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Whether opposing the Vietnam War, running for Congress, sending computers to Cuba and Bolivia, challenging the U.S. ban on travel to Cuba, or promoting single-payer healthcare in California, David Wald was always busy working for peace and social justice. David passed away on May 18, 2008 after a long struggle with pancreatic cancer at the age of 80....

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 :The only commodities in plentiful supply at the UN-sponsored donors conference in Rangoon last Sunday were self-interest, cynicism and hypocrisy. While the gathering had been called to elicit aid for the estimated 2.4 million cyclone victims in Burma, the US and European powers exploited the opportunity to repeat their demands for the Burmese junta to open its doors to foreign aid efforts....

The State Assembly’s Appropriations Committee on Thursday, May 22 approved AB 1806, a badly-needed bill by Assemblywoman Lois Wolk that requires public land managers to prepare emergency fish rescue plans before undertaking a project that would have a significant adverse impact on fishery resources in the Delta. AB 1806 also requires the State Water Board to enforce "reasonable mitigation requirements" for adverse impacts on Delta fisheries arising from operation of the large water export pum...

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Three fishery conservation groups today intervened in a ridiculous lawsuit by the Coalition for a Sustainable Delta - comprised largely of Kern County water agencies - that accuses the DFG of imperiling endangered salmon and Delta smelt through its striped bass management program. Bill Jennings, executive director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), describes the lawsuit as "simply an outrageous and transparent effort to divert attention from the real cause of th...

The following is a special report from Roger Thomas, Golden Gate Fishermen's Association, and Dick Pool, American Sportfishing Association, on the House oversight hearing regarding the West Coast salmon disaster held in Washington D.C. on May 15. In spite of the court’s recent decision and most independent biologists' opinions that the massive increases in water exports at the state and federal pumps in the California Delta were a primary cause of the Central Valley collapse, Mr. Rod McGi...

Saturday, May 17, 2008 :Two weeks have passed since Cyclone Nargis struck the Irrawaddy delta region of Burma. Yesterday, the state media sharply revised the official death toll upward to 78,000 dead and 55,917 missing. The number of injured has risen from 1,403 to 19,359. Previous estimates from the UN and International Red Cross put the number of dead at 100,000 or more....

Injured workers testified on May 10,2008at a press conference for Ralph Nader about the cover-up of the super fund toxic site in Downey. Owned by developer Stuart Lichter, the site was illegally developed into a movie studio that housed Dreamworks, Downey Studios and a Kaiser hospital complex. The sick and injured workers testified that the EPA, Ca/OSHA, Public Health Department and Senator Feinstein, Senator Boxer, Congressman Waxman have all helped cover-up the rampant corruption at the si...

Monday, May 12, 2008 :The cyclone disaster in Burma is continuing to worsen. The official death toll announced yesterday stands at 28,458 dead and 33,416 missing, but unofficial estimates put the figure much higher. Up to 2 million people have been left homeless and struggling to survive without access to food, clean water, shelter and medicine....

Saturday, May 10, 2008 :The catastrophe wrought by Cyclone Nargis on the Burmese people has provoked an extraordinary campaign by the US and allied powers, and in the international media, demanding that the military junta open its borders to aid and aid officials as well as to American military aircraft, troops and warships....