Publish to Newswire
Add an EventNewsitem List
35 of 146 
International Sea Turtle Society Calls On Mexico To Stop Endangered Sea Turtle Bycatch 
The International Sea Turtle Society (ISTS) passed a strongly worded resolution urging Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto to stop the high rates of bycatch of endangered North Pacific loggerhead turtles in commercial fisheries operating in the Gulf of Ulloa, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Each year Mexican fisheries off the southern Baja California peninsula kill more than 2,000 endangered loggerheads as they fish for halibut and sharks....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2014 1:07pm PDT
Santa Barbara County Fracking Ban will be on November Ballot 
On May 1, Santa Barbara residents turned in 20,000 signatures to the county elections office which they hope will qualify a fracking ban initiative on the November 2014 ballot....
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2014 8:21am PDT
Mimi Soltysik Steps Up to Run as a Socialist for State Assembly in LA County 
Emidio “Mimi” Soltysik campaigning at a Socialist Party literature table.
Campaign photo
When the local SP looked at the possibility of running a campaign, they decided that the time is now to, “step up, to speak out, and to share the ideas, to put them out into the public dialog. And to step up to the Democrats and Republicans,” said Soltysik....
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2014 5:18pm PDT
Beverly Hills Pursues a Ban on Fracking: Another City in California Moves to Stop Fracking Sacramento, CA. - The Beverly Hills City Council voted unanimously on April 22 to pursue a ban on “fracking” citywide, making it illegal to use hydraulic fracturing, acidizing or any stimulation technique from any area in the City, as well as any method of oil extraction outside city limits that would extract oil and gas from underneath the City. Beverly Hills joins the cities of Los Angeles and Carson in the fight to stop fracking....
Posted: Mon, Apr 28, 2014 3:12pm PDT
SB 1388-First, They Came for the Johns..... Although SB1338 is supposedly intended to target those who purchase commercial sex, it is sex workers who will likely pay the higher price if it becomes law in its current form... The bill gives law enforcement a direct and inappropriate incentive to entrap people ... [and] only makes sense if one believes that the best way to “protect” sex workers is to make their jobs as dangerous as possible in an attempt to deter them from the path they have chosen....
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2014 2:57pm PDT
Six Sea Lions Killed at Bonneville Dam This week, six California sea lions were killed at Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River simply for doing what comes naturally – eating fish. Under a permit issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service, the states of Oregon and Washington used lethal injections to kill these sea lions, who were branded and marked for death in 2013....
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2014 12:39pm PDT
New Eviction Law Proposed in AB1513 
New Eviction Law Proposed California Wide! Stop AB1513!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2014 10:50am PDT
Detained Asylum Seekers Sue Obama Administration to End Long Waits for Initial Interviews 
San Francisco – The ACLU Foundation of Southern California, the ACLU of Northern California, and the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), along with the international law firm Reed Smith LLP, today filed a class action lawsuit (see PDF) in the Northern District of California on behalf of thousands of immigrants fleeing persecution who have faced months of detention while they await reasonable fear determinations (see PDF), the first step in seeking protection in the United States when so...
Posted: Thu, Apr 17, 2014 11:07pm PDT
New Report: Shrinking Corporate Tax Base is Wreaking Havoc on State Budgets 
WASHINGTON, March 27, 2014—A new report published today by Center for Effective Government and National People’s Action (see PDF) uncovers how the shrinking corporate tax base is driving critical budget shortfalls and service cuts at the state and federal level. The report outlines exactly how much revenue has been lost due to a precipitous decline in corporate income tax rates and an explosion of loopholes. The report shows that since the recession, corporate income tax revenues have shrunk ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2014 2:45pm PDT
Militarization of the police: Confront police brutality through organized mass action Wearing full body armor and armed with assault weapons, SWAT teams’ tactics make it much more likely that people will be killed. Using no-knock raids, they rush into a resident’s home by breaking the door. Immediately upon entry, they commonly use “flash-bang” grenades, which render people temporarily blind and deaf. Naturally, the targets of such raids might assume that their home is under attack by criminals. If the residents are armed and try to defend themselves, they are likely to be kil...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2014 4:05pm PDT
Radio Autonomía: Zapatismo in the Bay April 2014 SHOW (audio/mpeg 87.4MB) Full Audio plus individual segments from the April 6, 2014 broadcast of Radio Autonomía: Zapatismo in the Bay on Berkeley Liberation Radio, 104.1 FM, livestream at Berkeley Liberation Radio. This is Radio Autonomía-- Autonomy Radio, Zapatismo In the Bay. Our collective media project takes inspiration from the Zapatista movement in Chiapas México and focuses on autonomous political, economic, and social projects in the Bay Area that resonate with the anti-capitalist, rebel spirit of Zapatismo....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2014 9:35am PDT
Trona, Bloody Trona 
Trona, Bloody Trona
A book review by Mike Rhodes...
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2014 9:16pm PDT
National Day of Solidarity with Albuquerque, May 10th On May 10th, we are calling out for a nationwide display of Solidarity with the people of Albuquerque, James Boyd, The strikers behind prison walls, and all of those who have been murdered and imprisoned under the guise of ‘the justice system’. We are calling out for a nationwide display of resistance against a society that wishes to incarcerate us, kill us, beat us, and repress us. Spread this everywhere, and organize this everywhere! Link up with friends, large or small, and do the fuckin t...
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2014 5:49pm PDT
Lawsuit Launched to Protect Rare Black-backed Woodpeckers in California, Oregon, S. Dakota 
SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity and the John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute on April 2 filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the agency’s failure to protect black-backed woodpeckers under the Endangered Species Act....
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2014 6:28pm PDT
Students Illustrate Ocean Life Impacted by Driftnets in Support of New CA Ocean Bill 
4th Grade Class Calls on State Legislators to End Driftnets Along California Coast
California Assemblymember Marc Levine Visits Class Today...
Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2014 10:18am PDT
California Sunset: Future Of Fracking And Farming 
From Sunset Travel Magazine April Issue, Future of Fracking in California: The weakest links in the safety chain, according to experts, are the steel casings and cement that line the wells underground. They’re designed to isolate harmful chemicals from the surrounding environment, but they’re far from infallible 6 to 7 percent of new wells drilled failed within 3 years by “compromised structural integrity,” according to Ingraffea’s research. STOP. Now look at where the quotes appear. This is ...
Posted: Tue, Apr 1, 2014 2:41pm PDT
Earthquakes Pose Threat To Injection And Production Well Integrity 
Released in March 2014, On Shaky Ground: Fracking, Acidizing, and Increased Earthquake Risk in California was produced by Earthworks, The Center for Biological Diversity, and Clean Water Action. The report analyzes the earthquake risks associated with an increase in wastewater injection that would result from an expansion of fracking and other unconventional oil production in California. Impeccable timing. The recent La Habra earthquake, was felt in at least seven Southern California counties...
Posted: Sun, Mar 30, 2014 11:24am PDT
Carbon Money Laundering The Golden State's GHG Emissions 
The California Air Resources Board Ten Billion Dollar Carbon Market: The Western Climate Initiative (Inc.)
CARB created the WCI, Inc., registered as a Delaware corporation, “to perform market monitoring of allowance auctions, and market trading of compliance instruments.” California has Sunshine laws and open hearing regulations, Delaware is not subject to California state open meeting or sunshine laws. Additionally a 100 per cent Leakage Risk Looms Over Fugitive Emissions (100% leakage risk...
Posted: Sat, Mar 29, 2014 7:33pm PDT
Court Asked to Uphold California Ban on Cruelly Produced Eggs An attempt by six states to overturn a California law that requires more humane treatment of egg-laying hens and higher food safety standards will face legal opposition from The Humane Society of the United States. In papers filed with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, The HSUS is seeking to file a motion to dismiss a lawsuit that would overturn AB 1437, a law that stops the sale of eggs from hens confined in inhumane battery cages by the start of next year. The ...
Posted: Thu, Mar 27, 2014 12:45pm PDT
Gov. Brown Urged to Investigate Missing Acidizing Reports for Oil Industry Activity 
SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity called on Gov. Jerry Brown on March 26 to investigate why dozens of legally required notices of a dangerous oil industry practice called “acidizing” are missing from the reporting website of a California agency responsible for collecting information on hydraulic fracturing, acidizing and other risky techniques used in oil and gas extraction. Acidizing uses dangerous acids to dissolve underground rock formations and release oil and gas....
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2014 7:53pm PDT
35 of 146