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September 11, 2011 San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge...

The 9-page ruling that spurred the delay detailed how each of these areas of state law were violated in the rush by the Commission and MLPA Initiative officials to create “marine protected areas” in a process chaired by Catherine Reheis-Boyd, president of the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA). George G. Shaw, Senior Staff Council, and Debra N. Cornex, Assistant Chief Counsel Acting Director, for the Office of Administrative Law signed the document. Photo of Tijuana River mouth c...

"Hopefully all these products of a privatized process rife with secret meetings, bad science, conflict of interest and scorning of state meeting and administrative law will be invalidated," said John Lewallen, North Coast environmental leader and longtime advocate for democracy and transparency in government. Photo: Over 300 people, including members of 50 Indian Tribes, recreational anglers, immigrant seafood industry workers, commercial fishermen, conservationists and environmental justi...

Bay Area Codepink: September 11, 2011 San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge In memory of those lives lost 10 years ago on Sept. 11, 2001. May their tragedy not continue to be manipulated to justify the violence committed by the U.S. in it's perpetual wars and endless occupations. In honor of their lives we call for an honest accounting of 9/11. We also honor the over 1.5 million Iraqi and Afghan civilians dead....

No desecration for recreation! In Vallejo yesterday, Indigenous activists and their supporters demonstrated outside the US Forest Service Regional Office to demand an immediate end to the desecration of the Holy San Francisco Peaks. Arizona Snowbowl, a private company which leases land on the mountain from the Forest Service has started construction to expand a ski resort....

“With regard to local shoreline systems, where there is access, there are no ‘unfished’ systems,” said Mike Belchik, senior fisheries biologist from the Yurok Fisheries Program. “People have coexisted with these resources for many thousands of years; the appropriate conceptual organization foundation is that systems have been managed, and what is seen is the result of millennia of management.”...

Thus far, working against the 2011 Stay Human Freedom Flotilla have been repeated threats and admonishments from the U.S. and Israeli governments, the early pullout of the Turkish contingent, meddling from Zionist law firms, sabotage to the propellers of the Greek and Irish boats by underwater divers, and an order from the Greek government banning the flotilla from embarking on the journey to Gaza from Greece. The "Freedom Flotilla 2 - Stay Human" was scheduled to depart by the end of June, ...

West Gate, San Quentin Prison, Marin County, California...

“I cannot accept the part about the fishing license. The Fish and Game has taken an unjust and patronizing step,” said Yurok Tribal Chairman Thomas O’Rourke Sr. “No one can separate these resources from our culture.” Yurok Tribal Member Richard Myers cleans mussels inside of Patrick's Point State Park. The Park does not recognize the rights of indigenous tribes who depend on gathering there to perpetuate their lifeways. Photo by Matt Mais, Yurok Tribe....

Marin County tops the list of the nation’s least affordable rental markets with over 60 percent of its renters unable to afford a two-bedroom apartment, according to Out of Reach, a nationwide comparison of how much money a household must earn to afford to rent a modest home....