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Demolition of People's Park Has Been an Expensive Boondoggle, Costs Rising
According to their own accounting, the University of California has spent roughly 11-million dollars to turn People's Park into a dirt lot. In addition, the expected cost of their development proposal has increased by a third, now expected to cost 400-million....
Posted: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 12:04pm PST
Legal Petition Aims to Plug Thousands of Old Offshore Oil Wells
GAO Report Reveals Alarming Decommissioning Gaps in Gulf of Mexico, Pacific...
Posted: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 7:45am PST
Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe & Nuclear War! Tea & talk w/ Timmon
BFUU Hall, Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
1924 Cedar St., a block east of MLK Jr Wy at Bonita Ave.
midway between north Berkeley & downtown Berkeley BART stations....
Event Date: Wed, Mar 6, 2024 7:30pm PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 28, 2024 11:45pm PST
Yosemite Aramark Contract Should Have Been Cancelled.
NPS has said that 2 Consecutive Marginal Annual Overall Rating Reports in a row would trigger them to cancel a concessions contract. Aramark at Yosemite had Marginal Ratings in 2018 and 2019....
Posted: Tue, Feb 27, 2024 7:53am PST
Southern Resident Orcas Receive Oregon Endangered Species Protections
PORTLAND, Ore., February 16, 2024 — The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted today to protect Southern Resident orcas under the state’s Endangered Species Act, responding to a February 2023 petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, and Whale and Dolphin Conservation....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2024 9:38pm PST
ExxonMobil Drops Court Bid to Truck Oil in Santa Barbara
LOS ANGELES, February 16, 2024 — ExxonMobil’s dangerous proposal to truck massive amounts of oil along California highways is dead after the company dropped its lawsuit challenging Santa Barbara County’s denial of the plan....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2024 9:31pm PST
Leidesdorff Research Center - Black Miners Bar - Groundbreaking Celebration and Work Day
Black Miners Bar - Lake Natoma
Folsom, California...
Event Date: Fri, Mar 15, 2024 10:30am PDT
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2024 6:08pm PST
Warheads to Windmills Book Talk
Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Fri, Mar 8, 2024 6:30pm PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2024 11:49am PST
Biden Leaves East Palestine Without Healthcare; Migrants Struggle at the Texas-Mexico Bord
Pacifica's Capitalism, Race & Democracy covers Biden Leaves East Palestine Without Healthcare; Migrants Struggle at the Texas-Mexico Border; Rashida Tlaib Revives Discredited Allegations against Syria’s Assad...
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2024 2:56pm PST
Ecogenocidio: la extinción por goteo
Ecogenocidio: la extinción por goteo...
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2024 4:51am PST
For sixth year in a row, no Delta Smelt found in CDFW Fall Midwater Trawl survey
When no Delta Smelt are found in six years of a survey that has been conducted since 1967, the estuary is in a serious ecological crisis....
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2024 10:51am PST
Big Oil and Big Gas spent a record $27 million lobbying in California in 2023!
WSPA and the oil companies wield their power in 8 major ways: through (1) lobbying; (2) campaign spending; (3) serving on and putting shills on regulatory panels; (4) creating Astroturf groups; (5) working in collaboration with media; (6) sponsoring awards ceremonies and dinners, including those for legislators and journalists; (7) contributing to non profit organizations; and (8) creating alliances with labor unions, mainly construction trades...
Posted: Sun, Feb 18, 2024 10:42am PST
School Globe Model for Infrastructural Global Warming
What about if the global warming is now not only in the atmosphere and on the surface, but 1.5 *C or more is the geophysical warming inside the Earth. This is the theoretical conception with some practical cases in our reality. Let the Earth be bigger than earlier, 4.5 bln years ago, in the Expanding Earth Theory [search in Internet] process with nuclear-thermic mechanism for its widening. This means with the radius of the planet longer now of about 70 % than in the beginning of expansion. I...
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2024 10:45am PST
Yosemite Another Crater Lake? Yosemite Workers Claim Mismanagement at Yosemite.
With word spreading of Aramark’s gross mismanagement at Crater Lake, Yosemite workers have been increasingly speaking out about similar conditions they have faced since Aramark took over in Yosemite....
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2024 10:47am PST
NPS Makes Move to Terminate Crater Lake Contract with Aramark.
Aramark received an Unsatisfactory Review for its management of concessions at Crater Lake in 2023. The Unsatisfactory Annual Overall Rating has triggered NPS to terminate the contract....
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2024 11:04am PST
Insure our Future
1 Post Street, San Francisco...
Event Date: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 11:00am PST
Posted: Tue, Feb 13, 2024 10:48am PST
City of UC/Berkeley’s metal sculpture graffiti art wall's first opening reception!
City of UC/Berkeley’s metal sculpture graffiti art wall
project had it’s first opening reception Sunday 2/11/24!!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2024 9:38pm PST
Electric Vehicle Financial Incentives
Webinar. Register to receive link....
Event Date: Thu, Feb 22, 2024 7:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2024 11:17am PST
People's Park Will Rise Again
A chapter in the book by famed former Berkeley activist Jerry Rubin, called "People's Park Will Rise Again," may be found and read beginning on page 224, in his book called, "Do It! Scenarios of the Revolution." Unfortunately, Jerry Rubin died a number of years ago after being hit by a car. Now that some of the phony liberal politicians in Berkeley sold out People's Park to the rich and powerful, if Jerry Rubin is turning over in his grave over this situation, I hope that he may Rest in Peace...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2024 10:10pm PST
Aramark VP of Operations David P. Sloma Gets the Axe
It has been reported that David Sloma has received a dose of his own medicine, and was fired from Aramark over the weekend. People blame him for the recent mass layoffs in Yosemite, and the issues being brought up by Sen Wyden at Crater Lake....
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2024 9:03am PST