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High Levels of Dangerous ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in California’s Most-Used Insecticide
40% of Tested Agricultural Pesticide Products Contain PFAS...
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2023 10:52am PDT
Farming While Black: Endangered Species Act 2023 Farm Bill, "Can We Just Grow Some Food?"
1/2 of 1 percent of California Ag Industries and the same approach, same outcome, same paradigm must change. Ready and Forward...
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2023 8:44pm PDT
Pan-African approach needed to tackle food insecurity arising from conflict and climate
California Pan African Food and Ag Pavilion will explore the challenges and opportunities. External factors – the disruption of food systems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent reduced purchasing power, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which led to an increase in world food, fuel and fertiliser prices – coupled with drastic weather changes, and continuation or intensification of conflict and insecurity have compromised an already fragile food chain....
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2023 3:57pm PDT
California will respond to the Pan African Congress call for better seed movement
Our California Pan African World Food and Ag Pavilion will offer proposed opportunities towards solutions that offer greater access to global seed research and development. 'We need to hear from farmers how we can continuously and sustainably bridge the gap between seed companies and the farming community, now more pronounced mainly by the negative impact of climate change. On our side, we will endeavor to work with the farmers to help increase the resilience and profitability of African far...
Posted: Sat, Mar 25, 2023 2:42am PDT
SEIU99/UTLA Membership Voices On Their Strike & Struggle: United We Stand, Divided We Fall
Thirty thousand SEIU 99 LAUSD service workers went out on a three day unfair labor practice strike on March 21, 2023 to March 23, 2023. The UTLA members joined the picket line and this united action was a first. Workers spoke out about their conditions and struggles....
Posted: Fri, Mar 24, 2023 4:45pm PDT
Elected officials and coalition groups urge the Legislature to enact price gouging bill
EOPA California, representing over 462 elected officials from 49 counties, strongly supports protecting consumers from oil price gouging with SBX1-2. EOPA California has a letter specifically for elected officials to sign in support of SB1-2 (Skinner). In just five days 108 have signed, and the number is rising daily....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2023 3:11pm PDT
New Eastern Monarch Butterfly Count Indicates Pollinator Still Threatened
Long-Term Decline of 90% Going Into Endangered Species Act Decision...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2023 9:59am PDT
Court: U.S. Failure to Protect Pacific Humpbacks From Deadly Entanglements Was Unlawful
SAN FRANCISCO, March 15, 2023 — A federal court ruled in favor of the Center for Biological Diversity yesterday in a lawsuit arguing that the National Marine Fisheries Service failed to protect endangered Pacific humpback whales from deadly entanglements in sablefish pot gear off California, Oregon and Washington....
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2023 9:29pm PDT
The Fukushima Catastrophe Continues 12 Years After The Meltdowns
March 11 is the 12th anniversary of the Fukushima earthquake and meltdown of three reactors. The disaster continues and the melted nuclear rods still remain in the broken reactors and have to be cooled by water which then becomes radiated. Two activists talk about the present situation after 12 years....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2023 7:58pm PST
First-Ever Footage Inside a US Slaughterhouse Gas Chamber Obtained at Smithfield Foods
Direct Action Everywhere volunteer investigator Raven Deerbrook has obtained never-before-seen, undercover footage from inside the Marel Butina gas chambers in Smithfield Foods’ Farmer John slaughterhouse in Vernon, California....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2023 3:48pm PST
Oil Industry Seeks Supreme Court Review of California Offshore Fracking Ban
9th Circuit Refused Previous Request, Upheld Lower Court Decision...
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2023 11:38am PST
California's record high gas prices have set the stage for showdown with oil companies and
On November 19th, Californians paid $5.30 per gallon of gasoline, while Texans paid $3.02. Stopping this price gouging with a windfall profit cap has become a priority of the governor. If Gov. Newsom can pass a windfall profits cap, it will be viewed as a major victory over the California oil industry.
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s official plan to combat these high prices was introduced by State Senator Nancy Skinner, on the day the legislature reconvened to swear in members, Decembe...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2023 4:04pm PST
California, 4th largest economy on earth, poised to engage with the Pan African Diaspora
The Great State of California is poised to align bipartisan support with the new U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa, which outlines foreign policy objectives to bolster relations with African nations, listening to diverse local voices, and widen the circle of engagement to advance strategic objectives for the benefit of both Africans and Americans....
Posted: Sun, Jan 15, 2023 7:27pm PST
Elected officials show support for a windfall profits cap on oil industry for price hikes
State lawmakers and local elected officials urged legislation on a windfall profits cap on oil companies for the price gouging practices. The penalty would provide a rebate for CA consumers. Elected Officials to Protect America (EOPA) California local elected officials from frontline communities spoke about how their communities are being affected from gas prices as the oil industry continues to rake in billions of dollars in profits with no regard for how it hurts Californians, our climate a...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2022 4:24pm PST
Inaugural EOPA CA Climate Emergency & Energy Security Summit focused on offshore wind
The Summit focused on the urgency for affordable clean energy security for all Californians – and highlighted energy solutions including scaling up offshore wind power. EOPA CA also supported Governor Newsom’s windfall profits cap on oil companies that are price gouging Californians at the pump...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2022 4:10pm PST
Golden Harvest Ceremony - Growing food in Historic Negro Bar, Lake Natoma, California
1848 Negro Hill, Mormon Island and Negro Bar Gold Mining District on Ancient Indigenous Lands in California. “It’s important to keep the focus squarely on the culprit that brought us to this point today. And that’s the US government. Its subtle and overt expansion of White supremacy is to blame here. These are two incredibly aggrieved, hyper-marginalized groups,”...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2022 1:21pm PST
LA City Councilmember Koretz's Last Call For Aggressive Climate Action
Koretz introduced three pieces of aggressive climate legislation: one aimed to ban the sale of new gas cars in stages, beginning in 2028 with the most expensive vehicles to fully implement by 2030; one to create a significant greenhouse gas emissions fee for private jets landing at Los Angeles airports; and one aimed to use the truth of the dangers posed to LAX and Silicon Beach by the SoCalGas Playa Vista Natural Gas Storage facility to shut it down...
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2022 3:51pm PST
LA AFT1521 Exec Bd Member & Adjunct Khaled Hussein Illegally Suspended For Whistleblowing
LA AFT1521 executive board member & adjunct Khaled Hussein from East Los Angeles Community College was illegally suspended by AFT 1521 union president James Mckeever and his allies for exposing financial shenanigans that showed that he wanted a salary of $400,000 a year....
Posted: Tue, Nov 1, 2022 12:18pm PDT
Oil refinery quintuples 3rd quarter profits with windfall of $50 million off CA consumers
Oil refinery profits have skyrocketed while consumers pay inflated prices at the pump. Gov. Newsom's special session on Dec. 5 for a windfall tax on oil companies has wide support....
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2022 3:49pm PDT
EOPA California welcomes BOEM’s news that Morro Bay offshore wind leasing can move forward
On October 5, 2022, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced the completion of its environmental review of potential impacts from offshore wind energy leasing activities in the Morro Bay Wind Energy Area (WEA), located 20 miles offshore central California. EOPA CA wants the federal offshore wind goal to be increased...
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2022 5:07pm PDT