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First came Hurricane Katrina, bringing a deluge of water and displaying for the world the double standard as to what is considered a human being in the United States. One in which Whites were not seen as looters, but as courageous souls trying to survive and feed their families, while the African community was portrayed as criminals looting and pillaging during a national disaster. Over the last few days, fire ravaged the rural hills and lush vegetation of San Diego County, and again, w...

Impure fluoride chemicals are added to drinking water supplies, not to purify it, but to medicate San Diego residents against tooth decay and against their will. We want it stopped Nation-wide....

Potrero, California, the town that has gained national attention for standing up against Blackwater Worldwide's plan to build a private military-style training camp in their pristine backcountry community east of San Diego, now faces an even more formidable force. The Harris wildfire which began outside Potrero early Sunday morning has ravaged the small rural community, where many residents remain trapped without supplies four days after the fire began....

This is an email that I received today from the San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium. It goes in to great detail about how the City of San Diego has been treating evacuees at Qualcomm Stadium. BORDER PATROL PRESENCE AT QUALCOMM: City officials in charge of the evacuation site at Qualcomm invited a Border Patrol information unit to drive in a van and set up a tent next to FEMA and Red Cross inside the stadium. Although the unit is present to provide map information for burn areas, the p...

Mike Davis speaks on how the right is celebrating the tragedy as a triumph of Republican values....

Peak Oil is here and was reached in 2006, announced the Energy Watch Group in London on October 22, 2007. This simple statement will progressively affect our whole society, particularly our food production, energy and transportation systems. Demand for oil is already outstripping supply with the industrialization of India and China. Oil production is at capacity and will soon start to decline at an increasing rate. Crude oil hit $88 a barrel recently and is set to rise even further once the d...

"If it's this big and blowing with as much wind as it's got, it'll go all the way to the ocean before it stops ... We can save some stuff but we can't stop it," said captain of the San Diego fire department, Kirk Humphries....

Chicano Park Emergency Drop Off - Yesterday the community received 10 truckloads of donations to take to those who need them. They are still collecting today. Tuesday, October 23 people will be at Chicano Park from 8:30a.m. until 7:30p.m. M.A.P.A., Border Angels, Chicano Park, AFSC, Gente Unida, House of Mexico and more join forces to collect blankets, food, water, canned goods, clothes, tents, sleeping bags etc for all those suffering because of the terrible fires on both sides o...

Tuesday, October 23, 2007 : "This is the kind of disaster we see more and more of as we begin to change the basic physics and chemistry of the planet we live on," says McKibben, who is organizing the Nov. 3 Step It Up National Day of Climate Action....

Monday, October 22, 2007 : A memorial will be held in London on Tuesday to remember the life of Dame Anita Roddick, the environmental campaigner and pioneer in cruelty-free beauty projects. We air a 2001 interview she did with Canadian filmmaker Mark Achbar during production of the documentary "The Corporation." Also, imprisoned Black Panther activist Herman Wallace remembers Anita Roddick work to help free the Angola 3....