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Santa Cruz Biotechnology Charged Again with Violating Animal Welfare Act 
WASHINGTON, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) welcomes the action taken by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in filing a second complaint against one of the world’s largest research antibody suppliers, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Inc. (SCBT). The complaint (see PDF), filed November 4, alleges additional violations of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) from September 26, 2012, through April 22, 2014. Importantly, the complaint also requests the suspension or revocation of SCBT’s dealer licen...
Posted: Thu, Nov 13, 2014 5:30pm PST
Feds Reverse Course, Lift Ban on Fishing for Rare Pacific Bluefin Tuna 
SAN FRANCISCO— The National Marine Fisheries Service today allowed large-scale commercial fishing for endangered Pacific bluefin tuna to continue, reversing a decision to close the fishery on Sept. 5, 2014. Pacific bluefin tuna are already in serious trouble; in July 2014, the catch exceeded limits intended to prevent international overfishing....
Posted: Thu, Nov 13, 2014 5:12pm PST
Leading Scientists Call for Monarch Protection 
WASHINGTON— In the face of staggering declines of monarchs, more than 40 leading monarch scientists and ecologists and 200 organizations and businesses today urged Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to protect the butterflies under the Endangered Species Act. Today’s letters come in support of a formal petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeking federal protection for monarchs. The petition was filed in August by the Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Food Safety, The Xerces ...
Posted: Thu, Nov 13, 2014 1:30pm PST
With Longshore Workers Support How Protests Against Israeli Bombing of Gaza Stopped Zim Sh ILWU Local 10 longshore workers were critical in stopping work on Zim ships in Oakland. The Transport Workers Solidarity Committee with other activists and maritime workers organized for an ongoing picket of the Zim Piraeus and the Stop Zim Action Committee which the TWSC was part of picketed the Zim Shanghai at SSA at the Port of Oakland in September and was successful in stopping the ship from being worked. This was the first time that a Zim ship was completely prevented from being worke...
Posted: Thu, Nov 13, 2014 3:05am PST
Oakland Activists Lockdown U.S. Fed Court to #FreeRasmeaNow 
ACTIVISTS LOCKDOWN US FEDERAL COURT IN SUPPORT OF TORTURED CHICAGO COMMUNITY LEADER
Oakland Rallies Against Conviction of Palestinian Organizer...
Posted: Wed, Nov 12, 2014 10:17am PST
Racist NFL Team Name & Logo to Meet with Protest by Indigenous Peoples in Santa Clara 
8:00am - Prayer Gathering @ Ulistac Natural Area; 4901 Lick Mill Blvd, Santa Clara, CA
9:30 am - March to Levi’s Stadium; 4900 Marie P DeBartolo Way, Santa Clara, CA
10:00am - Rally @ Levi’s Stadium; 4900 Marie P DeBartolo Way, Santa Clara, CA...
Event Date: Sun, Nov 23, 2014 8:00am PST
Posted: Mon, Nov 10, 2014 9:14am PST
Solidarity Events Held Worldwide as Activists Resist Food Sharing Ban in Fort Lauderdale 
On November 8, Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs shared food in solidarity with those who have been arrested this week for serving food in public in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Volunteers with Santa Cruz Food Not Bombs have been serving food continuously to the hungry and homeless at the same location, the Santa Cruz downtown post office, for several years now. An event announcement for the solidarity event stated, "No one should be arrested for helping the community. Sharing food is an unregulated act...
Posted: Sun, Nov 9, 2014 4:36pm PST
Indybay and Layer42 Win $87,000 From Attorney Dionne Choyce 
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar: "Plaintiff's copyright claim was, to put it bluntly, objectively baseless."...
Posted: Fri, Nov 7, 2014 10:14am PST
In The Riot, Nieto Lives On 
Counter-analysis of the recent anti-gentrification and anti-police actions following the Giants victory at the World Series....
Posted: Fri, Oct 31, 2014 2:05am PDT
Clean Water Groups Highlight Progress for Monterey Bay, Call for More Success Stories 
Santa Cruz, CA-On the heels of the 42nd anniversary of the Clean Water Act, a new report (see PDF) tells the story of how the bedrock environmental law has helped to restore and protect Monterey Bay, funding conservation for a key tract of land upstream....
Posted: Thu, Oct 30, 2014 6:43pm PDT
My Daughter and I Were Arrested Today By Military Police Guarding Worlds Most Hated Weapon 
Drone warfare kills children and other innocents. One California family has had enough. Father and daughter help blockade the base and join the LONG list of Americans in the brig. Free now, they face federal charges....
Posted: Thu, Oct 30, 2014 9:56am PDT
New OCS Oil And Gas Lease Options And Global Offshore Energy Resources 
The plan at BOEM is to extend the OCS thereby opening up new lease areas off the coasts of North Carolina, and other Atlantic Seaboard States, and if possible politically, Northern California, Oregon, and Washington. It's got to sound good – nationwide. And as you may have recently read, headlines around the nation state oil rigs are beneficial to undersea creatures sustaining 1,000 percent more fish than natural habitats! That's not what the researchers and authors of the new report actually...
Posted: Mon, Oct 27, 2014 10:42am PDT
ALDF Petitions California to Regulate Greenhouse Emissions from Animal Agriculture SAN FRANCISCO — On October 16, the national nonprofit Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) filed a formal rulemaking petition with the California Air Resources Board to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from animal agriculture, as it does for the energy and transportation sectors. The petition calls on the agency to require factory farms to report greenhouse gas emissions to the Air Resources Board, which will “cap” these emissions. California’s groundbreaking cap-and-trade program stems from the...
Posted: Tue, Oct 21, 2014 4:19pm PDT
Lawsuit to Protect Pinto Abalone From Ocean Acidification, Climate Change and Poaching 
ANCHORAGE, Alaska— Conservation groups notified the National Marine Fisheries Service today of their intent to sue the agency for delaying Endangered Species Act protection for the pinto abalone, an approximately six-inch snail with an iridescent inner shell that was once common in rocky, intertidal coasts from Alaska to Baja California....
Posted: Mon, Oct 20, 2014 4:27pm PDT
California Leads the Way in the “Block the Boat” Movement 
Fighting the Occupation on the West Coast...
Posted: Fri, Oct 17, 2014 1:27pm PDT
Oct. 15th is Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtle Conservation Day Turtle Island Restoration Network Calls for Action to Safeguard California Sea Turtles from the Driftnet Fishery off California's Shores...
Posted: Wed, Oct 15, 2014 12:05pm PDT
WW 10-11-14 From Ferguson To Andy Lopez And Alex Nieto In California 
In special programming on KPFA WorkWeek radio we look at the connection between Ferguson and The Bay Area...
Posted: Mon, Oct 13, 2014 5:49pm PDT
KPFA Pacifica Flashpoints Slashed By Management With Collusion of CWA 9415 Union Officials 
KPFA programmers Brian Edwards-Tiekert in collusion with management of KPFA and Pacifica ED Margy Wilkinson is seeking to destroy the activist news program Flashpoints by illegally laying off people without regard to seniority. They are doing this collusion with CWA 9415 union official Christine Huggins and pro-managment stewards at KPFA....
Posted: Thu, Oct 9, 2014 9:49am PDT
MLPA Initiative funder pledged $250 million for Mauna Kea telescope 
“The TMT is an atrocity the size of Aloha Stadium,” said Kamahana Kealoha, a Hawaiian cultural practitioner and organizer of those who held a protest today at Mauna Kea, where a scheduled groundbreaking ceremony was delayed. “It is like building a sky-scraper on top of the mountain, a place that is being violated in many ways culturally, environmentally and spiritually.”
Photo of protest at Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation offices today in solidarity with protests to stop the building of...
Posted: Tue, Oct 7, 2014 8:38pm PDT
Endangered Species Act Protection Sought for 16 Rare Amphibians and Reptiles in California 
SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to decide whether 16 increasingly rare amphibians and reptiles in California warrant consideration for Endangered Species Act protection. The Center first petitioned for these species — the western pond turtle, southern rubber boa, western spadefoot, foothill yellow-legged frog, Colorado Desert fringe-toed lizard, sandstone night lizard and nine s...
Posted: Tue, Oct 7, 2014 8:07pm PDT
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