The Unanimous Opinion.
posted by F Espinoza,

At the 6th Hemispheric Meeting in Havana, when the discussion turned to the subject of production of biofuels from foodstuffs, which are constantly getting more expensive, the huge majority voiced their opposition with indignation...
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MIRAKI: On the Brutal Butchering of Slow-Kill
Cathy Garger,

... After hanging up the phone, it occurred to me that what is actually going down in Afghanistan is, without any doubt, the greatest crime against humanity in perhaps all of US history.
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Lessons from the 6th Hemispheric Meeting CUBA
posted by F Espinoza,

We are aware that most of the wars in the last few decades have been waged over control of energy sources...
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“God’s Energy” - DOD / “Denied”:
Ed Ward, MD,

In contrast, IEC/Electric fusion devices are smaller, significantly more economical, non radioactive, have had working prototypes producing 10 kv of energy, much more likely to be a viable option, and could come to reality in about 5 - 6 years from appropriation of 200 million dollars (less than the cost of one day of economic support for the Middle East oil wars without a single loss of life - 1/90th of what has been spent on D-T fusion).
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Two articles about Rod Coronado
repost,

Rod Coronado gave a talk in San Diego and the feds called his words ‘terrorism.’ How new laws are equating environmentalists with Al Qaeda.
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"Leave your Gas Guzzlin/Polluting Car Home!"
k.hawley,

A single day's abstinence of gasoline usage in the U.S. would conserve hundreds of millions of gallons of gas from being consumed (and spewed as poisonous exhaust into our breathable atmosphere!) and would also vastly increase stockpiles of gasoline so that prices,and related taxes and fuel related inflations would have to come down!



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International Day of Direct Action against Climate Change
RTNA,

From Rising Tide North America: We all know the terrifying statistics: a million species extinct by 2050, 19 of the 20 hottest years on record since 1980, Greenland and Antarctica melting, droughts, floods, famines … the G8 have had over 30 years to address climate change and only succeeded in providing trillions in subsidies to the very industries that are destroying our planet and our future. And while the G8 continues to line their pockets, island states disappear and hundreds of thousands die as a result of the freak weather conditions caused by their irrational and uncontrollable obsession with never ending economic growth. We have a ten-year window to act. As the megalomaniac G8 leaders meet in Germany in June, masked behind a barrier of fences and soldiers, intent on leading us further towards catastrophic and irreversible climate chaos, we must shout, scream and roar ‘no more’. Now is the time to take direct action and shut them down, them and their climate criminal industry friends!

The 8th of June International Day of Action Against Climate Change and the G8 has been called by the International Rising Tide Network. This is a call for autonomous, decentralised actions appropriate for your town, city, or local area...--Read More--

Links: Rising Tide North America | Rising Tide UK | Climate Indymedia | Campaign Against Climate Change | UK Climate Camp | Union of Concerned Scientists Global Warming Site | Real Climate (by Climate Scientists) | OilWatch | Carbon Trade Watch | Energy Justice Network || Day of Solidarity w/ Jeffrey 'Free' Luers 6/9
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Day of Solidarity w/ Jeffrey 'Free' Luers 6/9
Friends of Jeffrey 'Free' Luers,

The 7th anniversary of Jeffrey Luers imprisonment is fast arriving, and to mark this date we are encouraging everyone to participate in a Day of Solidarity. This year we are asking people to hold demonstrations to demand change, not just for Jeff's case but for the world. Please plan an event in your community and inform us of the details so we can help you
publicize it. For information from previous years events, see
 http://freefreenow.org/solidarity.html
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gathering anticivilization 2007
llavors d'anarquia,

After the success of the last gathering in Tavertet, we are calling for a new one this year. It will take place the 8, 9, 10 and 11 of September.

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UCSD Shuttles to be phased out in 2007
Mandy Oglesby,

Chancellor Fox of the University of California San Diego addressed several hundred students on Saturday morning to proclaim her commitment to environmentalism by promising to turn UCSD into a "green" campus. This announcement was followed by official notification from the UCSD parking authority that the campus would be phasing out it's public shuttle system in the following year.

Losing the shuttles will put unnecessary strain on the environment as well as intensify already appalling parking and traffic conditions on the UCSD campus.

Sign the Petition To Save the Shuttle

Comments from Petition Signers Include...
E.M.: Uhhh, big no no. This will screw over lots of students. You will not receive any admiration for such actions, only admonishment. We can all transfer to SDSU if you like, and then maybe you'll see how much you need us. We pay your salary; all we want is a bus line. Don't be stupid.
t.: you better not do this and then give the administration a raise
Y.F.: Roger Revelle would be appalled. Stop your backward slippage. KEEP this green model of UCSD & promote ridership instead of cancelling the shuttle buses... UCSD: Be visible, get even more involved in your city & protect OUR environment, don't just publish studies on it!
M.O.: Budget cuts are out of control, meanwhile the chancellor has a new home built on our dollar?
GM2: They're diverting our attention from the real case at hand. UCSD will NEVER get rid of the shuttles, but will reduce funding. The possibility of removing is just a tactical distraction so that they can do what they want while we have our focus on the wrong thing, and they slip funding slowly while we don't realize. Heed my words.
G.M.: UCSD behaves more like a corporation than like a educational institution. Stop trying to shaft us with every opportunity you get, damnit.
E.R.: I feel we already pay this university more than the education is worth. The least that can be done is to offer the unfortunate thousands who live off campus a way to get to school in an efficient manner.
P.: We cannot afford this. Some students work 40 hrs a week on top of being a full time student just to manage their rent and bills. How do you expect us to afford living here, work AND keep our grades up?... You are promoting our failure.
S.X.: Be a green campus, keep the shuttles, don't encourage private cars
S.K.: This is my life... Don't make me destroy the atmosphere....
T.F.: Do you really want to build more parking structures?
K.H.: It's time for the UCSD administration to start thinking of students as important members of the community rather than the school's ugly stepchild as they have done so often lately. The administration depends on US students for THEIR jobs; without students they'd be nowhere. We students need to start asserting our power and making the school work for US.
L.P.: I thought we were trying to move towards a more green friendly community. Taking away the city shuttles only will further degenerate our earth.
J.W.: This will make it very hard for students from lower economic backgrounds to be students at UCSD if this happens. Also this will cause more cars, less parking, more pollution, more traffic... Why would we want these things?
K.C.: This is madness!

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Interfaith Peace Walk Towards a Nuclear Free
peacehq,

The first of many international walkers have arrived in England to begin an 86 day Interfaith Peace Walk Towards a Nuclear Free Future from Dublin to London starting on the 12th of May 2007.
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We all gonna hit the jackpot REAL SOON
Hajja Romi Elnagar,

Depleted uranium is worse than allergies.
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Why we reject the prospect of nuclear power
Tanja Winter,

Have we forgotten "The greatest environmental catastrophe in the history of humanity"?

Predictably, the nuclear industry is, once again, rearing its ugly head. The nuclear lobby is using global warming to sell us a bill of fraudulent and deadly goods. They want us to believe that nuclear power is "safe, cheap and clean". We have heard that before. They insist that it's the perfect solution to our energy future. It's time that we expose their snake oil propaganda.

Links: The Chernobyl Legacy | Nuclear Oversight in the US | Chernobyl Disaster on Wikipedia
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Amazonian Manatee is under extinguishing risk
Emilio de Lima,

We want to make in the place a first experience of an untouched reserve with respectful exploitation, in permanent expansion, that later can be taken to other regions of the world.

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S. Brian Willson’s Environmental Apocalypse
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger’s Newsmagazine,

S. Brian Willson’s greatest claim to fame is having been run over by a munitions train he was trying to block at a direct-action demonstration nearly 20 years ago, and having lost his legs in the process — but that's not what he came to San Diego to talk about April 2 at the Church of the Brethren. Instead, he talked about his background as a Viet Nam veteran, his growing resistance to authority of all kinds, and his vision of a cooperative commonwealth that he says humans will HAVE to accept once global warming unleashes an environmental apocalypse that will destroy capitalism and most, if not all, of the current human population.
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UCSD Open Studios
general giggles,

The Graduate Visual Arts Department at the University of California – San Diego invites the Southern California art community to view the work of its current MFA students at Open Studios on April 6, 2-8 p.m. Political handshakes, post-human dolls, Mexican moustaches, false promises, Old-Time
radio shows, military recruitment tools, epic octopi, drone machines, fishing boats and Chris Farley are among the explorations of these graduate students.
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Turn off electric 8 p.m. tonight for 5 min.
Mark E. Smith,

I just got the following email:

Dear Friends,

Perhaps alarms can be set to remind us all to shut off lights, computers, Tvs, whatever you are willing to do wihout for five minutes?

This is measurable and we hope you will join us in letting our state know that we believe conservation works and that it can replace the produce of one or two of the state's four aging reactors - 50% of the Alliance's goal to phase out production of highly radiaoctive waste on our coast.

Please join us - for five minutes or to find out more

lightsoffaction

In Peace

Rochelle Becker, Executive Director
Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
www.a4nr.org
PO 1328
San Luis Obispo, Ca 93406-1328
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Public Hearing: Blackwater Training Facility in San Diego?
Lance/reposts,

Blackwater, a multi-million dollar mercenary company owned exclusively by a right-wing Christian billionaire, is trying to develop an 824-acre military training facility in the rural community of Potrero in southeast San Diego. All of the land is either within the Cleveland National Forest or an Agricultural Preserve.

The citizens of Potrero are trying to stop its construction but are having a hard time stopping the political power of Blackwater. --Read More--

Thursday, April 5
Demonstration 4:30PM, Public Hearing 5:30PM
Planning Commission Hearing Room
5201 Ruffin Road, Suite B.

Comments on Previous Articles Include
s t a r r: I work in the Cleveland National Forest, hiking with kids every day through the very meadowlands you describe. There is no way in hell Blackwater USA, war profiteers, Inc. are going to invade our public lands... Not only should Blackwater be dismantled, their activities in Iraq should be revealed. They send mercenaries in to kill, maim, and injure, and then deny negligence when their people get killed and dragged through the streets...--Read More--

Connie: Just what we do not need is the crazy making of war here in Southern California. Why is it that money talks so loud, there is no benefit to the citizens of the area, it is not bringing new revenue or jobs to the area. The land is better used as farm land, we need food not weapons. The Potrero Planning Committee have been seduced into believing this is in their best interest. I am wondering how many of them were enticed with favors and money? The military already have a training facility in that area, they take up a huge portion of the land with their military training. The sound carries for miles, the chopper activity, etc is heard everywhere. --Read More--

Further Information: 1 | 2 |3
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HPV Vaccine Boondoggle
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Pre-teen girls and, in some proposals, boys as well would be forced to undergo vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV) under mandatory vaccine plans being debated in over 30 states. The propaganda for mandatory HPV vaccination states that the virus has been firmly established to cause cervical cancer — even though 30 percent of all women with cervical cancer don't have it and only a handful of all the women who do have the virus ever get cancer. But there's reason to believe this is a massive corporate welfare program to bail out Merck, makers of the only HPV vaccine currently approved by the FDA, from their potential multi-billion dollar losses over Vioxx.
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Locals Visit Cucapá Community
sdimc volunteer,

Since approximately 9000 years ago the Cucapá have lived in the land adjacent to the Rio Colorado, dedicated fundamentally to fishing. Eighteen years ago the Mexican federal government began passing laws that made it nearly impossible for the indigenous Cucapá to live in these lands. The rivers near the Cucapá are drying out because of the dams that have been built on the US side of the Colorado River. Therefore, the current fishing grounds have become a last resort for their survival. In addition, in these waters, fishing of any type of marine species has been prohibited. With the implementation of this decree, the life of the Cucapá has been gravely affected; putting at risk the existence of the Cucapá as indigenous people in Baja California.*

*previously posted for full press release CLICK HERE

a san diego indymedia volunteer got an opportunity to interview Fernanda Rios (collective zapatista, california coalition against poverty) and Andrea Donez (collective zapatista) who have contributed time to organize support for the Cucapá camp and who recently traveled to the Cucapá community

Q: How did you hear about the Cucapá situation?

F.R.: Sup came to the border and told us we should be supporting the indigenous communities nearby.

A.D.: After the commission visited the Cucapá, Delegate Zero said, “We have decided to send an urgent message to the Mexicans and Chicanos north of the Rio Grande to come here in order to maximize the number of people here, create a safe space, and protect the Cucapá and Kiliwa community during the fishing season.”

Cucapá Benefit Show Sat March 31 7PM A+E/North Park | Donations for Cucapá Camp - Dropoff at Chican@ Perk | Cucapá Camp Video
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Renewable Energy for home owners
Amanda Newman,

Renewable Energy Workshops for home owners.
Also, Free Public Potluck and Presentation.
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Cultivating Food Justice Dolores Huerta Video - Part 4/4
san diego indymedia volunteer,

Dolores Huerta was the keynote speaker at the Cultivating Food Justice Conference held at San Diego City College 3 March, 2007. Video - Part 4/4: 11 min 47 sec; 14.8 mbytes.
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Cultivating Food Justice Dolores Huerta Video - Part 3/4
san diego indymedia volunteer,

Dolores Huerta was the keynote speaker at the Cultivating Food Justice Conference held at San Diego City College 3 March, 2007. Video - Part 3/4: 15 min 20 sec; 19.2 mbytes.
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Cultivating Food Justice Dolores Huerta Video - Part 2/4
san diego indymedia volunteer,

Dolores Huerta was the keynote speaker at the Cultivating Food Justice Conference held at San Diego City College 3 March, 2007. Video - Part 2/4: 12 min 32 sec; 15.7 mbytes.
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Cultivating Food Justice Dolores Huerta Video - Part 1/4
san diego indymedia volunteer,

Dolores Huerta was the keynote speaker at the Cultivating Food Justice Conference held at San Diego City College 3 March, 2007. Video - Part 1/4: 15 min 15 sec; 18.2 mbytes.
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Gasoline: More Pain At The Pumps
Stewart A. Alexander,

Within the past five months, since November 2006, the average driver is paying an additional $42 per month for gasoline and more than $100 per household. Families are finding it difficult to meet household expenses and are cutting back on weekend activities and vacation plans. The higher gasoline prices are driving up inflation nationally and are affecting the cost on consumer goods and services.


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VENEZUELA:We denounce the forced relocation
wayùu of the Perija Mountains,

We denounce the forced relocation of indigenous families from their
traditional lands at the hands of the Venezuelan government and the
multi-national coal corporations.


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Cultivating Food Justice Community Forum Video Part Two
san diego indymedia volunteer,

Part two of video excerpts from the Community Forum/Fishbowl Discussion at Cultivating Food Justice, a conference held in San Diego on 3 March, 2007 at San Diego City College. 11 min 29 sec 14.5mbytes
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Cultivating Food Justice Community Forum Video Part One
san diego indymedia volunteer,

Part one of video excerpts from the Community Forum/Fishbowl Discussion at Cultivating Food Justice, a conference held in San Diego on 3 March, 2007 at San Diego City College. 14 min 7 sec 18mbytes
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Waxman's Gift To Tobacco Pesticides Cartel
Watchdog,

Prohibition Rides Again...but NOT against Chlorine/Dioxin, heaps of Pesticides, and even Radiation in typical smoking products. It is so much easier for corporatized officials to Prohibit natural, public-domain plants...as ever.
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