Good morning All, I think “WE” need to officially oppose this action by the FDA. Live organisms that have been chemically engineered to imitate a natural food such as salmon can only lead to continued major sociable acceptance without thought moral or physiologic consequences. Human want has far exceeded our need, this is the basis for [...]
Archive | August, 2010
URGENT by Sep 30 – Please Sign and Send in Petition
Petition to the State of California to Acknowledge and Include Tribal Traditional Uses Within State Regulations for Marine Protected Areas of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative (Click here to sign online petition) We, the undersigned California residents, understand and acknowledge that federally-recognized California Indian Tribes, and California Tribal Peoples, are inherent and necessary to [...]
Environmental Leader Calls For MLPA Official’s Resignation
by Dan Bacher On July 21, a prominent North Coast environmental leader called for the resignation of an oil lobbyist who serves as a member of the Blue Ribbon Task Force (BRTF) to implement Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative. Judith Vidaver, Chair of the Ocean Protection Coalition based in Mendocino County, [...]
Chesbro asks for six-month delay of North Coast MLPA process
The Times-Standard Posted: 08/10/2010 01:15:25 AM PDT Citing concerns about how the Marine Life Protection Act is being implemented on the North Coast, Assemblyman Wesley Chesbro, D-Arcata, asked for a delay in the process, the legislator’s office announced Monday. Enacted in 1999, the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) calls for a coordinated network of ocean [...]
Tribal Activists Disrupt MLPA Meeting to Protect Gathering Rights
“Tribes have always had the inherent right to gather – whether the state makes it legal or not is their choice,” said Georgiana Myers, Yurok Tribal member and organizer for the Klamath Justice Coalition. “The Yurok Tribe has been gathering since the beginning of time. We have always done it, we will always do it, [...]
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