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Editorial submitted to NY Times about the illustrious Rep. Richard Pomba (Rep-CA) 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
F-U-H2: Introducing the official H2 salute 
Introducing the official H2 salute. Fuck you and your H2!...
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2005 11:58am PST
BTL:Congress Moves Closer to Permit Oil Drilling in... ...Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge ~ Opponents gear up to oppose plan Interview with Annie Strickler, a spokesperson for the Sierra Club, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 5:50pm PDT
Agency Priorities Put Headwaters Forest Reserve and Other National Treasures at Risk Inadequate funding, staffing, accountability, and monitoring cited in first assessment of BLM’s National Landscape Conservation System....
Posted: Wed, Oct 26, 2005 1:12pm PDT
Cascadian Forest Battles Forest defense actions grow in Oregon, Bush delists marbled murrelets, Alaskan Tongass threats, Karen Coulter slandered, Ingmar Lee the Egotist gone from cathedral grove...
Posted: Mon, Oct 24, 2005 7:38pm PDT
Mike Davis on The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu We spend the hour with Mike Davis author of the new book, "The Monster At Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu." Davis says, "2005 is the year in which avian flu, now has acquired a critical mass amongst birds that it won't be eradicated and it's unclear whether it can be contained. Most likely, avian flu will fly to every corner of the world. It will probably reach Alaska and Northern Canada, for instance, in the near future. Avian flu - the threat of pandemic avian flu - ...
Posted: Wed, Oct 19, 2005 7:11am PDT
Democrats Chant “Shame” in Congress After Bills Pass Benefiting Big Businesses In the weeks after Hurricane Katrina, legislation in the Senate and House has been criticized as beneficial to corporations while sidelining the victims of the disaster. Recently, House Republican leaders pushed through a bill to make it easier for oil companies to build new domestic refineries....
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2005 7:49am PDT
List of America's Most Endangered Forests 
Groundbreaking economic analysis reveals Bush Administration's push for more industrial logging defies market realities...
Posted: Wed, Oct 12, 2005 12:34am PDT
Texan Environmental Activist Diane Wilson: Why I Refuse to go Jail Three years ago Wilson was arrested for committing civil disobediance at a Dow Chemical plant to protest the company's connection to the Bhopal chemical disaster. She’s now refusing to go to prison until former Union Carbide CEO Warren Andersen is jailed for his role in Bhopal....
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2005 8:06am PDT
“Do It or Shut the Fuck Up” 
That blunt statement basically sums up this recently released zine by political prisoners Jeffrey ‘Free’ Leurs and Rob ‘Los Ricos’ Thaxton....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 3:38pm PDT
GE Strikes A Deal to Clean Up PCBs in the Hudson Federal authorities and General Electric have struck a deal on dredging polychlorinated biphenyl, or PCB, contaminated sediment from the Hudson River. We have a discussion between an EPA administrator and an attorney from Riverkeeper....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2005 6:59am PDT
OCTOBER IS HELL MONTH FOR NATIONAL COAL CO. NCC is currently blasting the top off of Zeb Mountain in eastern TN to
get their greedy hands on the coal that lays beneath. Using so called
“cross ridge mining” (we call it mountain top removal) they are
destroying our beautiful mountains in the name of profit. Here’s how you
can get a hold of them and let them know what you think. Feel free to visit them at their office and GIVE ‘EM HELL ALL OCTOBER!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 3, 2005 2:27pm PDT
Mercury emissions expose extreme right’s ‘family values’ hypocrisy On Sept. 13 the U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a bipartisan resolution offered by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) that would have maintained a firm timetable for the reduction in mercury emissions from power plants....
Posted: Fri, Sep 30, 2005 7:12am PDT
Waveland, MS - Update Sept 23, 2005 (audio/mpeg 16.7MB) We interview Dave Sayotovich, one of the crew helping in the rebuilding of Waveland...
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 10:14am PDT
BTL:Global Warming Linked to the Increased Power of Hurricanes Battering the US Interview with Ross Gelbspan, journalist and author, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus...
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 5:57am PDT
* HURRICANE RITA - NOW CATEGORY 5 - URGENT UPDATE ** The latest RECON reports confirm RITA is now a CATASTROPHIC CATEGORY 5 Hurricane....
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2005 12:38pm PDT
Report from Waveland, MS (audio/mpeg 8.7MB) Interview with Diamond Dave Whitaker from the coast of Mississippi west of Biloxi...
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2005 11:29am PDT
Wangari Maathai and Ken Wiwa's Son Discuss Oil and the Environment We take a look at oil and the environment with Ken Wiwa - the son of Ken Saro Wiwa who was executed in 1995 by the Nigerian military dictatorship and Nobel Peace prize-winner and leading environmentalist Wangari Maathai....
Posted: Tue, Sep 20, 2005 7:44am PDT
Extinction Bill Introduced; Would Rip the Heart out of the Endangered Species Act Representative Dick Pombo (R-CA) has introduced H.R. 3824, an "extinction bill" that would eliminate 30 years of progress towards recovery of imperiled fish and wildlife under the Endangered Species Act, our nation's most important wildlife law....
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 4:28pm PDT
Katrina Update (audio/mpeg 8.5MB) Various reports from the alternative media in and around New Orleans. We thank BlastFurnace Radio in Pittsburgh, PA & WAFB-TV, Baton Rouge, LA for their interviews. Malik Rahim is also interviewed about the current needs of the area - medical supplies & certification of clinics, restoration of the wetlands and the need for an alternative economy to provide local needs while FEMA sabotages the region....
Posted: Sun, Sep 18, 2005 9:01pm PDT
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