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Ending California's Deadliest Catch - New Report 
Today Turtle Island Restoration Network (SeaTurtles.org) published a new online exposé calling for an end to California's drift gillnet fishery for swordfish titled, California's Deadliest Catch. The report was released as new federal emergency fishing regulations published today are forcing California's drift gillnet fleet to stop fishing for the season if a single endangered sperm whale gets entangled in a net....
Posted: Tue, Sep 3, 2013 1:54pm PDT
Two of the 'Walmart 60' Picket Salinas Walmart Store (video/x-flv 73.0MB) Two members of the 'Walmart 60' recently picketed the Salinas Walmart store. They and their supporters continue to ask that the members of Wallmart's Board of Directors reinstate the more than 60 workers, known as the Walmart 60, who were fired after protesting working conditions at the retail giant. They want the public to know that the vast majority of Walmart workers aren't paid enough to afford basic health care, to pay for rent and utilities, or to keep food on the table, yet the Walton...
Posted: Mon, Sep 2, 2013 3:17pm PDT
US plans to bomb Syria over use of chemical weapons The United States has more weapons of mass destruction (nuclear weapons) than any other country on the planet. With U.S. Troops still in Iraq in a bloody war started by federal government officials who falsely claimed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, protesters believe that government officials and politicians do not have any credibility when trying to sell another bloody war to the American public....
Posted: Sat, Aug 31, 2013 11:41pm PDT
Commander X Quits Cyber-activism; Leaves Anonymous, PLF 
On Tuesday, Commander X (also known as Chris Doyon), announced he has "permanently and completely" retired from cyber-activism, which includes all activities in the Peoples Liberation Front and Anonymous. "I have removed my mask from the wall of my office. I am an Anon no longer," Doyon said in an August 27 "farewell" statement in which he cited exhaustion as the reason. [Photo: Commander X shortly after setting up his space on the first night of sleep during Occupy Santa Cruz on October 6, 2...
Posted: Sat, Aug 31, 2013 8:49pm PDT
No Tar Sands Round Dance & Protest at Canadian Consulate 
Consulate General of Canada
580 California St #14, San Francisco 94104...
Event Date: Mon, Sep 9, 2013 8:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, Aug 31, 2013 1:03pm PDT
California's Santa Cruz Cypress Recovering, Ready for Downlisting 
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today (see PDF) to reclassify the Santa Cruz cypress from endangered to threatened status under the Endangered Species Act. The tree was protected in 1987 due to threats to its habitat, but now the habitat for all five populations is secure....
Posted: Fri, Aug 30, 2013 5:34pm PDT
Defense of the Berkeley Post Office Press Conference, Music and Rally Downtown Berkeley Post Office, 2000 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Aug 31, 2013 11:30am PDT
Posted: Fri, Aug 30, 2013 7:59am PDT
A Message From the Berkeley Post Office Defenders A statement on the raid on the Berkeley Post Office encampment 8/28/13, and an appeal....
Posted: Thu, Aug 29, 2013 9:10pm PDT
Berkeley Post Office Raided The Berkeley Post Office Encampment was raided by Berkeley Police....
Posted: Thu, Aug 29, 2013 1:10pm PDT
Berkeley city manager wages dirty war on downtown Berkeley post office action 
The Berkeley city manager is unhappy about an ongoing direct-action encampment taking place outside the beleagured old post office building in downtown Berzerkeley. So, possibly against the wishes of the Berkeley mayor and council, is trying to run the activists out on a rail....
Posted: Wed, Aug 28, 2013 4:12pm PDT
Right to Protest Protected on UC Campuses 
Yesterday, the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights dismissed three complaints that had been filed against the University of California, on the grounds that the complaints were based on constitutionally protected speech. The complaints had alleged that the activities of students critical of Israel’s policies had created a hostile environment for Jewish students at the Berkeley, Santa Cruz and Irvine campuses....
Posted: Wed, Aug 28, 2013 1:32pm PDT
After Criticism, Caltrans to Rethink Deadly Bird Impacts of Petaluma Highway Project 
The California Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration are reevaluating the impacts of netting on bridge overpasses at a highway-widening project in Petaluma, Calif., which trapped, killed and injured scores of cliff swallows and other migratory birds this spring. The agencies must decide whether to do additional environmental review of the project by analyzing impacts to swallows nesting on the bridges. A new review could consider construction and exclusion alternativ...
Posted: Mon, Aug 26, 2013 11:44pm PDT
San Francisco Bay Area says, "Free Chelsea!" (video/quicktime 35.5MB) On the day Bradley Manning was sentenced, August 21, 2013, a rally was held at Bradley Manning Plaza at the foot of Market St. in San Francisco to proclaim, "Free Chelsea Manning!"
Berkeley Broadside Balladeer Vic Sadot led off....
Posted: Sun, Aug 25, 2013 4:34pm PDT
RIP Reefa, report back from the graffiti march. Despite massive displays of force by OPD, they failed to contain the graffiti protest planned for the evening....
Posted: Sun, Aug 25, 2013 1:40am PDT
African Legacy and the San Francisco America's Cup Race ~ September 2013 
The exciting news of renewed interest in the significant African contribution to greatest maritime competition in the world ~ America's Cup is good. Fee honest scholars and international educators find resource funding or multi-year grants to highlight the salient contribution to the forward flow of humanity contributed by people of African ancestry in California, save those who are happy to ignore or discount primary source documentation. The 150th Anniversary of the Port of San Francisco ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 22, 2013 9:22pm PDT
Caravans Converge on Bakersfield to Press for a Path to Citizenship 
The grassroots campaign for comprehensive immigration reform ramped up in California during the Congressional recess with bus and car caravans to Bakersfield to urge Congressman Kevin McCarthy to support a vote in the House on a path to citizenship. A noisy crowd of people from all over the state rallied in front of Mr. McCarthy’s office while negotiators met inside. The caravan is but one of many happening through the beginning of September....
Posted: Wed, Aug 21, 2013 9:05pm PDT
Occupy Berkeley Post Office Police Announce Raid and Break Deal 
Berkeley Police Department announces a raid on Occupy the Berkeley Post Office after agreeing to stay out of federal jurisdiction. This police action is related to a suspicion of a relation to UC Regent Richard Blum's ownership of the CBRE group who the USPS has sold 56 post offices to and Blum as the husband of California Senator Dianne Feinstein....
Posted: Sat, Aug 17, 2013 11:04pm PDT
Richmond, CA Native swims in Alaska to defeat diabetes 
San Francisco Bay Area American Indian braves frigid open water swim in Ketchikan, Alaska in fundraiser for the American Diabetes Association. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), American Indian/Alaska Natives (AIAN) have the higest rate of diabetes than
any ethnicity in the U.S....
Posted: Tue, Aug 13, 2013 3:14pm PDT
Lawsuit Challenges Plan to Log 150,000 Acres in Northern California 
Logging Would Devastate Salmon, Let 83 Northern Spotted Owls Be Hurt or Killed
YREKA, Calif.— Three conservation groups filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service for approving a 50-year plan by Fruit Growers Supply Co. to accelerate logging of occupied spotted owl habitat and for granting “take permits” for endangered species on 150,000 acres of forest in Siskiyou County, Calif....
Posted: Mon, Aug 12, 2013 8:03pm PDT
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