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Action Alert! Pressure Safeway to Post Warnings on Mercury-contaminated Seafood This week, with the placement of a full page ad in the New York Times, an environmental organization launched a new campaign aimed at national grocer retailer Safeway for its failure to warn customers nation-wide about mercury-contaminated seafood.
We need people mobilized at Safeway stores across the nation! Take action at your local Safeway, and make your voices heard....
Posted: Thu, Jun 2, 2005 3:57pm PDT
Energy Exploitation and the Ban on Uranium Mining in Navajo Country The president of the Navajo Nation approved legislation last month banning uranium mining and processing on Navajo territory. We host a debate on energy exploitation with Navajo President Joe Shirley and Earl Tully of Dine Care, a Navajo environmental organization....
Posted: Tue, May 31, 2005 9:03am PDT
New Biscuit Media Available! Update from the Campaign 
Two new flyers are now available to print for biscuit outreach....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 6:40pm PDT
Judi Bari, Free Trade and Gencide: 12 dead in Arizona, 2 girls killed in Juarez The roots of free trade are why people die on the US?Mexican border and why over 500 women and girls have died in grisly killings....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 10:08am PDT
For the sake of the kids; West VIrginia residents confront Massey Energy Co. While Massey Energy stockholders met at the Waldorf Astoria
Hotel in New York City, parents, grandparents, and other residents of
Coal River Valley, West Virginia rallied to oppose Massey's operations
adjacent to Marsh Fork Elementary School. Two grandmothers and a third
resident of the valley attempted to deliver a list of demands. The
residents were met by the plant's head of security who refused to
allow them to present their demands. When the residents again
attempted to present th...
Posted: Tue, May 24, 2005 3:11pm PDT
FBI says animal and eco-extremists are now top domestic terror threat As we have seen here lately in the Bay Area, the FBI and other authorities are turning up the heat and shaking down anyone they think might have ties to or information on direct action groups. Now they are publicly declaring the ALF, the ELF, and SHAC public enemies #1 for property destruction, economic sabotage, and harrassment of corporations, institutions, and individuals responsible for despoiling our environment and abusing animals....
Posted: Thu, May 19, 2005 10:12am PDT
Bush Makes Historic Visit to Biodiesel Plant Visiting a biodiesel plant near Richmond, Virginia, President Bush
today called biodiesel “one of our nation’s most promising alternative fuel
sources” and discussed the importance of a comprehensive energy plan to
wean the United States from foreign petroleum....
Posted: Mon, May 16, 2005 5:36pm PDT
EARTH MATTERS radio - Environmental Trade Deficit (audio/mpeg 12.4MB) EARTH MATTERS is a weekly segment of environmental news and interviews on KPFA's FLASHPOINTS
mp3 audio, 13:30mins
air date Friday May 6, 2005...
Posted: Fri, May 6, 2005 5:02pm PDT
"United for Safety 2005" Celebrating programs and policies that protect health and the environment....
Posted: Tue, May 3, 2005 11:14pm PDT
Sisters of the Siskiyou: S.O.S. Act II 
With dignity and honor, twenty-two women were arrested last March 14, mostly for sitting down on the ‘Green Bridge’ over the Wild & Scenic Illinois River: blocking loggers’ access to Fiddler Mountain. We captured America’s imagination for a moment, but alas, logging still persists!! So gals, dust it off and come on down for some serious forest fun…and resist the destruction to our last public wild places by the Bush Forest Service. This time, the women will wear green.
See very impressive...
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2005 10:07am PDT
Another Doomsday, Another Dollar: Shifting Science towards Peace and Ecology Science must be urged to climb those mountains which promote sustainability, peace and ecology rather than those which place our planet in peril....
Posted: Sun, May 1, 2005 10:29pm PDT
Conservationists Applaud Senators for Clean Water Vote in the Transportation Bill American Rivers praised the U.S. Senate for voting to retain an important new clean water program in the transportation bill now moving through Congress. By a vote of 51-49, the Senate rejected an effort by Senator Kit Bond (R-Mo.) to strip out new stormwater mitigation funds to reduce water pollution from interstate highways and other federal roads....
Posted: Fri, Apr 29, 2005 11:17pm PDT
Earth Matters radio - BUFFALO FIELD CAMPAIGN (audio/mpeg 15.3MB) Earth Matters - a weekly segment on KPFA's "Flashpoints." An interview with Mike Mease, campaign coordinatoir of the Buffalo Field Campaign in Montana. Yellowstone's buffalo herd, the last genetically pure wild bison left on the planet, are being slaughtered by the Montana Department of Livestock as they migrate out of the national park boundaries to have their babies and feed on lower elevation grasses. Includes clip of "Cows With Guns" by Dana Lyons. mp3 audio, 16:44.
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Posted: Thu, Apr 28, 2005 4:46pm PDT
Greater Reforestation Efforts Needed Say Forest Foundation, Forest Service Retirees Greater Reforestation Efforts Needed Say Forest Foundation, Forest Service Retirees; Call Comes as Nation Prepares to Mark Arbor Day on Friday, April 29...
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2005 3:46pm PDT
Captain Paul Watson on KPFA: Canadian Seal "Hunt" (audio/mpeg 7.5MB) Interview with Captain Paul Watson from on board the Sea Shepherd Socoety's ship, The Farley Mowat. Watson and his crew were in the midst of a fierce north Atlantic storm, and being shadowed by a Canadian Coast Guard vessel. Captain Watson talks about how the Canadian government lies about the seal "hunt," and more....
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2005 11:23am PDT
California Safe Schools May 14, 2005 Health & Safety Conference "United for Safety"
Health & Environmental Conference...
Posted: Sat, Apr 16, 2005 10:33pm PDT
Salmon Mystery in the Pacific Northwest! Scientists are shocked by the low numbers of spring chinook salmon that have returned so far to the Columbia River this season - in a year when they were forecasting a huge run. This lack of fish is very scary - and may be the result of warm water conditions, potentially resulting from global warming, off the West Coast this year. However, nobody really knows exactly what is going on right now....
Posted: Fri, Apr 15, 2005 10:53am PDT
Green and Black Urban Gathering at Philly Biotech Protests in June (update) 
UNDER THE PAVEMENT, a green and black urban gathering at the anti-biotech mobilization in philly this june...
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 8:37pm PDT
Antioch New England study trip sparks political harassment in Louisiana Respected environmental advocate forced out of job by Attorney General...
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2005 12:29pm PDT
cyber action today From the 10th to 16th of April, 2005, the Biovision/Biosquare forum will take place in the city of Lyon, France. This summit can be compared with the Davos WEF, but is solely concerned with biotech issues...
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2005 3:57am PDT
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