LOCAL News :: Environment & Food
Many Hands make "light" work!
16 Aug 2005
by
Elaine Charkowski
In a few years, the price of oil will skyrocked. Oil is used in pesticides, herbicides, fertilizer, fuel for farming machinery, and for transporting crops. An oil shortage will cause a food shortage. Heres how to get prepared! Achieve food independance by growing and storing your own organic food!
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LOCAL News :: Environment & Food : Peace & War : Resistance & Tactics
PIX: Anti-Nuclear Protest at Livermore Labs, pt 1
11 Aug 2005
(Updated)
by
Matt Fitt

Satruday, August 6, marked the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by the United States. Hundreds of anti-nuclear protesters marched to the gates of Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, one of the primary sites for the continued research and development of new and "improved" thermonuclear weapons.
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News :: Environment & Food
Seventeen year old halts old-growth logging in the Biscuit
A blockade has been constructed to stop ancient forest logging within the Biscuit timber sale and to honor the late Joan Norman. Atop a platform 50 feet in the air, a 17 year-old woman sits committed to halt felling within this contested old growth reserve timber sale, called Hobson.
Ancient forest logging began at the Hobson old-growth reserve timber sale last week. The sale has been the site of numerous acts of civil disobedience. In the wake of a court decision in favor of the timber industry's further exploitation and destruction of the very last
ancient forests on public land, large numbers of citizens continue to come out of the woodwork to defend the Wild Siskiyous. The media is invited to visit the Joan Norman Memorial Road Blockade today.
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LOCAL News :: Environment & Food : Peace & War : Sister Cities
Weapons Inspectors Visit Lockheed Martin on Hiroshima Rememberance Day
07 Aug 2005
(Updated)
by
Paloma

On Friday afternoon after the vigil at the County building, nuclear war resisters carpooled to the local Lockheed Martin facility. Through art and diaglogue, they challenged LM employees to consider the implications of their occupation.
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LOCAL Announcement :: Education & Youth : Environment & Food : Globalization & Capitalism : Labor & Economics : Poverty & Urban Development
Internship Opportunities
please read on about the following internship opportunities working with local youth.
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