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State of the Lake Report: Climate Change Impacting Lake Tahoe Basin 
While clarity improved at Lake Tahoe for a second straight year in 2012, long-term trends show that climate change is impacting the Lake Tahoe Basin with drier years, less precipitation, higher lake temperatures and projected lower lake levels....
Posted: Fri, Aug 9, 2013 8:26am PDT
March in Defense of the Berkeley Post Office and Against Post Office Privatization Downtown Berkeley Post Office, 2000 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Aug 10, 2013 11:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2013 2:23pm PDT
Free Lynne Stewart-Pt 2: Carlos Villarreal, Nadia Kayyali, & Jeff Mackler (video/quicktime 102.2MB) The first three speakers at the NLG San Francisco rally to FREE LYNNE STEWART on August 1 were:
*Carlos Villarreal, Executive Director, S. F. Bay Area Chapter, NLG
*Nadia Kayyali, Executive Vice President, NLG
*Jeff Mackler, West Coast Coordinator of the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
Ten-minute QT movie. 107MB....
Posted: Thu, Aug 8, 2013 2:22pm PDT
Free Lynne Stewart! (video/quicktime 85.9MB) The National Lawyers Guild held rallies over the country to FREE LYNNE STEWART. The San Francisco rally was on August 1, 2013, and the speakers were
*Carlos Villarreal, Executive Director, S. F. Bay Area Chapter, NLG
*Nadia Kayyali, Executive Vice President, NLG
*Jeff Mackler, West Coast Coordinator of the Lynne Stewart Defense Committee
*Misty Rojo, California Coalition for Women Prisoners
*Stephen Bingham, Attorney
*Ralph Schoenman, Co-Coordinator, International Petition Campaign
*...
Posted: Wed, Aug 7, 2013 4:41am PDT
Save the Berkeley Post Office Encampment (video/mp4 207.7MB) Public encampment against closure and privatization of historic Downtown Berkeley Post Office. Interview with David Walsh, retired letter carrier about the occupation and the historic 1970 wildcat postal strike....
Posted: Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:43pm PDT
Federal Agency Launches Review of Fracking Risk on California Public Lands 
The federal government announced on August 2 the start of two new analyses of fracking risks to California public lands. The Bureau of Land Management’s decision to begin developing a new “environmental impact statement” for fracking in Central California, along with a statewide independent scientific assessment of the dangerous oil extraction process, comes in the wake of a legal victory earlier this year in a suit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club, which cha...
Posted: Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:48am PDT
Three Arrested as SFPD Raid Squat, 'The Crows' Nest,' in San Francisco Three politically active people were arrested this morning at a squatted home in the Ocean View district of San Francisco at 426 Capitol Avenue. The house had been squatted for three months as a home for activists and people in need of housing....
Posted: Mon, Aug 5, 2013 1:23pm PDT
Budget cuts are stealing hope from the poor Low-income tenants in the Section 8 housing choice voucher program can expect to pay a higher portion of their income for rent, as well as being placed at risk of losing their housing vouchers due a second round of sequestration budget cuts that are scheduled to go into effect during the beginning of October, for FY 2014!...
Posted: Mon, Aug 5, 2013 2:18am PDT
Of Extinctions, Extirpations, and the Future of Human Civilization 
[Photo: Jaguar, Wiki-commons]...
Posted: Thu, Aug 1, 2013 12:27pm PDT
SF Stands Up for Bradley Manning ON THE DAY OF BRADLEY MANNING’S CONVICTION, PEOPLE TOOK TO THE SREEETS IN SAN FRANCISCO TO PROTEST HIS PUNISHMENT FOR EXPOSING US WAR CRIMES....
Posted: Tue, Jul 30, 2013 10:26pm PDT
Wisconsin Letter of Solidarity with BART Workers Letter from Kevin Gundlach, President of the South Central Federation of Labor, Madison, Wisconsin, expressing solidarity with BART workers in the Bay Area:...
Posted: Tue, Jul 30, 2013 4:26pm PDT
Save CCSF! Interview With Dr. Tarik Farrar On Setting The Standard (audio/x-wav 267.0MB) SAVE City College San Francisco! INTERVIEW WITH DR. TARIK FARRAR ON SETTING THE STANDARD...
Posted: Mon, Jul 29, 2013 2:45pm PDT
Bradley Manning Double-Banner Drop; Northbound 101; 2013-07-25 
Photos of two banners (first on 22nd Street overpass and second on Vermont overpass) on 101 facing northbound afternoon traffic on Thursday, July 25th....
Posted: Fri, Jul 26, 2013 11:45am PDT
Corrected Billboard Applauds NSA Prior to Congressional Vote 
The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new billboard campaign to defend the domestic spying operations of the National Security Agency (NSA)....
Posted: Thu, Jul 25, 2013 2:18pm PDT
Killing the Post Office on the Altar of Privatization. Our Commons on the Auction Block. The Berkeley Post Office is being sold off as one of the first steps in the privatization of the Postal Service. A direct defense of the Berkeley Post Office is planning for Saturday, July 27th, at 1:00 PM...
Posted: Tue, Jul 23, 2013 3:24pm PDT
ILWU Local 10 Pledges Support For Trayvon Martin Actions 
[Photo: ILWU Local 10 at October 2011 Oakland rally for Oscar Grant. Grant was murdered execution style by the Oakland BART police by gunshot while handcuffed. The ILWU's strike demanding justice for Oscar Grant helped force the government to give a murderous BART cop a little bit of prison time for his crime. (Credit: Steve Rhodes/Flickr)]...
Posted: Sun, Jul 21, 2013 10:00am PDT
Crowdflower Offers to Buy Off Plaintiffs to Avoid Nationwide Lawsuit for Minimum Wages Purporting to rely on recent U.S. Supreme Court case, CrowdFlower tries to terminate minimum wage lawsuit brought against it by offering money to named plaintiffs 2 weeks before hearing on conditional class certification....
Posted: Sun, Jul 21, 2013 8:14am PDT
Causa Justa sues the Federal Government! (video/quicktime 36.9MB) Housing Can't Wait March.
Mission District - San Francisco
July 9, 2013...
Posted: Thu, Jul 18, 2013 3:21pm PDT
Opening the Box: Sarah Shourd on Herman Wallace, California Hunger Strikers, and more Solitary survivor Sarah Shourd, of Oakland, California, is beginning work on a new play designed to present the voices of solitary confinement's targets. In this interview, which Shourd dedicates to Herman Wallace of the Angola 3, recently transferred out of solitary confinement, we take a closer look at her project, Opening the Box, as well as the ongoing prisoner hunger strike in California, the Angola 3 case, and the politics of prisons in the US. "By hearing these stories, my hope is that...
Posted: Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:42am PDT
Court Orders Drakes Bay Oyster Company To Comply With Coastal Act Oyster company must remove invasive Manila clams, clean up its marine vomit, and end its plastic pollution of the Point Reyes National Seashore....
Posted: Thu, Jul 18, 2013 8:51am PDT
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