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A Landmark Day for Animals From Coast to Coast! Let's keep the train on the tracks!...
Posted: Thu, Nov 6, 2008 9:50am PST
Oakland Surges with Pride Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 : OAKLAND, Calif. -- The streets of downtown Oakland erupted into a boisterous, joyful celebration last night just before 8 p.m., as word spread that the major news media had called the election for president in favor of Democrat Barack Obama....
Posted: Wed, Nov 5, 2008 7:52pm PST
Klamath Riverkeeper eNews: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., As Next EPA Head? This week's Klamath Riverkeeper eNews includes a lot of interesting articles, including a report from the Huffington Post that RFK, Jr., may be considered as the next EPA head under an Obama administration....
Posted: Wed, Nov 5, 2008 2:31pm PST
We're Still Proles: Their Elections Are Never Our Victories Recent blog post from Modesto Anarcho's webpage about the election....
Posted: Wed, Nov 5, 2008 11:59am PST
USA Today, the World Tomorrow 
Today. the day following the 2008 election, this copy of USA Today was found in a USA Today newsbox in an affluent shopping area in Santa Barbara. An online template isn't easily found, so here is a scanned copy....
Posted: Wed, Nov 5, 2008 11:34am PST
Klamath Film Premiers at American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco 
The 33rd Annual American Indian Film Festival will open at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, November 7, at the Landmark Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco with the premier of River of Renewal, a film describing the Klamath Basin tribes’ struggle to establish fishing rights, restore river flows, and remove dams. Don't miss this film!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 5, 2008 11:05am PST
Election Night at the Riptide 
A map showing cookies for Obama-won states and crackers for those states that McCain took, decorated the wall at the Riptide in San Francisco on election night.
Photos and story by R. Robertson...
Posted: Wed, Nov 5, 2008 1:08am PST
Friendly Fire Collective Newsletter - November 08 
Welcome to the November 2008 Friendly Fire Collective Newsletter!...
Posted: Mon, Nov 3, 2008 11:58pm PST
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Election Protection 1-866-OUR-VOTE
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Posted: Mon, Nov 3, 2008 4:41pm PST
Dec. 6 Intl. Day of Action for Mumia Abu-Jamal (includes new flyer) 
International Day of Action, Dec.6
See flyer below. And for the SF Bay Area, see freemumia.org...
Posted: Sun, Nov 2, 2008 10:50am PST
State Uses Announcement Of Proposed Water Cuts to Push Canal and Dams 
The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) Thursday used a news conference announcing proposed drastic cuts of State Water Project (SWP) deliveries to agribusiness and cities as yet another opportunity to push for a peripheral canal and more dams. The announcement occured as Central Valley chinook salmon, Delta smelt, longfin smelt, threadfin shad, juvenile striped bass and other fish populations are crashing, due to increased water exports and declining water quality.
Photo: The C...
Posted: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 3:45pm PDT
KPIG News Announcer Travus T. Hipp Arrested For State-Legal (Nevada) Quantity Of MediMary Travus T. Hipp, KPIG News announcer and commentator has been arrested on-air at his home in Silver City Nevada for what appears to be a state-legal amount of medical Marijuana (14 plants). Apparently that law collides with the authorities belief that any quantity over one ounce implies intent to sell or distribute....
Posted: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 12:04pm PDT
Targeting Dissent - The San Francisco Eight Racism and repression are alive and well in America....
Posted: Wed, Oct 29, 2008 11:44am PDT
Judge Upholds Protection for Wild Central Valley Steelhead In a major defeat for the "wise use" movement, A U.S. District Court judge has rejected an attempt by California irrigators and logging industry groups to strip protected status from five populations of wild steelhead trout. Today's ruling rejects two separate challenges to steelhead protection in California, according to a news release from Earthjustice.
This ruling takes place as Central Valley salmon populations and Delta smelt, longfin smelt, juvenile striped bass, threadfin shad and o...
Posted: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 6:34pm PDT
Final Clean Water Hearing on PacifiCorp's Klamath Dams in Sacramento 10/29, 3 pm If you could do one thing to un-dam the Klamath - this is it! Attend the Sacramento Clean Water Hearing at the California EPA Bldg, Byron Sher Auditorium, 1001 "I" St, Sacramento, on October 29 at 3 pm....
Posted: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 6:03pm PDT
SFPUC to Decide on Water Diversions from Tuolumne River The SFPUC will decide on seismic upgrades to the Hetch Hetchy System and water diversions from the Tuolumne River on this Thursday in San Francisco. The program also includes a controversial plan to divert up to 25 million more gallons of water per day from the Tuolumne River to meet 2030 demand projections. Here are the details from Peter Drekmeister, Bay Area Director of the Tuolumne River Trust....
Posted: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 5:47pm PDT
Yuba River Salmon Tours Begin November 1 
In partnership with the San Francisco-based Environmental Traveling Companions, SYRCL (the South Yuba River Citizens League) is sponsoring their annual Salmon Raft Tours for the public starting this weekend. The dates are: Saturday, Nov. 1st, Saturday, Nov. 8th and Saturday, Nov. 15th.
Photo: Source to Sea-er Will Grant holds up a chinook salmon carcass on the Yuba River (the fish died naturally after spawning)....
Posted: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 11:02am PDT
RNC 2008 Documentary to be Released October 28th (video/quicktime 32.9MB) Independent Media Activists Set to Release Documentary on Political Repression During the 2008 Republican National Convention: Documentary to be Released One Week Before Historic Presidential Election. Watch the trailer here....
Posted: Tue, Oct 28, 2008 7:06am PDT
The Final Nail in Auburn Dam's Coffin? 
A protest by the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) has resulted in a ruling by the State Water Resources Control Board to revoke the Bureau of Reclamation's water rights permits for the proposed Auburn Dam. Could this be the final nail in the coffin of Auburn Dam? Here are the details from Jerry Neuburger, CSPA, www.calsport.org:...
Posted: Mon, Oct 27, 2008 4:22pm PDT
Restore the Delta: Support San Joaquin River Restoration 
Restore the Delta Alert: Support San Joaquin River Restoration
Restore the Delta is asking you right now to take special action on behalf of protecting the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the West Coast's largest and most significant estuary. The federal San Joaquin River Restoration Bill is now under attack by the Central Valley exchange water contractors and needs your support, according to this action alert from Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla.
"Restoring fresh water flows to the San Joa...
Posted: Mon, Oct 27, 2008 1:29pm PDT
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