Tag: California
Exhibit A: The rise of 8-legged frogs. These happen at the end of a long ecological chain that begins with farm runoff from our heavily fertilized agricultural landscapes. Exhibit B: Farm towns in Cal
This story about the siphoning of water from the Sacramento River to the big corporate farms and cities of southern California says a lot about the future of water resources in the West, and the natio
On this date in 1970, the United Farm Workers achieved its greatest victory, ending its five-year grape boycott after growers agreed to a contract, the first in the history of California farm labor. F
The California Senate has rejected a fracking bill that seems like common sense: Under Pavley’s bill, oil companies would be required to give 30 days notice to land owners whose property line or
I think it’s great that Los Angeles is creating a new wetland in south Los Angeles. Part of a 9 acre park, this 4.5 acre wetland will bring much needed green space to a gritty neighborhood sorel
This year is the 100th anniversary of the San Diego Free Speech Fight, when I.W.W. speakers were routinely denied their First Amendment rights for speaking in public about workers’ rights. Locke

Read about the new crime wave sweeping America’s tubas: BELL, Calif. — When thieves broke into the high school music room here this week, they cut through the bolts on all the storage lockers
In the hipster world, California’s Coachella Valley is known for strange creatures such as Animal Collective and Deer Tick that appear once a year to gigantic crowds of bearded men, women with b
- Corporations Will Never Lead the Movement for Justice
- Lies
- Reproductive Rights in Latin America
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,105
- When you’re too ignorant to know how insane orthodox Republican policy on guns is
- LGM Film Club, Part 267: You in Japan
- Starbucks Union: Chilean Lessons
- Cowardly accessories to murder demand the protection they refused to provide
- Uvalde police didn’t want *anyone else* doing their job, either
- 19 dead kids and 19 live cops