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Photography Is Not A Crime, Part 1 Nonetheless, as we continue with our pending lawsuit against the “public/private” contractors of the MLPA Initiative, they continue to deny violating the law when they had me arrested for attempting to record during two-day state-sponsored public meetings....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2012 8:29am PST
Oil lobbyist led marine reserves go into effect 
Walmart Chairman Rob Walton, who has dumped millions into groups supporting the MLPA Initiative and similar efforts to privatize the oceans worldwide, is no doubt very pleased also with the implementation of this network of 50 MPAs.
So-called "marine protected areas," created by a task force chaired by a big oil industry lobbyist, went into effect on the Southern California coast on New Year's Day. They will do nothing to stop oil spills and drilling - nor curb the pollution that plagues o...
Posted: Sun, Jan 1, 2012 9:00pm PST
Journalist Harassed at Public Meeting 
The private contractors running MLPAI meetings somehow got the notion that public meetings could be held without the public or the press keeping record of the proceedings....
Posted: Sun, Jan 1, 2012 7:50pm PST
Bunk X-Mas Gift from Paul Gallegos and the City Of Eureka, CA Paul Gallego's bullshit pogrom....
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2011 11:04am PST
MLPA Meetings: "an elaborately staged Kabuki performance" MLPA Initiative 'Blue Ribbon Task Force meetings' - "have been an elaborately staged Kabuki performance, choreographed and rehearsed down to the last detail, even to the crafting of motions"...
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2011 10:05am PST
Richard Heinberg: The End of Growth (audio/mpeg 54.4MB) Richard Heinberg author of The End of Growth, speaks in Mendocino, Ca....
Posted: Mon, Dec 26, 2011 4:40pm PST
Oil company wants to expand drilling as MPAs become effective 
"We now witness the fruit born of a Marine Life Protection Act 'Initiative' that was hijacked by oil interests," said Dave Gurney, independent journalist. "A southern California oil company wants to expand it's operations - from 3.7 miles out in federal waters, further east, to within the 3-mile limit of California state waters. They are proposing to drill up to 25 new offshore oil wells."...
Posted: Thu, Dec 22, 2011 8:05pm PST
Improper notice of public meeting by the MLPA “Initiative” 
Thus lack of proper notice was the beginning of what was to become a string of serious violations of California’s Bagley-Keene Open Meetings Act by private contractors and public employees who formed the so-called “I-Team” of the MLPA Initiative to create so-called "marine protected areas."
Photo of Melissa Miller-Henson and Ken Wiseman by David Gurney....
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2011 10:31am PST
Coastside files appeal of court ruling on MLPA regulations 
Catherine Reheis-Boyd, the president of the Western States Petroleum Association, chaired the MLPA Initiative Blue Ribbon Task Force for the South Coast that created the new "marine protected areas." Reheis-Boyd, while representing the interests of big oil companies, also served on the North Coast and North Central Coast task forces.
Map of North Central Coast "marine protected areas." Coastside Fishing Club has filed an appeal with California's 4th District Court of Appeal in its challeng...
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2011 6:58pm PST
Controversial marine 'protected' areas effective January 1 
The DFG release failed to mention that Catherine Reheis-Boyd, the president of the Western States Petroleum Association, chaired the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative Blue Ribbon Task Force for the South Coast that created the new marine protected areas. Reheis-Boyd is a huge supporter of new offshore oil rigs, Canadian tars sands drilling and the weakening of environmental laws....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2011 3:38pm PST
Congress must investigate GE salmon's human health impacts 
“Congress needs to step in because the Food & Drug Administration seems set on approving this first transgenic animal to enter the food chain, even though nearly all of the safety studies they are scrutinizing have been conducted by AquaBounty, the company that has sunk tens of millions of dollars into the research and development of the product," said Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Watch....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2011 9:02am PST
Appeal Against MLPA 'Initiative' - Opening Brief http://noyonews.net:
In our lawsuit against the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative for civil rights violations at April 20-21 public meetings conducted by the Initiative's so-called “I-Team,” attorney Peter Martin of Eureka, California has filed an appeal to the MLPAI's “motion to quash” - that has attempted to exempt them from any legal accountability for their actions....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2011 7:54am PST
MLPA Initiative officials warned prior to blue whale death See the YouTube video HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z47kLRFK6M0...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2011 5:11pm PST
Sugarloaf Ridge is first state park to close 
Proposals to privatize state parks take place in the context of the drive by Wall Street-backed politicians and big corporate environmental NGOs and foundations to privatize the public trust.
Photo of Sugarloaf Ridge State Park courtesy of California State Parks Association....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2011 11:58pm PST
Walmart Chairman Rob Walton: The Worst of the One Percent? 
I strongly urge everybody to vote for Rob Walton as "worst of the 1%" for his efforts to crush labor and human rights and drive local "mom and pop" operations out of business, as well for funding corporate environmental NGO efforts to privatize the oceans by promoting "catch shares" programs and Arnold Schwarzenegger's privately funded Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative.
Photo of Wal-Mart truck courtesy of http://www.care2.com/causes/wal-mart-going-green-or-greenwashing.html....
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2011 7:18pm PST
What is a Journalist? But like thieves deciding it's OK for THEM to steal, Eric Poncelet, Ken Wiseman and Eric Bloom chose to break the law, and decided against the U.S. Constitution and California's Bagley-Keene Open Meetings Act. They decided that some public meetings of the MLPA "Initiative" would be off limits to a free press, and the open exchange of ideas guaranteed by our democracy....
Posted: Sat, Nov 19, 2011 9:26am PST
Report on catch shares finds consolidation, job loss 
According to the Food & Water Watch report, the red snapper catch share program has also failed to meet its stated ecological goals. A government analysis of 66 red snapper fishing trips in 2009 found that more than half of the total fish caught were discarded. In 2010, the rates decreased slightly, with 40 percent of the catch discarded. This discard rate was still far higher than in 2007 or 2008 at catch shares program’s inception.
Photo of Dr. Jane Lubchenco of NOAA defending her posit...
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2011 7:05pm PST
Our Appeal of the MLPA Initiative's “Motion to Quash” Continued 
The generous coffers of private billionaires – the “one-per-centers” who funded the MLPA “Initiative” – are managed by the so-called “Resources Legacy Fund Foundation” (RLFF)....
Posted: Mon, Nov 14, 2011 12:28pm PST
Our Appeal of the MLPA Initiative's “Motion to Quash” 
The MLPA Initiative was in fact a highly organized group, with common goals and a common purpose. As such, the MLPAI is definitely subject to the laws of the land....
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2011 10:36am PST
Occupy State Parks! (audio/mpeg 4.2MB) In Mendocino County, Anderson Valley residents are occupying Hendy Woods, a state park slated for closure next year. As Christina Aanestad reports, the weekend of actions are like other occupy movements- to oppose the current priorities in federal and state spending, in hopes of saving one of the areas largest economic resources-old growth trees....
Posted: Fri, Nov 11, 2011 5:23pm PST
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