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"Climate Porn" - Simon Retallack on the Dangers of Using Alarmist Language to Talk About Climate Change Friday, September 14, 2007 :
We speak with British climate change expert, Simon Retallack about so-called "climate porn." Retallack says, "It's a phrase that's certainly not used to undermine the science...But if we talk about climate change in a way that makes it appear that there's nothing we can do anymore about it, that it's too late, that it's going to be devastating on a global scale...I think we're going to turn people off."...
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 10:01pm PDT
Window to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change Closing. Consumption of energy and many other critical resources is consistently breaking records, disrupting the climate and undermining life on the planet, according to the latest Worldwatch Institute report, Vital Signs 2007-2008....
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 8:41pm PDT
"Shakespeare's Lost Masterpiece" Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts
1428 Alice Street, Oakland CA...
Event Date: Sun, Sep 30, 2007 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 7:53pm PDT
Dessert Soiree with Dan Piraro (A Benefit for East Bay Animal Advocates) 345 Haddon Road, Oakland...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 28, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 7:38pm PDT
Sign petition to demand high-level diplomatic teams to negotiate on Darfur For four years, Sudan's military ruler, General Omar Bashir, has organized brutal militias to murder over 200,000 of his own citizens in the region of Darfur, all because a few of them dared to oppose his rule. After a massive global outcry, the killing has decreased and the UN has authorized peacekeepers - but what peace will they have to keep? Our leaders can seize this chance to press for the fair and lasting peace that the people of Darfur want, or they can appease Bashir, seek peace on t...
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 6:10pm PDT
Schwarzenegger Strong Arms Legislature to Place Delta Canal and Dams on Ballot 
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger this week called the Legislature into a special session to push forward his water bond for the 2008 ballot and his health care "reform" package. The Governor, in his mad drive to built an environmentally disastrous peripheral canal and two financially unfeasible dams, is trying to put his water bond measure on the February ballot in order to bypass the needed environmental reviews as required under the law. The Governor's plan to build a Delta canal to serve the...
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 5:56pm PDT
World Can't Wait response to September 11 counter demonstration at SF State World Can't Wait response to the SF State campus newspaper coverage of the counter-demonstration on Sept. 11....
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 5:44pm PDT
Sept 13 Court Update: Rod Coronado Trial Kelly Stewart, Sheriff Dep’t. undercover cop still on stand. Prosecutor Parmley brings up that there is new evidence—this is the audio that the defense uncovered, of the *question* in question, and subsequent answer. (Background: it is an audio recording whose existence was apparently heretofore unknown. Likely a small recorder in someone’s pocket.)...
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 5:03pm PDT
Alameda Creek Alliance Works to Restore Salmon and Steelhead to East Bay Watershed 
The Alameda Creek Alliance, a non-profit community watershed restoration group, has worked with a consortium of 12 state, federal and local agencies to remove four obsolete dams and construct two fish ladders in order to bring king salmon and steelhead back to Alameda Creek. One more dam removal and construction of four additional fish ladders are in the planning stages....
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 4:19pm PDT
Films on Del Paso - From A Silk Cocoon + Homecoming! The Artisan Theater - 1901 Del Paso Blvd. Sacramento....
Event Date: Sat, Sep 22, 2007 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 4:09pm PDT
CIW announces state-wide tour of Florida! 
Workers to visit 13 cities – holding workshops and protests along the way – laying the groundwork for the national mobilization at Burger King headquarters in Miami set for November 30th....
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 2:56pm PDT
9/17 7-9 pm Converging Movements Radio Show w' Ashley Casale, Michael Israel, Mike Ferner 
On Monday's weekly Questioning War- Organizing Resistance Radio Show, local host Carol Brouillet will interview Ashley Casale and Michael Israel, who recently completed their March for Peace, having marched from San Francisco to Washington DC, in time for the major mobilizations against the war, for Truth, Peace, Impeachment. In the second hour of the show, the guest will be Mike Ferner, member of Veterans for Peace, also in DC, speaking out and organizing against the war, reporting on his ex...
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 2:55pm PDT
Aprueba ONU Declaración Universal de Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas UNITED NATIONS MOVES TO ADOPT INDIGENOUS DECLARATION...
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 2:35pm PDT
Introduction to Marxism 6501 Telegraph Ave. (between Alcatraz and 66th) in Oakland....
Event Date: Wed, Sep 19, 2007 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 2:28pm PDT
United Nations Moves to Adopt Indigenous Declaration Aprueba ONU Declaración Universal de Derechos de los Pueblos Indígenas...
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 2:28pm PDT
Uses of language - dialogue or domination? 6501 Telegraph Ave. (just north of Alcatraz) Oakland, CA 94609....
Event Date: Sun, Sep 30, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 2:22pm PDT
Visual Voices ARTworkSF Gallery
49 Geary St Suite 234
San Francisco 94108...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 2:01pm PDT
"Unrecognized" Palestinians How Israel discriminates against its non-Jewish citizens....
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 1:33pm PDT
Long Haul Infoshop's 14th Birthday Party 3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley Ca. Phone (510) 540-0751
(2 blocks from Ashby BART, Across from La Peña Cultural Center)...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 12:57pm PDT
Satterfield Rules Out Possible Iran War 
U.S. says talk of strike against Iran is nonsense...
Posted: Fri, Sep 14, 2007 12:52pm PDT
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