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Group Files Lawsuit Against DWR Over Oroville Dam Asbestos Records 
“DWR’s culture is bound by secrecy to protect its image and its very slanted focus, which is to maximize water exports to its contractors,” stated AquAlliance Executive Director Barbara Vlamis. “AquAlliance strongly believes that the public’s right to know is essential in a democracy and legally enforceable, something we are happy to take on.”
Photo: Water releases from Lake Oroville going over the badly damaged spillway into the Feather River. Photo courtesy of California Department of...
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2017 12:30pm PDT
Bay Area Air Quality Under Threat & the Fired Whistleblowers at BAAQMD 
Health and safety advocates spoke at a meeting in San Francisco to discuss the role of the Bay Area Air Quality Control District managers. They reported on the failure of the agency to protect the community and public from dangerous toxins in the air. They also supported the whistleblowers at the District who have been fired for protesting the destruction of documents by the executives. The California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has refused to launch an investigation of these criminal ac...
Posted: Mon, Jun 5, 2017 8:12pm PDT
Jerry Brown poses as 'climate leader' while he promotes fracking, Delta Tunnels 
If Governor Jerry Brown really cared about climate change, green energy and the people of California and the planet, he would take a number of urgently-needed actions, rather than issue constant statements and proclamations about how "green" his administration is.
The "tug of war" between the people of California and the oil industry over the soul of Governor Jerry Brown at the Oil Money Out, People Power In Rally and March in Sacramento on May 20. Photo by Dan Bacher....
Posted: Sat, Jun 3, 2017 1:54pm PDT
The Epic Battle Between Big Oil & the People of California - Photo Essay 
“In California, for all of the progress made, we have enormous problems that aren’t being addressed by the elected leaders to date,” said Adam Scow, California Director of Food and Water Watch. “It is an embarrassment that Maryland and New York have banned fracking, but California has not. We need our elected officials to enact a real progressive agenda banning fracking & fossil fuels. Anything less is unacceptable.”
Photo: Caleen Sisk, Chief and Spiritual Leader of the Winnemem Wintu Trib...
Posted: Fri, Jun 2, 2017 5:34pm PDT
Reaction: Trump Withdraws US from Paris Climate Agreement 
Tune: Home on the Range
Under Obama we, As a country agreed
To work hard to prevent climate change
But today Mr. Trump, put us down in the dumps
It’s no wonder we think he’s deranged...
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2017 11:55pm PDT
Nuclear Shutdown News May 2017 Nuclear Shutdown News chronicles the decline and fall of the nuclear industry in the US and abroad, and highlights the efforts of those who are working to create a nuclear free world. Here is our May 2017 report:...
Posted: Sun, May 28, 2017 4:10pm PDT
National Park Service Covers Up OSHA Workplace Retaliation And Cover-up At Drake's Estero 
The National Park Service management has been engaged in a cover-up of corruption and health and safety standards as well as being involved in retaliation against whistleblowers...
Posted: Fri, May 26, 2017 8:36am PDT
"March Against Monsanto" Santa Cruz 
Photos are from before the march....
Posted: Sat, May 20, 2017 8:11pm PDT
The NoDAPL / Copwatch Food Truck. A WeCopwatch and Standing Rock Copwatch collaboration 
In the fall of 2016, WeCopwatch traveled to North Dakota to support the indigenous-led resistance against the Dakota Access Pipeline’s drilling along the Missouri River, right on the border of the Standing Rock Reservation. Water protectors had been experiencing violence and repression from local, and state authorities as well as DAPL employees....
Posted: Fri, May 19, 2017 12:53pm PDT
Ohlone Indian Village is under attack 
Protests are taking place every morning 7 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the corners of Soquel Drive and Trout Gulch Road in Aptos California. Aptos Village was once an Indian Village!...
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2017 5:11pm PDT
Western States Petroleum Association Leads Lobbying Spending This Year 
To combat the power of oil industry money in California, a diverse array of activists is organizing an “Oil Money Out, People Power In”march and rally in Sacramento, May 20 from 12 PM to 3 PM. The event will begin and end at the Governor’s Mansion, 1526 H Street.
Photo: Catherine Reheis-Boyd is President of the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA) and served as the Chair of the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative Blue Ribbon Task Force to create "marine protected areas" in ...
Posted: Mon, May 15, 2017 1:00pm PDT
Standing Rock Copwatchers in the Bay Area 
In 2016 we left our families, our homes, our lives to go defend the water at Standing Rock, North Dakota. We stood in struggle with hundreds of tribes from across the country and continent. Our fight was for mother earth, and it was for our people, our history, and for our future....
Posted: Thu, May 11, 2017 2:05pm PDT
Plastic Pollution at Four Coastal California Hotspots Violates Clean Water Act 
Water Board Urged to Protect San Francisco Bay, San Diego, North Coast, Channel Islands...
Posted: Thu, May 11, 2017 9:03am PDT
Legal Settlement Halts Effort to Open 1 Million Acres in California to Oil Drilling, Fracking Agreement Preserves Moratorium on Leasing Public Lands to Oil Industry...
Posted: Thu, May 11, 2017 8:55am PDT
Discovering Black Agriculture at Sutter's Fort, Alta California, Mexico (1840 - 1848) 
John Sutter first arrived in California in 1839, his vision to build an agricultural empire was supported in so many ways by people of Russian, Hawaiian, Mexican, Native American and African ancestry. Officially, John Sutter served the essential role as diplomat and military support for the Republic of Mexico, based at Sutter’s Fort, 1840 – 1848....
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2017 7:56am PDT
Oil Money Out March and Rally 
Govenor's Mansion
16th & H Streets
Sacramento...
Event Date: Sat, May 20, 2017 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2017 10:22pm PDT
Oil Money Out, People Power In Rally Set for May 20 in Sacramento! 
“This spending spree has paid huge dividends for these companies, allowing them to dismantle and crush any meaningful legislation that might significantly curb their power to drill and pollute in California,” said David Braun, www.rootskeeper.org. “Pay-to-play politics has allowed the dirtiest polluters in the world to legally poison our communities and exacerbate the climate crisis.”...
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2017 11:39am PDT
Shut Down Monsanto in Woodland: Largest Biotech Seed Research Facility in the World 
Monsanto
12790 Gorman Lane
Woodland, CA
Meet at Raley's
367 W. Main Street
Woodland, CA...
Event Date: Mon, May 22, 2017 4:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2017 11:30pm PDT
Rally and March Against Monsanto at State Capitol in Sacramento 
South Steps of the State Capital in Sacramento
11th and N...
Event Date: Sat, May 20, 2017 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, May 3, 2017 11:28pm PDT
Jerry Brown Meets With Interior Secretary about Delta Tunnels, Water 
Delta and public trust advocates fear that Jerry Brown, who portrays himself as a "green governor," will try to make a deal with Zinke and other Trump administration officials to expedite the construction of the environmentally destructive and unjust Delta Tunnels.
Photo of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke with a park ranger at Sequoia National Park April 14. Photo courtesy of Department of Interior....
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2017 9:07am PDT
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