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Benicia City Council Says No to Valero!

A great win for People Power! The Benicia City Council voted 5-0 on Sept. 20th to deny the use permit for Valero's proposed oil train facility. A Surface Transportation Board ruling which arrived a few hours before the meeting assured city council … Read full article

How “No Coal in Oakland” Won: Sunflower Alliance General Assembly, Sept 25

Sunflower Alliance members who participated in the successful No Coal in Oakland campaign will discuss the ways the campaign built the power to stop the coal export terminal. Plus updates on our campaigns. We need your participation and your … Read full article

Idle No More Call: Stand Up to Phillips 66, Sept 26

The Conoco Phillips 66 Refinery in Rodeo has once again poisoned Bay Area water and air. A tanker spill this week in San Pablo Bay sent over a hundred people to the hospital, and untold numbers of relatives in the area have been affected. We are … Read full article

Ecuadorian Indigenous Leaders in Richmond, Sept 27

Come hear stories from Ecuadorian leaders representing more than 30,000 indigenous and campesino people who have been fighting Texaco (now Chevron) since the 1970s, when Texaco began contaminating their rainforest home with crude oil and chemicals. … Read full article

Call & Canvass for Protect Monterey, Sept 27 – Oct 30

We won in Alameda County. We won in Butte, San Benito, Mendocino and Santa Cruz. And this November at the ballot, we’re taking on Chevron in its own backyard—Monterey County, the fourth largest oil-producing county in the state. It's time for Bay … Read full article

Divestment Bay Area — Fossil Free California Meeting, Sept 28

Come to the next meeting of Divestment Bay Area – Fossil Free California. Learn how people in California and all over the world are moving large institutional investors away from the fossil fuel industry -- and how you can help. Newcomers to the … Read full article

How Environmental Racism Impacts Communities of Color, Sept 30

Everyone is invited to a town hall meeting in South Vallejo to hear veterans of the struggle for environmental justice talk about how environmental racism impacts communities of color. South Vallejo already suffers from a high rate of asthma. … Read full article

Push for Community Goals as Alameda County CCE Vote Nears, Sept 29, Oct 4

Join the campaign to push for local clean energy development, good family-sustaining jobs, community benefits, and community participation in Alameda County’s Community Choice Energy (CCE). October 4 the Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote on … Read full article

Tell TSCB to Make Zeneca Clean Up Richmond Toxic Stew: Comment by Oct 10

Tell the state Toxic Substances Control Board (TSCB) to make Zeneca clean up the toxic stew it left in its “chemical evaporation ponds” on Richmond’s South Shore. Zeneca (formerly Stauffer Chemical Company) has presented a “remediation” plan that … Read full article

Building Local Democracy

Are you struggling to relate to an election, where your “realistic” choices are between a neoliberal and a neo-fascist? Are you sick of having no voice or representation, of never being heard? There are elections where your choices can make a real … Read full article

A Fossil Fuel Resistance Victory Story

There Will Be No Coal In Oakland! No Coal in Oakland (NCIO) was one of the most dynamic and successful local campaigns focused on keeping extreme fossil fuels in the ground and out of the Bay Area. The campaign united labor and faith communities … Read full article

Z Se Puede! Help Monterey County Ban Fracking

Monterey is on its way to ban fracking. Measure Z, a citizens' initiative to ban fracking and other extreme oil recovery methods, is on the November ballot in Monterey County. The campaign has gotten off to a solid start with the endorsement of … Read full article

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