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tad is in jail tad went to jail yesterday.
Friends and supporters met to give tad hugs before he went in to the humboldt county “correctional” facility in eureka to begin his 35-day sentence. Tad started fasting on October 20 at the board of county supervisors meeting, and so is today on the sixth day of his hunger strike.
Tad was arrested at a board of county supervisors meeting on january 27 after speaking for 39 seconds past the 3-minute limit, and charged with disturbing a public meeting and resis...
Posted: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 11:48am PDT
Massive Nurses Strike, Friday October 30th 
We call on all working and poor people to show solidarity with the massive nurses strike happening across the state of California and elsewhere on Friday, October 30th. Strike starts at 7am - midnight! The PDF below is a handout sheet detailing the struggle of working people across the state and calls on them to escalate the resistance against the crisis. Strike! Occupy! Takeover!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 9:47am PDT
Day of Climate Action in the Ancient Redwoods 
A photo and speech from a rally in the ancient Redwoods at Richardson Grove which is threatened by plans to widen, or "re-align" highway 101 through the State Park....
Posted: Sun, Oct 25, 2009 1:29pm PDT
Community Activist on Hunger Strike to Protest Crackdown on Free Speech (audio/mpeg 22.5MB) 24 minute audio interview with Northern Humboldt community activist, Tad, who was arrested after speaking at a county supervisors meeting against local manifestations of the prison industrial complex. Tad is currently on a hunger strike as a form of protest after receiving a 35 day jail sentence for "talking too long" at the meeting....
Posted: Sat, Oct 24, 2009 8:54pm PDT
Blue Whale Deaths Off the California Coast 
Five confirmed but unexplained blue whale deaths in the past six weeks....
Posted: Sat, Oct 24, 2009 4:39pm PDT
Marine Protected Areas, Offshore Drilling, and Ocean Zoning John Lewallen, highly respected author, environmental leader and seaweed harvester, is calling for a community meeting in Fort Bragg to discuss a plan of resistance to the corrupt Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) process, funded by a private corporation, the Resource Legacy Foundation. Please read this excellent commentary by Lewallen.
Real environmentalists don't support Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's fast-track MLPA process, the peripheral canal or the killing of blue whales under the...
Posted: Sat, Oct 24, 2009 8:54am PDT
Inconvenient as Truth: Maxxam's Blue Legacy Two decades ago, the master plan framework of MAXXAM cultural despots Dr. John Mick "ENRON" Seidl, and Chancellor Barry Munitz (President & CEO, and VP; resp) led to an era of hostile takeovers and golden parachutes. Methods employed included: subsidiaries owning mother companies to buffer liabilties, bankruptcy, the looting of the Redwood forests and workers pension funds of NW California, corporate inappropriateness in the art and culture scene of LA at the Getty (2006), and finally 2 coats...
Posted: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 2:07pm PDT
NOAA Contract Boat Kills Blue Whale Off Fort Bragg Environmentalists and fishermen on California’s North Coast are calling for an investigation into the killing of an endangered blue whale off Fort Bragg by a mapping survey boat contracted by NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service....
Posted: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 12:10pm PDT
Coalition Challenges State’s “Licenses to Kill Salmon” on Key Klamath River Streams 
A coalition of tribes, conservationists, and commercial fishing groups filed suit today in San Francisco Superior Court to block a precedent-setting agency proposal to strip endangered species protections from threatened coho salmon in northern California’s Klamath River watershed.
Photo: A dry Scott River in Fort Jones, CA. August 2009. Download photos at www.klamathriver.org....
Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2009 2:18pm PDT
Department of Fish and Game Director Resigns 
Donald Koch, the director of the Department of Fish and Game, sent his letter of resignation to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today....
Posted: Wed, Oct 21, 2009 5:39pm PDT
Cultural Genocide Disguised As Marine 'Protection' 
We must resist government efforts to deny indigenous people their fishing rights, whether it be on the Colorado River Delta or California's North Coast....
Posted: Wed, Oct 21, 2009 1:23pm PDT
Fisheries Fascism and Indigenous Indifference: Eco-tourism is coming, the MLPA component Eco-tourism is coming and the MLPA Initiative is part of it. Eco-tourism has increasingly become articulated with environmental policies, in particular the creation of protected areas. Such policies have privileged those environments that are of interest to the eco-tourism industry. They have also served to restrict competing forms of resource use. Local populations in particular have seen their access to natural resources diminished. And Cultural Assets? Everything is for sale, price not neg...
Posted: Tue, Oct 20, 2009 1:47pm PDT
Congressman Devin Nunes Attacks Salmon Fishermen With Absurd Claims 
Congressman Devin Nunes, the "water boy" for corporate agribusiness in the San Joaquin Valley, made ridiculous claims on the floor of the House of Representatives last week that salmon fishermen aren't suffering from the fishery closure or "really out of work," that salmon aren't affected by the pumps in the Delta, and that the only reason salmon fishermen can't fish is because the federal government told them they couldn't....
Posted: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 6:13pm PDT
Days of Action Against Police Brutality! Oct. 22nd & 23rd eventstart:
Thu, 10/22/2009 - 12:00pm - Fri, 10/23/2009 - 9:00pm
Organize and participate with Redwood Curtain CopWatch in the Days of Action Against Police Brutality. On Thursday, October 22nd, people all over the U.S. will be gathering in strength on what will be the 14th recognized National Day of Action Against Police Brutality, Repression, and the Criminalization of a Generation!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 17, 2009 7:18pm PDT
Klamath Riverkeeper Asks Siskiyou County to 'Get Their Crap Together' The Klamath Riverkeeper is demanding that Siskiyou County begin monitoring its unpermitted septage pond at the Siskiyou Airport for groundwater pollution or report waste discharges to the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board as state law requires.
Right now, nobody knows if septic waste or toxic chemicals from the aging pond are seeping into groundwater, Oregon Slough or even the Shasta River, a major tributary of the Klamath River.
"Siskiyou County has been well aware of p...
Posted: Thu, Oct 15, 2009 11:47am PDT
Fish Groups Target Bad Management at Ocean Task Force Meeting “Even as information from all over the world is pouring in that Catch Shares merely consolidate our fish resources into fewer and bigger pockets and kill our traditional small boat fleets and communities, our federal managers forge ahead blindly,” said Larry Collins, president of the Crab Boat Owners Association of San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Oct 14, 2009 6:00pm PDT
Fishermen Converge on Dana Point for MLPA Rally October 18 As the Seaweed Rebellion against Schwarzenegger's fast-track MLPA process builds momentum on California's North Coast, anglers from throughout Southern California will converge on Dana Point Harbor in Orange County on October 18 for a rally in support of the plan developed by MLPA Workgroup 2....
Posted: Wed, Oct 14, 2009 2:24pm PDT
Upcoming Direct Action in Washington!! The War is coming back to the port of Tacoma... but in the northwest we have a long history of resistance....
Posted: Sun, Oct 11, 2009 11:47pm PDT
Delta, Environmental, Fishing, and Tribal Groups Unveil Alternative Water Policy A diverse group of Delta, community, environmental, fishing and tribal groups today sent alternative water policy recommendations to the Governor and Legislative Leadership....
Posted: Fri, Oct 9, 2009 11:32am PDT
Delta Groups to Unveil Alternative Water Policy Proposals Friday 
As Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is pressuring the legislature to come up a the water bond proposal that includes a peripheral canal, Restore the Delta and representatives of other organizations will unveil alternative water policy recommendations on Friday....
Posted: Thu, Oct 8, 2009 4:53pm PDT
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