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WW CA Farmworkers Getting 8 Hour Day & Attacks On Workers Comp By DIR and Governor Brown  WorkWeek radio looks at the California legislature vote for an 8 hour day for agricultural workers and overtime with Al Rojas, a founder of the United Farmworkers of America. WorkWeek then examines the increasing attacks on California's injured workers through deregulation and control by the insurance industry of Workers Compensation... Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2016 8:28PM
Justice For CTC Whistleblower Kathleen Carroll-Statement At Sacramento Trial  Supporters of fired Commission on Teacher Credentialing Kathleen Carroll spoke out about the importance of the case. Carrie Clark is with the CA Healthy Workplace Advocates group read a statement prepared by the organization in defense of Carroll... Posted: Tue Aug 9, 2016 9:56PM
Fired CTC Whistleblower Kathleen Carroll's Lawyer Dan Siegel On Retaliation Witnesses  Kathleen Carroll, a lawyer and fired whistleblower at the California Commission on Credentialing is facing accusations of being a sexual harasser and "stalker" at the trial at Sacramento County Court on August 1, 2016. She exposed a massive backlog of credentials for teachers that were not being processed, forced a state audit and was fired in retaliation.... Posted: Tue Aug 2, 2016 7:55AM
Africa Day 2016 at the California State Capitol featuring Roots Sunday  Africa Day 2016 we feature a new imagination of ROOTS for the first time in 40 years and encourage a broader conversation of the ongoing impacts of “Slavery in California, ” unique targeted Legislation with Judicial and Executive acts specific to people of African ancestry by the State of California.... Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 4:37AM 
West Coast Fisher Denied Endangered Species Act Protection in Bow to Timber Industry PORTLAND, Ore., April 14, 2016 — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today denied Endangered Species Act protection to West Coast fishers, mid-sized forest carnivores that were proposed for federal protection in October throughout their range in California, Oregon and Washington. Following pressure from the timber industry, the Service withdrew the proposed protection despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the survival of the rare carnivores is threatened by logging, toxic chemicals use... Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:32PM
Acidization Study Finds Oil Companies Using Dozens of Hazardous Chemicals in CA Wells  LOS ANGELES, March 18, 2016 — Oil companies use dozens of extremely hazardous chemicals to acidize wells in California, raising water contamination and public-safety concerns, according to a new study in the Journal of Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry.... Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2016 7:40PM
Kwanzaa, "first fruits of the harvest" is a "California Grown" International Holiday  2015 marks the 50th Season of the Nguzo Saba and a major milestone. Give thanks to shoulders the creator of Kwanzaa, Dr. Maulana Karenga, continues to stand upon. Our elevated scholar and master teacher has indeed and action come a long way from his childhood farm in Maryland. A renewed, scientific methodology toward restoration of agriculture as the foundation of our culture is a growing part of high culture public policy, sharing the good throughout the world.... Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2015 2:56PM
Paris Panels to Explore International Movement to Ban Fracking PARIS— Two panel discussions at the Paris climate conference on Wednesday will explore the growing global movement to ban fracking and other extreme fossil fuel extraction.... Posted: Mon Dec 7, 2015 4:24PM
Kern County Residents Fast Against Plan to Fast Track Fracking  "Valley communities are already overburdened by the environmental health impacts of oil and gas drilling," according to Juan Flores of the Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment in a press release. "Residents expect the County to approve the ordinance and plan to fast to call attention to the County’s unwillingness to protect its people."
Photo of fasters in front of the Kern County Board of Supervisors, including Madeline Stano (left) and Juan Flores (center) from the Center on Race,... Posted: Fri Nov 6, 2015 6:10PM
Ratepayers urge MWD to use LA dollars to fix water system, not build tunnels  Brenna Norton of Food & Water Watch said the current draft of Metropolitan’s 25-year Integrated Water Resources Plan (IRP) proposes building the $67 billion dollar tunnels project, and identifying additional funds to invest in conservation and local water programs. "Mayor Garcetti should block any L.A. dollars from being used to fund the tunnels and demand that L.A. dollars fix L.A. water," she concluded.... Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2015 9:01AM
The Hidden Shackles and Chains on the Statue of Liberty  The story behind the creation of the Statue of Liberty was suppressed for more than 125 years. Finally, the National Park Service includes literature that explains the shackles and chains. National Juneteenth Movement is preparing an amazing event on Liberty Island, Rev. Willie Douglass, Stockton, California was on the front line, making it happen in a good way... his legacy will help guide a positive way forward.... Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 12:41PM
Thousands of L.A.-area Oil Wells Under State Investigation for Pollution Dangers LOS ANGELES— The Center for Biological Diversity today urged California officials to release results from an investigation into thousands of oil industry injection wells in the Los Angeles area that may be contaminating water and threatening public health.... Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2015 2:58PM
Coalition Challenges Expansion of Hazardous Herbicide Containing Agent Orange Ingredient  San Francisco, Calif. — A coalition of conservation, food safety, and public health groups filed a motion today challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s decision to expand the use of “Enlist Duo” on genetically engineered (GE) corn and soy crops to nine additional states: Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and North Dakota.... Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2015 2:37PM
Bells Across the Land: Sesquicentennial Celebration of Freedom  On April 9, 1865, Union Genearl Ulysses S. Grant met Confederate General Robert E. Lee to set the terms of the Confederate Army surrender, beginning the end the US Civil War, the symbolic ending of four years of bloodsheed and America's Peculicar Institution.... Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 11:30AM
National Juneteenth Leadership honored in Beverly Hills, California  The New Year 2015, is off to an amazing new beginning, bright full moon, preparations for Ethiopian Christmas and preparations for the kick-off for California Juneteenth Sesquicentennial Celebrations: Our American Story of Freedom.... Posted: Mon Jan 5, 2015 11:54PM
Forest Service Agrees to Reconsider Wilderness Protection in Los Padres National Forest GOLETA, Calif.— Conservation groups today praised a decision by the U.S. Forest Service to consider stronger protections for wildlife and wildlands across 221,579 acres throughout the Los Padres National Forest in the remote backcountry of Santa Barbara, Ventura and Kern counties.... Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:50PM 
Court Upholds Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Ban  PHOENIX, Ariz.— Arizona’s Havasupai Tribe and a coalition of conservation groups are praising Judge David Campbell’s decision (see PDF) today to uphold the U.S. Department of the Interior’s 20-year ban on new uranium mining claims across one million acres of public lands adjacent to Grand Canyon. The court ruled that the decision complied with federal environmental laws and that it was not too large, as plaintiffs had argued. At stake is protecting the aquifers and streams that feed the Color... Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 5:38PM
Urban Agriculture ~ U.S. Census of Agriculture 2017  Urban Agriculture remains a viable job creator, career path and catalyst for community economic development. Preparation for design methodology for the US Census of Agriculture 2017 will include a unique pilot project, California Pan African Urban Agriculture Project... Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2014 5:57AM
Big Oil Permanently Poisons 2 Million Gallons of California Water Each Day LOS ANGELES – At City Hall on August 13, City Councilmember Paul Koretz, Los Angeles residents and California climate and water experts called on Big Oil to stop wasting California’s water. During the worst drought in the state’s recent history, the oil and gas industry is permanently destroying millions of gallons of water and drilling deeper into the earth, threatening dwindling groundwater supplies by using fracking and other water-intensive extraction processes.... Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 3:29AM
Lawsuit Launched to Halt Destruction of 14,000 Acres of Condor Habitat at Tejon Ranch SAN FRANCISCO— Condor advocates, conservationists and American Indians this week notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service they intend to sue over the agency’s approval of a “habitat conservation plan” that will destroy 14,000 acres of designated critical habitat for the California condor, one of the world’s most endangered birds. The habitat is entirely located on Tejon Ranch, north of Los Angeles, and will be destroyed by the development of the proposed Tejon Mountain Village resort proje... Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 1:50PM |