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Join California Safe Schools at the Los Angeles Arboretum
The Los Angeles Environmental Education Fair...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 3:41am PST
Coverup: Toxic Rocket Fuel Now in Most Americans, 20060303
not just Colorado...
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 1:03pm PST
Westinghouse Workers Have the Highest Levels of PCBs Ever Recorded
Dying for Their Work
By STEVEN HIGGS...
Posted: Sun, Mar 5, 2006 1:12pm PST
Veg My Ride (Press Release)
"Veg my Ride" is a D.I.Y. Instructional DVD that teaches how to convert a diesel vehicle to run on waste fryer oils for pennies a gallon....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 7:53am PST
Tahitian parliamentary report: France covered up nuclear test fallout
A decade after France conducted its last nuclear explosions in its South Pacific colony of French Polynesia, the controversy over the damage to local people’s health is continuing to reverberate. According to a report presented to the French Polynesia Assembly on February 9, French governments covered up for 40 years the fact that the main populated island of Tahiti was subjected to repeated fallout from atmospheric nuclear tests between 1966 and 1974....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 7:21am PST
ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT 93% SUCCESSFUL IN NORTHEAST
Tucson, Ariz. - (March 2, 2006) The Center for Biological Diversity released a report yesterday which found that no endangered species have gone extinct in the Northeast and 93 percent have increased their population size or become stable since being protected under the federal Endangered Species Act....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 1:30pm PST
The Navajo Nation's Ongoing Battle Against Uranium Mining
We look at the ongoing battle over uranium mining in the Navajo Nation. Mining has occurred on Navajo territory for over fifty years and the impact is still being felt. We speak with the directors of the Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining and the Southwest Research and Information Center....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:47am PST
EARTH MATTERS RADIO - Interview with Att'y. Ben Rosenfeld on Rod Coronado's arrest (audio/mpeg 12.6MB)
Earth Matters - Environmental news for "Flashpoints" on KPFA radio. San Francisco civil rights attorney Ben Rosenfeld talks about the recent arrest of Rod Coronado, the FBI witch hunt of environmental activists, and what we can do about it. mp3 audio, 13:47 minutes...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 6:06pm PST
How to help + PDX and NYC events
1-Donate to his legal defense
2-Sign up to the listserve and keep up to date on case
updates
3-Check out Daniel's website at
http://www.supportdaniel.org...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 1:35pm PST
Deforestation -- The Dark Side of Europe's Thirst for Green Fuel
Bio-diesel fuels are helping reduce carbon emissions, but some production of the "green" energy source is contributing to rain forest destruction in Malaysia and Indonesia. NAM contributor Paolo Pontoniere is U.S. correspondent for Focus, Italy's leading monthly....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 6:55am PST
Where does Bottled Water come from? Take Action by 3/2!
Right now, there is an effort underway in Congress to pre-empt state laws on food and bottled water labeling, which would mean that some good state laws would disappear. For instance, the National Uniformity in Labeling Act, or HR 4167, would jeopardize California's law requiring that consumers be notified of contaminants that are known to the state to cause cancer or birth defects (Proposition 65) as well as California's statute requiring warnings on shellfish....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 12:11am PST
URGENT: Tell Congress to Protect Food Safety Laws!
you are what you eat...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 3:11pm PST
victoriasdirtysecret.net April 11th National Day of Action
clearcuts for catalogs...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 2:24pm PST
Memory Against Forgetting - An Open Letter on the "Green Scare"
This is an excellent essay from Portland Indymedia on the current "Green Scare" arrests of eco-activists....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 2:43pm PST
Call to boycott Boston University
A call for a student boycott of Boston University due to their proposal to build a biosafety level 4 (highest level) biolab in Roxbury, the poorest, minority neighborhood in Boston....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 8:11am PST
The Green Scare and the Government’s “Case” Against Rod Coronado
The federal government has been chomping at the bit to put Rod Coronado back in prison since the moment he got out, and his indictment in San Diego for an exercise of pure speech is a flimsy pretext to do just that. [ed: Updated 02 March 2006]...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 12:45am PST
FBI Green scare continues more arrests this week
Repost, please educate yourselves and support these victums of state scapegoating.
The “green scare” intensifies across the nation this week as eighteen people have now been indicted for more than a dozen actions of property damage and one incident of "teaching and demonstrating."...
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 3:14pm PST
Saving the Bay of La Paz & Gulf of California
This is a brief summary of our groups’ efforts, actions and progress towards saving the Bay of La Paz and Gulf of California, the most bio-diverse body of water on Earth. Over a thousand species are involved, many being highly endangered and several on the verge of extinction.
We request all assistance possible. Please cross-post and forward to any sources which you may deem appropriate...
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 3:07pm PST