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EARTH MATTERS - Flashpoints Radio (audio/mpeg 11.8MB) "Earth Matters" is a weekly environmental news segment on KPFA's investigative news show, FLASHPOINTS....
Posted: Sat, Feb 5, 2005 9:42am PST
SeaRAG Protests Weyerhaeuser, #1 destroyer of old growth forests, in downtown Seattle 
Citizens' group warns of death by Weyerhaeuser's logging practices...
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 9:46pm PST
Feb 10 Day of Action Against Mountain Range Removal There is an institution near you complicit in mountain range removal coal mining. A coal company, an electric utility, a government office, a bank, a lobbying firm.
This is a call for a simultaneous day of action against mountain range removal across Appalachia, the US and the world. Be as loud as you can in protest of watershed destruction!...
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 3:25pm PST
Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington....
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 12:18am PST
Letter from the ELF Editor's Note: The Auburn Journal received the following letter claiming responsibility for the recent firebombing attempts in the name of the Earth Liberation Front. It is reprinted below....
Posted: Thu, Feb 3, 2005 12:05am PST
Port of Sac: Serving the Rice Industry Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley rice growers are faced with increasing pressure from biotech corporations like Ventria Bioscience to lease their land for pharm rice test plots.....
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 7:41pm PST
Biscuit Rally: Old growth logging is now active Time to get busy defending Biscuit. The LSR is released and the court
won't hear the case until March. Large trees are falling and the largest
timber sale of modern times could be done before a court ruling....
Posted: Wed, Feb 2, 2005 6:00pm PST
June 10-12 Weekend of Resistance for Jeff 'Free' Luers 
June 10-12 will be a Weekend of Resistance for Jeff Luers this year. We are asking for your participation and active solidarity to plan actions, events, film screenings, shows-whatever you want-for that weekend. As always, the goal is to highlight Jeff's case and help him get out of prison sooner than his disgusting 23 year sentence....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 4:53pm PST
BUSH Kyoto Would "Cool Down" U.S. Economy And Have "Catastrophic Effects" 
Scientists have said that two degrees centigrade of warming is already expected.
They have predicted that above that level the warming will push the planet into the unknown as ice caps melt, sea levels rise and weather patterns change at accelerating rates putting entire species and millions of people at risk.
The World Wide Fund for Nature said at the weekend that disastrous climate change could kick in within 20 years, leading to possible wipeout in the Arctic of species like po...
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 10:00am PST
Radioactive Neighbor 
A new report finds that citizen monitoring of nuclear weapons facilities can help prevent radioactive contamination of our environment and our communities....
Posted: Tue, Feb 1, 2005 8:32am PST
Judi Bari Alert! - Coleman on KGO Radio Tue. 3 pm Judi Bari smear book author Kate Coleman will be on the
Pete Wilson show on
KGO AM 810 talk radio
Tuesday Feb. 1 in the
3 p.m. to 4 p.m. segment....
Posted: Mon, Jan 31, 2005 6:36pm PST
Biscuit Fire Old Growth Reserves Face Imminent Logging 
A court ordered injunction that prevented logging in seven timber sales has been lifted. As a result, sensitive old-growth reserves are now imminently threatened by the Fiddler, Steed, Berry, Wafer, Hobson, Lazy, and Briggs Six logging sales. The Forest Service is trying to saw through these sales before a court case on the legality of the logging can be heard by a judge on March 22nd. If logging proceeds, it could be completed before the court decides whether the logging is legal or not....
Posted: Sun, Jan 30, 2005 1:39pm PST
Consevative's Almighty Values Debunked Aren't you sick of hearing about the Conservative's Almighty Values?...
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2005 6:27pm PST
Environmental Activist and Political Prisoner - Tre Arrow 
ONE DOWN, THREE TO GO:
an update from the Media as the Judge speaking tour...
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 2:47pm PST
Author Richard Heinberg Speaks in Sacramento on Feb. 28 Don't miss the talk by Richard Heinberg, the author of "Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World" on Feb. 28 in Sacramento....
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 10:42am PST
Report: Global Warming Much Worse Than Previously Thought We speak with physicist and professor, Myles Allen who is the principal investigator of a major new study conducted by the ClimatePrediction.net project that warns the effects of global warming may be twice as bad as previously thought....
Posted: Fri, Jan 28, 2005 8:46am PST
EARTH MATTERS - Weekly environmental news segment on KPFA's FLASHPOINTS (audio/mpeg 10.2MB) EARTH MATTERS on FLASHPOINTS - January 26, 2005.
Genetically Engineered Trees - Privatizing the Atmosphere?...
Posted: Thu, Jan 27, 2005 1:31pm PST
Tonight: Herbicide Use to Be Considered by City of Oakland Join East Bay Pesticide
Alert, Stop Toxic Trespass to demand non-toxic methods
only. Wednesday, January 26, 2005, at Oakland City
Hall (12th and Broadway, right by 12th St. BART), in
Hearing Room 4, at 7 pm....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 3:53pm PST
Perils of Fast-Growing Aquaculture Industry There was a story on the front page of the Monday, January 24, Washington Post, headed "Fish Farming's Bounty Isn't Without Barbs." It discusses the environmental impact of aquaculture -- the factory farming of fish....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 1:54pm PST
Beyond Kyoto The predicted consequences of global warming are manifest. In 2050 England will be half under water.. Production shifts to low-wage countries. Instead of preventing this shift, politics still urges all people to adjust to the little group of egoists....
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2005 11:09am PST
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