Thursday, May 28, 2015
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Santa Barbara Oil Spill now reaches 9 miles.
by Dan Bacher
State and federal government crews continue to monitor the clean up of a big oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara as the size of the disaster has expanded.
The spill from a ruptured pipeline owned by Plains All American Pipeline expanded overnight from 4 miles long to two slicks stretching 9 miles along the coast, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The pipeline carries crude oil from to Flores to Gaviota.
Preliminary reports indicated that the ruptured 24 inch pipeline in Goleta leaked an estimated 21,000 gallons of crude oil Tuesday. However, the pipeline company may have actually released as much as 105,000 gallons, with tens of thousands of gallons going into the ocean, according to the latest data from Plains All American. (http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83582957/)
A local first reported the spill coming from a leak in the pipeline at Refugio State Beach around noon on Tuesday, May 19. The Coast Guard dispatched members from the Marine Safety Detachment Santa Barbara and Sector Los Angeles-Long Beach upon initial notification, according to a statement from the Coast Guard.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Monday, May 11, 2015
VOODOO PALOOZA II Featuring "Island of Black & White"
CHILDREN’S HOPE PROUDLY PRESENTS
VOODOO PALOOZA II!
A Haiti Benefit Concert on the Lake Featuring
Island of Black & White
Saturday May 16th, 5pm
3025A Cambridge Rd., Cameron Park
(2 Miles North of Highway 50, Cambridge Rd. Exit)
Suggested Donation: $6 or a Bottle of Chewable Children’s Vitamins (No Gummies Please)
No Host BBQ and No Host Bar Featuring Our World Famous Voodoo Punch for those 21 and Older
Seating is limited -- Please RSVP to: paulb1221@sbcglobal.net
All Proceeds Go to Children's Hope's Projects Serving Haiti's Most Vulnerable Children.
Sanders and Socialism- As American as Apple Pie
Socialism
Long
deployed by the right as an epithet, this form of left-wing populism is as
American as apple pie.
Now that
Bernie Sanders has entered the contest for the Democratic Party’s presidential
nomination, Americans are going to hear a lot about socialism, because the
73-year-old U.S. senator from Vermont describes himself as a “democratic
socialist.”
“Ever since
I was a kid I never liked to see people without money or connections get put
down or pushed around,” Sanders explained in making his announcement. “When I
came to Congress I tried to be a voice for people who did not have a voice—the
elderly, the children, the sick, and the poor. And that is what I will be doing
as a candidate for president.”
We can
expect the right-wing echo chamber—including Fox News hosts, Tea Party
politicians, and Rush Limbaugh—to attack Sanders for espousing an ideology that
they’ll likely describe as foreign, European, and un-American.
But
Sanders’s views are in sync with a longstanding American socialist tradition.
Throughout our history, some of the nation’s most influential activists and
thinkers, such as Jane Addams, John Dewey, Helen Keller, W.E.B. DuBois, Albert
Einstein, Walter Reuther, Martin Luther King, and Gloria Steinem, embraced
socialism.
Of course,
America’s right-wingers say there’s already a socialist in the White House !
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Free Screening of "SELMA" on Friday, May 8th @ Sac State
Campus Progressive Alliance Presents
The
Friday Night Film Series
"SELMA"
"A Truly Great American Film."
-- Pete Travers, Rolling Stone
Free Admission! Everyone Welcome!
Friday, May 8th, 2015
Shorts – 6pm Feature
– 6:30pm
Mariposa Hall
1000
Sacramento State University
Info:
paub1221@sbcglobal.net
Sunday, May 3, 2015
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