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In the latest episode in Governor's Arnold Schwarzenegger's corrupt Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative, an independent journalist said he was arrested by a Fish and Game warden on April 21 for exercizing his right to video a meeting of what MLPA proponents describe as an "open" and "transparent" process. The MLPA process, privately funded by the shadowy Resource Legacy Foundation Foundation, has taken the "protection" out of the Marine Life Protection Act and made the process int...

Should a local radio station broadcast information on the real-time movements of police and drug agents?...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Marine Poaching Areas" will go into effect, in spite of opposition by fishermen, environmentalists and seaweed harvesters, on the North Central Coast from Pigeon Point to Point Arena on May 1, 2010. Photo: Governor Schwarzenegger, the "Fish Terminator," took a break from his war on salmon and other fish to tour earthquake damage in Calexico in the Imperial Valley last week....

In an interview with Dan Wiessner of the Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch, an unnamed Riverkeeper official "shrugged off" criticisms by environmentalists and fishermen that the Hudson Riverkeeper is greenwashing Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's abysmal environmental record by honoring him for his "environmental advocacy" at the "Fishermen's Ball" in New York City on April 14. “The governor’s work speaks for itself. He’s recognized across the world for his work in combating global climate chan...

“We can bring the salmon back and resuscitate communities that are languishing along the North Coast,” said Zeke Grader, executive director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, a federation with members spanning the U.S. West Coast from San Diego to Alaska. “We can provide local restaurants, markets and consumers with the delicious, wholesome fish that was once considered a birthright of all Californians. There are plenty of water sources available for farmers to grow ...

On January 24th in Eureka the North Coast Water Board approved the long-awaited plan to clean up agricultural and other pollution in the Klamath River. Drafts of the plan included a mandate for PacifiCorp - owned of five Klamath River dams - to clean up toxic algae growing in its reservoirs. But the Governor's Office ordered that mandate scrapped in favor of a deal worked out with the company in separate closed-door negotiations. The report explains why and speculates on how tribes and envi...

Big River on the Mendocino Coast...

Following a three-hour meeting Tuesday, the Anderson City Council postponed for 60 days any action on a proposed ordinance to restrict the cultivation of medical marijuana within city limits to a secure out-building no larger than 120 square feet within a fenced back or side yard large enough to accommodate such a structure....

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on Friday released a peer-review report that validates recent federal “biological opinions” and federal actions, particularly seasonal reductions in water pumping, to protect endangered Sacramento River Chinook salmon, Central Valley steelhead, Delta smelt and green sturgeon in the San Francisco Bay-Delta, according to Jeff Miller, conservation advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity. Below the Center for Biological Diversity press release is t...

Both John Zerzan and Lierre Keith spoke at the Anarchist book fair on the weekend of 3.12.2010. Zerzan is best described as a primitivist, while Keith and one of her publishers, Derrick Jensen, hold a similar but more moderate perspective that is sometimes called anticiv, which is a form of primitivism. The core concept is that once societies such as mesopotamians, chinese, and aztecs adopted entirely based on the grains wheat, rice and corn, then the legal system of property rights, monarchy...