Howls of Reprisal: Wolves Return to the Frontlines

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2dQjnz8734&feature=related] Until their reintroduction in the 1990s wolves were all but wiped out in the Northern Rocky Mountains. No wolves had been spotted in Eastern Oregon since 1946, and further west, the last sighting of a wolf in California was in 1924.  […]

This Camera Fights Fascism: Photographs of migration and struggle

Art Exhibit: de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, California. Opening Thursday, September 22nd, 6PM. David Bacon and Francisco Dominguez have both followed in the tradition of Depression-era photographers such as Dorothea Lange, focusing their cameras on struggle, dissent, immigrants, and workers. […]

Environmental Groups to Appeal on Central California Landfill

By LEWIS GRISWOLD McClatchy Newspapers FRESNO, Calif. — Environmental activists fighting a hazardous waste dump near Kettleman City, Calif. – which has been hit by a rash of birth defects – announced Thursday they will appeal an adverse ruling in a lawsuit […]