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Brown administration applies for permit to take endangered species in Delta Tunnels 
As the Department of Water Resources applied for a permit to kill endangered species. Delta and longfin smelt, winter-run Chinook salmon, Central Valley steelhead and other fish species continued to move closer and closer to the abyss of extinction.
Delta smelt photo meme courtesy of Restore the Delta....
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2016 7:28pm PDT
Timeline of Stockton, CA killings by law enforcement, 1990 - present 
This timeline mapping state violence in Stockton, CA was collectively generated as part of a larger ongoing convivial research effort to expose low intensity war across the Bay Area and state. The timeline was produced through a collaboration between the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy and Carville Annex Press....
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2016 9:58am PDT
Nathan Damigo Exposed: Identity Evropa Leader Operating Out Of CSU Stanislaus 
Nathan Damigo, Senior at CSU Stanislaus in Turkock, CA, is the leader of the up and coming Neo-Nazi group, Identity Evropa....
Posted: Sun, Oct 9, 2016 6:07pm PDT
California regulators ignore risks, allow for increased use of Dow’s cancer-causing strawberry pesticide 
Sacramento, CA, October 06, 2016 – Months after unveiling an analysis of the risks associated with the cancer-causing fumigant pesticide 1,3-dichloropropene, banned by the same agency decades prior, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) today announced new rules that would allow even more of the pesticide to be used in strawberry fields, almond orchards, carrot fields, vineyards and other crops across the state. The announcement comes just days after the department issued ne...
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2016 6:24pm PDT
Jerry Brown admits Delta Tunnels is "unpopular" as legislators slam project 
“Arnold, thanks for being for climate change, cap and trade, the tunnels project, high speed rail and all the other unpopular policies that I’m saddled with,” quipped Brown.
Photo of Governor Jerry Brown, Arnold Schwarzenegger and other state officials courtesy of the California Museum....
Posted: Thu, Oct 6, 2016 1:34pm PDT
Rise Up October 2016 Rally & Protest - We Demand Repeal of Peace Officers Bill of Rights 
California State Capitol
West Lawn 10th & L Streets
Sacramento California...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 24, 2016 8:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Oct 5, 2016 5:40pm PDT
Report: Californians May Be Drinking Oil Industry Chemicals Scientists Identify Cancer-causing Substances in Oilfields Supplying Wastewater to Irrigate Food Crops, Recharge Underground Water Supplies...
Posted: Tue, Oct 4, 2016 5:17pm PDT
Jerry Brown calls for fast-tracking of river agreements to build Delta Tunnels 
“The Shasta Dam raise, Sites Reservoir and the Delta Tunnels need to be considered as one project,” emphasized Caleen Sisk, Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe. “Without one, you can’t have the others. If the tunnels are built, there will be no water to put in them. You need Sites Reservoir to provide the water for the tunnels and the Shasta Dam raise to provide water for Sites.”
“Although the state and federal governments are saying they are separate projects, they are...
Posted: Sun, Sep 25, 2016 5:00pm PDT
Health Watchdog Sues Dow for Pesticide Air Pollution Oakland, CA, September 20, 2016 - The national health watchdog Center for Environmental Health (CEH) has filed a lawsuit against Dow Chemical to address cancer risks posed by its fumigant pesticide Telone. Telone (a trade name for the chemical 1,3-Dichloropropene or 1,3-D) is a known carcinogen that pollutes dozens of rural areas throughout California; it is the third most heavily used pesticide in the state, and has been found to linger in the air for days after application....
Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2016 12:07pm PDT
Ask Metropolitan Water District, Delta Tunnels proponent, the tough questions 
Can you promise that the Delta Islands purchase will not be paid for by California taxpayers, such as by applying for Proposition 1 funding, to meet your existing mitigation obligations for present water exports from this imperiled estuary?
Adam Scow of Food & Water Watch speaks at a news conference in Stockton announcing the lawsuits against MWD's purchase of Delta islands. Photo by Dan Bacher....
Posted: Wed, Sep 14, 2016 8:27am PDT
Sacramento Area Residents Hold Protest Against Dakota Access Pipeline Outside Citibank 
“I’m here to protest the banks that are paying for the pipeline that is bringing the crude oil down the Missouri River to Texas,” said Carol Standing Elk, Lakota Sioux. “My relatives have gotten as far as they have because of prayer. They have a prayerful camp and a peaceful camp. We want the construction of the pipeline to stop."
Sacramento area activists stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Photo by Dan Bacher....
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2016 11:18am PDT
Legal Victory Overturns Federal Plan to Open 1 Million Acres of CA Public Land to Fracking 
LOS ANGELES, September 6, 2016 — Citing potential threats to water supplies and endangered wildlife, a U.S. district judge today overturned a federal plan to open more than 1 million acres of public land and mineral estate in central California to drilling and fracking. Today’s ruling comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity and Los Padres ForestWatch, represented by Earthjustice....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2016 5:40pm PDT
Delta communities submit comments on environmentally unjust Delta Tunnels 
Gary Mulcahy, government liaison with the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, a Native California Tribe, describes the long history of broken promises and outright violence directed at his tribe by the state and federal governments. “The original construction of the Shasta Dam flooded over 90 percent of the Winnemem Wintu village sites, sacred sites, burial sites, and cultural gathering sites along the Sacramento, McCloud and Pit Rivers.”
Mulcahy describes the tribe’s cultural and spiritual connection t...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2016 7:11pm PDT
Dakota Access Citibank Protest (Sacramento) 
Citibank
1116 Alhambra Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95816...
Event Date: Wed, Sep 7, 2016 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2016 6:41pm PDT
Klamath Tribes Support Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in Their Opposition of the Dakota Access Pipeline 
Klamath Tribes Support Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in Their Opposition of the Dakota Access Pipeline...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2016 5:43pm PDT
Fish And Game Commission Adopts Marine Protected Area Master Plan 
The plan fails to challenge the terminally flawed "science" employed to create MPAs under the "leadership" of a convicted embezzler. A federal judge in San Francisco on May 20, 2014 sentenced Ron LeValley of Mad River Biologists, the former co-chair of the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative Science Advisory Team for the North Coast, to serve 10 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to embezzle over $852,000 in federal funds from the Yurok Tribe.
In spite of numer...
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2016 3:35pm PDT
1.8 Million Acres of Sierra Nevada Habitat Protected for Imperiled Frogs, Toads SACRAMENTO, Calif., August 25, 2016 — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced designation of 1,812,164 acres of protected “critical habitat” throughout the Sierra Nevada mountains for several endangered amphibians: the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog, Yosemite toad and northern population of the mountain yellow-legged frog. The vast majority of the critical habitat for these amphibians is on federal public lands in national forests and national parks....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2016 10:18am PDT
Winnemem Wintu Tribe supports the Standing Rock Sioux Protectors 
"On behalf of the Winnemem Wintu tribe, as Chief, I send you our support. We believe that “We are One” in the struggle to protect Mother Earth. We stand with you with the position you have taken as a nation, opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline." -- Chief Caleen Sisk...
Posted: Tue, Aug 23, 2016 4:21pm PDT
Grazing in National Forest Restricted to Protect Rare California Frogs, Toads OAKLAND, Calif., August 17, 2016 — In response to a notice of intent to sue filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Forest Service has restricted livestock grazing on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest to prevent harm to the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog and Yosemite toad, both of which are protected under the Endangered Species Act. The federal agency said in a letter that it is undergoing consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and has adjusted grazing manag...
Posted: Mon, Aug 22, 2016 4:23pm PDT
Yurok Tribe finds deadly disease in Klamath River salmon 
“We take this threat to our fish very seriously, and we’re looking at every option to protect our fish. We don’t want to go through another catastrophe like the fish kill in 2002, and we will do anything we can to avoid that outcome this year,” said Thomas P. O’Rourke, Chairman of the Yurok Tribe....
Posted: Mon, Aug 22, 2016 2:19pm PDT
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