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No Party Preference Voters Allowed To Participate In California Election Preliminaries California has semi-closed preliminaries. Only Democratic and No Party Preference voters can vote for democratic candidates and only registered Republican voters can vote for republican candidates....
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2016 12:25pm PDT
Sanders Supports Targeted Kill List & US Troops in Syria; Cal Campaign News Democrats' Warmonger Sheepdog Bernie Sanders claims the US targeted assassination list is legal, a lie, and supports US troops in Syria. See Bernie Sanders Says US 'Kill List' Legal, Backs Troops in Syria, 4/26/16 at http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Bernie-Sanders-Says-US-Kill-List-Legal-Backs-Troops-in-Syria-20160426-0017.html....
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2016 8:04pm PDT
California Apartment Association targets medical marijuana users The California Apartment Association has sponsored a bill (AB 2300) that allows landlords to prohibit renters from smoking medical marijuana in their apartments, that advanced yesterday from the Assembly Judiciary Committee. Jim Wood (D- Healdsburg) is author of AB 2300....
Posted: Wed, Apr 27, 2016 7:18pm PDT
California’s Driftnet Fishery: A Costly Toll on the State Economy The Economic Argument Against the California Driftnet Fishery’ outlines how the California driftnet fishery costs more to operate than the wealth that is created by the fishery....
Posted: Tue, Apr 26, 2016 1:00pm PDT
Mayor Lee questioned about SFPD killing civilians I saw Mayor Ed Lee at City Hall today and taped him as I asked when he would hold a town hall meeting on San Francisco cops killing civilians, and other questions about accountability of the police force....
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2016 10:58pm PDT
Farm labor board rules Gerawan guilty of ‘extensive’ and ‘illegal misconduct’ (04/16/2016) The full Agricultural Labor Relations Board issued a unanimous 81-page decision on Friday, April 15 decisively affirming the 192-page Sept. 17, 2015 opinion by an ALRB administrative law judge finding the giant Fresno-based tree fruit grower Gerawan Farming Inc. guilty of “commit[ing] numerous” violations of California labor laws (P. 68). Judge Mark R. Soble ruled last year after hearing sworn testimony from 130 witnesses in 2014 and 2015. The ruling by the Sacramento-based ALRB ...
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2016 9:26pm PDT
UFW wins election to represent 240 farm workers at Ventura County companies Farm workers at two related Oxnard, Calif. companies with a total of 240 employees at peak season voted April 20, 2016 (today) to be represented by the United Farm Workers in an election conducted by the state Agricultural Labor Relations Board. Workers at Hiji Bros., Inc. and Seaview Growers Inc. cast ballots to decertify and replace the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 with the UFW on a vote of 111 for the UFW, 61 for UFCW Local 5 and 6 for no-union. Hiji Bros. grows celery, lettu...
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2016 4:35pm PDT
West Coast Fisher Denied Endangered Species Act Protection in Bow to Timber Industry PORTLAND, Ore., April 14, 2016 — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today denied Endangered Species Act protection to West Coast fishers, mid-sized forest carnivores that were proposed for federal protection in October throughout their range in California, Oregon and Washington. Following pressure from the timber industry, the Service withdrew the proposed protection despite overwhelming scientific evidence that the survival of the rare carnivores is threatened by logging, toxic chemicals use...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2016 3:32pm PDT
West Coast Water Quality Standards Not Strong Enough to Fight Ocean Acidification OAKLAND, Calif., April 13, 2016 — A new scientific paper published today in the journal Ocean & Coastal Management concludes that current water quality criteria are inadequate to address ocean acidification on the West Coast. This paper and a related report published last week call for major changes in how California, Oregon and Washington deal with ocean acidification triggered by the high carbon emissions that are also causing climate change....
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2016 3:02pm PDT
Torture & Other Israeli Crimes Supported by Dem-Repubs Both the Democrats and Republicans are proud supporters of torture by Israel of the Palestinians, a fact the Democrats choose to ignore when campaigning against openly pro-torture Republicans. Both parties are proudly 100% pro-Israel at every level of office, and that includes Democrat Bernie Sanders, a proud supporter of money for Israel every chance he got. These US taxpayer funds given to Israel are now believed to be $13.2 billion annually. From the 9/11 Inside Job to ISIS, which is al...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2016 8:42pm PDT
BLM OKs Industrial Solar Project That Would Block Bighorn Sheep Movement in Mojave BARSTOW, Calif., April 5, 2016 — The Bureau of Land Management today issued a decision allowing the Soda Mountain Solar project to move forward on developing more than 2,813 acres of public land directly adjacent to the Mojave National Preserve that would cut off a vital route for desert bighorn sheep and damage other desert resources....
Posted: Wed, Apr 6, 2016 2:48pm PDT
Lawsuit Challenges FDA's Approval of Genetically Engineered Salmon SAN FRANCISCO, March 31, 2016 — A broad coalition of environmental, consumer and commercial and recreational fishing organizations today sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approving the first-ever genetically engineered food animal, an Atlantic salmon engineered to grow quickly. The man-made salmon was created by AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. with DNA from three fish: Atlantic salmon, Pacific king salmon and Arctic ocean eelpout. This marks the first time any government in the wor...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2016 5:21pm PDT
UN Official Receives Formal Complaint from Solitary Prisoners’ Family Members & Advocates CA – After months of public outcry, California Families Against Solitary Confinement (CFASC) and the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity Coalition (PHSS) have submitted a formal complaint to Juan Mendez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment or Punishment condemning the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) jarringly noisy and disruptive “security/welfare checks” in Pelican Bay State Prison’s Security Housing Units (PB-...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2016 4:54pm PDT
California Apartment Association is stalking the tenant’s movement The CAA has been meddling in the affairs of city after city in Northern California, and has been stalking the tenant’s movement every step of the way, in the effort to stop any and all reasonable renter protections being promoted by renters, tenant activists, and their supporters!...
Posted: Fri, Mar 25, 2016 8:05pm PDT
UC Falsely Equates Anti-Semitism with Anti-Zionism; Moron Trump leads with Cal Repubs The Regents of the University of California are now falsely equating anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism in a desperate effort to stop the successful Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. Belgium, the site of a terrorist organization known as NATO, allows former Israeli security agents to run the security at the Brussels airport, the site of recent bombings, adding to suspicion that these bombings, like all previous bombings, were an inside job. California, a bellwether stat...
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2016 8:21pm PDT
Audubon California sponsors legislation regulating use of drones in wildlife areas Sacramento, Calif., Mar 9, 2016 – As more and more people are taking their drones for a spin in California's open spaces, there's concern that all these flying robots might not be so great for birds and other wildlife. After tracking reports of disturbances to wildlife and habitat arising from done ruse, Audubon California decided to co-sponsor legislation that will require the state to create rules for drone use in state wildlife areas. The bill, Assembly Bill 2148, is authored by Assembly M...
Posted: Sat, Mar 12, 2016 7:13pm PST
Utah Lawmakers Launch Last-minute Scheme to Fund California Coal Terminal SALT LAKE CITY, March 2, 2016 — Republican lawmakers in Utah are attempting an eleventh-hour maneuver that would use $53 million in state sales tax money to pay for a California coal-export terminal....
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2016 4:54pm PST
Statement on Legislators Letter to Fishery Managers to Phase Out CA Driftnet Gear Yesterday, a group of seven legislators led by Senator Ben Allen (D - Santa Monica) sent a letter to federal fishery officials, Dorothy Lowman, the chair of the Pacific Fishery Management Council, and William Stelle, the administrator for the Northwest Region of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), asking them to phase out the use of driftnets in California. Joining Senator Allen in sending the letter to federal fisheries regulators were Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, Ass...
Posted: Tue, Mar 1, 2016 7:33pm PST
Nuclear Shutdown News February 2016 Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline and fall of the US nuclear power industry in this country and beyond, and highlights the efforts of those who are working to create a nuclear free world.
Is Jerry Brown Involved in the San Onofre Nuclear Plant Shutdown Scandal?...
Posted: Fri, Feb 26, 2016 5:08pm PST
EPA Urged to Reject California Plan to Dump Oil Waste Into Underground Water SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif., February 25, 2016 — The Center for Biological Diversity today urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to deny California oil officials’ proposal to turn underground water in the Price Canyon area of San Luis Obispo County into a permanent disposal site for oil wastewater....
Posted: Thu, Feb 25, 2016 4:33pm PST
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