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Demonstrating he truly cares about the welfare of animals, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today signed SB 1520 into law, a bill that bans the force feeding of ducks and geese in the production of foie gras. The bill also bans the sale of the product when made from force fed birds, both provisions taking effect in California in the year 2012....

Following is an article I wrote about my son, who is a prisoner at, High Desert State Prison. In an effort to call attention to conditions at the prison, my son is on a hunger strike. I promised that I would advocate for him, and this is one way I am keeping my promise. The article is about the conditons at High Desert, as he described them to me....

Valero has contracted with Altair Strickland to provide refractory services at the Valero Refinery in Benicia. Altair Strickland chose to use Diamond Refractory based out of Texas. Diamond Refractory will be employing a workforce from Texas to perform the service instead of utilizing members of the local community. Further, approximately 800 Texas workers have received training from Bay Area Training Corp. This training is required to work in the refineries in the San Francisco Bay Area. It i...

The Old Growth giant of a redwood known as Aradia...and all of her sisters and brothers in that great last grove of wilderness on the ridges above Grizzly Creek and the Van Duzen was hacked down in a Saturday raid by Maxxam corporate industrial loggers....

A Beach Flats Mural Celebration took place on September 9 at the corner of Beach and Park just below Santa Cruz's well known Giant Dipper roller coaster. The Beach Flats Mural Project was always meant to be more than a finished mural. It was meant to be a process that brought together people of all ages, all backgrounds and skills, in a community project. -- Mas que pintura en una pared el proyecto del mural siempre lo comenzamos con la idea de que fuera un proyecto comun. Nuestro mural...

For the second time in just over a week California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a major gay rights bill....

The horror of American fascism has again sunk to greater depths with a second hung jury in the pepper spraying of forest activists' eyes and face by a federal jury in a San Francisco courtroom....

Chaos predicted. And who's the leftiest of the left? Nadir, Peltier, Cobb, Parker?...

The pepper spray by Q-tip trial to determine whether activists' Fourth Amendment rights were violated when law enforcement inserted Q-tips soaked in liquid pepper spray directly into their eyes continues in SF Federal court....

The UNION press conference will be held at 1 pm, Monday Sept. 13 (this coming Monday) in front of the Hall of Justice in Fairfield. Hall of Justice is at 600 Union Avenue. Our attorney, Mark Ravis, MD, JD will file a lawsuit on Monday in the Eastern District Federal court against CMF and individuals responsible for the medical neglect of Donald Swisher, a mentally ill inmate at CMF Vacaville. Swisher leaves behind five children who live in Merced, CA. He died in April from...