"Larry Hawkins said no new pheromone will be seleallange it.
June 9, 2009
Aricultural officials strongly recommend local farmers attend one of two remaining meetings this month that address the growing number of licted until the state completes an environmental review, which is expected in June.
We need you to sign up and be a part of the EIR Action Team. We will need to organize so when the EIR is finished it we can chght brown apple moths found in Sonoma County.
The meetings will be held at 10 a.m. Monday and 2:30 p.m. June 15 at the county’s Agricultural Commissioner’s Office, 133 Aviation Blvd., Suite 110, north of Santa Rosa. More Info
May 30, 2009
The treasonist
Sonoma County Board of Supervisors ignors the US and CA constitution and actually
issues a letter to the state begging them to hurry up and spray them! Read the letter that they was sent to CDFA.
You’re invited to Sen. Joe Simitian’s 5th annual Open House and Ice Cream Social to discuss issues of concern to the community. Join the conversation on
legislation that affects you.
Thursday, May 21st
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Santa Cruz County Government Center
701 Ocean Street, Room 318A in Santa Cruz
The treasonist
Sonoma County Board of Supervisors ignors the US and CA constitution and actually
issues a letter to the state begging them to hurry up and spray them! Let them know
how you feel about them spitting on the US Constitution and all the laws
they have voilated.
Take Action write a
letter ASAP in support of SB 759 (Leno). Not a perfect bill to stop spraying,
but starts lifting the veil off "inert" ingredients--everyone
deserves to know what is in aerial pesticides! More Info. Here
Sample Letter Here
April
15, 2009
The actual
warrent used to spray people' homes and private property on March 27, 2009
for the Gypsy Moth.
The West Marin Mosquito Control
Coordinating Council (WMMCCC) discussed the letter that the Mosquito Control District
sent out to everyone about their plans to spray people and their private property
for Mosquito Control. WARNING - DO NOT SIGN THE LETTER, you may be signing your
rights away- if we have any rights left!
"West
Nile virus cases were overstated across the U.S. in 2008" in some cases more
than 35%. ----------------------------------------------------------- Roy
Upton on the Damage from CDFA's LBAM spraying. What happened during the first
spraying upto the current petitions to stop the LBAM Program.
Tom
Kerns PhD, international expert on human rights volations from aerial spraying
speaks on the CDFA's LBAM program. Part 1 of 2
Part
1 of 2
March
28, 2009
CDFA spits on our US Constitutional Saturday March 28th, and
got a court order and forced residents to have their properties sprayed with Btk.
Pesticide
Free Ojai Valley youtube links concerning the spraying of Dipel in the Ojai Valley.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5QEgAzBFzk
Documents
from Stephen Volker vs Steven L. Johnson, Administrator, United States Environmental
Protectinve Agency AND United States Environmental Protectinve Agency Court Case:
Plaintiffs'
Supplemental Opposition to Defendants' Administrative Motion to File Under Seal
Limited Portions of the Answer; Declaration of Counsel read
Plaintiffs'
Motion to File Supplemental Opposition to Defendants' Administrative Motion to
File Under Seal Limited Portions of the Answer; Declaration of Counsel and Proposed
Order read
Joint
Case Management Conference Statement and Proposed Order read
Plaintiffs'
Opposition to Defendants' Administrative Motion to File Under Seal Limited Portions
of Answer read
LBAM
Eradication Program is Not Safe, Not Effective, and Not Necessary!
Moss
Landing scientists ready for their moths By KELLY NIX IN Carmel Pine Cone
of Friday, Feb. 27 A new effort to eradicate the invasive light brown apple
moth with- out the use of pesticides, state and fed- eral agriculture workers
are gearing up for the arrival of thousands of the insects at a brand new facility
in Moss Landing. In a building across the street from the Dynegy power plant,
researchers will raise male apple moths so they can be sterilized and released.
The hope is that, with thousands of sterile moths distracting the females moths
in agri- cultural areas of Monterey, Santa Cruz and other counties, the LBAM popula-
tion will shrink, if not disappear. Six people who will work on the apple-moth-rearing
operation are already at the facility. And in about two weeks, after securing
a state permit to raise the insects, thousands of moths will be moved there. "We
have started to move in," said U.S. Department of Agriculture spokesman Larry
Hawkins. The insects, which will arrive in their larval stage, will be placed
in sealed chambers where they will be raised to adulthood. "The chambers allow
us to control the temperature, light and humidity for the moths," Simmons said.
Workers will then collect the moths with a vacuum hose and transfer them to refrigerated
boxes. The cold will put the insects into hibernation, in which they will
remain during the sterilization process and until they are released. --------------------
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ASKS
COURT TO SUPPRESS IDENTITY OF HARMFUL CHEMICALS USED IN APPLE MOTH SPRAY - EPA
has requested Judge Armstrong to prevent disclosure of the chemicals in the spray,
claiming the manufacturer’s proprietary interest outweighs the public’s right
to know. Press
Release EPA's
Administrative Motion to File Under Seal COMPLAINT ------------------------------
Read
Lawsuit filed challenging EPA's unlawful exemption of the CheckMate pesticides
from registration under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.
PRESS
RELEASE / COMPLAINT
Janurary
8, 2009 New
ABC TV-Show highlights invasive pests. The program, “Homeland Security
USA,” premieres on Tuesday, January 6 at 8 p.m. on ABC stations...Episodes
will feature California’s airports and the measures taken by Customs and Border
Protection officials to protect the state’s agriculture and commerce from invasive
pests and diseases. “This series is an important reminder of the risk we
face from invasive species introduced each day in California,” said CDFA Secretary
A.G. Kawamura. “Whether it’s bats, exotic insects..."
------ Janurary
7, 2009
Town Hall Meeting;
Chemical Tresspass Ordinance Meeting Jan. 12th, 2009, 7:30pm Veterans Hall, Santa
Cruz, CA
AGRICULTURE
ALERT – ACTION ITEM WEATHER MODIFICATION & MITIGATION BILLS SET FOR PASSAGE
EARLY IN 2009
December 17, 2008
Obama
names new Ag. Secretary: Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack as agriculture secretary
and Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar of Colorado to head the Interior Department. The
Interior Department is responsible for public
land which is about 1/5th of all land in the US.
Boycott
YouTube December 19th-21st 2008 (Blackout) Learn
more
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ December
14, 2008
The Unveiling the City of Santa
Cruz Local Control, Pesticide and Chemical Trespass Ordinance. Decemeber 15th
at 7 pm, CASS Headquarters, 200 Washington St., Ste. 170, Santa Cruz. Sign
Petition Learn More:peopleagainstchemicaltrespass.org/
"Our
Safety: Who Decides" 9 min video by Jazz-elle. Also Showing on Community
TV Ch 27 at 10:11 a.m. & 5:11 p.m. on December 14, 15, 16. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2009
Isolated Population Treatment Areas: Dublin,
California comments due January 12, 2009 Sonoma/Napa,
California comments due January 12, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write
Obama at www.change.gov and request
he appoints a good new USDA Director Sample
Letter
We need your help to staff
the ordinance table this Thursday at the Fresh Choice Fundraiser in Capitola between
5:30 and 7:30. For more info contact Ruth at 831-662-1738
USDA seeks "'Supervisory
Agriculturalist (LBAM Operations Manager)"' and will pay them 100k to
spray people and quarantine farms. The position is located in Watsonville, CA.
This is a "New" position and that if you look towards the top on the right hand
side of the job description, it indicates "Full Time Permanent.". The government
does not create new "Permanent" positions if they are only planning
for a few years of Tx.
November
25, 2008
A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF CDFA MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FRAUD.
Third Report by professor Glen Chase. October 9, 2008. Report
"Robert Dowell,
CDFA director of the LBAM eradication effort, told the California Association
of Pest Control Advisers (CAPCA) annual conference in Anaheim, Calif., that the
first shipment of 500,000 sterile larvae are expected to be released early next
year within quarantined areas of the state where the LBAM has been trapped."
NOTICE
OF PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING PROPOSED CHANGES IN REGULATIONS DEPARTMENT OF PESTICIDE
REGULATION Notification and Application-Specific Information DPR Regulation No.
08-002
DATE: November 18, 2008 TIME: 5:00 p.m. PLACE: Fess Parker's Doubletree
Resort Sierra Madre North Room 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard Santa Barbara, California
93103
November 5, 2008 <Tell
EPA to Protect Our Food From The Toxic Pesticide Endosulfan
November
4, 2008
The Department of Pesticide Regulations (DPR) releases this
document on the election day of the 44th President of the USA. I guess they were
not voting or paying attention to our national election.
Re-elect Tony
Madrigal - The strongest candidate against the spray running Santa
Cruz City Council!!
Let's
remember just how hard Tony Madrigal fought against the spray:
He
voted against the spray in every city council meeting that it was on the
agenda.
He voted to take legal
action against the CDFA.
He helped
arrange meeting halls for our forums.
He
arranged the donation of thousands of safety masks for the community. He then
set up his own table on Pacific Ave the weekend before the spray to
dispense the masks to the public.
He
used his position to attract media and was always available speak the
media about the spray.
He strategized
at every level to help stop the CDFA from proposing to establish independent city-level
committees to assisting and participating in grassroots organizing.
He
went to Sacrament to petition our State reps to take swift and immediate action.
He stood in front of Trader Joe's with us on cold winter nights helping to inform
the community of CDFS's new spray plan.
He just recently he voted to pass a resolution that would overturn state preemption
of local pesticide regulations.
This
is just a partial list of Madrigal's accomplishments and contributions in helping
stop the aerial and ground spraying. This year we will be losing two other council
members that took strong positions against the spray, Reilly and Porter will be
leaving the council. We need Tony to continue to represent us. Vote for Tony Madrigal for Santa Cruz City Council on Tuesday, Nov
4, 2008. Tell everyone you know to Vote
for Tony Madrigal.
Oct 17, 2008 Santa Cruz City Council voted
to pass the "Resolution urging the State of California to Repeal Preemption
of Local Regulation of Pesticides" Read
the resoultion
Oct
7, 2008
Call
to Action! The Santa Cruz City Council will consider passing a resolution
that would overturn state preemption of local pesticide regulations. Show up at
the Santa Cruz City Council Chambers at 3pm on Tuesday, October 14th (809 Center
Street, Santa Cruz). The resolution will be on the consent agenda, so it will
be considered near the beginning of the meeting. Read
the resoultion! ----------------------------------------
Glen
Chase, a Professor of Systems Management, has released a
third report detailing the methodical fraud that the California Department
of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Management perpetrated to attempt to create a bogus
emergency eradication program for the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM). This third
report demonstrates the fraud and deception within the program strategy that CDFA
Management used and is continuing to use to qualify for $100's of millions of
dollars of emergency taxpayer funds, which were intended for real emergencies.
Breaking 6 pm: The State has decided not to pursue its
appeal of Judge Burdick’s LBAM CEQA judgment in favor of the City and County and,
to that end, has dismissed its appeal. Judge Burdick’s ruling therefore will remain
in effect and is no longer subject to a possible reversal by the court of appeal.
--------------------------------- Must
Attend Event! Anatomy
of a Decision: A Roundtable Discussion about the LBAM for the public to ask questions.
WHO: Jackie Speier, United States Congresswoman, requests open,
public discussion of the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) eradication program. WHEN:
Tuesday September 30th at 9:30AM to Noon WHERE: Samtrans Building,
1250 San Carlos Avenue, San Carlos, Auditorium (seats over 60 people) more
info
--------------------------------- September
22, 2008
--------------------------------- September
18, 2008
Tony Madrigal was there for us, will you be there for him?
Precinct
Walk for Tony Madrigal for Santa Cruz City Council: He will begin precinct
walking from 10am-2pm this Saturday, September 20 and every Saturday (Sept 27,
Oct 4, 11, 18, 25, Nov 1) until Election Day. We will meet at our Campaign
Headquarters at 501 Mission Street. Please bring your friends and family to come
precinct walk to turn out the voters.
Tony
Madrigal The strongest Santa Cruz City Councilmember against the lbam aerial
spray that is running for City Council in '08.
"True Accounts of the LBAM
Aerial Spraying" updated Will be aired on Community Television Channels
27 and 73. Sept. 8, Monday, 3 p.m. Sept. 9 Tuesday 1pm Sept
13 2:30 p.m. Sept. 20 11:30 p.m. Sept 27 11:30 p.m. Sept.
24 6:58 p.m. ---------------------------------
September 4, 2008
Sam
Farr Town Hall Meeting ---------------------------------- Documents Farr
has gotten from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the California Department
of Food and Agriculture.
LBAM
- USDA
Partial Response, June 11, 2008 Answers to a portion of questions Congressman
Sam Farr (D-Carmel) provided USDA officials during hearing in early 2008. Received
June 11, 2008
CALL to ACTION Congressman Sam Farr Town Hall Meeting at
6:30pm, Thursday, Sept. 4, at the Veteran's Memorial Building, 846 Front St.,
Santa Cruz.
We need
to show up in large numbers and demand that he use his position to help get the
LBAM reclassified. Some say that Farr already has plans to do something like that,
but any official action or declaration from him along those lines has yet to be
seen. We'll believe it when we actually see it. In the past, he has greatly belittled
our concerns and has even helped the CDFA spread misinformation about the moth.
Actions speak louder than words, and we have yet to see any positive action from
him on this issue. Show up in large numbers tomorrow evening and show/tell him
how important it is that he take some serious action on this LBAM issue. His next
Santa Cruz Town Hall meeting will most likely not happen for another year. Seize
this opportunity!!
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September 2,
2008
Slow Food Nation
Considered, this Wednesday, September 3, 2008, from 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. in
Wheeler Auditorium, on the UC Berkeley Campus is a good opportunity to address
the problems of exclusion and censorship LBAM activists and others experienced
at the panel on which Kawamura was speaking
A
property owner terrorized by the CDFA, a California State Government Agency writes: "My
neighbors were notified Friday they were going to get the apple moth twist ties.
Our property is completely outside of the 200 meter radius for treatment, and
not on their treatment map, but they are here right now with a map that shows
our organic garden, all 5 acres of it, is to be treated. Today."
Sam
Farr's Town Hall Meeting Sept. 4, 6:30 p.m. at the Vet's
Hall in Santa Cruz. At the Aptos Town Hall meeting, Farr either showed
or feigned real ignorance about the impotence of the LBAM. Nevertheless, it became
clear that he hasn't paid much attention to expert Dan Harder or anything we have
sent him. Therefore, we need to repeat all messages that help to persuade him
that the LBAM is a wimp and needs to be reclassified or taken off the list.
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August 23, 2008
Calif.
Senate OKs checks ahead of aerial spraying "The California Senate
has approved legislation that would require a public health and public health
evaluation before the state could order aerial spraying to control agricultural
pests....The state would also have to evaluate the public health risks and reveal
each ingredient in the pesticide to be sprayed. Friday's 23-12 vote sent the bill
back to the Assembly to approve Senate amendments."
August 22,
2008
Professor Releases
Second Report Exposing the Fraud of the CDFA LBAM Eradication Program Press
Release / Report
by professor Glen Chase
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August
20, 2008 10-SQUARE-MILE
AREA TO BE TREATED TODAY -CDFA set to spray for oriental fruit fly. "The
treatment area - which includes portions of San Jose, Santa Clara, Cupertino and
Sunnyvale - is roughly bounded by El Camino Real on the north, San Tomas Expressway
on the east, Englewood Road on the south and Blaney Avenue on the west....The
state's strategy is to use spot applications of an insecticide applied to compact-disc-size
patches on street trees and utility poles. Combined with a feeding attractant
lure, the male fruit flies are drawn to the application sites, where they die
from feeding on the insecticide."
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August 7, 2008
Subject:
Notice of
a Scoping Meeting for the Programmatic Environmental Impact Report for the
Light Brown Apple Moth Eradication Program - San Jose A public scoping meeting
will be held to receive agency and public comment on the scope of analysis and
PEIR content for the proposed Project in the expanded project area.
Date/time
and location: Monday August 18, 2008 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Isaac
Newton Center (first floor) County Administration Building 70 West
Hedding Street San Jose, California 95110 Mail comments to: Jim Rains,
Staff Environmental Scientist, California Department of Food and Agriculture Plant
Health and Pest Prevention Services, Division 1220 N Street, Room A-316 Sacramento,
Ca 95814
"China's
weather modification program. Their mission: to shoot dust into threatening
clouds in advance of the opening ceremony Friday in Beijing... Rain will not be
allowed to dampen this Olympic flame. "
Aug.
8 opening ceremony, officials have said China was considering deploying
experimental technology to try to ensure dry weather and clean air for Friday.
Action
Alert: Senate committeeis on August 6th Support
AB 977 - Contact members of the CA Senate Environmental Quality Committee,
Ask them to support AB 977. Sample letter
Sam
Farr Town Hall meetings: August 11, 6:30 p.m. Irvine Auditorium 499 Pierce
St. Monterey August 18, 6:30 County Administration Building 481 4th St, 1st
Floor, Hollister August 20, 6:30 p.m. Seacliff Inn 7500 Old Dominion Court,
Seacliff Room, Aptos September 4, 6:30 p,m, Veterans Memorial Building 846
Front Street, Santa Cruz Demand Reclassification of the LBAM
Public
Scoping Meetings Two additional public meetings (in addition to the four meetings
held February 20-28, 2008) will be held to receive agency and public comment on
the scope of analysis and PEIR content for the proposed Project in the expanded
project area. Dates/time and locations1:
Sacramento: Tuesday, August 5, 2008 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm California Department of
Food and Agriculture 1220 N Street (Auditorium) Sacramento, CA 95814
Los
Angeles: Monday, August 4, 2008 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Los Angeles Valley College Monarch
Hall 5800 Fulton Avenue Valley Glen, CA 91401
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July
18, 2008
Non-violent
Civil Disobedience Training against the Light Brown Apple Moth Trapping & Eradication
Program Saturday, July 19th, 2008, 10am-5:30pm 1924 Cedar Street (at Bonita),
in Berkeley
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TUNE
IN TO SEE DEBBIE FRIEDMAN, CO-FOUNDER OF MOTHERS OF MARIN AGAINST THE SPRAY, ON
NBC11's BAY AREA VISTA ON SUNDAY, July 20th at 10:00 a.m.
"Sterile
plans -State decides to fight moths with moths after spraying program criticized"
- SARAH PHELAN "The first one, the public didn't like," said University of California,
Davis entomology professor James Carey. "The second is a complete waste of money.
They can't eradicate these things, but [it] lets CDFA throw more public money
down the rat hole."
BILL
NUMBER: AB 977 Read
text / Read Bill History "An
act to repeal
Section 11501.1 of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to pest control,
and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately."
CDFA wants
to continue with the 'eradication' twist tie plan for the 2 Sonoma neighborhoods.
*Please come and lend
your support to the Sonoma residents.
*
The public has the opportunity for 2-3 minutes comment time. You are all welcome
to attend. DATE: July 8th, 2008 TIME: 9:00am -?
LOCATION: Supervisors
Chambers Sonoma County Administration Bldg. 575 Administration Dr. Room 102A
Santa Rosa Write letters to the Board of Supervisors at: bos@sonoma-county.org
If you have any questions, please call: Yannick A. Phillips in Sonoma
707-933-0312 or e-mail, yphillips@comcast.net BEFORE July 6th. Learn
more about twist ties
Faced with
mounting public opposition, the state Department of Food and Agriculture no longer
plans aerial spraying of a synthetic pheromone over populated areas to control
the light brown apple moth. - Written
by Press Banner (be sure to read the comment on the article by Lawrence)
"Spray
foes fear future tactics" By DAWN WITHERS • The Salinas Californian •
June 23, 2008 -" The first batch of sterilized moths - bred and raised in
a U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory in Albany - will be released in 2009,
with releases continuing through 2011 and peaking at 20 million moths per day."
EAST BAY COMMUNITY
TOWN HALL TO STOP THE SPRAY Monday, June 23, 2008, 7:00 pm -9:00 pm, Lakeside
Park Garden Center at Lake Merritt 666
Bellevue Avenue, Oakland, CA. 94610 Learn about the new plan released flyer -------------------------------------------------------------------
CDFA Notice
of Appeal . The CDFA is trying to avoid the court ruling, which requires them
to complete an Environmental Impact Report- EIR before they release toxins in
to our environment. Wonder why they did not announce their Notice
of Appeal when they had the press conference stating they will not aerial
spray over cities.
3:20pm
BREAKING: State
stops aerial pesticide spraying over neighborhoods "In a victory
for thousands of Northern California residents, state officials today announced
they will no longer aerially spray urban areas with pesticide to fight the invasive
light brown apple moth. ...Instead, planes will spray the pesticide CheckMate
LBAM-F over agricultural or undeveloped areas only" (areas not accessible
by roads). All ground applications will go on as planned but will now include
a sterile moth release most likely an aerial release. (updated 4:40pm)
2:
45 BREAKING: USDA and the CDFA will be discussing a major scientific
breakthrough in the program," said Steve Lyle, spokesman for the California Department
of Food and Agriculture. "It
will be of great significance to the project."
12:
45 BREAKING: CDFA is having a press conference today at 3pm to discuss
changes to their LBAM eradication program.
IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED: Please fax the members of the Senate
Budget and Fiscal Review Committee immediately and ask that the $2 million
in SB 1067 for "support
staffing and logistical support for the Light Brown Apple Moth Eradication Program"
be stricken from the budget. NOTE that faxes are the most reliable and effective
way to contact legislators. Sample
letter/ Fax (Phone
& fax numbers)
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18, 2008
Action
Alert: 7pm 6/18 Water Board District
Meeting for San Mateo-2400 Francisco Blvd, Pacifica. LBAM is on the agenda. They
need to hear about the redtide, bird die-off, and water contamination. San Mateo
is home to Crystal Springs Water reservoir. More info contact Sharon Luehs, 650.355.7107
SharonLuehs@comcast.net
-------------------------------------------------------------------- June
17, 2008
Breaking: State
Moves Closer To Banning Moth Spraying The state Senate’s Agriculture Committee
Tuesday approved Senator Migden’s resolution, SCR
87, a ban on spraying for the light brown apple moth statewide. The committee
passed the proposal on a 4-0 vote.
CDFA
is concerned about the fairy shrimp so they will be postponing twist tie application
in parts of Sonoma that are close to the creek. THE CDFA TOLD US THIS WAS SAFE
FOR THE EVNIRONMENT AND HUMANS. SO THEY ADMIT TWIST TIES ARE UNSAFE FOR SOME LIVING
THINGS! --------------------------------------------------------------------
June
16, 2008
ACTION
ALERT: Senator Migden’s resolution, SCR
87, will be heard in the Senate
Agriculture Committee tomorrow, Tuesday, June 17th, 9:30 a.m.
in Room 113 of the Capitol, Sacramento. Marin Car Pool: Carpools will
leave from Greenbrae Commuter lot, on the right just before you get on to the
freeway going south from Sir Francis Drake. (time: 7am for 7:30 departure. Show
up and be prepared to share rides. If you can not go please contact the Senate
Agriculture Committee
-------------------------------------------------------------------- ACTION
ALERT: 7pm 6/18 Water Board District Meeting for San Mateo-2400 Francisco Blvd,
Pacifica. LBAM is on the agenda. They need to hear about the redtide, bird die-off,
and water contamination. San Mateo is home to Crystal Springs Water reservoir.
More info contact Sharon Luehs, 650.355.7107 SharonLuehs@comcast.net
-------------------------------------------------------------------- Twist
Ties going up in Sonoma had been postponed. For more info and how to help
stop this unneeded program in Sonoma contact Yannick: yannick@addem.org (707)
337.6739
-------------------------------------------------------------------- June
15, 2008
Capitola City Council will
be considering the adoption of the previously developed resolution this Thursday,
June 12, 7 pm. 420 Capitola Ave, Capitola, CA
Weapons
of Moth Destruction will show on Thursday, June 12, in San Francisco More
info
-------------------------------------------------------------------- June
11, 2008
"The Ag
Vision will give California agriculture the opportunity to design its own
future through 2030--this will not be a document to gather dust, but an action
plan to secure the viability of this industry for today and years to come"
Weapons
of Moth Destruction will premiere on Wednesday June 11, at 6:30 pm More
info
Portions of Zip codes 95130,
95008, 95032 and 95070 will be the site of Wednesday's three-square-mile area
being fogged for west
nile virus. More
info
Capitola
City Council will be considering the adoption of the previously developed resolution
this Thursday, June 12, 7 pm. 420 Capitola Ave, Capitola, CA
Weed
Control Tools: Chemical Focus Wednesday, June 11, 6:00-9:30 pm Student
Center, Sir Francis Drake H.S. 1327 Sir Francis Drake Blvd, San Anselmo
--------------------------------------------------------------------- June
9, 2008
Let
the Reedley City Council know how you feel; Mayor Soleno rsoleno@reedley.com,
Councilmember Betancourt abetancourt@reedley.com, Councilmember Fast mfast@reedley.com,
Councilmember Rapada srapada@reedley.com, Councilmember Brockett sbrockett@reedley.com
-"We need to be able to protect one another’s interests". Reedley City
Counci1717 9th Street Reedley, CA 93654 (559) 637-4200 ext. 212
--------------------------------------------------------------------- June
8, 2008
Nanotechnology
in Food & Agriculture: OUT OF THE LABORATORY AND ON TO OUR PLATES -"...reducing
the particle size of existing chemical emulsions to the nanoscale, or are encapsulating
active ingredients in nanocapsules designed to break open in certain conditions,
for example in response to sunlight, heat or the alkaline conditions in an insect’s
stomach." [or human stomach?]
--------------------------------------------------------------------- June
7, 2008
"Aerial
spray opponents send alerts to doctors-Stop the Spray Marin is sending out
what it calls a "health hazard" alert packet - a 20-page document - to Marin physicians
to warn of potential health effects from planned aerial spraying to eradicate
the light brown apple moth." -Mark Prado
Let
the Reedley City Council know how you feel; Mayor Soleno rsoleno@reedley.com,
Councilmember Betancourt abetancourt@reedley.com, Councilmember Fast mfast@reedley.com,
Councilmember Rapada srapada@reedley.com, Councilmember Brockett sbrockett@reedley.com
-"We need to be able to protect one another’s interests". Reedley City
Counci1717 9th Street Reedley, CA 93654 (559) 637-4200 ext. 212
Assemblymember
Huffman’s Bill, AB 2765 on pesticide disclosure and public hearings Senate Ag
committee: Do
pass, and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. Re-referred
"WEAPONS
OF MOTH DESTRUCTION"a political documentary by Laura Vitale. Showing Wednesday
June 11 at 6:30 pm in Monterey and Thursday June 12 at 7:15 pm at the Roxie Theater,
SF. More
info
---------------------------------
Beginning
June 16, state agricultural employees will be putting pheremone-infused twist
ties to fences and trees in a 200-meter area in Sonoma Valley where the two moths
were found.
Assemblymember
Huffman’s Bill, AB 2765 on pesticide disclosure and public hearings will be in
the Senate Ag Committee today. It does not stop the spray, but does give us more
information. If you support the bill, please contact members of the committee,
especially Senator Abel Maldonado
(Chair) / Senator Denise Ducheny
(Vice Chair) Senator Jeff Denham
/ Senator Dean Florez
/ Senator Sheila Kuehl
"Light
Brown Apple Moth in California: Quarantine, Management, and Potential Impacts"
- "LBAM is found throughout Australia but it does not survive
well at high temperatures and is a more serious pest in cooler areas with mild
summers. The pest performs best under cool conditions (mean annual temperature
of approximately 56ºF) with moderate rainfall (approximately 29 inches) and moderate-high
relative humidity (approximately 70%). Hot, dry conditions may reduce populations
significantly."
Contact
- Pro-Spray Legislators Jean Fuller/Berryhill/LaMalfa
Assemblymember
Jean Fuller [sits on Agriculture and Natural Resources Committees] 4900 California
Ave. St. 100-B Bakersfield, CA 93309 Ph: 661-395-2995 fax: 661-395-3883 Assemblymember
Fuller, State Capitol, Rm 3098 Sacramento, CA 95814, phone: 916-319-2032, fax:
916-319-2132
Assemblymember Tom Berryhill (Rancher and Orchards owner
in Modesto] St. Capitol, Room 4116, PO Box 942849, Sacramento, CA 94249-0025;
phone: 916-319-2025; fax: 916-319-2125;
Assemblymember Doug LaMalfa (Rice
Farmer in Redding) 2865 Churn Creek Rd., St. B, Redding CA 96002; phone 530-223-6300
Or, St. Capitol, PO 94284, Rm 4164, Sacramento, CA 94249-0002; phone: 916-319-2002;
-------------------------------------------------------- June
2, 2008
Today the CDFA will
hold a public information meeting on Monday, June 2, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at
Flowery Elementary School, 17600 Sonoma Highway.
GREEN
PARTY OF CALIFORNIA
have authored resolutions against the spray and are participating in lawsuits
against it.
