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Indigenous Leaders Slam Jerry Brown, UN for Backing Potentially Genocidal Carbon Trading 
"REDD is a carbon offset mechanism which privatizes the air that we breathe and uses forests, agriculture and water ecosystems in the Global South as sponges for industrialized countries pollution, instead of cutting emissions at source," said Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network. "REDD brings trees, soil, and nature into a commodity trading system that may result in the largest land grab in history. It steals your future, lets polluters off the hook and i...
Posted: Thu, Dec 10, 2015 5:30pm PST
Endangered Tricolored Blackbirds Protected in California 
SAN DIEGO, December 10, 2015 — Acting on a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the California Fish and Game Commission voted today to advance tricolored blackbirds as a candidate species under the California Endangered Species Act. Candidate species receive all the protections of a listed species for a year while the commission and staff make a final status determination. Tricolored blackbirds have declined by nearly 90 percent since the 1930s; today’s decision is the result of...
Posted: Thu, Dec 10, 2015 1:08pm PST
33rd Annual Candlelight Vigil for Peace & Justice 16th and J Streets, Sacramento...
Event Date: Tue, Dec 8, 2015 4:30pm PST
Posted: Sun, Dec 6, 2015 6:20pm PST
Giant Steps for Kind Bean Stalking Humans, Jack! 
Twenty Years of Food Not Bombs in Fresno!
January 10th, 2016 Fresno Food not Bombs celebrates at the Full Circle Brewery....
Posted: Sun, Dec 6, 2015 9:02am PST
Head oil regulator resigns amid latest Brown administration scandal 
The firings, hirings and resignations of oil and gas industry regulators over the past 4 years under the supposedly “green” Jerry Brown provide a window into the capture of the regulatory apparatus in California by Big Oil, Big Ag and other Big Money interests....
Posted: Wed, Dec 2, 2015 12:24am PST
People’s Radio in Fresno (audio/mpeg 16.6MB) Street Heat on KFCF 88.1 FM (Free Speech radio in Fresno) featured two important community issues this week. The effort to save the art and integrity of the Fulton Mall is heard first and the struggle against slumlords in Fresno is on the second half of this 58 minute .mp3 audio....
Posted: Sat, Nov 28, 2015 3:51pm PST
EMERGENCY PROTEST Against 30 Minute Checks/Sleep Deprivation 
in front of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation HQ, 1515 S St, Sacramento, CA 95811
rideshare from MacArthur BART in Oakland at 8:00am...
Event Date: Mon, Nov 30, 2015 10:00am PST
Posted: Fri, Nov 27, 2015 12:00am PST
Groups Demand Delta Water Plan Before Permits for Jerry Brown's Tunnels 
Bob Wright, senior counsel at Friends of the River, revealed the deep, terminal flaws in the Delta Tunnels environmental review.
“The EPA gave the Delta Tunnels RDEIR/SDEIS a failing grade. The ball is in the State Water Board’s court. They can either do a legitimate environmental review or tell Reclamation & DWR they must do so. The inadequate environmental review for the Delta Tunnels is a defect that can only be cured by doing an adequate review," said Wright.
Photo: Governor Brown d...
Posted: Wed, Nov 25, 2015 2:59pm PST
Troy Fletcher, Yurok Tribe's Visionary Leader, Passes Away 
"This is a tragic loss for the Yurok people, so tragic that words cannot express how we feel,” said Thomas P. O’Rourke Sr., Chairman of the Yurok Tribe. “Troy accomplished things that many people thought were impossible. We will forever be grateful for Troy’s tremendous contribution to the Tribe. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family."
Photo of Troy Fletcher courtesy of the Yurok Tribe....
Posted: Wed, Nov 25, 2015 8:41am PST
Block 27 ~ Stockton Rural Cemetery: Our Emancipation Journey Toward Freedom 
Together, local, statewide, national and international stakeholders will come together to identify, document and preserve the salient contributions of those interred within Block 27-Stockton Rural Cemetery....
Posted: Mon, Nov 23, 2015 2:50pm PST
Salmon Fishermen, Consumer Groups Criticize FDA Approval of Frankenfish 
"Genetically engineered salmon pose a serious potential threat to wild salmon stocks that our members rely on to make a living or fish for food and sport," the group said in a statement. "In addition, GE salmon also pose a threat to salmon protected by the federal Endangered Species Act."
Photo courtesy of the Center for Food Safety....
Posted: Fri, Nov 20, 2015 10:37am PST
Faith Leaders Urge Governor Jerry Brown to End Fracking in California 
David Braun, with Faith Against Fracking, quipped, “If Jerry Brown thinks that being a climate leader means helping the oil industry get away with carbon intensive practices like fracking, then he clearly needs an intervention; today, we’re praying for him.”
Photo of Faith Leaders singing "We Shall Not Be Moved" at the State Capitol by Dan Bacher....
Posted: Wed, Nov 18, 2015 5:07pm PST
Salmon Move Into Nimbus Hatchery As Folsom Lake Reaches Record Low Level 
Fall-run Chinook salmon are now returning to spawn in the lower American River and the Nimbus Fish Hatchery.
Photo of Nimbus Fish Hatchery weir on the American River by Dan Bacher....
Posted: Tue, Nov 17, 2015 9:19am PST
Ask for Your Free Jerry Brown Oil Map from Department of Conservation 
According to Consumer Watchdog, "After Governor Jerry Brown asked government employees to assess the governor's private property, the head of California's Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources directed staffers to research, map and report back on any mining and oil drilling potential and history of Brown's 2,700-acre property."...
Posted: Wed, Nov 11, 2015 6:02pm PST
Pharaoh Brown Should Build A Pyramid Or Sphinx Rather Than Tunnels 
If the Governor’s "legacy" is all about him being a modern-day Pharoah with the overwhelming obsession of building a monument to his legacy, a pyramid would be a much more environmentally friendly project than the salmon-killing Delta Tunnels....
Posted: Tue, Nov 10, 2015 10:40am PST
Nestlé: The Grinch Who Stole Our Water 
During the current drought, the state and federal water agencies systematically drained Trinity, Shasta, Oroville and Folsom reservoirs, imperiling salmon and steelhead runs on the Sacramento and Klamath/Trinity River systems and bringing Delta and longfin smelt, green sturgeon and other fish species closer and closer to the abyss of extinction. This subsidized water was exported to corporate agribusiness interests irrigating toxic land on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, Southern Cal...
Posted: Mon, Nov 9, 2015 4:37pm PST
Biggest-Ever Gusher of Oil Lobby Money Devastates California 
"In the first nine months of 2015, oil interests spent a total $17.7 million, putting the industry on pace to exceed its own $20 million spending record from 2014," according to a new report by the American Lung Association in California that analyzes the new lobbying figures. "Spending in 2015 already exceeds the $10 million the industry spent in 2010, the year Prop 23 was on the ballot."...
Posted: Fri, Nov 6, 2015 9:00am PST
California State University Faculty Votes to Authorize Strike Members of the California Faculty Association on the 23 campuses of the California State University voted “Yes by over 94% percent” to authorize a strike, CFA President Jennifer Eagan announced today at a news conference....
Posted: Wed, Nov 4, 2015 1:46pm PST
Initiative That Threatens Delta Tunnels Qualifies For Nov. 2016 Ballot 
"Restore the Delta was not consulted regarding the ballot initiative and has not taken a position on it, but we do support the ability of California voters to be heard when it comes to spending billions of dollars on a water project that is not designed to restore the Delta or solve the drought challenges we are facing today," said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta.
Photo of the entrance to the Delta Cross Channel Gates on the Sacramento River by Dan Bacher...
Posted: Wed, Nov 4, 2015 8:35am PST
Western States Petroleum Association Spent Record $6.75 Million In 3 Months 
To understand the power of Big Oil in California, it's essential to look at the spending by the oil industry this year in contrast with previous years. Last year the Western States Petroleum Association spent a record $8.9 million on lobbying, double what it spent in the previous year. In the first six months of 2015, the oil industry spent $6.2 million to lobby state officials, including $2,529,240 spent by the Western States Petroleum Association alone.
Yet in the first three quarters o...
Posted: Tue, Nov 3, 2015 9:15am PST
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