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National day of action against the Dakota Access Pipeline 9-13-16 
We in Santa Cruz joined with others around the world to show our support with Standing Rock!...
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2016 10:07pm PDT
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Responds to Oil Pipeline Builders 
Today, Energy Transfer Partners released a statement declaring their intention to continue work on the Dakota Access Pipeline. Kelcy Warren, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer said, "We intend to meet with officials in Washington to understand [the government's] position and reiterate our commitment to bring the Dakota Access Pipeline into operation." Standing Rock Sioux responded with a statement saying it is unfortunate that the corporate world chooses to ignore people who stand in opposi...
Posted: Tue, Sep 13, 2016 8:57pm PDT
Lawsuit Launched to Protect West Coast Whales From Dying in Nets Conservation groups today filed a notice of intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service to protect endangered whales from mile-long drift gillnets and strings of sablefish pots off the West Coast. After two years of record reports of whales entangled in fishing gear off the West Coast — more than 60 in 2015 alone — 40 whales were reportedly entangled as of June 30, putting 2016 on pace to break records again. New information indicates that one humpback whale population that migrates f...
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2016 10:36am PDT
Pesticide Applications Near Elementary School Launch Community Into Action 
Applications near Amesti Elementary bolster demands for new protections for schoolchildren. Figure: Fumigant application near Amesti Elementary & Pacific Coast Charter School on Sat., Sept. 10....
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2016 10:11am PDT
Stop the Dakota Access Pipeline 
Town Clock in Santa Cruz, corner of Pacific Ave. and Water St....
Event Date: Tue, Sep 13, 2016 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Sep 11, 2016 3:12pm PDT
Two Spirit Society of Indian Canyon stands with Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Sacred Stone Camp 
"On behalf of the Indian Canyon Two-Spirit Society, we are writing to express our support for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Sacred Stone Spirit Camp. We support the critically important work you are doing to protect the Missouri River from the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)."...
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2016 6:30pm PDT
Karuk Tribe Stands in Support of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation 
"The Karuk Tribe Stands in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation in your fight to protect your homelands from the Dakota Access Pipeline. Further, we commend your nation's vigorous advocacy for your ancestral lands which demonstrates that a sovereign's defense of their people, culture, and land cannot be artificiallt restrained." -- Russell "Buster" Atterbery, Chairman...
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2016 2:03am PDT
Stanford American Indian Organization Letter of Solidarity with the Standing Rock Lakota and Dakota Peoples 
The Stanford American Indian Organization stands in solidarity with the Standing Rock Lakota and Dakota peoples in protest against the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline. This pipeline is in direct violation of Articles I & II of the Treaty of Fort Laramie and serves to threaten the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual ways of life of the original peoples of this land....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2016 1:41am PDT
Sacramento Area Residents Hold Protest Against Dakota Access Pipeline Outside Citibank 
“I’m here to protest the banks that are paying for the pipeline that is bringing the crude oil down the Missouri River to Texas,” said Carol Standing Elk, Lakota Sioux. “My relatives have gotten as far as they have because of prayer. They have a prayerful camp and a peaceful camp. We want the construction of the pipeline to stop."
Sacramento area activists stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Photo by Dan Bacher....
Posted: Fri, Sep 9, 2016 11:18am PDT
Santa Cruz Solidarity with Standing Rock Water Protectors to Oppose Dakota Oil Pipeline 
Groups in Santa Cruz County are planning trips out to Standing Rock to support the Water protectors working to stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), and to join in their efforts. For months Indigenous Water protectors have worked to prevent construction of the pipeline, which has desecrated sites sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Thousands of Water protectors are on the scene with the support of hundreds of Native American Tribes. The DAPL is being financed by Energy ...
Posted: Thu, Sep 8, 2016 6:41pm PDT
Legal Victory Overturns Federal Plan to Open 1 Million Acres of CA Public Land to Fracking 
LOS ANGELES, September 6, 2016 — Citing potential threats to water supplies and endangered wildlife, a U.S. district judge today overturned a federal plan to open more than 1 million acres of public land and mineral estate in central California to drilling and fracking. Today’s ruling comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity and Los Padres ForestWatch, represented by Earthjustice....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2016 5:40pm PDT
Court Slaps Down Caltrans Highway Project in Pacifica 
SAN FRANCISCO, September 6, 2016 — Following a legal challenge by conservation groups, a federal court has ruled that the California Department of Transportation violated the Endangered Species Act in approving a controversial project to widen Highway 1 in Pacifica, Calif. The Northern District court ruled Friday that Caltrans wrongly tried to use an already preserved parcel of land as mitigation for highway-widening impacts to endangered San Francisco garter snakes and threatened California ...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2016 1:47pm PDT
No DAPL Press Conference 
SF offices of the Army Corp of Engineers, 1455 Market Street, San Francisco...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 8, 2016 10:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2016 1:01am PDT
2016 California Black Agriculture Expo ~ "One Standard For Humanity" 
Nationally, Black Farmers and Agriculturalists should have been declared an endangered species and received maximum governmental protection, however many producers were offered limited consideration by a federal court consent decree and much later other socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers were provided similar relief by the US Congress....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2016 10:15pm PDT
Delta communities submit comments on environmentally unjust Delta Tunnels 
Gary Mulcahy, government liaison with the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, a Native California Tribe, describes the long history of broken promises and outright violence directed at his tribe by the state and federal governments. “The original construction of the Shasta Dam flooded over 90 percent of the Winnemem Wintu village sites, sacred sites, burial sites, and cultural gathering sites along the Sacramento, McCloud and Pit Rivers.”
Mulcahy describes the tribe’s cultural and spiritual connection t...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2016 7:11pm PDT
NoDAPL Solidarity Rally/March - No Pipelines ![McKesson Plaza [Market & Montgomery]; SF](/uploads/2016/09/04/dakota_access_pipeline_global_mobilization.jpg)
McKesson Plaza [Market & Montgomery]; SF...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 8, 2016 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2016 6:47pm PDT
Dakota Access Citibank Protest (Sacramento) 
Citibank
1116 Alhambra Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95816...
Event Date: Wed, Sep 7, 2016 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2016 6:41pm PDT
Klamath Tribes Support Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in Their Opposition of the Dakota Access Pipeline 
Klamath Tribes Support Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in Their Opposition of the Dakota Access Pipeline...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2016 5:43pm PDT
Yurok Tribe stands in strong support of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation 
The Yurok Tribe stands in strong support of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation in their opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2016 5:32pm PDT
Yes on Measure Z - Fracking Ban Campaign Kick-Off & Grand Opening New HQ 
521 S Main St, Salinas, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Sep 10, 2016 9:30am PDT
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2016 3:54pm PDT
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