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December 24, 2007
During a special investigative hearing of the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee in Rio Vista on December 6, Assemblywoman Lois Wolk (D-Davis) demanded answers from state and federal agencies responsible for the massive fish kill in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta at Prospect Island...
July 24, 2007
In the latest episode of the “Klamathgate” scandal now rocking the White House, Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, has invited Vice President Dick Cheney to testify at a July 31 oversight hearing on his apparent role in influencing scientific and...
July 24, 2007
The Bush administration, facing a Congressional inquiry into Dick Cheney’s role in the Klamath River fish kill of 2002, is also the hot seat over allegations that a former Department of Interior official, Julie A. MacDonald, politically interfered with decisions protecting delta smelt, splitttail an...
April 25, 2007
Cindy Sheehan, who appeared with author Norman Solomon at a packed event sponsored by Sacramento for Democracy on April 4 at the Coloma Center, had as harsh words for the Democrats who voted for the supplemental funding bill for the Iraq war as she did for the Bush administration and Congressional R...
March 17, 2007
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “Delta Vision” apparently doesn’t include recreational anglers or Indian Tribes, based on the appointments by Secretary for Resources Mike Chrisman to a 41-member Delta Stakeholders Group to advise the “Blue Ribbon Task Force” in February.
“This panel will represent D...
February 25, 2007
A broad coalition of recreational fishing organizations, fishing businesses and boat and tackle manufacturers, as well as representatives of the Klamath River Indian Tribes, officially kicked off the “Water for Fish” Campaign in a press conference held on February 15 at the Fred Hall Fishing Tackle...
January 06, 2007
Veterans, religious leaders and anti-war activists converged on the federal building in Sacramento on January 4, in conjunction with a series of massive protests nationwide, to announce the intensification of a campaign to ask Rep. Doris Matsui and Congress to end all funding for the bloody Iraq occ...
January 02, 2007
Pentagon Spied on Sacramento Area Activists.
The ground-breaking release of nine reports by Pentagon’s Threat and Local Observation Notice (TALON) surveillance program on November 21 reveals a chilling web of surveillance by federal counter terrorism agencies directed against peace and social...