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Raging Grannies Give Trump “Worse than F” Grade at People's Climate March 
While California College Republicans met in the Fairmont Hotel, environmentalists marched from San José City Hall to the Cesar Chavez Plaza, directly across the street from where the conservative students held their annual convention. Top photo: Chris Cassell...
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2017 5:13am PDT
Santa Cruz People's Climate March and Rally 
Climate Rally in the San Lorenzo Park and March thru downtown Santa Cruz, CA on Saturday 4-29-2017. I can't help but personally say, Trump's 100 days of doing nothing for the people or the planet!, but lining his and his cohorts pockets, as he has done all his life!...
Posted: Sun, Apr 30, 2017 5:33pm PDT
Wells Fargo Can't Pinkwash Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) 575 Castro St, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, May 13, 2017 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 27, 2017 5:51pm PDT
Groups Submit Comments to BLM's Request for Public Review of Oil and Gas Leasing and Development on Federal Lands 
On April 6, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and Sierra Club submitted nearly 100 pages of comments (see PDF) on the Draft Resource Management Plan Amendment/Draft Environmental Impact Statement ("RMP"/"DEIS") for the Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") Central Coast Field Office in Hollister. The Planning Area consists of about 6.8 million acres of public land which includes about 793,000 acres of Federal mineral estate in Fresno, Kings, Monterey and San Benito counties managed by the...
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2017 3:58pm PDT
Santa Cruz City Council to Vote on Divesting from Trump’s Wall, DAPL Banks Resolutions 
Santa Cruz, California - Two highly anticipated divestment resolutions will come before the Santa Cruz City Council for a vote during its April 25 meeting. One resolution aims to divest the city from companies involved in the construction of President Donald Trump’s controversial US-Mexico border wall, while the other targets banks financing the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL). If both pass, the city will divest funds from companies like Granite Construction who seek to construct the proposed b...
Posted: Mon, Apr 24, 2017 3:48pm PDT
Thousands Attend SF Milestone March for Science Thousands of people joined San Francisco’s April 22, 2017 Earth Day March for Science to demand Trump and Congress support public funding of all science, from climate change to medical care to science education in this milestone march, the first of its kind in memory....
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2017 5:06pm PDT
Anti-Capitalist Bloc @ the March for Science! 
ANTICAPITALIST BLOC AT THE MARCH FOR SCIENCE IN SAN FRANCISCO!
Meet at the southeastern end of Chelsey Manning Plaza (Justin Herman Plaza) during the 11am Rally on April 22, OR just come with your anticapitalist, antifascist, anti-white-supremacist, anti-cisheteropatriarchy signs and look out for each other!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2017 4:30pm PDT
SF Science Rally & March on Market to Science Fair at Civic Center 
Rally at Foot of Market at Embarcadero, 12:30 March on Market to Civic Center Science Fair. About 1.5 miles. BART/Muni Metro stations: Embarcadero, Montgomery, Powell, Civic Center...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 22, 2017 11:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2017 7:50pm PDT
Liberated Lens special film screening: Awake, a Dream From Standing Rock 
Oakland Omni Commons
4799 Shattuck Ave...
Event Date: Fri, May 5, 2017 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2017 4:26pm PDT
Commission closes recreational fishing for salmon on Klamath, Trinity rivers this fall 
The California Fish and Game Commission today unanimously voted to close sport fishing for Chinook salmon on the Klamath and Trinity rivers this fall and adopted the ocean fishing salmon fishing regulations for the California coast approved by the federal Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) on April 11....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2017 8:50pm PDT
The Klamath's Salmon Disaster: Why it happened and what's needed now 
Reports on the current Klamath Salmon Disaster, including recent reports on Indy Media, fail to identify the real reason tribal subsistence and other Klamath fishers will not be allowed to take salmon from the Klamath River and the nearby ocean this year. Here I explain the real reason and why tribal and fishing leaders don't want to acknowledge the roll they played in creating the disaster. I end by listing lessons which I believe should be taken from what has transpired and the role indepen...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2017 11:46am PDT
Proposal for a Huge New Parking Garage in Santa Cruz 
The City of Santa Cruz is proposing to build a new five-level parking garage above a new relocated city library on the parking lot bordered by Lincoln, Cedar and Cathcart Streets, where the Farmer's Market currently meets. We strongly believe that the City should implement a Commuter Benefits Program first, before it considers the construction of a much more costly garage....
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2017 10:13pm PDT
Record low Klamath salmon run spurs Tribal, commercial and sport fishery closures 
For the Yurok Tribe, who have fished the Klamath for thousands of years, the looming closure will also be an “unprecedented disaster,” according to Amy Cordalis, the Tribe’s General Counsel, a Yurok Tribe member and fisherwoman. Her family lives and fishes in Requa at the mouth of the Klamath River.
““This is the worst year in history for Klamath salmon,” said Cordalis. “There is no mystery as to why. The effects of an unprecedented drought were exacerbated by dams and diversions. This ye...
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2017 4:20pm PDT
Community Group Alleges Civil Rights Violations by the City and Port of Oakland in Complaint to Federal Government 
Growth of diesel-powered freight inflicts unequal impacts of asthma and other health problems on the historically black community of West Oakland...
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2017 4:36pm PDT
Santa Cruz Council voted unanimously in support of the Standing Rock Sioux 4-4-2017 
S.C City Council voted unanimously in support of Standing Rock!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2017 9:53pm PDT
Declaration From Tribes and Activists to Mendocino Redwood Co: Stop Herbicide Use! Activist representatives from the Action Council for Oaks and Redwood Nation, Tribes, Organizations and Individuals engaged in the second leg of a "Walk to Heal the Forest," carrying a log to to raise awareness of the vital role of the Pacific rainforests in moderating climate change and to reconnect the fragments to restore the once contiguous forest buffer. Even fragmented, Pacific rainforests sequester more carbon than any other forests on earth....
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2017 4:12pm PDT
Historic Gathering – Legal Defense for Water Protectors - April 2, 2017 
I was blessed to receive an invite to this wonderful fundraiser. We all gathered at 2p.m. and we did not leave until 5p.m. There were more than 150 of us!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2017 1:32pm PDT
City Council to Vote on Resolution in Support of Standing Rock 
Measure prefaces divestment coalition’s push to move city funds out of DAPL banks...
Posted: Sat, Apr 1, 2017 10:10am PDT
How Battles Over Sacred Sites Have Revived Ohlone Culture 
Have you ever wondered what the East Bay was like before colonization? In the new episode of East Bay Yesterday, Corrina Gould shares knowledge of how her ancestors, the Ohlone people, maintained a relatively peaceful culture here for thousands of years. Although this history was nearly wiped out, struggles to protect sacred shellmound sites—some of them older than the Egyptian pyramids—have sparked a movement to honor this region’s original inhabitants and reclaim “lost” languages, crafts an...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2017 7:33pm PDT
California Dungeness Crab Fishery Catches Record Number of Whales 
West Coast Whale Entanglements in 2016 Broke Record for Third Straight Year...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2017 1:44pm PDT
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