Badlands Journal
Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
USDA Paid Dead Farmers $1.1B
Report: Between 1999 And 2005, Government Made Farm Payments To More Than 170,000 Dead Farmers -- CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/24/politics/main3092184.shtml?sou...
(AP) The Agriculture Department sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period, congressional investigators say.
Water Board Report Shows that Irrigated Agriculture Has Polluted the Delta and Most Central Valley Waterways
For immediate release:
25 July 2007
For Immediate Release, July 24, 2007
Contacts:
Brian Nowicki
Center for Biological Diversity
bnowicki@biologicaldiversity.org, 520-449-3898
Others
For Immediate Release, July 24, 2007
Conservation Groups Call on Governor Schwarzenegger to Stand Up for Global Warming Law:
Senate Republicans Hold State Budget Hostage to Favors for Development and Fossil-Fuels Lobby
To: Merced County Planning Commissioner Lashbrook
Thank you for your letter and the OTA press release. In the attachment you will find our reply.
Central Valley Safe Environment Network
San Joaquin Raptor/Wildlife Rescue Center
Protect Our Water
San Joaquin Valley Conservancy
Stanislaus Natural Heritage Project
Badlands Journal
Badlands replies to Commissioner Lashbrook’s information and commentary
July 21st, 2007
We rodeo fans down here in the San Joaquin Valley have had a ball for the last 10 days watching representatives debate the Farm Bill. McClatchy gave us minute-by-minute coverage of this greased pig contest, featuring Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced, the fellow with the big 18-CA on his back. Cardoza was moving real good after them squealing, greased porkers. Boy’s got some moves in him we hadn’t seen before.
"There's no better place in California to illustrate the water crisis happening right now
in our state," the governor said (standing on the shores of the San Luis Reservoir in
Merced County) -- Merced Sun-Star, July 17, 2007
"We are looking for a niche," said (Merced County Planning Commissioner) Cindy Lashbrook, a Merced County organic farmer who grows blueberries and almonds near Livingston. "We're looking to be legitimized, in a way." -- Merced Sun-Star, July 12, 2007
Happy Bastille Day.
California Native Plant Society
Defenders of Wildlife
Butte Environmental Council
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 13, 2007
Contact: Carol Witham, California Native Plant Society, (916) 452-5440
Brian Segee, Defenders of Wildlife, (202) 682-9400 x 121
Barbara Vlamis, Butte Environmental Council, (530) 891-6426
Court Issues a Preliminary Injunction
against destruction of vernal pool habitat
in the Sunrise Douglas area of Rancho Cordova
This means that other communities will be saddled with a potentially unnecessary NBAF and unjustified hazards. "We remain vigilant and plan tstand with communities across this country to oppose the proliferation ofthese exceedingly dangerous labs." said Miles, Tri-Valley CAREs, July 11, 2007
Three pieces of good news:
A number of local eco-justice advocates would like to thank Merced County Planning Commissioner Cindy Lashbrook for providing a public opportunity to discuss the place of the eco-justice movement in Merced County. Veteran local organizers understand better than the commissioner does that she is just a messenger for the special interests doing business through a combination of propaganda and political coercion to promote urban sprawl and environmental destruction in the San Joaquin Valley.