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Most of 21,000 oil wells approved under Jerry Brown are in low income areas, communities of color 
"I wonder if Jerry Brown would continue to shield the fossil fuel industry if his family was forced to breathe the same air we do,” said Francisco Gonzalez, a Kern County resident. “I hope he will consider communities like mine and put an end to the drilling free-for-all. It's too late for me, but all the kids deserve better.”...
Posted: Sat, Aug 18, 2018 1:00pm PDT
Mike Rhodes recognized by Fresno City Council 
Mike Rhodes, former Indybay Central Valley page co-ordinator, was recognized by the Fresno City Council, who made August 16 "Mike Rhodes Day."...
Posted: Thu, Aug 16, 2018 5:55pm PDT
Honoring the living legacy of the Buffalo Soldiers at Negro Bar - California State Parks 
Commanding Maj. General Sean B. MacFarland said, “No other group of American Soldiers sacrificed so much and yet received so little respect in return.”...
Posted: Tue, Aug 14, 2018 12:22pm PDT
Legislative Budget Committee Postpones Committee Hearing on Funding for Delta Tunnels 
The 35 mile long Delta Tunnels would devastate West Coast salmon and other fish populations by diverting Sacramento River water before it reaches the estuary, as well as imperil the salmon and steelhead on the Trinity River, the major tributary of the Klamath River, that is diverted via a tunnel through the Trinity Mountains into the Sacramento River watershed at Whiskeytown Reservoir....
Posted: Fri, Aug 10, 2018 7:41pm PDT
Six youths demanding a fossil fuel freeze arrested in sit in at Governor's Office 
”All of these oil and gas projects need water,” said Niria Alicia. “The intensive extraction of fossil fuel threatens our rivers and theatens the salmon and other fish that live in them. The same water is used to frack in the backyards of indigenous migrant farmworkers. We need to keep the water in our rivers and the oil in the ground, if we are to have the chance at a future.”...
Posted: Fri, Aug 10, 2018 12:56pm PDT
Music and Progressive Politics to Share the Stage at Fulton 55 
A Scholarship Fund will be set up at the San Joaquin College of Law to support law students who have an interest in helping disenfranchised groups (like the homeless), who want to support social and economic justice issues and have a passion for Free Speech, and who generally use their legal training to promote democratic ideals....
Posted: Wed, Aug 8, 2018 5:12pm PDT
Establishing the Colonel Charles Young Memorial Highway 
Throughout the Great State of California are many profound "hidden figures" who have made amazing contributions to the forward flow of humanity. Discovering the fullness of the living legacy of Colonel Charles Young is poised to become an outstanding American story of our unique California Pan African experience. Enslaved in Kentucky at birth and died in service of our nation in Lagos, Nigeria... what an amazing journey to explore....
Posted: Mon, Aug 6, 2018 7:24pm PDT
Jerry Brown condemns Trump's lowering of fuel standards, but expands oil drilling 
California has prohibited new offshore leases since 1984, but has allowed the expansion of oil drilling in existing leases. Brown has the power as Governor to close down all existing leases and wells through executive action, but he has instead furthered Big Oil’s agenda by presiding over the expansion of offshore drilling in state waters....
Posted: Fri, Aug 3, 2018 11:28am PDT
Section 8 tenants forced into illegal side contracts by landlord get class certification 
Dennis Terry and Roy Husky lll, filed their complaint on April 14, 2015. These Section 8 tenants who receive rental assistance through the federally subsidized Housing Choice Voucher Program commonly known as “Section 8,” claim that the landlord illegally charged them for washer and dryer rentals, renters’s insurance, and covered parking....
Posted: Wed, Aug 1, 2018 4:30pm PDT
Joaquin Murrieta Comemmorated in the Central Valley 
Mexican bandit Joaquin Murrieta was commemorated by a horse ride and a protest march on Highway 33 between Firebaugh and Mendota, California this morning, July 28....
Posted: Sat, Jul 28, 2018 8:29pm PDT
ChangeFest: Rise for Climate, Jobs & Justice Satellite Event in Sacramento 
McClatchy Park, 35th Street and 5th Avenue, Sacamento, CA 95817...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 8, 2018 10:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, Jul 28, 2018 11:16am PDT
Defend OccupyICE Sacramento N and 7th Street Sacramento
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Event Date: Sat, Jul 28, 2018 11:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2018 7:51pm PDT
Coalition tells Denham and Zinke: Hands off state water rights & Delta flows! 
Morning Star Gali, Tribal Water Organizer with Save California Salmon and a member of the Pit River Tribe, described the catastrophic consequences that would result if Denham’s rider and the other two riders get through Congress with backing by the Trump administration. Photo by Dan Bacher....
Posted: Thu, Jul 26, 2018 3:43pm PDT
Historic Leidesdorff Ranch poised for a new partnership with Russian Americans Restoring the stolen legacy of the early California Pan African Pioneers begins with the Legacy of William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr....
Posted: Tue, Jul 24, 2018 4:44pm PDT
Shasta County Suspends Contract with Wildlife-Killing Agency 
Shasta County officials recently stopped contracting with the notorious federal wildlife-killing program known as Wildlife Services. Shasta County’s previous contract authorized the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program to kill hundreds of bears and coyotes, as well as thousands of birds and muskrats and other animals in the county every year, without assessing the ecological damage or considering alternatives....
Posted: Tue, Jul 24, 2018 9:08am PDT
End ICE & Police Brutalities! Protest & Press Conference 7th and N streets...
Event Date: Thu, Jul 26, 2018 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 23, 2018 10:17pm PDT
Coalition Slams Delta Tunnels Finance Authority's Request for $1.8 Billion Loan from Trump 
The request from the Delta Conveyance Finance Authority (DCFA) for a $1.6 billion loan from the Trump Administration through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is only the latest in Brown’s efforts to collaborate with Trump on the Governor’s legacy project, the Delta Tunnels....
Posted: Mon, Jul 23, 2018 9:59am PDT
Natural Resources Secretary John Laird Opposes Rider Banning Delta Tunnels Lawsuits 
“I am writing to express opposition to recent attempts by Congress to circumvent California’s water management framework by adding riders to the Appropriations billl," said California Natural Resources Secretary John Laird....
Posted: Wed, Jul 18, 2018 4:10pm PDT
Resnicks, Corporate Agribusiness Fund Jerry Meral's Prop 3 Campaign 
As then Senate pro Tempore John Burton said so well in a letter to the Planning and Conservation League on September 23, 2002: “Jerry Meral has a history of making money for himself and PCL by crafting Bond Initiatives that get special interests to support the initiative campaign in exchange for having their projects funded by the bonds.”...
Posted: Tue, Jul 17, 2018 3:45pm PDT
DPR 2017 Air Monitoring Shows all Pesticides Below Health Screening Levels 
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) released air monitoring results showing that, once again, all of the pesticides monitored in the DPR air monitoring network in 2017, were found below levels that indicate a health concern....
Posted: Mon, Jul 16, 2018 4:32pm PDT
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