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Mike Thompson’s termination bill 
Northcoast Congressman Mike Thompson has introduced legislation to authorize, fund and implement the costly and controversial Klamath Dam and Water Deals. This article explains what is in the legislation, why it does not comply with international standards for dealing with Indigenous rights and why those who care about salmon, clean water, the rights of Indigenous Native tribes, and basic justice and fairness should actively oppose Mr. Thompson's ill-advised bill....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2011 7:38pm PST
Video of Everything – except Public Meetings? 
I was repeatedly interrupted, harassed, accosted and finally arrested for trying to unobtrusively record the publicly noticed two-day meetings during MLPA "Initiative" process to create "marine protected areas" on the North Coast in the Spring of 2010. We are suing the privately funded MLPAI, the Department of Fish and Game, and the Kearns & West facilitators - for blatant violations of the Bagley-Keene Open Meetings Act and the Brown Act....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2011 8:39am PST
A Sea Change: Sylvia Earle and MPAs 
As the idea of marine protected areas became the catch-all answer to saving the ocean and the planet, those with more knowledge and experience pointed out that it can also be a shortsighted panacea. And, the possibility of removing large areas of ocean from local control has been an attractive lure for competing interests in ocean resources – to co-opt the MPA movement for their own benefit....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2011 6:47pm PST
Action Needed to Remove Klamath Dams! Below is an action alert from Craig Tucker, spokesman for the Karuk Tribe, urging people to support full removal of the lower four Klamath River dams owned by PacifiCorp, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire-Hathaway Corporation....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2011 12:16pm PST
A Sea of Change for Tribal-State Relations 
“I hope that if one thing comes out of this process, it's the beginning of long term trust between sovereign [tribal] governments and the state of California.” – California Secretary of Natural Resources John Laird at June 30, 2011 Fish and Game Commission hearing in Stockton, California...
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2011 10:28am PST
When the MLPA Killed a Blue Whale 
In investigating the incident, Noyo News learned that the Pacific Star lacked the required "Marine Geophysical Survey Permit," and the required marine mammal observer at the time of the accident, and so was operating illegally....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2011 2:35pm PDT
Open Letter to the North Coast Community 
We are trying to make it clear to the super-wealthy funders of the MLPA Initiative that they are not going to be allowed to disrespect this community, and destroy a family who happen to believe in the principles of law this country was founded upon. I am seeking community support to make sure this does not happen again, to anyone.
Photo of exterior of Tarkington, O’Neill, Barrack and Chong law offices in Santa Rosa by David Gurney....
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2011 11:29am PDT
Could MPAs become 'marine polluted areas?' 
Increased water monitoring data shows the number of rivers, streams and lakes in California exhibiting overall toxicity have increased 170 percent from 2006 to 2010, according to Nahal Mogharabi, spokesman for the California EPA, in a news release....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2011 2:17am PDT
Prisoner Demands to Abolish Torture at Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU) This is an open letter to both Governor Brown and to the Citizens of California in support of California Prisoner Demands to 1) Abolish Torture at Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU), and throughout the CDCR; 2) To Halt All Punitative Retaliation Against Hunger Striking Prisoners; and 3. To Abolish All Slavery As A Punishment for Crime with the return of Citizenship, Labor, Human, and Economic Rights....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2011 11:40pm PDT
Judge upholds North Central Coast MLPA regulations 
The lawsuit regarding the South Coast regulations is still proceeding forward. In the case of the South Coast regulations, the lawyers for the plaintiffs argue that there have been numerous violations of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in the Commission’s environmental review of the regulations.
Photo of Stewarts Point (Danaka) in Sonoma County, located on the North Central Coast, by Dan Bacher. This area is sacred to the Kashia Pomo Tribe. Fortunately, the Tribe, after con...
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2011 8:46am PDT
New Attacks on Prisoners, Response Needed Now Prisoners at Pelican Bay and other prisons put their lives on the line and have courageously stood up—despite attempts by the prison authorities to suppress their struggle through lies and repression—to let the world know about the barbaric U.S. prisons and to demand to be treated like human beings. And now, after the second round of the hunger strike has ended, with many prisoners in a physically weakened state, the prison authorities are coming down with a new wave of repression....
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 4:47pm PDT
Two arrests at Occupy Arcata 
Police clashed yesterday with Occupy Arcata protesters....
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 3:04pm PDT
Why Marine Protected Areas? In California's Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) "Initiative," the president of the Western States Petroleum Association sat as a top ranking board member throughout the statewide undertaking. Real estate and marina developers, corporate aquariums, contracted monitoring and scientific services, universities and state agencies - all stood in line for their share of the ocean resource pie, that the MLPAI's new closed areas would provide them, once enacted....
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 8:19am PDT
Free Speech for All Free speech for Wall Street Occupiers means free speech for everyone...
Posted: Sat, Oct 22, 2011 1:54pm PDT
North Coast residents urged to report salmon run on Eel River 
The call to report fish sightings comes at a time when the campaign by Indian Tribes, environmentalists and fishermen to restore salmon and steelhead populations on the Eel River is building momentum.
Photo of Wiyot dancers during a ceremony to restore the Eel River on September 10 by Nadananda....
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2011 8:25am PDT
Fraud Alert regarding North Coast Earth First! Aka NCEF! Media. Completely independent fro Fraud Alert regarding North Coast Earth First! Aka NCEF! Media. Completely independent from any activist group!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 11, 2011 3:27pm PDT
Judge issues tentative ruling on North Central Coast marine reserves 
In a phone interview after the hearing, Bob Fletcher told me, "We were not pleased with his tentative ruling, but were encouraged after the hearing over the lively disccussion the judge had with our attorneys over our arguments in the case. We're now waiting for the final ruling."...
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 4:50pm PDT
Family Members & Supporters of Hunger Strikers Rally in front of CDCR 
Family members and supporters of prisoners on strike throughout California held a spirited demonstration outside California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) headquarters as the strike entered its 10th day....
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 2:35pm PDT
Amnesty International Statement on Prison Hunger Strike 
Amnesty International Calls for Swift Implementation of Reforms to California Security Housing Units as Prison Hunger Strike Resumes....
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2011 8:48am PDT
Ex-Police Officer Requests Probe of Bassler Killing Though Ken Good does not feel much sympathy for Bassler, he said he was "worried that police could decide in the field that someone was going to die. And I believe they went out that day with every intention of killing him."...
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2011 8:59pm PDT
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