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share her story! looking to connect with families of female victims of urban/gun violence Looking to connect with families of female victims of urban/gun violence in Oakland....
Posted: Thu, Jun 5, 2014 6:44pm PDT
Obama Administration Agrees to Stronger Protections for Salmon From Pesticides A coalition of advocates for alternatives to pesticides, conservation organizations, and fishing groups have reached a significant agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The agreement restores reasonable no-spray buffer zones to protect salmon and steelhead from five broad-spectrum insect killers – diazinon, chlorpyrifos, malathion, carbaryl, and methomyl....
Posted: Wed, Jun 4, 2014 4:48pm PDT
Beach Access Bill Clears State Senate, Advances to Assembly Sacramento, Calif., May 28, 2014— A California state bill, Senate Bill 968 (Hill – San Mateo), which will restore public access to Martin’s Beach located minutes south of Half Moon Bay in San Mateo County, passed on the Senate floor with a vote of 22 to 11. It will now move on to the Assembly for consideration....
Posted: Fri, May 30, 2014 3:47pm PDT
Latino Group Urges CA Senate to Pass Moratorium on Fracking Los Angeles, CA— Presente.org, the nation’s largest online Latino organizing group, is urging the California State Senate to pass a moratorium on Fracking this week. A vote on a bill to halt fracking in California looks likely to come up for a vote shortly....
Posted: Wed, May 28, 2014 5:04pm PDT
Interior Dept. Supreme Court Brief Concludes Oyster Company Presents No Credible Argument Today, the Department of the Interior filed its opposition brief against the Drakes Bay Oyster Company’s petition for review to the U.S. Supreme Court....
Posted: Wed, May 28, 2014 1:56pm PDT
UCB Test Reveals High Fukushima Cesium in CA Fukushima radiation in CA air, rain and soil now....
Posted: Mon, May 26, 2014 1:54pm PDT
New Report Exposes Government Spy Network Used Against Occupy Movement A report released today detailed a government spy network that was employed to monitor the Occupy movement “hour-to-hour” during 2011....
Posted: Fri, May 23, 2014 11:41pm PDT
Why the Green Party Opposes Proposition 42 "The Green Party is concerned that Governor Brown and the state legislature are using various tactics - like Propositions 30 and 42, as well as the termination of redevelopment agencies without backfilling funding for cities to meet their housing element mandates - to create the illusion that the state is fiscally sound, and its structural deficit has been addressed. In reality, the state too often shifts the burden for its responsibilities to local government, without ensuring funding for th...
Posted: Fri, May 23, 2014 11:21am PDT
Forest Service Proposes Massive Salvage Logging Project in Rim Fire Area WASHINGTON— The Forest Service is proposing to log 661 million board feet of timber in the area burned by the Rim fire last summer in California’s Stanislaus National Forest. The new proposal, issued as part of a draft environmental impact statement, would sell almost four times the timber volume sold by the Forest Service in the entire state of California in 2013. It would ignore longstanding rules protecting old-growth trees and destroy habitat for roughly 60 percent of imperiled black-back...
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2014 10:40pm PDT
PETA Buys Stock in Pharmaceutical Firm Arrowhead, Calls for Ban on Chimpanzee Experiments Pasadena, Calif. – PETA wants Pasadena-based pharmaceutical company Arrowhead Research to join Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Novo Nordisk, and other drug companies by pledging not to conduct, commission, or fund cruel experiments on chimpanzees and is taking its campaign to the boardroom....
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2014 3:16pm PDT
Why I Believe Ibragim Todashev was Set up to be Murdered Ibragim Todashev, the acquaintance of Tamerlan Tsarnaev was unarmed when he was shot to death in his apartment by FBI and Massachusetts State Troopers. He is portrayed by Law Enforcement and the media as a violent criminal, and thus he had to be killed to preserve the lives of those sent to interrogate him....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2014 3:03pm PDT
Global Warming Is Worsening Water Scarcity in California Los Angeles, CA -- On Tuesday, the U.S. Global Change Research Program published the third National Climate Assessment. The report found that nationally, average U.S. temperature has increased 1.5 degrees since 1895, and global warming is worsening water scarcity in California....
Posted: Thu, May 8, 2014 4:09pm PDT
Santa Barbara Looks to Revamp New Desalination Plant, Residents Call for a Ban on Fracking As California continues to suffer through one of the worst droughts in recorded history, local cities like Santa Barbara are struggling to figure out how to keep clean water flowing to their residents. Santa Barbara and others are looking at desalination as a way to keep the water flowing in their cities....
Posted: Thu, May 8, 2014 4:08pm PDT
California Groups Reject DHS’s Attempt to Strong-Arm State on Driver’s Licenses Los Angeles - Drive California, a statewide coalition composed of a broad range of civil and immigrants’ rights groups including California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPIC), Presente, the ACLU of California, Services, Immigrant Rights, and Education Network (SIREN), and TODEC-Training Occupational Development Educating Communities Center, strongly object to DHS’s refusal to let California move forward with creating a driver’s license that protects immigrant communities from discrimination....
Posted: Wed, May 7, 2014 5:31pm PDT
Federal Court: West Hollywood Prohibition on Fur Sales Stands A federal court has upheld the City of West Hollywood’s municipal prohibition on the sale of animal fur apparel. Chief Judge George H. King wrote the opinion for the United States District Court for the Central District of California, dismissing a constitutional challenge filed by a retailer to the ordinance....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2014 7:40pm PDT
National Climate Report Finds Huge Flood Threat to Major U.S. Coastal Cities SAN FRANCISCO— Climate change has dangerously increased flood risk in many of America’s largest coastal cities and will drive up sea levels as much as 4 feet by 2100, according to a new federal report released today....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2014 7:34pm PDT
Time is running out for the public to comment on the Delta Plan This is the first time the public can voice their opinion on this $67 Billion project that was slammed through the state legislature without any committee hearings or public input. We only have 30 days left to make our comments....
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2014 5:34pm PDT
Federal Court Halts Caltrans Highway-widening Project Along Smith River SAN FRANCISCO— In response to a lawsuit from environmental groups, Northern District Court Judge James Donato issued a preliminary injunction late Friday stopping Caltrans from doing any further work on a controversial highway-widening project along the wild and scenic Smith River Canyon until a court hearing scheduled for Nov. 19. The judge cited substantial procedural violations of the Endangered Species Act and the potential for irreparable harm to endangered coho salmon and their critical...
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2014 2:06pm PDT
Arriving at May Day: Lockdowns, Throwdowns, and Direct Action When the Global Climate Convergence announced the Earth Day to May Day series of events and actions, it revealed a gap between daily reality and Hallmark posturing. More than 100 actions—such as the occupation of the DEQ in Portland, Oregon, by Rising Tide—have taken place in dozens of cities as part of the Climate Convergence.
Over the last few days, IWW fellow workers in California have protested the Koch Bros PetCoke Facility in Pittsburg, the Chevron Refinery in Richmond, and Crude by ...
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2014 6:29pm PDT
Happy May Day! Register for June 3, 2014 Election! May Day is International Workers Day, originating in the US in the 1880s in the struggle for the 8-hour day and is now celebrated around the world, including in the US. While most of the world has official or semi-official parades or demonstrations, in the US, we find whatever occasion we have to celebrate May Day and educate everyone about issues affecting the workingclass. Mayday is also a sailor’s distress call, and in California, our Mayday call is for saving the socialist party on Cali...
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2014 7:30am PDT
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