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This is from the League of Conservation Voters. It shows the percentage of votes "for" the environment of members of the US House of Representatives that are morally bankrupt and do what the corporations want them to do in return for the campaign contributions they were given....

Focus part of your efforts on Republican campaign trails. Repub lies are flying thickest where they need our votes the most. From a distance, from here in California, we can reach out to others in the vicinities of East Coast, MidWest, etc. campaigning events to reject Republican lies by winning back Congress. Congress needs to be representative. Reach out....

Today Stewart Alexander, Candidate for California Lieutenant Governor, is recruiting Californians statewide to stop the plans to open one of the largest open surface mines in the United States. Alexander says this is a war to stop Granite Construction and Liberty Quarry, to save lives, to protect our environment and our future....

As California continues to be the 43rd state in the nation in education spending (due to Prop 13 and Arnold Schwarzenegger), some education advocates have placed Proposition 88 on the November ballot to address this problem. Funded by Netflix founder Reed Hastings and venture capitalist John Doerr, the $50 parcel tax would raise $470 million a year to fund the state’s public schools. Locally, Prop 88 has the support of the San Francisco Bay Guardian – whose endorsement carries enormous weight...

1-2 Punch! Nationwide McDonald's actions Oct. 27-28th From 'sweet spot' to sore spot!... This October 27-28th, join students and young people across the country in standing with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to end sweatshops and modern-day slavery in the fields!...

Peter Camejo: "This race is over. Phil Angelides cannot overcome the huge lead of the incumbent governor. People will waste their vote if they vote for Phil now. Instead, voters should send a clear message, by voting Green, that they want the rich to pay their fair share of taxes, that they want a clean environment and they want us out of Iraq now."...

Interim Manager Lemlem Rijio wrote the editors of the SF Bay View to say that she was open to it all along and that KPFA will offer a live broadcast of this historic event....

The California Fish and Game Commission is meeting this Wednesday, October 11 to review state game hunting regulations, and now is the time to tell it to protect one of the world’s most endangered species. Please help us send a strong message to finally end the use of lead ammunition in the range of the critically endangered California Condor!...

Act Against Torture does creative street theater to remind people of the ongoing U.S. human rights violations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and around the world. Watch this 4.5 minute video....

Angelides criticized Schwarzenegger for his praise for the racist anti-immigrant vigilantes called the “Minutemen” while in the same breath calling for a "guest worker" program that would create a new class of super-exploited worker with no political rights. Under the same type of program in the past U.S. bosses often failed to even pay Mexican workers for their hard labor. The fact that Angelides and the Democrat Party are now calling for this kind of legalization of indentured servitude pla...