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Inhumane Treatment of Evacuees by San Diego City Officials 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...
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 3:59pm PDT
immigrants neglected and abused during San Diego wildfires It is important that people know that the government’s response to this has not been as benevolent as the news media has made it out to be. For immigrant families, this is in no way an ‘anti-Katrina.’ Immigrants in San Diego county are being neglected by emergency evacuators, put in danger by their employers, treated rudely by authorities and volunteers, refused aid at evacuation sites, and racially profiled by police and deported by the Border Patrol....
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 2:46pm PDT
Seeing through the Smoke: The San Diego Fires Mike Davis speaks on how the right is celebrating the tragedy as a triumph of Republican values....
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 8:20am PDT
Leading Australian Scientist Tim Flannery on Global Warming and the Worsening Dangers of Climate Change Denial Thursday, October 25, 2007 :
We spend the hour with one of the world's leading scientists studying climate change, Tim Flannery. An Australian mammologist, palaeontologist and field zoologist, he has discovered and named more than thirty new species of mammals. He has been described as being in the league of all-time great explorers such as David Livingstone. Flannery might be best known as the author of the bestselling book "The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Cha...
Posted: Fri, Oct 26, 2007 7:48am PDT
German Environmental Foundation announces Peak Oil is here. 
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...
Posted: Thu, Oct 25, 2007 11:49pm PDT
Southern California is Not New Orleans It is impossible not to notice the difference between the federal government and Bush administrations response to the Southern California wildfires and their response to Katrina. They would have us believe that the explanation is simple; they have learned from their mistakes. But we know better don't we?...
Posted: Thu, Oct 25, 2007 9:42am PDT
1,000,000 flee homes in California due to wildfires; over 500,000 ordered to evacuate 
"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....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 3:25pm PDT
Climate Change: Marine Scientists Demand Immediate Action on Greenhouse Gas Emissions 
Fifty Australian marine scientists have issued a consensus statement warning of the impact of climate change on coral reefs and calling for immediate and substantive reduction targets in human produced greenhouse emissions. The unprecedented call for action is the outcome of a National Forum on Coral Reef Futures, held at the Australian Academy of Science, in Canberra. The scientists have already warned that ocean acidification due to increased atmospheric CO2 is accelerating....
Posted: Wed, Oct 24, 2007 8:20am PDT
Chicano Park Emergency Drop Off 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...
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2007 3:48pm PDT
60 Arrested At No War, No Warming Protests in Washington Tuesday, October 23, 2007 :
Hundreds of people converged on the U.S. Capitol Building to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Bush administration's record on climate change. We speak to organizer Ted Glick who is on the 50th day of a Climate Emergency Fast....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2007 7:41am PDT
Environmental Journalist Bill McKibben on the Links Between Global Warming & the California Wild Fires 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....
Posted: Tue, Oct 23, 2007 7:41am PDT
Fires in San Diego Last night my house was filled with families who were forced to evacuate from Ramona due to fires surrounding their homes. It was/is an emotional time for many families. Children crying because their fathers decided to stay behind with the homes to fight the fires, mothers staying strong for their children and working to keep their spirits high. The stress of wondering when or if you will have a home to go back to must be heavy....
Posted: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 5:18pm PDT
Body Shop Founder & Environmental Campaigner Anita Roddick 1942-2007 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....
Posted: Mon, Oct 22, 2007 7:58am PDT
New Zealand Government Is Not Fit to Sit on UN Human Rights Council 
On 14 September this year, the New Zealand government and three other
governments (Canada, USA and Australia) shared the dubious distinction
as the only states to vote against the adoption of the United Nations
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples....
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2007 11:46am PDT
Message from the Earth: Free Opitz and Lehmann Now! Saturday, October 20, 2007 The oil rich Niger River Delta of southern Nigeria is a murky swampland where men are at war with the Earth — and each other. An armed indigenous rebel group known as the MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) over the last few years has successfully disrupted the operations of major oil producers in the area through a string of attacks on oil facilities....
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2007 11:05am PDT
Australia: Nuclear Plans and Anti-nuclear protests 
On Friday morning 25 protestors disrupted the start of the Australian Nuclear Association conference and the speech by Ziggy Switkowski, chairman of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) in Sydney. With anti-nuclear placards and chanting slogans the protest caused heated arguments with conference attendees before the building manager was called and ordered the protestors to leave. The protest and Switkowski's speech outlines that this Federal election campaign is ...
Posted: Sun, Oct 21, 2007 10:55am PDT
Rising Tide Announces 4 New Campaigns - Time to get involved! Greetings from Rising Tide North America! It's been a while since you've heard from us. Thanks for being patient as our all volunteer collective grows and learns more about the best ways to keep in touch with our friends, supporters and allies. We've had a very intense and busy last few months. We are hatching some exciting plans for the coming year and wanted to share them with you! This is our new newsletter format, let us know what you think......
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2007 11:28am PDT
Scientists say Ocean Acidity Increasing at Faster Rate 
Ocean acidity is increasing at a much faster pace according to marine scientists meeting in Australia's capital, Canberra, at the Coral Reef Futures 07 Forum, October 18-19, 2007. "It appears this acidification is now taking place over decades, rather than centuries as originally predicted. It is happening even faster in the cooler waters of the Southern Ocean than in the tropics. It is starting to look like a very serious issue." said Professor Malcolm McCulloch of the Centre of Excellence f...
Posted: Wed, Oct 17, 2007 7:44pm PDT
BCA E-Alert October 2007 Hello! It's time for another installment of Breast Cancer Action's monthly e-alert--
a collection of news, notices, and action alerts for people concerned about the
breast cancer epidemic. Welcome to any new e-alert members! If you think you've
been added by mistake, please follow the directions at the bottom of the email to
unsubscribe....
Posted: Wed, Oct 17, 2007 12:51pm PDT
1K High Temp Records Broken in Sept. [Highlights of Sept. NCDC report]
Last month's combined global land and ocean
surface temperature was the fifth warmest
September on record and the global ocean
surface temperature was the second warmest
since records began in 1880....
Posted: Wed, Oct 17, 2007 9:41am PDT
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