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BCA E-Alert August 2006 1. NEW AT BCA: BCA Welcomes New Staff
2. IN THE NEWS: San Francisco Supervisors Approve Citywide Health Care; Study
Examines Side Effects of Raloxifene; Research Challenges Tamoxifen Use in Healthy
Women
3. TAKE ACTION: Learn More About Single-Payer Health Care; Urge California to List
Teflon Chemical as a Carcinogen
4. SAVE THE DATE: Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers' Third Annual
Symposium, November 2-3, Berkeley, CA; Cancer as a Turning Point: From Surviving to
Thr...
Posted: Wed, Aug 2, 2006 11:40pm PDT
Bush admin proposes regulations making it easier to kill bear, cougars, fox, and wolf 
The Bush administration proposed last week to relax restrictions on aerial gunning and poisoning of “problem” wildlife such as coyotes, foxes, mountain lions and wolves in designated Wilderness areas and Research Natural Areas on Forest Service land. Wilderness and Research Natural Areas are the two most protective land management classifications the Forest Service has, and both were formerly off-limits to predator control programs except in limited circumstances....
Posted: Wed, Aug 2, 2006 9:23pm PDT
How the Kyoto Protocol Was Gored Seems as though Al Gore's part-documentary part-campaign flick is reaching quite a few people this summer, environmentalists and skeptics alike. Perhaps the ol' VP is repenting for some of the dirty deeds he supported during his compliant years in Washington....
Posted: Wed, Aug 2, 2006 6:30pm PDT
Luers in the Hole (update) Update on Jeff Free Luers
Jeff is still in the hole; please continue to write to him!...
Posted: Wed, Aug 2, 2006 2:23pm PDT
Worldwide Alert: Call for an International Solidarity Camp at the Hill of Tara, Ireland AN INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY CAMP AT TARA IS NEEDED URGENTLY. People from all over the world are asked to come to Tara and help to established a permanent mass presence there to monitor destruction of heritage by the Irish State, and prevent the construction of a motorway through the Tara-Skryne Valley....
Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2006 3:25pm PDT
Stop the Killing of Sea Turtles in Gillnets Pacific Leatherbacks are the most endangered of the world's sea turtle species. The primary threat to the species is drowning in gillnet and longline fisheries. In 2000 the federal government created the Pacific Leatherback Conservation Area, banning gillnets within it to protect Leatherbacks that come to feed in the rich waters off the California and Oregon coasts each fall....
Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2006 1:50pm PDT
Tribes March on Portland - Demand Removal of Klamath Dams The Klamath Basin Tribes will march on an international hydropower conference in Portland, Oregon on Wednesday, August 2....
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2006 11:30pm PDT
Are you now or were you ever an enviromentalist? 
In the wake of the US war on terror, nonviolent campaigners are increasingly being caught up in a Green Scare that defines them as terrorists...
Posted: Thu, Jul 27, 2006 2:55pm PDT
Judge Rules Against South Central Farmers, Lawyers to Appeal LOS ANGELES, July 26, 2006 - Judge Helen Bendix rejected all the farmer’s claims in the case South Central Farmers vs. Ralph Horowitz and the City of Los Angeles today. Attorneys for the farmers say they will appeal the decision to the appellate court. The verdict does not come as unexpected, Judge Bendix has ruled against the farmers in the past only to be overturned in appeal....
Posted: Wed, Jul 26, 2006 3:55pm PDT
Honorable Judge Helen I. Bendix Will Render Verdict bright and early on weds:
After 3 years of struggling in the political arena and in the courts the
South Central Farmers and Supporters anticipate an outcome to the legal
struggle (Case # BC311110) with a verdict from Honorable Judge Helen Bendix....
Posted: Tue, Jul 25, 2006 11:18pm PDT
South Central Farms 2005 Live Concert CD , Zack De La Rocha, Son De Madera, and more 
Save The Farm (live concert compilation CD - NOVEMBER 2005) Zack De La Rocha, Son De Madera, Los Cojolites, Quetzal, and more.....
Posted: Tue, Jul 25, 2006 12:23am PDT
August 25th Katrina Anniversary Critical Mass Hi there! I'm a critical mass rider (mostly Portland, OR) working with a group
called Rising Tide to organize a
continent-wide Katrina anniversary critical mass ride for the last Friday in August
(the 25th). This was the day
Hurricane Katrina reached hurricane strength....
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2006 10:07pm PDT
Counter the G8 + 5 Climate Summit! October 3-4 in Mexico City: CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW! On Tuesday, October 3 in Mexico City, the Energy and Environment Ministers from the "Group of Eight" (G8) industrialized countries are scheduled to begin negotiating a climate change deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. They will be joined by Energy and Environment Ministers from the five "emerging" countries of Brazil, India, China, South Africa and Mexico. All together, these "G8 + 5" countries represent 58% of the world's human population, 61% of oil consumption, 80% ...
Posted: Sun, Jul 23, 2006 8:39pm PDT
ALERT: EPA ACCEPTING COMMENTS ON PESTICIDE RESIDUES IN FOOD I'm glad they don't have flouride in the title because at this point a lot of people just turn off to anything where people are saying that flouride is unhealthy because they associate that with a lot of other nutty stuff. If 7000 EPA employees are calling for limitations, you have to wonder....
Posted: Sat, Jul 22, 2006 10:33pm PDT
Rings Around Tara A Protest Camp has been established at the Hill of Tara!!!
To Stop the M3 Motorway which will run beside the Hill.
International Support and Volunteers are needed!!!
Other Observation Camps can be established in the area....
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 3:10pm PDT
Leurs in Solitary Confinement Jeff Luers is in solitary, write letters of support...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 7:51pm PDT
Green Scare: The Lauren Regan Interview Activist-Lawyer Lauren Regan is Jeff “Free” Luers lawyer. She is outspoken about what is happening to activists in the US and speaks to The Justice Barker for the Abolitionist on what is commonly called “The Green Scare” in the United States today....
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 3:54pm PDT
Rings Around Tara A Protest Camp has Been Established at the Hill of Tara!!
To Stop the M3 Motorway which will run beside the Hill!!!
International Support and Volunteers are needed!!!
Other Camps can be established!!!...
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 3:10pm PDT
Bush administration sells off public forests to energy companies Working with the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Bush administration is moving ahead with plans to sell public national forest land to big oil and gas companies, as well as private timber firms. The White House plans to sell over 300,000 acres of publicly owned land, generating $800 million....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 10:25pm PDT
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