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Governor Brown's drought order lets agribusiness, oil companies off the hook 
"In the two year period covering 2014-2015, the Westlands Water District is on pace to pump over 1 million acre feet of groundwater - more water than Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco combined use in 1 year," said Adam Scow, Food & Water Watch California Director. "Much of Westlands grows water-intensive almonds and pistachios, most of which are exported out of state and overseas. This is a wasteful and unreasonable water use, especially during a severe drought."...
Posted: Sat, Apr 4, 2015 1:35pm PDT
Labor Board Throws Out Sutter Memorial Election Citing Hospital’s Coercion 
The federal board that oversees labor-management relations has thrown out the flawed union election last June at Sutter Memorial Medical Center in Modesto citing a pattern of coercion and other actions by hospital officials that violated the rights of registered nurses who were considering affiliation with the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United....
Posted: Thu, Apr 2, 2015 4:18pm PDT
Street Heat in Fresno -- March 2015 (audio/mpeg 55.2MB) Last Friday (March 27) Ernesto Saavedra, Community Alliance editor was our guest on the Street Heat radio show. The audio is 1 hour long....
Posted: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 9:32pm PDT
Our Lives: Surviving the Streets of Fresno (audio/x-wav 304.9MB) This 30 minute audio was recorded at the KFCF studios in Fresno’s Tower District. Stir it Up is on KFCF 88.1 FM, which can be heard from 3 - 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday’s....
Posted: Wed, Apr 1, 2015 8:53pm PDT
Feds fund captive breeding program for Delta smelt 
"If Delta smelt, once the most numerous species in the estuary, and winter Chinook and other species lingering on the brink of extinction go extinct, the state water board and the state and federal fishery agencies will be the responsible policies," said Bill Jennings, Executive Director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA)....
Posted: Tue, Mar 31, 2015 9:02am PDT
Westlands Water District hires Rep. Nunes' chief of staff 
"The District is excited about Johnny joining the District’s staff," said Thomas Birmingham, Westlands’ General Manager. “His prior work with elected officials at all levels of government in the San Joaquin Valley and other regions of the state will be instrumental in helping to forge a unified Valley position on potential solutions to address the Valley’s chronic water supply shortages.”
Map of Westlands Water District courtesy of http://wwd.ca.gov/...
Posted: Fri, Mar 27, 2015 8:36pm PDT
Activists 'Shut Down' Nestlé Water Bottling Plant in Sacramento 
Representatives of the "Crunch Nestlé Alliance" said the company is draining up to 80 million gallons of water a year from Sacramento aquifers during a record drought. They claim Sacramento City Hall has made it possible through a "corporate welfare giveaway."
Photo of protest in front of the Nestlé Waters bottling plant in Sacramento on March 20 by Dan Bacher....
Posted: Fri, Mar 27, 2015 4:01pm PDT
Ocean Salmon Season Will Open April 4 
While the Sacramento River fall run Chinook returns were relatively abundant, it is crucial to understand the heavy impact that the mismanagement of Central Valley reservoirs and rivers and the Delta pumps by the state and federal governments will have on the 2016 to 2017 seasons....
Posted: Thu, Mar 26, 2015 10:00am PDT
Caravana 43 Fresno: Parents of the 43 missing students from Iguala, Mexico visit Fresno 
California State University, Fresno - Peace Garden...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 28, 2015 11:00am PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 22, 2015 9:34am PDT
Drought legislation must target agribusiness and Big Oil 
“If the Governor was serious about protecting our water he would issue a moratorium on fracking to stop the ongoing pollution of 2 million gallons per day of fresh water and stop the ongoing dumping of oil wastewater into our aquifers. California’s aquifers are crucial and must be protected in order to save and store water for the future," said Scow.
Photo courtesy of Stop Fooling California....
Posted: Fri, Mar 20, 2015 5:09pm PDT
Nestle Continues Stealing World's Water During Drought 
Nestlé is draining California aquifers, from Sacramento alone taking 80 million gallons annually. Nestlé then sells the people's water back to them at great profit under many dozen brand names....
Posted: Tue, Mar 17, 2015 12:30pm PDT
Stockton Rural Cemetery, Block 27 ~ 2015 Sesquicentennial Freedom Celebration 
Reverend Jeremiah King helped establish Block 27, a "colored section" within the Stockton Rural Cemetery in 1861. Rev. King and many other early Stockton pioneers have a final resting place within the "park-like" community resource. At the close of the US Civil War, a desire for proper dignity and respect for all fallen soldiers became what we call today Memorial Day. Together we celebrate the Sesquicentennial and design plans to preserve an amazing living legacy for another 150 years. Ge...
Posted: Tue, Mar 17, 2015 10:49am PDT
Pit River Tribe and Allies Rally to Protect Medicine Lake 
“Medicine Lake is a sacred place and it needs to be protected at all costs,” said Pit River Tribal Chairman Mickey Gemmill. “We’re trying to preserve our culture and Medicine Lake is part of the beginning of our people. If we allow these corporations to come in and frack, we could lose that chance to bring back that part of our culture. So we’re asking the Calpine Corporation to step back and leave the Medicine Lake Highlands alone.”
Photo of Medicine Lake defenders in front of courthouse ...
Posted: Fri, Mar 13, 2015 4:39pm PDT
Lawsuits Charge Police Agencies with Refusing to Disclose Information about StingRay Use San Francisco – The ACLU on March 10 filed lawsuits against the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department and the Anaheim Police Department, charging that the two agencies refuse to produce documents related to their use of StingRays....
Posted: Fri, Mar 13, 2015 12:34pm PDT
Agency leaders admit big failure to protect water from oil pollution 
“The ongoing contamination of California’s drinking and irrigation water with toxic oil industry waste fluids is yet another example of why oil companies can’t be trusted to operate while ensuring the protection of our communities’ health and the environment,” Dan Jacobson, State Director of Environment California said on behalf of Californians Against Fracking.
Photo of part of the Pacific Islander contingent at the "March for Climate Leadership" in Oakland on February 7, the largest ant-...
Posted: Tue, Mar 10, 2015 1:42pm PDT
MLPA chair/big oil lobbyist takes Oregon's low carbon fuel standard to court 
Reheis-Boyd's leadership role in creating "marine protected areas" at the same time she was leading the campaign to eviscerate California and Oregon's environmental laws is one of the biggest conflict of interest stories in the state's history, but the corporate media and many "alternative" media outlets refuse to cover it.
That is undoubtedly because Big Oil controls the state's politicians and political processes - and has inordinate influence over the media. The oil industry is the mos...
Posted: Mon, Mar 9, 2015 4:43pm PDT
Drought Shows Folly of Jerry Brown's Delta Tunnels 
"It is lucky for the South of Delta agricultural Central Valley Project contractors (and Kern County Water Agency) that the tunnels were not already built," said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of RTD. "If so, they would have had to pay hundreds of millions of dollars with no water supply."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 3, 2015 5:38pm PST
Poll reveals most voters oppose Governor Brown's 'big government projects' 
There is no doubt that Governor's Brown's approval ratings would slip well below 50 percent if the mainstream media and corporate "environmental" NGOs would stop greenwashing the Governor's environmental record and report the truth about Brown's war on fish, water and the environment.
Photo of Jerry Brown courtesy of the Governor's Office...
Posted: Mon, Mar 2, 2015 7:18am PST
National Scholarly Research ~ Historic Stockton Waterfront District 
Historic Stockton Waterfront District builds on an amazing legacy 1840-1870. 2015 Stockton Black History Month ends with new primary source documents towards sharing a historic legacy unknown, unvalued or to be kept underground. The Ebony Boat Club is a welcomed maritime resource and recreational opportunity to join a growing collaboration of City, County, State and National officials eager to highlight the positive contribution by people of African ancestry. In context of a national conv...
Posted: Fri, Feb 27, 2015 3:04pm PST
Lawsuit Charges Calaveras County with Unconstitutionally Promoting One Religious Belief 
San Andreas – The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California on February 18 filed a lawsuit (see PDF) against the county of Calaveras, charging the board of supervisors with passing a resolution last summer that unconstitutionally promotes one particular set of religious beliefs over all others....
Posted: Wed, Feb 25, 2015 2:41pm PST
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