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The Navajo Nation's Ongoing Battle Against Uranium Mining
We look at the ongoing battle over uranium mining in the Navajo Nation. Mining has occurred on Navajo territory for over fifty years and the impact is still being felt. We speak with the directors of the Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining and the Southwest Research and Information Center....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 9:47am PST
Faulty and fake Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on Bayview Hunters Point
The Environmental Impact Report linked to Bayview Hunters Point is fake and faulty. It does not address traffic studies and the ever growing and changing truck routes that are adversely impacting a large residential and industrial area. Makes little mention of Cultural Resources the land of the Ohlone. Once the Chinese had a Shrimp Industry and history NO outreach to the Asian community. No current data on air pollution it is the worst ever. Not a word about Open Space, Community Benefits, an...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 7:19am PST
EARTH MATTERS RADIO - Interview with Att'y. Ben Rosenfeld on Rod Coronado's arrest (audio/mpeg 12.6MB)
Earth Matters - Environmental news for "Flashpoints" on KPFA radio. San Francisco civil rights attorney Ben Rosenfeld talks about the recent arrest of Rod Coronado, the FBI witch hunt of environmental activists, and what we can do about it. mp3 audio, 13:47 minutes...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 6:06pm PST
Spiral Gardens Produce Stand Cashbox Stolen
Spiral Gardens' Produce Stand cashbox stolen during the Mardi Gras parade's visit....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 5:17pm PST
How to help + PDX and NYC events
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Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 1:35pm PST
Consensus grows on climate change
The global scientific body on climate change is expected to report soon that emissions from humankind is the only explanation for major changes on Earth....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 8:03am PST
Deforestation -- The Dark Side of Europe's Thirst for Green Fuel
Bio-diesel fuels are helping reduce carbon emissions, but some production of the "green" energy source is contributing to rain forest destruction in Malaysia and Indonesia. NAM contributor Paolo Pontoniere is U.S. correspondent for Focus, Italy's leading monthly....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 6:55am PST
Where does Bottled Water come from? Take Action by 3/2!
Right now, there is an effort underway in Congress to pre-empt state laws on food and bottled water labeling, which would mean that some good state laws would disappear. For instance, the National Uniformity in Labeling Act, or HR 4167, would jeopardize California's law requiring that consumers be notified of contaminants that are known to the state to cause cancer or birth defects (Proposition 65) as well as California's statute requiring warnings on shellfish....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2006 12:11am PST
pet owners advised to take precautions after cat dies of bird flu
Luke Harding in Berlin and Sarah Boseley
Wednesday March 1, 2006
The Guardian...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 10:26pm PST
Klamath River Water Quality Action Plan Hearing
This is a very important opportunity to
come out & speak out
In support of the Klamath River and its fishery dependent communities!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 4:21pm PST
URGENT: Tell Congress to Protect Food Safety Laws!
you are what you eat...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 3:11pm PST
Depleted Uranium Contaminates Europe - Evidence Was Hidden By Halliburton
....estimated that the atomicity equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs has been released into the global atmosphere since 1991, from the use of depleted uranium munitions....
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 3:11pm PST
victoriasdirtysecret.net April 11th National Day of Action
clearcuts for catalogs...
Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2006 2:24pm PST
Memory Against Forgetting: An Open Letter on the "Green Scare"
This is an open letter regarding the FBI's "Operation Backfire" -- the recent wave of over a dozen arrests and indictments against alleged eco-saboteurs. The post provides political context for this attack on the grassroots environmental movment -- the "Green Scare" --and urges people from all social movements to stand in solidarity against political repression. Please re-post and distribute this letter widely. Together we are stronger than either greed or fear!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 9:32pm PST
Memory Against Forgetting - An Open Letter on the "Green Scare"
This is an excellent essay from Portland Indymedia on the current "Green Scare" arrests of eco-activists....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 2:43pm PST
Call to boycott Boston University
A call for a student boycott of Boston University due to their proposal to build a biosafety level 4 (highest level) biolab in Roxbury, the poorest, minority neighborhood in Boston....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 8:11am PST
Mayor Gavin Newsom and SF Redevelopment Agency out to steal Bayviw Hunters Point
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) is out to wipe out huge sections of Bayview Hunters Point. Over 2,528 acres are slated to be a Project Area with real Imminent Domain enforcement to be used to run out constituents that really do not understand what is happening to their community. Marcia Rosen, Jesse Blout, Mayor Gavin Newsom and an inept, corrupt, and illegal Bayview Hunters Point Project Area Committee is working with SFRA to adversely impact thousands. There has been no meaningfu...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 2:26am PST