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Special Report on Washington D.C. Salmon Collapse Hearing The following is a special report from Roger Thomas, Golden Gate Fishermen's Association, and Dick Pool, American Sportfishing Association, on the House oversight hearing regarding the West Coast salmon disaster held in Washington D.C. on May 15.
In spite of the court’s recent decision and most independent biologists' opinions that the massive increases in water exports at the state and federal pumps in the California Delta were a primary cause of the Central Valley collapse, Mr. Rod McGi...
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2008 9:15am PDT
9/11 Truth & Impeachment radio show w' Senator Karen Johnson, Eric Larsen, and others 
On the weekly radio show- Questioning War- Organizing Resistance, 9/11 Truth and Impeachment will be discussed by State Senator Karen Johnson, author Eric Larsen and impeachment advocates- Phil Burk, Barbara Ellis, Carol Wolman and Brad Newsham. State Senator Karen Johnson courageously peened an Op-Ed calling for a genuine investigation of 9/11. Eric Larsen wrote a scathing critique of the Left, and the media in an essay entitled The Debate over 9/11. Impeachment advocates will report on the ...
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2008 1:03pm PDT
Protest the Health Insurance Companies' Convention in SF! Moscone Center West
4th St at Howard, SF...
Event Date: Thu, Jun 19, 2008 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2008 7:36am PDT
5/23/2008 SF Labor TV On SEIU Struggles And The Fight For Democracy "Labor On The Job" will program a show on the struggle within the SEIU and the upcoming convention that will be held in Puerto Rico. Joining the show will be S.M.A.R.T. leader http://www.reformseiu.org/ and SEIU-UHW Executive Board member Maya Morris and SEIU 1021 activist Brian Cruz....
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2008 12:20am PDT
Nader calls U. S. "corporate fascism" 
"What's wrong with us? Are we the biggest suckers? Are we super-suckers?" He exhorted his audience at the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian-Universalists to find their "constructive anger."
- Ralph Nader...
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 6:37pm PDT
June 14, 2008: Day of Solidarity With Jeffrey Free Luers and All Eco-Prisoners 
June 2008 marks the 8th anniversary of the imprisonment of Jeffrey Free Luers. Each June for the past 8 years, a Day of Solidarity has been held to garner support for Jeff and other eco-prisoners. Throughout the years, support for Jeff has been widespread and the solidarity has been appreciated more than words could ever express....
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 6:27pm PDT
CASS releases economic impact report on LBAM pesticide spray program. On May 5th, 2008, Foster Gamble and the Economic Action Team of the 'California Alliance to Stop the Spray' released a forty page report on the negative economic impact to the state of California if the CDFA wet dream to spray millions of California residents with a micronized chemical soup goes forward. Despite numerous press releases, the corporate media remains silent on the grave implications to the State’s economy and continues to parrot CDFA disinformation and propaganda....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 10:53pm PDT
Urge Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein to Attend Winter Soldiers Hearing On Thursday, May 15th, for the first time since the invasion of Iraq, Iraq Veterans Against the War, the same vets who spoke at Winter Soldier, will testify before Congress about the realities of the occupation. Encourage Speaker Pelosi to attend. I just called her office and the man who answered didn't sound very happy to hear from me. Please call today: (202) 225-4965
Barbara Boxer: (202) 224-3553
Dianne Feinstein: (202) 224-3841...
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 9:42am PDT
A Perfect Storm: House Panel Will Hold Hearing on West Coast Salmon on May 15 A House Subcommittee will hold an oversight hearing on the management of West Coast salmon fisheries on Thursday, May 15 at 10 a.m. (eastern) in Washington, D.C. Hopefully, this hearing will spur some concrete actions to restore salmon populations on the Sacramento, Klamath, Columbia and other river systems. The hearing occurs at a time when commercial and recreational salmon fishing has been closed off California and Oregon, due to the unprecedented collapse of Central Valley fall run chinoo...
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 9:24am PDT
Video Proof Oakland City Attorney Entrapped in Crime (video/quicktime 6.5MB) The Oakland City Attorney's Office has engaged in acts to coverup these unlawful tactics, failed and refused to disclose to the court, nor inform the Judge of their improper and illegal transgressions regarding the fact of the defendants removing and taking custody of the City of Oakland files for several months and allowed the trial to proceed knowing their liability and the legal impact of their spoliation of evidence of the documents therein and their unpardonable breach in the chain of cu...
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 12:08am PDT
Chicago, NY, SF: May 16-17 vigils for gay Russians Human Rights Activists Needed for Solidarity Speak Outs...
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2008 5:03pm PDT
Standing Up to the Madness (video/x-ms-wmv 39.5MB) Amy Goodman, independent journalist and host of Democracy Now! was in Fresno on April 29, 2008. She spoke at the Unitarian Church as a part of her “Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times” tour. The event was a benefit for radio station KFCF 88.1 FM www.kfcf.org . This is a 10:55 video of the first segment of her talk....
Posted: Sun, May 11, 2008 5:09pm PDT
May Day revival on three fronts: labor, immigrant, and antiwar 
What started on May 1, 2006 as some of the largest political demonstrations in U.S. history for immigrants' rights have in 2008 brought together three fronts -- labor, immigrant, and antiwar -- in one struggle for peace and social justice....
Posted: Fri, May 9, 2008 1:38am PDT
Video of Klamath River Tribes Protest at Diamond Store in Omaha This video is of the protest organized by women from the Yurok, Karuk and Hoopa Valley tribes of northern California during a cocktail party at the Borsheims Diamond Store, owned by Warren Buffett, on Friday, May 2 in Omaha Nebraska. This protest was held prior to the Berkshire-Hathaway meeting the following day, where a coalition of tribes, fishermen and conservationists challenged Buffett and Charles Munger to remove four Klamath Dams, owned by Berkshire Hathaway subsidiaries PacifiCorp amd...
Posted: Thu, May 8, 2008 6:35pm PDT
FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional National Security Letter After ACLU and EFF Challenge Wednesday, May 7, 2008 : San Francisco - The FBI has withdrawn an unconstitutional national security letter (NSL) issued to the Internet Archive after a legal challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). As the result of a settlement agreement, the FBI withdrew the NSL and agreed to the unsealing of the case, finally allowing the Archive's founder to speak out for the first time about his battle against the record demand....
Posted: Thu, May 8, 2008 7:47am PDT
Speak up for student privacy rights, AB 2994 limits military access to student records Sally Lieber's bill AB 2994 is up for a vote on the Assembly floor tomorrow, May 8.
Tell your assemblymember to support this bill, which limits military recruiters' access to student data.
Call now!...
Posted: Wed, May 7, 2008 2:38pm PDT
Immigration Raids Startle Communities in Oakland and Berkeley Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 : Immigration raids near schools in Berkeley and Oakland have sent waves of panic in the communities and may keep undocumented students from attending class, writes NAM education reporter Amanda Martinez....
Posted: Wed, May 7, 2008 8:15am PDT
ATMs Attacked In Solidarity With Olympia Rioters On May 1st, at the stroke of midnight, ATMs across Santa Cruz were put out of their misery. This action is in solidarity with those arrested on May Day in Olympia. They are accused of rioting and throwing rocks through the windows of Bank of America and US Bank. Some of the banks targeted in Santa Cruz include Bank of America and Wells Fargo....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2008 5:58pm PDT
Klamath River Tribes and Fishermen Declare Mission Accomplished 
Klamath River Basin tribal leaders, Native American activists, commercial fishermen, recreational anglers and conservationists have just returned home to California and Oregon after disrupting Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska this weekend.
Karuk World Renewal Priest (Fatawana), Chook-Chook Hillman, Klamath Riverkeeper Regina Chichizola and Mike Polmateer of the Karuk Tribe were able to ask sharply pointed questions directly to Buffett abou...
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2008 11:44am PDT
Fish Swim In Water, Not Promises! "Fish Swim in Water, Not Promises."
Zeke Grader, executive director of PCFFA
The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA) praised the U.S. Secretary of Commerce for issuing a fishery disaster declaration on May 1, but said that the emergency relief is only the first of many steps needed to avoid the total destruction of the West Coast salmon fishery. The fishery disaster was caused by collapse of Central Valley chinook salmon populations, the result of massive water e...
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2008 9:31am PDT
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