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Protesters urge state officials to halt Santa Barbara offshore drilling expansion 
“The last thing this oil-drenched area needs is more drilling,” said Michelle Bednash, a resident of Goleta. “The State Lands Commission should safeguard our public lands and focus on decommissioning offshore oil wells and promoting sustainable energy."
Photo of Wednesday's rally in Goleta courtesy of the Center for Biological Diversity....
Posted: Thu, Jun 25, 2015 10:34am PDT
Activists will rally to block offshore oil drilling expansion in Santa Barbara 
Using a loophole in the state law that prohibits leasing state waters for oil and gas drilling, Venoco has asked the State Lands Commission to approve a lease swap that would allow the company to drill for more oil on 3,400 acres off the California coast. That oil would be transported through the Plains All American pipeline, according to Californians Against Fracking....
Posted: Tue, Jun 23, 2015 1:37pm PDT
Romero Institute Calls for Pope Francis to Revoke the Doctrine of Discovery 
The Romero Institute, a Santa Cruz, Calif.-based 501(c)3 and heir to the famed Christic Institute, celebrates the release of Laudato Si', Pope Francis’ much-anticipated encyclical on the environment, but insists the Catholic Church must do more to reverse the entrenched and systemic injustices that persist as a result of its policies....
Posted: Mon, Jun 22, 2015 12:16pm PDT
The Relationship of Social Philosophy to Social Policy Today, our nation of 350 million is governed “officially” by the democratic ideals eloquently prescribed in our Constitution, but in reality we are governed by the same ideology of “survival of the fittest,” who are the wealthiest, the 1% billionaire owned politicians who are served by the most clever at propaganda, mass marketing advertising, public manipulation which determines elections so that “the people” in “we the people…” vote against their own best interests, such as for allowing pol...
Posted: Sat, Jun 20, 2015 8:46pm PDT
California Nurses, Teachers Oppose Phillips 66 Oil Train Project 
The 120,000-member California Federation of Teachers voted to add their voice to the growing community of nurses and teachers opposed to the Phillips 66 oil train project....
Posted: Fri, Jun 19, 2015 5:08pm PDT
The Campaign To Repeal Public Funding Of Charters In CA With Kathleen Carroll (audio/x-wav 29.2MB) Kathleen Carroll, a public education advocate and lawyer who was fired for whistleblowing at the California Commission on Teacher Credentials discusses the campaign to repeal a 1992 law in California that allowed for public funding of privately run charters....
Posted: Fri, Jun 19, 2015 4:46pm PDT
Teach the children the reason in the midst of our Global Juneteenth Freedom Party 
President Barack Obama will celebrate the Sesquicentennial Celebration of Juneteenth near the Royal Fortress of Saint Frances. The "unknown" California Juneteenth Story awaits official permission to share the authentic legacy hidden within the California State Archives and California State Library. Honorable Mervyn M. Dymally shared the positive way forward available for reconsideration (AB 59 2003) reconnecting the blood stained shores of the Gullah Geeche Low Country to the Golden Gate of...
Posted: Thu, Jun 18, 2015 9:16am PDT
Racial Profiling Bill Heads to California Senate SACRAMENTO--On June 3 the state Assembly approved a police reform bill that would collect basic information about encounters the police have with Californians. Assembly members voted 41 to 23 to pass Assembly Bill 953, Law Enforcement: Racial Profiling....
Posted: Fri, Jun 5, 2015 11:45am PDT
EPA Report Finds Fracking Water Pollution, Despite Oil Industry's Refusal to Provide Data WASHINGTON— A long-delayed report released today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finds that fracking has polluted drinking water. But a lack of cooperation from the oil and gas industry limited the study’s ability to draw wider conclusions. “The limited amount of data collected before and during hydraulic fracturing activities reduces the ability to determine whether hydraulic fracturing affected drinking water resources in cases of alleged contamination,” the study notes....
Posted: Thu, Jun 4, 2015 2:19pm PDT
Oppose SB277 - SB 277 impacts children in private or public elementary or secondary school, child care center, day nursery, nursery school, family day care home, or development center. SB 277 would eliminate a parent's right to exempt their children from one, some, or all vaccines, a risk-laden medical procedure. Only a medical exemption would remain, which is usually only issued after a catastrophic adverse vaccine reaction has occurred, and often times, not even then....
Posted: Wed, Jun 3, 2015 7:39pm PDT
Nuclear Shutdown News May 2015 Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the continuing decline of the US nuclear industry. US nuke plants were designed to operate for 40 years… as many of them have approached or surpassed that mark, they have become increasingly unsafe and inefficient, threatening our health and safety. This report points out some of these problems and supports those working for a nuclear free future. Here’s our May 2015 issue....
Posted: Wed, Jun 3, 2015 3:16pm PDT
El Niño Triggers Temporary Drift Gillnet Fishery Closure off Southern California The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has announced it will close southern California ocean waters to drift gillnets in order to protect endangered loggerhead sea turtles. This legally mandated closure went into effect June 1 according to regulation and is prompted by current El Niño conditions–warmer than normal ocean waters. The closure will stay in effect until August 31, 2015....
Posted: Tue, Jun 2, 2015 9:13am PDT
Prospective American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples risks progress Prospective American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples risks undermining a decade of progress...
Posted: Thu, May 21, 2015 6:04pm PDT
California Congressional Leaders Urge Gov. Brown, Legislative Leaders To Boost Denti-Cal 
State Budget Fails to Fix Federal-State Program After California State Auditor Finds State's Low-Income Families Have Little Access to Dental Care...
Posted: Wed, May 20, 2015 11:06am PDT
Groups Sue Obama Administration Over Weak Tank Car Standards SAN FRANCISCO— In the wake of a spate of fiery derailments and toxic spills involving trains hauling volatile crude oil, a coalition of conservation organizations and citizen groups are challenging the U.S. Department of Transportation’s weak safety standards for oil trains. Less than a week after the DOT released its final tank car safety rule on May 1, a train carrying crude oil exploded outside of Heimdal, N.D. Under the current standards, the tank cars involved in the accident would not b...
Posted: Thu, May 14, 2015 7:02pm PDT
Nurses Join Teachers, Parents and Students to Voice Opposition to Phillips 66 Oil Train 
Registered nurses will join with parents and students for three days of events opposing the Phillips 66 Oil Train Project, which starts this Thursday by urging the Templeton School Board to oppose the controversial Phillips 66 proposal to add five additional rail shipments a week of dirty tar sands crude oil through the center of San Luis Obispo County to Phillips’ Santa Maria refinery. Photo: 2014 oil train derailment in Seattle, Washington. Photo Credit: Flicker user, EcologyWA...
Posted: Thu, May 14, 2015 9:03am PDT
Check the Warning Labels The Repackaging of Tom Hayden Tom Hayden, a defender of Zionist Apartheid Israel is gets a build up on Pacifica, KPFA BET and Amy Goodman "Democracy Now"...
Posted: Sat, May 9, 2015 8:31pm PDT
California: 40 percent emissions reduction below 1990 levels by 2030 climate change target 
Governor Brown announced a major greenhouse gas reduction target of 40 per cent reduction on 1990 levels by 2030, which will boost opportunity for a successful agreement at the Paris climate change talks in December. California's commitment now matches Europe's. But Gov Brown's continued support for fracking is a major climate concern of environmental groups....
Posted: Sat, May 2, 2015 2:40am PDT
Tesla storage Battery launch a revolutionary energy solution for climate change 
In a remarkable 20 minute presentation on Thursday night, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Paypal and Tesla Motors, launched a scalable battery storage system aimed at multiple markets: from personal home use, small business to utility scale electricity storage....
Posted: Sat, May 2, 2015 2:23am PDT
Chumash Nation Honors Mission Ancestors and Opposes Serra Sainthood 
In opposition of the Pope's plans, the Barbareno Chumash Tribal Iyalmuwic Council and the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation will lead a weekend of cultural reverence and resistance to the notion of Serras' Canonization; highlighted by a ceremony to honor the more than 4,000 ancestors who lost their lives who are buried in a mass gravesite. The ceremony will be outside the Santa Barbara Mission, May 31....
Posted: Wed, Apr 29, 2015 2:01pm PDT
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