The California Department of Food and Agriculture and the United States Department of Food and Agriculture released an official notice to Seaside which states, "Due to an infestation of Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM), aerial applications of CheckMate®OLR-F (a pheromone

On August 26th , a number of Santa Cruz homeless activists made an appeal to the ACLU of Santa Cruz County during a fundraising event held at the small public aquarium next to the UC Long Marine center. They would

The National Women's History Project says, "At the behest of Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY), in 1971 the U.S. Congress designated August 26th as 'Women's Equality Day.' The date was selected to commemorate the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to

On August 19th , activists from as far away as Palo Alto, Mexico City, and Milan joined members of Code Pink in front of Diane Feinstein's mansion where they rang the doorbell and sang out for peace. Code Pink members

On Thursday, August 23rd at 1:30pm, California's Fourth Appellate District in Santa Ana will hear oral arguments in a contentious case related to the return of medical cannabis patients' medicine following interactions with the police. The State Attorney General and

After more than 19 months in jail without having been convicted of any crime, Eric's trial is now less than a month away. Sacramento Prisoner Support is aiming for the courtroom to be full of Eric's supporters, and is helping

On August 16th, email alerts were circulating that Oaxaca governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz (URO) and other governors from Mexico were visiting Mexican Consulates in Chicago on August 17th, New York City on the 18th and Dallas on the 19th to

Pamela Kincaid died earlier this month under disturbing and suspicious circumstances. This is the story about the events leading to her death. Kincaid was the lead named plaintiff in the lawsuit filed by the homeless against the City of Fresno,

The Jones v. City of Los Angeles decision in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that criminalization of homelessness amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. In the words of the judge writing the majority decision: "The Eighth Amendment prohibits

A recently declassified August 2006 Department of Defense report confirms that psychologists were directly responsible for the development and use of techniques defined by the International Red Cross as "tantamount to torture." These techniques are reportedly still being used against

On Thursday, August 16th , there will be a screening of True to My Pledge , a new film by Mal de Ojo TV , starting at 7pm at the meeting of the Brown Berets in Watsonville. On Friday, August

Despite the fact that there is overwhelming vacant commercial space in Santa Cruz County, the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County (CFSCC) decided to build a new office building in Aptos. Instead of building around the gorgeous landscape that defines

The San Jose City Council will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 13th , at the San Jose City Council Chambers, to discuss the future of Coyote Valley. Coyote Valley is one of the last remaining open spaces of

On August 9th , East Palo Alto youth rallied against environmental racism and celebrated the partial shutdown of Romic Technologies, a major toxic waste facililty serving Silicon Valley. Demonstrators demanded that the Department of Toxic Substances Control implement its Enforcement

In yet another bicycle tragedy, Elena Castaneda was run over and killed some time around 8am on August 9th by a large dump truck at the intersections of West, Isabella, and San Pablo in Oakland. Castaneda's death is eerily similar