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The Governor, the politicians and all who went along with what are essentially inadequate and toothless heat-illness regulations are also responsible for the death of farmworker María Isabel Vasquez - not just the three labor contractors charged with manslaughter in her death, according to a coalition of labor and human rights groups....

On Saturday April 25, 2009 at Federal Reserve Banks across the country, people protested the Fed's criminal behavior and rallied in support of Ron Paul's bill H.R. 1207 to Audit the Fed. In San Francisco rallies and a march culminated at the 101 Market Street, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank....

The RNC of 2008 is a fading past for most of the country, and much of import has happened since last Fall. Just as there are many folks beginning their fight against the State for the happenings of last January, there are a number of friends still caught up in the web of Oppression in Minnesota. This is just a reminder that folks in the Twin Cities and all over are still dealing with the aftermath of the RNC and an offering of sentiments from a local Bay Area community member who is fighting ...

Arrayed in traditional regalia, over two dozen members of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe recently held a war dance along the banks of the American River to bring attention to decades of injustice and destruction of their cultural sites by the federal government. Mark Franco, Winnemem Wintu headman, and Caleen Sisk-Franco, spiritual leader, open the war dance ceremony on April 20. Photo by Dan Bacher....

In yet another attempt to cast himself in the role of the "Green Governor," Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced the launch of the state Department of Water Resources and Association of California Water Agencies’ “Save Our Water” public education program. This took place just a few days after the Governor campaigned for a peripheral canal and more dams at a grower-organized "March for Water." Schwarzenegger cynically invokes the name of Cesar Chavez, UFW founder, at the "March for Water."...

The Winnemem Wintu Tribe filed a Complaint in U.S. District Court Monday against six federal agencies and two current federal agency heads alleging their actions have resulted in the destruction or damage to the Tribe’s cultural sites in Shasta County....

This news advisory is updated to include the exact times and locations for the Winnemem Wintu War Dance, March and Press Conference....

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday joined U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar for an "aerial tour" of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The following photo was taken at the California National Guard at Mather Field in Mather, CA....

I strongly urge you to support AB 1242, the "Human Right to Water" Bill. Letters are due by April 21. This bill is being introduced as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Senator Dianne Feinstein are pushing for the construction of a peripheral canal and more dams. A phony "March for Water," organized by corporate agribusiness and their vendido apologists, is trying to drum up support for the canal and more dams that will result in not only the destruction of California's imperiled salmon and ...

Activists filed a lawsuit against the State Department of Water Resources (DWR) on April 13 to protect family farms, groundwater supplies and rivers from a proposed water transfer program that will devastate the northern Sacramento Valley and continue the destruction of the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta, the largest estuary on the West Coast of the Americas. "The whole premise of the Governor’s drought emergency declaration is ridiculous,” said C-WIN president Carolee Krieger. “Most reservo...