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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
logging roads ruin rivers If you want to locate the best fishing in our national forests, find the logging roads; then go somewhere else....
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 2:38pm PST
Olympia pair tied to ring of arsons That was until their landlord heard the federal agent on his answering machine Thursday saying his tenants were now in federal prison.
Block and Zacher were arrested Thursday for their alleged involvement in a 2001 Oregon arson that federal officials say is linked to a string of ecoterrorism attacks in five western states....
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 1:24pm PST
February Critical Mass in Santa Cruz 
On February 25th, Santa Cruz Critical Massers were riding on West Cliff as the sun dipped behind the pacific ocean....
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 2:28am PST
The Green Scare and the Government’s “Case” Against Rod Coronado 
The federal government has been chomping at the bit to put Rod Coronado back in prison since the moment he got out, and his indictment in San Diego for an exercise of pure speech is a flimsy pretext to do just that. [ed: Updated 02 March 2006]...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 12:45am PST
Critical Mass Fourteen years ago, Chris Carlsson and a few dozen of his cycling friends decided to take back the streets of San Francisco from cars in a spontaneous demonstration of the might of bikes. They enjoyed the ride so much that they decided to make it a monthly tradition. 162 months later, Critical Mass—as the motley collection of bike commuters, recreational cyclists, and the occasional hooligan is known—is a Bay Area landmark. Several hundred cyclists routinely participate in the controversial r...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 12:20am PST
FBI Green scare continues more arrests this week Repost, please educate yourselves and support these victums of state scapegoating.
The “green scare” intensifies across the nation this week as eighteen people have now been indicted for more than a dozen actions of property damage and one incident of "teaching and demonstrating."...
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 3:14pm PST
Saving the Bay of La Paz & Gulf of California 
This is a brief summary of our groups’ efforts, actions and progress towards saving the Bay of La Paz and Gulf of California, the most bio-diverse body of water on Earth. Over a thousand species are involved, many being highly endangered and several on the verge of extinction.
We request all assistance possible. Please cross-post and forward to any sources which you may deem appropriate...
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 3:07pm PST
Global Warming and San Francisco San Francisco purports to be a Green City. The actions of the City and County of San Francisco and Mayor Gavin Newsom speak other wise. Over 400 mature trees were clear cut on Parcel A at Hunters Point Shipyard. Over 300 trees at McClaren Park. 3 brand new Combustion Turbines spewing dangerous particulates are proposed to be built at Pier 80. Our watershed is being polluted by leaking sewer pipes. We continue to build more homes and use less Solar but more fossil fuel. All these reasons and m...
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 10:50am PST
SF Planning Department will host a meeting with SF Redevelopment Agency On March 2, 2006 the SF Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) and the SF Planning Department will meet in joint session to listen to comments on the Certification of the proposed Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Projects and Zoning Environmental Impact Report. So far the process has been disgusting with the SFRA holding meetings without the proper documents - case in point lack of transportation studies. The Final EIR fails to address many vital adverse impacts all linked to Quality of Life issues. ...
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 12:02am PST
Fresno Residents Demand Clean Air 
On Wednesday, February 22, 2006 a group of concerned residents of Fresno’s Addams Community held a demonstration to oppose the relocation of Rosenbalm Rockery, a Clovis concrete and soils processing facility, to a lot directly across the street from the Addams Elementary School....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 7:53pm PST
How the Feds make bad food cheaper than good food, Grist, 20060222 CORN SYRUP is deadly and subsidized...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 2:17pm PST
Ecosystem and labor under attack in Florida Florida's ecosystems, human and civil rights all coming under attack by corporate influenced development. Some ideas for local communities in FL to regain their health, land and dignity from profit hungry corporations....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 8:41am PST
Environmentalist charged with teaching arson in San Diego SAN DIEGO - An environmentalist faces federal charges of teaching others how to start an arson fire during a 2003 lecture in San Diego, where the costliest act of ecoterrorism in U.S. history had just occurred....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 8:07am PST
Wild Yellowstone Buffalo in Peril! Urgent Help Needed nps.gov kills...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 2:56am PST
City hopes to mine dog park for energy City officials are hoping to harness the power of dog waste in this dog-friendly city where animal feces make up nearly 4 percent of residential waste....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 12:04am PST
Wild Yellowstone Buffalo in Peril! Urgent Help Needed 
In the past two months, Yellowstone National Park rangers have captured and slaughtered nearly 900 wild buffalo....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 10:24pm PST
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