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San Joaquin Valley Air Quality on Clearing the Air with Jim Compton-Schmidt (audio/mpeg 13.8MB)
30 Minute Interview with Dr. David Pepper, MD and Mark Stout, Air Quality Consultant...
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 5:26pm PDT
Press Release: Huge Turnout Expected at Cindy Sheehan Support Rally in Sacramento 8/27
Don't miss the Cindy Sheehan support rally/vigil in Sacramento on Saturday, August 27. It will be great!...
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 4:21pm PDT
Boycott Gallo Wines
The workers of Gallo in Sonoma County have been fighting to improve working conditions, making strides to overcome an eight year drought in wage increases. However, while some Gallo workers now earn $8.18 an hour, have 8 days of vacation and receive health benefits for themselves and for their families, the majority do not. Those workers who have been denied these benefits are hired through farm labor contractors (FLCs), which are third party agencies. This contract loophole denies 75 percent...
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 4:53pm PDT
ANTI-SHEEHAN CARAVAN: THE WORK OF RIGHT WING SACRAMENTO PR FIRM & HOWARD KALOOGIAN
Anti-Sheehan caravan a well funded operation of the right wing...
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2005 11:00am PDT
CALL TO ACTION: Help Us Close Youth Prison In The Next 35 Days!
We have BIG NEWS and we need BIG HELP! On September 26th - just 35 days
from today - the new head of California’s eight youth prisons may close the
most brutal facility: Chad. By acting now you can help ensure that Chad is
closed!...
Posted: Tue, Aug 23, 2005 11:20pm PDT
Another Big Cindy Sheehan Support Rally/Vigil Aug. 27, 6:30 pm
Show your support for a true American hero, Cindy Sheehan, this coming Saturday at 16th & Broadway. We need a big turnout there to protest an illegal war based on neo-con lies and treachery....
Posted: Tue, Aug 23, 2005 2:35pm PDT
Stop Urban Adulticide Mosquito Spraying
As usual there are many details about West Nile Virus that is not revealed to the public and the media is trying to instill fear in the citizenry.
There has been no democratic process for this issue....
Posted: Tue, Aug 23, 2005 11:57am PDT
Flyers for Fresno Copwatch meeting this Saturday(Aug. 27th) from 12-5pm
Flyers in English and Spanish, to download and distribute, so that we can stand up together and make sure that the cops stop violating our communities with their excessive force and disrespect for life....
Posted: Mon, Aug 22, 2005 7:22pm PDT
Night Spray Flu!
This song that I wrote over a week ago is dedicated to the Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District Board, the Bush Dictatorship and the Governator for their campaign to spread panic among the population about West Nile Virus - and to spray pesticides on us without our consent!...
Posted: Mon, Aug 22, 2005 7:00pm PDT
Stop Urban Adulticide Mosquito Spraying: Public Forum 8/22
If you want to stop urban adulticide mosquito spraying in Yolo County, come to the public forum in Davis tonight. If you can't attend, then contact your public officials and urge them to not to spray....
Posted: Mon, Aug 22, 2005 11:24am PDT
Bail Hearing for Medical MJ Organizer Dustin Costa; Thunder Remains in Prison
While patients were rallying for Dustin Costa in Fresno, another
medical marijuana defendant, Thunder Rector, remained locked up there
on federal marijuana charges...
Posted: Sun, Aug 21, 2005 12:34pm PDT
3rd Sacramento Cindy Sheehan Support Rally pics
On 8-13-05, a group of people held a support rally for Cindy Sheehan at 16th and broadway in Sacramento. On 8-17-05, a group of people held another support rally for Cindy Sheehan at city hall in Sacramento. On 8-20-05 another group of people held another support rally for Cindy Sheehan at the corner of 16th and Broadway in Sacramento....
Posted: Sat, Aug 20, 2005 10:41pm PDT
Accreditation Approved for Fresno Police Department
On August 24, 2005 the formal presentation of accreditation will be made at City Hall by CALEA (Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies) officials to the Fresno Police Department, thus affirming CALEA’s decision that the Fresno Police have become effective and efficient in the delivery of law enforcement services, and enjoy citizen and employee confidence in the goals, objectives, policies and practices of the agency....
Posted: Sat, Aug 20, 2005 12:44pm PDT
Blowing the Whistle on West Nile - Shades of 1950's and DDT
While the battle plan's objective is to target the mosquitoes that carry West Nile, the strikes won't be 'precision' and the collateral damage could be vast. Pesticides and larvicides can impact fish, insects, animals, and humans. And although the public has been told to lather up with DEET, spray pesticides, and eliminate standing water, little has been said about using select plants, birds, bugs, fish, and amphibians - gifts of nature that help control mosquitoes....
Posted: Fri, Aug 19, 2005 2:07pm PDT
Fresno high schools get $1.7 million to peddle pop¡!
Fresno high schools get $1.7 million to peddle pop¡! 2 minute video....
Posted: Fri, Aug 19, 2005 11:43am PDT
Fresno Trashes Workers
City and County Officials Utilize Slave Labor to Beautify Fresno....
Posted: Fri, Aug 19, 2005 6:45am PDT