gov. Brown wrote in that executive order I am not as excited as I was at first, or should be....
Posted: Wed Jan 9, 2019 10:01PM
Andy Lopez settlement reached, after five years 
On Oct 22, 2013, two days after Big Man’s 47th Black Panther Party Anniversary Celebration, held in Santa Rosa, ended, a beautiful child,13-year-old Andy Lopez, was gunned down and shot to death by Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Erick Gelhaus....
Posted: Mon Jan 7, 2019 4:10PM
Women's March Napa Valley 2019 
March begins at City Hall, 955 School St., Napa, CA 94559...
Event Date: Sat Jan 19, 2019 9:00AM
Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 2:04PM
Radio in Petaluma: The “End” of Radio Our group's findings while investigating Radio listener rates in Petaluma....
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:47PM
Radio in the Age of the Internet Is there hope for the radio industry in today's connected world?...
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:08PM