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Peak Oil and Politics Among the many shouts of warning from environmentalists about global catastrophes, ‘Peak Oil’ stands out as the newest and most imminent. The issue has gained special acceptance from different sections of the left, who have chosen it as their primary concern – aside from of course, defeating Bush. Peak Oil and other environmental issues, such as global warming, have created important political questions that need to be addressed; the following is an attempt to analyze the different politica...
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2006 12:09pm PDT
The Non-GMO Project Announces Free Membership Drive! 
The Non-GMO Project, a collaboration of natural foods retailers nationwide who want natural food & supplement companies to undergo 3rd-party Non-GMO verification, has announced that membership in The Non-GMO Project is free and very much wanted! The stores and their customers will be the first to get the information generated from these Non-GMO Compliance Reviews....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2006 4:41pm PDT
US-led seismic surveys pose significant threat to BC's salmon and marine mammals This is damaging, as is LFAS; Low Frequency Active Sonar used by US Navy...
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 7:36pm PDT
Indynewswire: South Central Farm Update (audio/mpeg 11.6MB) Interview with Watsonville Brown Beret organizer, Jen, who has been taking part in the encampment outside the gate of the South Central Farm in LA. The 14 acre urban garden was forcibly evicted on June 13 after a long struggle to save the farm and buy back the land. Jen discusses some of the history of the South Central Farm, and updates us on the current situation. TRT- 12:39...
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 4:31pm PDT
Rainbow Children Detained in the name of Homeland Security!!!! right to assemble...
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 11:54am PDT
Help Protect Glacier National Park from Global Warming The UNESCO World Heritage Committee will consider the Center for Biological Diversity's petition to protect Glacier National Park as “In Danger” due to global warming. This protected status would trigger a legal duty for the U.S. to reduce its greenhouse gas pollution and take other measures to protect this international treasure....
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2006 10:32am PDT
Directions to Earth First! rendezvous This years rendezvous will be in SW Virginia, July 3-10...
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 11:48pm PDT
Directions to Earth First! rendezvous This years rendezvous will be in SW Virginia, July 3-10...
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 10:26am PDT
Help stop the Mexican wolf slaughter! 
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is destroying yet another family of Mexican gray wolves – even though the agency has identified the species as the most endangered mammal in North America. The male of the recently released Nantac Pack was just shot and killed, and the female is being hunted down right now. Both members of this pack were survivors of past predator control actions....
Posted: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 12:46am PDT
USDA accepting comments on GE plum trees, the first temperate GE tree 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
FRSC: Peacetalks: South Central Farm Interview with Tezozomoc of South Central Farmers (audio/mpeg 10.1MB) George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews Tezozomoc, the elected representative of the South Central Farmers on Sunday, June 18th 2006...
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 1:33pm PDT
South Central Farm/report back Brief report back from the South Central Farm. I was there this past weekend....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 12:21pm PDT
Japan Fails In Effort To Abolish The Southern Ocean Sanctuary Japan has lost all four votes on resolutions brought before the International Whaling Commission (IWC) including the important votes on commercial whaling and the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. This means that the whales have won out over the whalers but only by the slimmest of margins....
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 9:23pm PDT
Buffalo Update from the Field 6/15/06 
Another winter/spring season has come to a close here at Buffalo Field Campaign headquarters, with the last three bull buffalo in
Montana hazed back into the park this week....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 5:53pm PDT
Bush Fights Global Warming In a dramatic turnaround, the Bush administration acknowledges global warming and announces a free-market plan to fight it....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 3:05pm PDT
Leading Scientists, Legislators and Public Petition for Polar Bear Protections More than 200,000 Comments Filed in Support of Listing the Polar Bear Under the Endangered Species Act Due To Global Warming...
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 11:40am PDT
South Central Farm Defenders Describe Raid (audio/mpeg 25.1MB) FRSC Interview with three solidarity activists who describe their initial reactions to the farm and their experiences and response to seeing it destroyed.
27 Min. 27 Sec. MP3...
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 10:59am PDT
Police Forcibly Shut Down South Central L.A. Urban Farm, 40+ Protesters Arrested Hundreds of police officers in riot gear shut down a fourteen-acre urban farm in South Central Los Angeles on Tuesday. More than 40 protesters, including actor Darryl Hannah were arrested as they staged an encampment to resist removal from what is considered the largest urban farm in the United States....
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 7:39am PDT
Farmers Kicked Out of Community Farm in South-Central Los Angeles Betrayed by Mayor Villaraigosa, Adherents to the Other Campaign On The Other Side, Together with Sympathizing Neighbors, Resist Riot Police and SWAT Attack...
Posted: Wed, Jun 14, 2006 6:27am PDT
Condos Blocked on Big Bear Lake Judge rules lakeside development violated the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, orders developer to pay a $1.3 million fine....
Posted: Tue, Jun 13, 2006 4:43pm PDT
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