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Thu Jun 16 2016 (Updated 07/06/16)
Medical Cannabis Provider Care By Design Facilities Raided
Thu Jun 16 2016 (Updated 07/06/16)
Patient Advocates Denounce Raids on Medical Cannabis Manufacturers
On June 15, law enforcement officers raided Care By Design and CBD Guild, a medical cannabis grower and manufacturer that tens of thousands of patients depend on across the state. The enforcement comes just days after the company hosted local and state public officials and regulators for a walk-through of their new facilities and to discuss regulations for the emerging industry resulting from the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act passed by the California legislature last fall.
Tue May 17 2016
International Days of Action to Boycott Driscoll's
On two consecutive Saturdays, May 7 and May 14, farmworkers called for an international day of action to bring attention to the ongoing struggles in the berry fields in Washington State and San Quintin, Mexico. May 7 was initiated by Familias Unidas por la Justicia in Washington state, while Sindicato Independiente Nacional Democratico De Jornaleros Agricolas (SINDJA) farmworkers in San Quintin, Mexico called for a global day of action on May 14. Demonstrations took place in many locations, including Mexico City; Burlington, WA; Portland and Eugene, Oregon; and Eureka, Rohnert Park, Fairfield, San Leandro, Santa Cruz, Watsonville, and San Diego, California.
Sun Mar 27 2016 (Updated 04/18/16)
California Apartment Association Stalking the Tenants' Rights Movement
Sun Mar 27 2016 (Updated 04/18/16)
CAA Opposes Rent Controls in Oakland, Alameda, San Jose, Mountain View, and Other Cities
The California Apartment Association (CAA) has been meddling in the affairs of city after city in Northern California in an effort to stop any and all renter protections being promoted by renters, tenant activists, and their supporters. The same day that Oakland tenant activists filed a ballot initiative to strengthen renter protections called the Renters Upgrade, the CAA announced that they were keeping an eye on things, and are coming up with their own plan to counter the tenants' movement efforts.
Sun Nov 1 2015 (Updated 11/02/15)
California Moves to Keep Whales Out of Crab Gear
Sun Nov 1 2015 (Updated 11/02/15)
State Group Calls for Changes as West Coast Whale Entanglements Reach Record High Levels
A state-convened working group is recommending a series of initial steps toward reducing whale entanglements in crab gear in California, including more monitoring and retrieval of lost fishing gear. The Dungeness Crab Fishing Gear Working Group was convened in September after the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups found that whale entanglements in 2014 and 2015 had reached historic highs.
Sun Apr 19 2015 (Updated 04/21/15)
The Fight for $15 Takes the Bay Area by Storm
Sun Apr 19 2015 (Updated 04/21/15)
Oakland, Berkeley, San Jose, Marin Workers, Unions, and Allies Demand $15 Minimum Wage
Activists in Oakland came out in the hundreds to rally and march for a $15 minimum wage on April 15, tax day. They started their protests by shutting down all thirteen McDonald's restaurants in Oakland with chanting, flash mobs and and banners. Later in the day, over one thousand participants from Fight for $15 actions all over the San Francisco Bay area converged at Sproul Plaza in UC Berkeley. Protesters then marched through Berkeley main streets, snarling traffic, and stopping at the downtown McDonald's.
The National Park Service has acknowledged that that more than 250 tule elk died inside the fenced Pierce Point Elk Preserve at California’s Point Reyes National Seashore from 2012 to 2014, likely due to lack of access to year-round water. While nearly half the elk inside the fenced area died, free-roaming Point Reyes elk herds with access to water increased by nearly a third during the same period.
Sun Apr 19 2015 (Updated 04/23/15)
Farmers Protest Sprouts Grand Opening in San Rafael
Sun Apr 19 2015 (Updated 04/23/15)
Gill Tract, Occupy the Farm Activists Continue Campaign to Stop Sprouts from Paving Land
On April 15, urban farmers from the UC Gill Tract Community Farm, Occupy the Farm, other food and climate justice communities, and fast food workers joined together at an Oakland McDonalds for Fight for Fifteen protest. By noon, fast food workers and Gill Tract farmers joined for a Boycott Sprouts action at the grand opening of a Sprouts “Farmers Market” in San Rafael to protest the supermarket’s plans to pave the historic Gill Tract Farm in Albany. The action at the San Rafael Sprouts is the third in the last month.
Tue Mar 24 2015
Shutting Down Sprouts
On March 14, farmers and neighbors of the Gill Tract turned out to disrupt business as usual at a local Sprouts supermarket. Activists, a brass band, and a large delegation of workers from the Fast Food Workers Union converged on Sprouts in Walnut Creek, holding a sit-in to block the main entrance to the store and rallying around a 600-pound stump that had been recently cut down by contractors preparing for the construction of Sprouts at the Gill Tract. One week later, Sprouts management sent protestors legal documents suggesting that the parking lot in front of their Petaluma store was not a "free speech" zone.
Wed Jan 14 2015 (Updated 04/26/15)
Reclaiming Martin Luther King Jr's Legacy
Wed Jan 14 2015 (Updated 04/26/15)
Bay Area Pulls Off 96 Hours of Action as Part of National Call to "Reclaim King’s Legacy"
In Oakland, hundreds of people from more than two dozen groupings organized in response to the Anti Police-Terror Project’s call to come together for ninety-six hours of direct action over the Martin Luther King Day weekend. The first action announced was a protest inside Montgomery BART station in San Francisco at 7am on Friday. The weekend’s events culminated in a Jobs and Economy March for the People on Monday, January 19. Other groups organized more MLK-related events in Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz, and throughout Northern California.
Mon Dec 29 2014 (Updated 12/30/14)
Drift Gillnets are Deadly Curtains of Death
Mon Dec 29 2014 (Updated 12/30/14)
Lawmakers & Conservation Groups Call for Phase Out of California Drift Gillnets
On December 22, with the full support of marine conservation organizations, a group of California legislators called on the Pacific Fisheries Management Council and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service to transition away from deadly California drift gillnets. “California drift gillnets are deadly curtains of death for marine wildlife like whales and sea turtles,” said Doug Karpa of Turtle Island Restoration Network.
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Bay Area Biologist Fighting for Sharks in South Africa
Wednesday Sep 28th 10:34 AM
Special investigator to probe anti-rent-control petition complaints in Santa Rosa
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Monday Sep 19th 9:44 PM
CAA may be backing anti-rent control petition in Santa Rosa
Friday Sep 9th 11:47 PM
Greens to Protest Commission on Presidential Debates at Dominican
Monday Sep 5th 12:32 PM
California Mission Foundation Tries to Declare El Camino Real a UNESCO World Heritage Site
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Monday Aug 22nd 2:25 AM
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Thousand of Activists Call for Protection of Silky Sharks at U.N. Wildlife Conference
Wednesday Sep 21st 11:17 AM
Silky Sharks Singled Out as Species to Protect at International Conservation Meeting in Ha
Thursday Sep 8th 9:13 AM
New Study Links Eating Shark Fins & Meat to Alzheimer’s Disease
Thursday Sep 1st 8:45 AM
Senator Ben Allen Nominated for Presidential Champions of Change Award
Thursday Sep 1st 8:33 AM
Conservationists Urge Increased Protections of Silky Sharks at International Meeting
Monday Jul 25th 10:19 AM
Killer whales remain protected in Washington
Wednesday Jun 15th 5:03 PM
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Gene-Altered Salmon; The FDA is not credible
Tuesday Dec 15th 9:43 PM
Human Trafficking in Sonoma County
Tuesday Dec 15th 2:04 PM
‘Went in like Gestapo’–Sonoma sheriffs’ bloody rampage
Friday Oct 9th 6:43 AM
American Nazi Craig Cobb Responsible for Deactivating Native American Facebook Accounts
Sunday Mar 15th 3:43 PM
Sonoma County's Plan Aimed at Winter Homelessness Falls Short
Tuesday Dec 9th 10:40 AM
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