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Salmon Water Now! Video Covers The Salmon Summit The Salmon Summit was a huge success and now you can see it in this new Salmon Water Now! video. This is the first of a few videos that will feature what happened at Fort Mason in San Francisco on April 1st. Future videos will show the panel discussions and media coverage. The video is only available on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/10663392...
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2010 2:26pm PDT
4/6 - Sac City Council; Rally for Prop. 215 Medicinal Cannabis Rights! Certain members of the Sacramento City Council came up with the idea that reducing the current number of dispensaries (around 40) within Sac city limits to a number around 12 or 13 chosen by lottery instead of allowing free market access of Prop. 215 dispensaries to compete fairly based upon product quality and service from staff....
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2010 3:35pm PDT
MLPA Task Force Chair Calls for More Oil Drilling off California Coast Catherine Reheis-Boyd, an oil company lobbyist who has called for new oil drilling off the California Coast, is chair of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s MLPA Blue Ribbon Task Force for the South Coast. She also sat on the MLPA Task Force for the North Central Coast and now sits on the task force for the North Coast....
Posted: Fri, Apr 2, 2010 8:51am PDT
Good News, Bad News for the Delta "Despite its demonstrated inability to do anything right for the Delta, the State Water Resources Control Board is once again earning its keep by listening to experts while trying to thread the needle of political expedience," said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, campaign director of Restore the Delta. "This time, the Water Board's task is 'To Develop Flow Criteria for the Delta Ecosystem Necessary to Protect Public Trust Resources."
RTD staff attended part of the first of three days of hearin...
Posted: Thu, Mar 25, 2010 4:49pm PDT
California’s Delta Challenge: The Heart of the Problem Bruce Tokars has just posted the new Salmon Water Now video, California's Delta Challenge, on Vimeo and YouTube. It is in two parts on YouTube due to their 10-minute limit. The video has been released as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger continues his campaign to build a peripheral canla and new dams that Delta advocates believe will seal the doom of Central Valley steelhead, Sacramento River Chinook salmon, Delta smelt, longfin smelt, green sturgeon, striped bass and other fish populations. Sh...
Posted: Tue, Mar 23, 2010 4:16pm PDT
Medicinal sentence in Chico, CA 64 yr old man sentenced to 180 days in jail for violation of probation, due to physician-recommended use of medicianal cannabis....
Posted: Tue, Mar 23, 2010 9:22am PDT
MARCH FOR JOBS, JUSTICE, EDUCATION, IMMIGRATION REFORM, NO "BRACERO" "AG-JOBS" GUEST WORKERS LABOR & COMMUNITY CALL FOR 3 DAY MARCH...
Posted: Tue, Mar 23, 2010 7:20am PDT
Report Finds Delta Pumping Restrictions to Protect Fish "Scientifically Justified" The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on Friday released a peer-review report that validates recent federal “biological opinions” and federal actions, particularly seasonal reductions in water pumping, to protect endangered Sacramento River Chinook salmon, Central Valley steelhead, Delta smelt and green sturgeon in the San Francisco Bay-Delta, according to Jeff Miller, conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. Below the Center for Biological Diversity press release is t...
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 10:36am PDT
Governor Candidate Alexander: California Governor’s Seat Could Cost $200 Million Republican billionaire Meg Whitman has stated that she will spend up to $150 million of her own money to be governor and Republican Steve Poizner wrote a $15 million check as down payment on the governor’s office. The un-contended Democrat, Attorney General Jerry Brown is hoping to challenge Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner with the backing of casinos, unions and third party committees....
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2010 8:03am PDT
Hudson Riverkeeper Honors Arnold the Fish Terminator It's hard to believe, but the Hudson Riverkeeper is honoring Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the "Fish Terminator," for his "environmental advocacy." What wacky parallel universe does the "leadership" of the Riverkeeper inhabit?...
Posted: Fri, Mar 19, 2010 6:29pm PDT
Judge Vilardi Rejects DWR’s 2009 Drought Water Bank Approval “This is a great victory for the California public,” said Carolee Krieger, executive director of the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN), “because it warns DWR and the Governor not to abuse their obligations to the people of California to follow the law and protect the Delta and the environment."...
Posted: Wed, Mar 17, 2010 3:38pm PDT
The Right's War Against Public Trust Fishing Rights There has been a plethora of right wing talk show host coverage of Obama's so-called "ban on fishing" this week. " I find it ironic when folks like Limbaugh and Michelle Malkin, who have wholeheartedly supported administrations that have crushed our fishing rights and instituted massive fishing closures, are now speaking up for the "poor fishermen." What hypocrites they are!
Even more ironic, Sean Hannity and other talk show hosts have collaborated with corporate agribusiness and astroturf...
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2010 10:26am PST
A Walk Through Fresno’s Downtown Homeless Encampments Update on the homelessness situation in Fresno....
Posted: Sun, Mar 7, 2010 9:14pm PST
Examination of the current state of education and last nights occupation in Fresno my reflections on why the tactic of occupation was chosen and on the current problem in higher ed...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2010 4:14pm PST
UC Davis protestors clash with police in attempt to block I-80 About 300 protestors confronted a blockade of police today in an unsuccessful attempt to march on Interstate 80 in Davis, resulting in one student's arrest. Tensions erupted when protestors tried to push past shoulder-to-shoulder lines of 120 officers from 10 law enforcement agencies....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2010 1:11am PST
STUDENTS OCCUPY FRESNO STATE Hundreds of students from Fresno State and a wide variety of surrounding public education institutions marched through the streets of Fresno followed by rally of five-hundred plus. The rally and march were in protest of the massive budget cuts to social services in the State of California from which public education institutions are by no means immune....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 2:12pm PST
Third Party Revolution Endorse Stewart Alexander for California Governor Stewart Alexander says the most severe crisis California is facing is a leadership crisis; “After electing an actor for governor in 2003 and 2006, most Californians are reluctant to support the three choices representing the two big money parties. Republican frontrunner Meg Whitman has no political experience and Republican Steve Poizner sounds a lot like Schwarzenegger without the accent. Democrat Jerry Brown has not made his position clear on many of the major issues facing California vot...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 9:05am PST
CSU Fresno NORML spreading the legalization message on campus Do you attend a college or university that doesn’t have a NORML Chapter? Would you like to start one? Send me an email at stash@norml.org and check the menu at the top that says “NORML Chapters” and you’ll learn all you need to know.
You could make a difference on your campus like the brand new CSU Fresno chapter:...
Posted: Sun, Feb 28, 2010 12:50pm PST
California Socialist Party USA Endorses March 4th to Defend Education Members of Socialist Party USA will be joining students and demonstrations nationwide on March 4th to defend education and to support the rights of students and working people....
Posted: Sat, Feb 27, 2010 10:11pm PST
Stockton East Again Illegally “Takes” Listed Calaveras Steelhead Below is a CSPA press release regarding Stockton East Water District's dewatering of the Calaveras River and stranding steelhead listed under the federal Endangered Species act....
Posted: Wed, Feb 24, 2010 11:14am PST
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