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textChicano Consortium Action Alert 7/15/06 by Dan Bacher
Here's the latest action alert from Efren Gutierrez of the Chicano Consortium listing upcoming events....
Posted: Fri, Jul 14, 2006 4:38pm PDT
textUSDA accepting comments on GE plum trees, the first temperate GE tree by GE trees bad
The US Department of Agriculture is accepting public comments between now and July 17, 2006 on a petition that would allow commercial growing and marketing of the first genetically engineered (GE) plum trees. If approved, this would remove all regulatory oversight of this GE variety, a virus-resistant plum tree known as the Honey Sweet Pox Potyvirus Resistant plum....
Posted: Thu, Jun 22, 2006 2:01pm PDT
textnot enough housing for Coachella grape harvesters by Arturo S. Rodriguez
Hundreds of people--including seniors and children--are sleeping outside in the sweltering heat in Coachella....
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 12:31pm PDT
textA Girl's World? by bianca's friend
author is critical of article in newsweek about "studies" that say the classroom environment is not conducive to boys' learning styles...
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 2:44pm PDT
textGE Cotton Kills Sheep and Goats in India by Uma Sudhir
Genetically engineered cotton in India was found to produce an almost immediate illness to the grazing animals that ate it, resulting in the deaths of some. Could this be the same type of GE cotton that is growing in the Central Valley of California around Fresno, Merced and Los Banos?...
Posted: Fri, Jun 9, 2006 5:54pm PDT
textStop the Telco Takeover -- National Day of Out(R)age -- Save Public Access by ron cooper
The Baby Bells are moving nationwide to dominate and control our communication delivery systems. More than 500,000 people have spoken on behalf of net neutraility and saving public, education, and government access channels. Internet users, community activists and independent media producers, consumer groups, churches and are speaking out. The National Day of Out(r)age is an opportunity for everyone to make their voice heard with political action....
Posted: Wed, May 17, 2006 4:37pm PDT
textPombo's at it again with gutting enviro laws by alert
The House of Representatives is expected to be vote on amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act the week of May 15, 2006 and we urgently need your help to uphold this important conservation law....
Posted: Mon, May 15, 2006 1:37pm PDT
textEarth Day Letter From Tre Arrow by temple
Hello to all you beautiful people. On this day of honouring our earth mother, I ask you to look at your birth. Upon emerging from our mother's womb, we are given a birth mother and a birth father. At the same time we are also given our earth mother and spirit father. I respect your freedom to honour your spirit father in whichever way feels best to you. Through all the generations of dispute, battlefields, bloodshed and persecution in the name of organized religion, one thing remains ir...
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006 11:44am PDT
audioWeazl's Gary Webb Interview (audio/mpeg 44.2MB) by da weazl
This was an interview conducted with Gary Webb during the summer of 2003, a little more than a year before "committed suicide" with conflicting reports of either one or more shots to his head. The piece is approximately 25 minutes. It was recorded at Gary's home in northern California near Sacramento....
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 2:54pm PST
textBig Changes at Viva!USA by Viva!USA
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Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 9:27am PST
textDenmark and Jyllands-Posten: The background to a provocation by wsws (reposted)
The basic lie in the controversy over the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published by Danish and European newspapers is the claim that the conflict is between free speech and religious censorship, or between Western enlightenment and Islamic bigotry....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 10:24pm PST
textViva!USA Alert 12/2/05 by Viva! USA
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Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 7:23pm PST
textViva!USA Special Turkey Alert 11.21.05 by Viva! USA
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Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2005 6:01pm PST
textEditorial submitted to NY Times about the illustrious Rep. Richard Pomba (Rep-CA) by byerly woodward
I sent this editorial from the NY Times to various Central Valley newspapers, but no one saw fit to reprint it. Maybe you will have more nerve....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 1:07pm PST
textLabor in Public Broadcasting by Media worker
This show on the struggles of workers in public broadcasting in the UK and Canada aired on KPFA. Makes you wonder about the parallels with workers at Pacifica and KPFA who have been threatened with job cuts and downsizing....
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2005 3:00pm PDT
audio9/11 - Truth for Peace and Justice Promo Intvw (audio/mpeg 17.1MB) by David Grace
Interview with David Kimball of Sacramento's 9/11 Truth Forum - Pending the Fourth Anniversary of Sept 11, 2001...
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2005 4:04pm PDT
textViva!USA Alert 8/26/05 by Viva!USA
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Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 2:50pm PDT
textPastors for Peace Cuba Caravan Latest (7/22 AM) Update by Dan Bacher
Here's the latest update on the Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba I just received from Faye Kennedy of the Freedom Bound Center....
Posted: Fri, Jul 22, 2005 9:15am PDT
textGeneva Journal #4 from Leisa Faulkner Barnes by Dan Bacher
Here's the latest report from Leisa Faulkner Barnes from the Hunger Strike for Economic and Social Justice now taking place in Geneva, Switzerland....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 11:55pm PDT
textLeftist Victories in Latin America Create New Opportunities for SOA Opponents by Dan Bacher
This is an updated version of an earlier article about the campaign of SOA Watch to close down the School of the Assassins. Representative Doris Matsui has become the 105th co-sponsor of HR 1217, the bill to shut down the SOA, thanks to great organizing work by local activists Leisa Barnes Faulkner, Janice Freeman and Lorraine Krofchok!...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 9:06am PDT
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