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n September 2007 more than 40,000 demonstrators descended on the small town of Jena, La. to protest unequal justice for the Jena Six, a case in which charges were brought against six black teens following a series of racially charged incidents sparked by the hanging of nooses in a public schoolyard. Facing South followed the case closely as it thrust a small central Louisiana town into the national spotlight and drew the eyes of the country to the lines of racial inequality still present in t...

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The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) is asking you to make a special effort on an critically urgent matter. Certain members of the legislature and the administration are trying to shove a combined water bill package through the legislature that will provide for an unaccountable "water czar" and tens of billions of dollars in fees and bonds to construct a peripheral canal and more dams. This is a CLEAR AND PRESENT threat to the delta, and if passed may be the delta's death kn...

The Latino Water Coalition organized a march and rally for water at Fresno City Hall today. Fresno City officials estimated the crowd at between 3,500 -4,000. Farmers, farmworkers, and politicians rallied to turn on the pumps in the delta to irrigate the farms in the western Central Valley. Republican congressman George Radanovich (photo below) took the demand one step further, calling on eliminating at least one species of fish to get the water farmers say they need....

Don't let the legislature pass a $20 billion bond including a peripheral canal and more dams without public input! Here is the latest action alert from John Beuttler, conservation director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA). There is now talk of the combined hearing, scheduled by the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee and the Senate Natural Resources Committee, being switched from July 7 at 9 a.m. to July 9. Neither date has been finalized....

Before a crowd of over 800 people, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on June 28 announced steps the Obama Administration is taking in response to agribusiness claims of drought impacts on the San Joaquin Valley....

Attached is a press release from the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) that uses official data from California's Employment Development Department to refute claims that water shortages caused by federal biological opinions and efforts to protect fish have caused massive farm unemployment. As you can see from the release, farm employment has fated far better than other sectors of the economy and, indeed, farm employment has increased during the last three drought years, accor...

Here is the action alert from Roger Mammon, Restore the Delta board member, about the need for environmental justice advocates to show en masse at the State Capitol on July 7 to stop the peripheral canal!...

The Department of Interior will hold a "town hall meeting on the drought in California" on Sunday, June 28, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. at the Fresno State Satellite Student Union, 2485 East San Ramon Avenue in Fresno....

Will the Schwarzengger administration, the worst administration for fish and environment in California history, finally obey the law by complying with Delta salinity standards? Photo: Bill Jennings, chairman of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, will testify against the Schwarzenegger administration's failure to comply with Delta salinity standards in an evidentiary hearing in Sacramento on Thursday, June 25....