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textOpponents of Healthy Saturdays Wage Dishonest Battle by Paul Hogarth, Beyond Chron (reposted)
Battles at City Hall defy logic – we have small fights over big issues, and big fights over small issues. Last year, the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors came together to pass universal heath care with unanimous support. For a bold proposal that will impact the lives of thousands of San Franciscans, it was heartening to see it just sail through....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:11am PDT
textBush salmon plan for Columbia dams rejected by AP
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- A federal appeals court Monday strongly rejected the Bush administration's 2004 plan for making Columbia Basin hydroelectric dams safe for salmon, saying it used "sleight of hand" and violated the Endangered Species Act....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 7:38am PDT
textGolden Gate Park - Access to all parts at all times every single day. by Francisco Da Costa
Golden Gate Park is meant for all people and those that are Physically Challenged have every right every single hour, of every single day - every single year - to have access to the Golden Gate Park on their term. It is wrong for any Group to meet behind doors against the Brown Act to adverse impact any segment of the population. This has been done from the on set. All parts of the Golden Gate Park should be accessible to each and every citizen using any means of transportation....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:53pm PDT
textClimate change report outlines dire impact of global warming by wsws (reposted)
On April 6, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Working Group II Summary for Policy Makers from its report on “Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.”...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:28pm PDT
calendarVan Jones: "Growing Greener, Growing Together" by
College's Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room UC Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 7:19pm PDT
textIts "Leave you Gas Guzzlin/Polluting Car Home Day!" by k.hawley
A single day's abstinence of gasoline usage in the U.S. would conserve hundreds of millions of gallons of gas from being consumed (and spewed as poisonous exhaust into our breathable atmosphere!) and would also vastly increase stockpiles of gasoline so that prices,and related taxes and fuel related inflations would have to come down!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 4:46pm PDT
textWhy the recent Climate Report was so Harsh by Don Beck
Here is a collection of reports about the scientific studies being conducted around the world from just the past few months. These are the reports that went into the IPCC's data bank and where from they came to their latest estimates and projections. The first few have been published after the Feb. 2 IPCC release. The majority of them are from foriegn news agencies and were never published in the US media. Our corporate media wants you to know every detail of a woman who decides...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 1:48pm PDT
textBaker and Pizzeria on the Ropes After Dispute With PG&E by Joe Eskenazi‚, Beyond Chron (reposted)
After nearly three decades as a baker, Cindy Gershon is not burned out. Her business may be, however, following the smoky failure of the electrical cables that carry the power into her Walnut Creek bakery and an ongoing dispute with PG&E over exactly whose responsibility this is....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:47am PDT
calendarEarthVision International Environmental Film Festival by Nita Hertel
Del Mar Theater Pacific Ave. Santa Cruz,April 11,12, Santa Cruz Vet's Hall, Front Street., April 12,13....
Event Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Apr 8, 2007 2:01pm PDT
textYosemite Slough by Candlestick Park saturated with PCBs and the most toxic area by Francisco Da Costa
Yosemite Slough by Candlestick Park is saturated with the most dangerous PCBs. Add to that lead, mercury, Chrome waste, dumped paint and tires, and over 40 of the most dangerous toxic elements and you have a cesspool that will take millions to clean up. The Navy's radiological contamination has not helped. The slow clean up allows this Slough a few hundred feet from Parcel E and the Shipyard to continue to pollute Yosemite Slough further - every single day....
Posted: Sun, Apr 8, 2007 10:25am PDT
imageOccupation of Barrick Gold: World’s Largest Gold Mining Company.
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by Sakura Saunders
Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold's Australian mining operation in Lake Cowal was shut down today by protesters. In the lead up to Barrick's annual shareholder meeting, over 80 people occupied the mine site to bring attention to land justice and water equity issues surrounding the open-pit mine, which has just passed its first year of full operation. Barrick's mines are associated with environmental justice, indigenous rights, and water issues around the world. Barrick is actively protes...
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 10:42pm PDT
textSupport the Eco-Prisoners, Easter 2007 by Earth Liberation Prisoner Support
However, despite the delay in publication ELP has some fantastic news. For the first time in ages ELP is able to bring some good news!...
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 5:59pm PDT
imageCrossings Borders – The Revenge of Huitlacoche
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by Joey Williams
The Revenge of Huitlacoche/La Venganza de Huilacoche Conceived and performed by José Navarrete runs April 6, 7 at EastSide Cultural Center, Oakland at 8pm. April 12 – 14 at ODC Theater 3153 17th Street, San Francisco at 8pm....
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 2:25pm PDT
calendarEdible Santa Cruz Bike Tour by Dave Shaw
Edible Santa Cruz meets at the corner of Bay and High streets near the bike racks, at the base of UCSC campus....
Event Date: Sat, Apr 28, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 11:22am PDT
textAmazonian Manatee is under extinguishing risk. It's not the only one...Why? by Emilio de Lima
We want to make in the place a first experience of an untouched reserve with respectful exploitation, in permanent expansion, that later can be taken to other regions of the world....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 9:14pm PDT
calendarZachary Running Wolf Pretrial Hearing by Zachary Running Wolf
661 Washington Street, dept. 115 (sixth floor), Oakland...located near the 12th Street BART station....
Event Date: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 10:47am PDT
textClimate change 'to hit poor hard' by BBC (reposted)
The poorest people in the world will be hardest hit by the effects of climate change, experts at a major conference on global warming have said....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 6:27am PDT
textAmazonian Manatee is under extinguishing risk. It's not the only one...Why? by Emilio de Lima
We want to make in the place a first experience of an untouched reserve with respectful exploitation, in permanent expansion, that later can be taken to other regions of the world....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 9:35pm PDT
imageJudge Orders State to Shut Down Pumps to Save Delta Smelt, Salmon
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by Dan Bacher
Alameda Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch ruled that the California Department of Water Resources must obtain a "take permit" from the Department of Fish and Game for any endangered Delta smelt, spring run chinook salmon and winter run chinook salmon that it kills in the water export pumps of the California Delta....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 5:54pm PDT
textWarming 'already changing world' by BBC (reposted)
Climate change is already having major impacts on the natural world, a UN report is set to announce....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 5:32pm PDT
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