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Pro LBAM Spray Next Political moves
There is a war for your mind!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2007 8:37pm PDT
LBAM the stuff they will unleash on us.
You must spread the news fast ! Repost all over !!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2007 8:22pm PDT
EPA says pesticide to eradicate LBAM does not contain disputed ingredient
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says a pesticide that was sprayed over parts of the Central Coast to eradicate the light brown apple moth does not contain a disputed ingredient that forced a judge to temporarily suspend the aerial spraying last week....
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2007 6:52pm PDT
Rally to Stop the Spray Oct-16, 5:30pm
OCT-16, 5:30pm RALLY TO STOP THE SPRAY. 701 Ocean Street Santa Cruz, Court House Steps. Brings signs, share information and meet your neighbors. And it's fun. Then attend Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Meeting at 7pm. At 7pm LBAM is on the agenda.
Meeting is open for public comments....
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2007 2:36pm PDT
San Francisco Rents Explode!!
Monday, October 15, 2007 : The San Francisco Chronicle on October 11th had a front-page story about the decline of real estate prices, but failed to mention the dramatic rise in rents. In the short span of a few months, finding an apartment in San Francisco has gone from a challenge to a nightmare – with landlords demanding rents that are beyond laughable....
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2007 8:06am PDT
Setting the Record Straight on San Francisco Homelessness
Monday, October 15, 2007 : In recent weeks, the San Francisco Chronicle has invented a mythical history of San Francisco’s homeless problem. The paper’s fundamental premise---that long tolerant San Franciscans now support tough measures to remove homeless persons from city sidewalks---is contradicted by strong voter support for restricting problem street behavior since 1991....
Posted: Mon, Oct 15, 2007 8:05am PDT
Marin City Community center health fair
630 Drake Ave....
Event Date: Sat, Oct 20, 2007 11:00am PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2007 4:00pm PDT
Talk of the Bay: Steve Scholl Buckwald on Aerial Spraying in Santa Cruz (audio/mpeg 7.6MB)
On Tuesday Oct 9th 2007on KUSP’s Talk of the Bay George Cadman discusses concerns about the spraying with Steve-Scholl-Buckwald managing director of the Pesticide Action Network....
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2007 3:26pm PDT
Counter Recruitment at UCSC Graduate Student Career Fair (10/15)
We're going to meet at 10:30 AM at the Stevenson event center where the grad student career fair is, to hang around and pass out flyers and have a general presence against the army health services. The career fair goes from 11 til 3 so if you drop by anytime between then, come find us!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2007 1:00pm PDT
Counter Recruitment at UCSC Graduate Student Career Fair
Stevenson event center
UC Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 15, 2007 10:30am PDT
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2007 12:56pm PDT
Suterra's Legal Moves
Suterra, manufacturer of the pheromone spray proposed for use in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, makes legal moves and encounters some roadblocks seeking to suppress info on the composition of the spray....
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2007 12:08pm PDT
Nurseries under attack by CDFA over LBAM
"For them to come in and find one larva and have us spray 14 acres doesn't make sense,"...
Posted: Sun, Oct 14, 2007 10:36am PDT
Support Urged For California Healthcare Security Plan
A California constitutional ballot initiative is being proposed that would allow people in California to vote on a single payer plan for the November 4, 2008 ballot. Please support the initiative, endorse and get your union or organization to endorse....
Posted: Sat, Oct 13, 2007 10:16am PDT
Villagers die in Haiti floods
Saturday, October 13, 2007 : Hundreds made homeless after village near Port-au-Prince is inundated by floodwater....
Posted: Sat, Oct 13, 2007 9:16am PDT
Sutter Bars Nurses From Patients at 5 Hospitals - Nurses Say All Options on Table for Future Actions
Friday, October 12, 2007 : Sutter Health slammed its doors on registered nurses at five Bay Area hospitals, barring them from returning to the bedside to care for patients following a two day strike which ended this morning. Sutter RNs were locked out at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center facilities in Berkeley and Oakland, Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, San Leandro Hospital, and Sutter Solano Medical Center in Vallejo....
Posted: Sat, Oct 13, 2007 9:04am PDT
"No Loitering" & "Ban on Gatherings" in Public Downtown Parking Lots Update
Last Tuesday, City Council passed its First Reading of Vice-Mayor Coonerty's expansion of last year's "No Trespassing in Public Parking Garages and Lots" law. If given final passage on Tuesday October 23rd, the law will go into effect on November 22nd, making it illegal to linger in any of 9 square blocks downtown. It's already illegal to linger in 4 of those 9 square blocks. Waiting in or with your car or bike beyond 15 minutes will also become illegal. The citation will cost $124 or mor...
Posted: Sat, Oct 13, 2007 5:48am PDT
Habitat for Humanity Partners With OHA To Displace Oakland's Poor
Habitat for Humanity has the reputation of assisting poor people to become homeowners, but how many of you know that their projects are actually being built upon the backs of the poor in public housing complexes all across the nation, while displacing tens of thousands of poor families from their public housing units in the process?...
Posted: Sat, Oct 13, 2007 12:22am PDT
Suterra Issues Cease and Desist Letter to Indybay regarding "Secret" Ingredient in CheckMate Pesticide
Suterra LLC, a manufacturer of "biorational" pest control products based in Bend, Oregon, has issued a cease and desist letter to Indybay demanding that information about a "secret" ingredient in the CheckMate OLR-F mating disruption pheromone be removed from the site....
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 7:09pm PDT
City finds a clever way to keeps Blacks from renting apartments
This city gets apartment owners to refuse to rent to convicts, a racist trick to keep Blacks out of it's city limits. Many other cities use the same trick!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 3:35pm PDT
Water: A Human Right, Not a Source of Profit!
United Presbyterian Church
112 E. Beach Street, Watsonville
(enter from the parking lot behind the Cabrillo lot across from the Watsonville library)...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 19, 2007 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 12, 2007 11:36am PDT