Longtime media critic, co-founder of Roots Action, and North Bay resident Norman Solomon notes the growing chorus of mainstream media outlets that are stoking fears of a Bernie Sanders presidency. This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. Spin Shift on Bernie: The Escalating Media Assault Published on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 by Common Dreams by…
Those with an interest in upholding universal human rights and international law, as well as providing a soft landing for end of the American imperial project, particularly in this hemisphere, continue to hold out hope that President Obama will keep his promise to close the U.S. military’s detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters is organizing a campaign to give the U.S. administration a further push in that direction. – RR
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Courtesy of Dr. Philip H. Howard, an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Sustainability at Michigan State University. Howard is author of the forthcoming book, Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat?, to be published on February 25, 2016.
Ami Gunasekara, PhD, liaison to the Environmental Farming Act Science Advisory Panel of the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has put out a call for public comments on an important program of California’s Healthy Soils Initiative. Writes Gunasekara, “Per direction of the Environmental Farming Act Science Advisory Panel, CDFA is making the draft document…
Plans for a four food-truck outdoor dining site which will also feature a permanent kitchen will be discussed at tonight’s Petaluma Planning Commission meeting, 7 pm at Petaluma City Hall, 11 English St, Petaluma. View the event live from wherever you are via this page, where you may also find a link to the video…
The Raucous Rooster paid a visit to Petaluma Grange VP Connie Madden and partner Wayne Morgenthaler’s Oasis Community Farm yesterday and found them with a surplus of fresh eggs from their flock of pastured chickens. Oasis normally sells eggs for $7/dozen but the hens have been particularly busy over the winter and for the time…
The Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation & Open Space District and the University of California Cooperative Extension are pleased to host two public meetings to discuss the Young-Armos Incubator Farm Concept: Neighbor Input Session Intended for adjacent landowners, homeowners, and local residents to provide input on the project concept, including potential site improvements and farm education…
There are about 52 Seed Libraries in California. AB 2470, the “California Seed Law,” was amended in 2014. One of the provisions that was slipped in, basically makes Seed Libraries and Seed Swaps illegal in California. Specifically it says is that if you share seeds with anyone that lives more than 3 miles away from…
A message from Organic Consumers Association: Sonoma County Needs Your Help to Pass a Ban on GMO Crops! Citizens for Healthy Farms and Families in Sonoma County is working on a citizens’ ballot initiative to ban GMO crops throughout the county. The group has only six more weeks to gather 20,000 signatures if they want…
