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North Coast MLPA milestone: Protecting the ocean and traditional tribal gathering 
The Marine Life Protection Act implementation process on California's north coast took a great step forward today when the Fish and Game Commission voted to support the community's unified marine protected area plan and allow traditional tribal gathering within protected areas....
Posted: Wed, Jun 29, 2011 6:08pm PDT
The Living Hell in Pelican Bay Prison 
Crescent City is far north in California, about 20 miles from the Oregon border. In 1989, In 1989, 275 acres of dense forest near there were chopped down to build the $277.5 million Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP). Today, more than 3,000 people are locked up in this prison, infamous for its inhumane conditions and extreme abuse. More than 1,000 prisoners at PBSP are locked up in an X-shaped cluster of white buildings set apart by electrified fences and barren ground. This is the Security Hou...
Posted: Wed, Jun 29, 2011 1:01pm PDT
Commission close to making decision regarding acknowledging tribal rights 
“Any attempt to institutionally diminish our right to gather coastal resources is essentially an act of ethnic cleansing,” Yurok Tribal Chairman Thomas O’Rourke said. “We depend on these traditions to carry on our culture for the rest of time.”
Photo of Yurok Tribal Chair, Thomas O'Rourke, at a direct action protest against the privately-funded Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative in Fort Bragg on July 21, 2010. Photo by Dan Bacher....
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2011 9:32am PDT
2011 Cazadero Performing Arts Family Camp is Open for Signups! 
5385 Cazadero Highway
Cazadero, CA 95421...
Event Date: Mon, Aug 8, 2011 7:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 11:12am PDT
Urgent Request for Solidarity Actions: July 1 Prisoner Hunger Strike @ Pelican Bay CA On July 1st, 50-100 prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison in Northern California will begin an indefinite hunger strike to protest the tortuous and inhumane conditions of their imprisonment. Pelican Bay is notorious for it's repressive methods of solitary confinement (like the SHU, i.e. Security Housing Unit). The CA Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation prides itself on Pelican Bay being "the end of the line," and is part of a continuation since the 1960's of prisons using solitary co...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2011 1:28pm PDT
Protester arrested by Humboldt Sheriff at Mckay Tract, most extensive treesit village ever A protester was arrested (while on the ground) June 15th by a deputy and three "Green" Diamond lumber co. security guards...
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2011 12:46pm PDT
San Francisco Mime Troupe presents 2012-The Musical! Todd Grove Park, Ukiah...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 23, 2011 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jun 20, 2011 7:40pm PDT
Richardson Grove Direct Action Group Brings Flash Mob to Sacramento 
After six months of organizing direct action behind the 'redwood curtain' to prevent CalTrans' expansion plan for Highway 101 through Richardson Grove State Park and adjacent forest, Richardson Grove Action Now [RGAN] brought opposition to the state capital with a FLASH MOB action. The highway plan threatens some of the last 2% remaining ancient redwoods on Earth and would facilitate greater access for trans-national corporations, nuclear materials, development, and military to the North Coas...
Posted: Sun, Jun 19, 2011 2:22pm PDT
Tribal members gather to protest proposed MLPA closures 
"Our rights are not negotiable," said Hoopa Tribal Citizen Dania Rose Colegrove, an organizer for the Klamath Justice Coalition, who gathered seaweed and mussels along with 11 others at Patrick's Point. "The state of California, under the MLPA Initiative, is trying to make us into 'recreational users.' However, where we gather as Tribal members is none of their business."
Photo: Members of the Yurok, Hoopa and Karuk Tribes walk down a path in Patrick's Point State Park following the harve...
Posted: Sat, Jun 18, 2011 7:57pm PDT
Karuk Tribe, conservation groups win suit against US Forest Service “Supervisor Kelley has no respect for this community or native cultures as is evidenced by their actions on the ground," stated Leaf Hillman, Natural Resources Director and Ceremonial Leader for the Karuk Tribe. "With this court order we are hopeful that we can move forward to provide fire protection for our communities without sacrificing our sacred sites.”...
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2011 2:56pm PDT
Tribes express coastal gathering rights in ancestral territory Armed with only tribal identification cards, Native Americans from Tolowa Country to the Wiyot Nation will be assembling on culturally critical beaches Saturday to harvest marine resources, according to a news release from the Yurok Tribe.
“The Tribe’s rights are nonnegotiable,” said Yurok Chairman Thomas O’Rourke Sr. “As long as we are here, we will continue to gather in culturally appropriate way that is beneficial to all species.”...
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2011 1:57pm PDT
Tribal Coalitions to Assert Native Gathering Rights 
Under the proposed Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) regulations, tribal citizens face fines and potential incarceration for harvesting for traditional purposes in a culturally appropriate way.
David Gensaw, Yurok Tribal Council Member, speaks during a direct action protest at the MLPA Blue Ribbon Task Force meeting in Fort Bragg on July 21, 2010. Photo by Klamath Media Collective....
Posted: Thu, Jun 16, 2011 9:27am PDT
Solitary Watch on Pelican Bay Hunger Strike, Hugo Pinell, and Torture in US Prisons 
While spotlighting the Solitary Watch website, this new interview also focuses on the upcoming hunger strike at the Pelican Bay supermax prison in California (it begins on July 1), and Hugo Pinell, of the San Quentin Six, who has been in continuous solitary even longer than the Angola 3....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2011 11:54pm PDT
Support the Hunger Strike: Pelican Bay Criminalizes the Oppressed for Organizing (video/mp4 100.1MB) We post this clip from Unlock the Box to help demonstrate the political context behind the upcoming July 1, 2011 Hunger Strike at Pelican Bay State Prison in California, a notorious Security Housing Unit (SHU). The SHU is just one part of the ongoing war against Black and Brown people in the United $tates. MIM(Prisons) supports the self-determination of all oppressed nations. Stop Torture in U.$. Prisons! (5 min. video clip)...
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2011 8:16pm PDT
Yurok Tribe Opposes Devin Nunes' HR 1837 
"Enactment of H.R. 1837 will undermine the ability of the Bureau of Reclamation to meet its federal trust obligation to protect, preserve and enhance the trust resources of the Yurok Tribe," said Thomas O'Rourke, Chairman of the Yurok Tribe.
Photo of Yurok Tribal Chair, Thomas O'Rourke, at a direct action protest against the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative in Fort Bragg on July 21, 2010. Photo by Dan Bacher....
Posted: Fri, Jun 10, 2011 7:32pm PDT
World Oceans Day - 7 Ways to Save the Seas 
Virtually none of the crucial issues mentioned in this article were addressed in the so-called Marine Life Protection Act "Initiative."...
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2011 8:30pm PDT
California’s Anglers Claim Another Legal Victory The lawsuit against the MLPA Initiative cites a lack of statutory authority for the California Fish and Game Commission to adopt the closure regulations, and, in the case of the South Coast regulations, numerous violations of the California Environmental Quality Act in the Commission's environmental review of the regulations....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 4:49pm PDT
Don't Look Behind the Curtain! Get Away from the Curtain! 
According to a substitute judge who ruled on the MLPA "Initiative's" "Motion to Quash" - the group is exempt from any legal accountabity for its actions because - and please brace yourselves - the MLPA "Initiative" was not any kind of organization or legal entity....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 11:02am PDT
MLPA Initiative publications - get them while they're hot! 
If the process is "winding down," does that mean that the initiative is closing shop before it has a chance to move to San Francisco Bay? That would be great news to Bay Area fishermen, grassroots conservationists, Native Americans and environmental justice advocates!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2011 8:25am PDT
The Salmon are the silver thread Salmon and steelhead are aquatic creatures that bridge the gap between fresh and salt water, between land and ocean. As such, they are the guardians and keepers of the earth's water....
Posted: Mon, Jun 6, 2011 1:10pm PDT
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