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Reminder: Save Biodiesel in Berkeley
Just a reminder to email/write/phone the mayor of
Berkeley today! Repost from Burnveggies Biodiesel Digest...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 6:09pm PST
Klamath River Tribes, Fishermen Rally To Remove Dams
The march and rally to take down the PaciCorp dams on the Klamath River attracted over 400 people. Although NPR and local TV stations covered it, not a word about the historic event appeared in the Sacramento Bee (Surprise, Surprise!)...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 5:27pm PST
Future of Food Press Release
Don't miss the Future of Food film showing in Sacramento on March 31!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 5:14pm PST
dolphin deaths and seal hunt/boycott
DawnWatch: UK Independent on dolphins deaths & Time Magazine on seal hunt and boycott 3/26/05 - 4/4/05...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 4:09pm PST
Action Alert: Save Biodiesel in Berkeley
The Ecology Center, Berkeley Biodiesel Collective, and
BioFuel Oasis urge you to email and/or call the
Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates and tell him that the city
should continue to run their vehicles on 100%
biodiesel (B100)....
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 11:57am PST
NYPD Attempts To Criminalize Bike Riders Taking Part in Critical Mass
On Friday, police arrested 37 riders and confiscated dozens of bicylcles. Last week, the city filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent the group TIME'S UP! from promoting or advertising events that the city alleges to be illegal. The lawsuit also states that TIME'S UP! and the general public cannot participate in riding or gathering at the Critical Mass bike ride....
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 8:16am PST
EARTH MATTERS radio - Global Warming, Climate Justice in Nepal (audio/mpeg 11.0MB)
EARTH MATTERS is a weekly segment on KPFA radio's FLASHPOINTS. This week: Interviews from this year's Public Interest Enviro Law Conference (ELAW) in Eugene, Oregon. Peter Roderick, of Climate Justice Programme in UK, and Prakash Mani Sharma of Pro Public, Nepal, talk about how rogue states like the USA are making climate justice a global priority. mp3, 12:01 minutes...
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2005 1:00pm PST
EARTH MATTERS radio- Jeff "Free" Luers speech from ELAW (audio/mpeg 9.2MB)
EARTH MATTERS - a weekly segment on KPFA's FLASHPOINTS : Audio of Free's keynote address to the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (ELAW) in Eugene, Oregon, March 6th, 2005. Free talks about taking action against global warming and the need for people to get over their obsessions with tactical correctness. "We are united in our fate, therefore we must be united in our struggle." mp3, 10:00 minutes...
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2005 12:46pm PST
EARTH MATTERS - Radio - Wolf Slaughter in Alaska (audio/mpeg 13.9MB)
EARTH MATTERS - A weekly radio segment on KPFA's FLASHPOINTS. This week: Interview with Karen Deatherage from Anchorage, Alaska. Karen works with Defenders of Wildlife and is trying to stop the aerial slaughter of hundreds of wolves. Karen also tells the heartbreaking story of the murder of the alpha female of the Toklat wolf family in Denali. mp3, 15:10 mins....
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2005 12:36pm PST
Announcing the Biscuit Burn Skillshare Camp, April 1-8
LEARN HOW TO SAVE THE WILD SISKIYOU AT THE BISCUIT BURN SKILLSHARE CAMP
running from April 1st to 8th, come for all or part, or stay and never leave!...
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2005 3:00am PST
War at sea: Greenpeace fights to save dolphins from the nets
Skimming the peaks of mountainous waves, plunging into space then hitting the bottom of watery canyons with a great slap that leaves your stomach some way behind, the inflatable boats tear across the English Channel towards the target....
Posted: Sat, Mar 26, 2005 8:50am PST
Demonstration at the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco
Families from San Gaspar de los Reyes in Jalisco, Mexico, who now live in the Bay Area protest construction of a dam in their home town. Silvia Ramirez and Norma Valdez-Jimenez spoke; their speeches are reprinted below....
Posted: Sat, Mar 26, 2005 1:43am PST
P.G.&E. Evicted by the People!! (video/x-ms-wmv 26.3MB)
30 day eviction notice delivered to P.G.&E.
6 min video of residents, community members, and allies
demanding the closure of the Hunters Point Power Plant....
Posted: Fri, Mar 25, 2005 2:45pm PST
PG&E Evicted by the People
On March 23rd community members of Bayview Hunters Point delivered a 30 day notice to PG&E to shutdown the pg&e hunters point power plant!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 11:16am PST
Berkeley's Race to Zero
Innovative Waste Strategy: Berkeley's Race to Zero...
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 11:09am PST
Things are going from bad to worse? - It has gotten worse, folks!
The neo-cons are aware that Americans are un-informed (by corporate design) and domicile (courtesy of ESPN). Americans will not leave the couch and a good game on TV to stand out on the street to protest anything nowadays. So the onslaught continues. Congress is making haste at taking away rights that have been built up through decades of struggle....
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 10:34am PST
Breaking News: Eight Dollar Road Blocked Again
Reports coming in this morning indicate that the Eight Dollar Road is blockaded by an activist suspended over the road in a bi-pod, effectively keeping log trucks out of the Fiddler Timber Sale.
Yarding and hauling of timber at the Fiddler sale began recently. This morning's blockade is an attempt to halt this work and to highlight the ongoing logging of old growth reserves. Meanwhile, the courts continue deliberating on the merits of two separate cases that will determine if this activity...
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 8:30am PST
Heron's Head Park a Toxic Dump
Heron's Head Park is a Toxic Dump. Our children should not be taken to a toxic dump....
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 7:18am PST
Video: Powerfull Women's Action for the TREES (video/quicktime 13.3MB)
On March 14th 2005 a large group of women organized, they said enough is enough to the Old Growth Logging just up the road from the Green Bridge along the National Wild and Scenic Illinois River in the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area in Southern Oregon....
Posted: Wed, Mar 23, 2005 6:37pm PST