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BCA E-Alert October 2007 Hello! It's time for another installment of Breast Cancer Action's monthly e-alert--
a collection of news, notices, and action alerts for people concerned about the
breast cancer epidemic. Welcome to any new e-alert members! If you think you've
been added by mistake, please follow the directions at the bottom of the email to
unsubscribe....
Posted: Wed, Oct 17, 2007 12:51pm PDT
1K High Temp Records Broken in Sept. [Highlights of Sept. NCDC report]
Last month's combined global land and ocean
surface temperature was the fifth warmest
September on record and the global ocean
surface temperature was the second warmest
since records began in 1880....
Posted: Wed, Oct 17, 2007 9:41am PDT
5,000 protest nuclear waste dumping in north Germany In north Germany more than 5,000 people (police say 2,000) took part on Saturday 13 October in a demonstration against a planned final nuclear dump in the former Schacht KONRAD iron ore mine in Salzgitter.
The demo was called by an action coalition of environment groups, trade unions and initiatives....
Posted: Tue, Oct 16, 2007 7:35pm PDT
Jeffrey Luers Has Been Moved Jeffrey Luers has been moved from OSP to Lane County Jail in expectation of his re-sentencing hearing(s)....
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2007 3:29pm PDT
Federal Judge Restores Endangered Species Act Protections for Oregon Coast Coho Salmon 
In yet another sordid example of how the Bush administration has used flawed science, a federal judge in a lawsuit by Earthjustice, Trout Unlimited, Pacific Rivers Council and the PCFFA declared as illegal the administration's decision to strip away endangered species protections for Oregon coast coho salmon....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 5:29pm PDT
U.S. Gold Mining Company Geocom to Strip Mine the Chilean Patagonia The international Gold mining company Geocom Resources, along with Kinross Gold Corp., both United States based companies are quietly buying up the mineral rights to the Espolon Valley in the heart of the Chilean Patagonia totaling over 91,000 hectares (353 square miles), with over 318 claims in the region X....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 9:46am PDT
Al Gore, UN Climate Change Panel Share Nobel Peace Prize Friday, October 12, 2007 :
Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to raise awareness on global warning. We get reaction from Guardian columnist and leading environmental campaigner George Monbiot....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 8:36am PDT
Chinese government acknowledges Three Gorges Dam "disaster" Friday, October 12, 2007 :After hailing the huge Three Gorges Dam for years as a major national achievement, the Chinese government has admitted for the first time that the project could be a disastrous failure with damaging environmental consequences. The about-face is not a revision of Beijing’s promotion of the unfettered operation of capitalist market....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 8:01am PDT
Climate Change: Arctic Sea Ice Heading for Rapid Disintegration 
Arctic summer sea ice is headed towards rapid disintegration as early as 2013, a century ahead of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections, according to 'the Big Melt' (PDF), a new review of recent scientific literature on climate change produced by www.carbonequity.info. We have gone past the tipping point for Arctic sea ice and now we watch the disintegration of the Greenland and the West Antarctic ice sheets which will result in catastrophic changes in sea level of 5 me...
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 8:29am PDT
Stop Unregulated Solid Waste Transfer Stations This letter/article is urging congress, President Bush and the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, Subcommittee Chairwoman -- Corrine Brown (D-Fla) to close the loophole in the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 (ICCTA), allowing unregulated solid waste transfer stations to operate simply because they propose to locate along railroads. The American people need to send a strong message to our elected officials that this threat to human health and ...
Posted: Thu, Oct 11, 2007 5:31am PDT
My visit with Daniel Hello friends,
It’s been a while since a proper update has gone out, so I wanted to use this opportunity to tell everyone about my visit with Daniel last weekend. Since many people reading this have never visited a prisoner, I thought it would be helpful to also provide an account of my experience doing so. Over the past 2 years, I have gone to see Daniel at county jail (in Eugene) and at a detention center (in Brooklyn), but this was the first time I had been to a prison, or what is offic...
Posted: Tue, Oct 9, 2007 2:07pm PDT
URENCO’s rush to keep dumping uranium waste in Russia A German anti-nuclear group says the world’s biggest supplier of enriched uranium, URENCO, is frantically seeking German and Dutch transport licenses to send waste to an open-air dump in Russia before Russia stops the dumping at the latest in 2009....
Posted: Tue, Oct 9, 2007 12:00am PDT
The Making of a Climate Movement Originally From New America Media
Saturday, October 6, 2007 : Public awareness of the climate crisis has grown enormously in the United States over the past two years, but the government's response lags far behind. Now, however, Washington's sluggish pace is calling forth a surge of activism aimed at persuading the next President and Congress to be far bolder--to advocate and deliver solutions as big as the problem....
Posted: Sat, Oct 6, 2007 9:53am PDT
Bring the Pacific Fisher Back to Washington's Wildlands 
Fishers are small, reclusive members of the weasel family that were trapped to near extinction at the turn of the century. Despite a 2004 feasibility study that found abundant prey and denning habitat in the park, fisher haven't been documented on the Olympic Peninsula since 1969. Fisher biologists have determined that reintroduction is the best option for restoring fisher to Washington, and the Olympic National Park has now completed its review of a reintroduction plan.
Image from PBI vi...
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 7:24pm PDT
Activist Ted Glick on 32nd Day of “Climate Emergency Fast” to Protest Washington Inaction on Global Warming Friday, October 5, 2007 :
Ted Glick is the coordinator of the U.S. Climate Emergency Council. He is on the 32nd day of a fast to protest the failure of lawmakers in Washington to address climate change....
Posted: Fri, Oct 5, 2007 7:48am PDT
Hawaiian Islands are Contaminated with Ballistic Uranium 
Please be pro-active and help us protect Hawai'i; demand the military not store, use or transport depleted uranium in the Hawaiian Islands....
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 3:52pm PDT
CISPES presente! in U.S. Delegation to Costa Rica for historic referendum U.S. Delegation to present CAFTA monitoring report in Costa Rica...
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 3:19pm PDT
Walden: Earth Day 2008 Project "Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau" is an educational performance play about the final two days Henry David Thoreau spent in his cabin before leaving Walden Pond. On EARTH DAY 2007 over 4,000 colleges, schools, home schools and community theaters in nine nations performed the play in celebration of Thoreau, his writings about nature, and our earth.
Help us spread the word for an even bigger success in 2008!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 12:21pm PDT
Arctic Ice Shrinking AND Thinning - Reports A research team from the National Snow and Ice
Data Center, part of the University of Colorado at
Boulder published their report of the annual 'Arctic
Ice Minimum' last week which tells the extent of
the summer melting. It broke the previous record
set in '05, but it did so by a huge margin. The area
that melted this year is 26% more than the '05
record....
Posted: Wed, Oct 3, 2007 10:47am PDT
Mayans in Guatemala: No Compromise, Halt Mining Sunday, September 30, 2007 TUCSON, Ariz. – Gold and silver mining in the Mayan homelands in northern Guatemala, near the border with Chiapas, Mexico, is poisoning the water and explosives are destroying the homes in the rural farming community of Sipakapa, Guatemala....
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2007 8:02am PDT
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