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Help spread the word about Rep. Richard Pombo’s attack on endangered species
In the last year, no Member of Congress has done more to threaten our treasured wildlife than Representative Richard Pombo. This week, join Defenders of Wildlife in helping to spread the word about Rep. Richard Pombo, America’s #1 Wildlife Villain, throughout his district. This week’s theme is Pay it Back Pombo. Here are three things you can do this weekend to stop Richard Pombo.
* Hand out literature.
Tomorrow, Saturday, April
15, help distribute information on Pombo's shameful record to
his constituents in Pleasanton, Dublin and San
Ramon. Meet at 10:30am
at the San Ramon Public Library, 100
Montgomery St., 94583. Shuttles from BART and carpools
from the Bay Area are available. To RSVP contact Kevin Keefe
at kkeefe@urbandare.com or (202)
285-4510. For more info go to http://action.defenders.org
* Tell a friend. Even if you can't go door-to-door, you probably know someone who can. Every volunteer helps.
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to http://action.defenders.org
* Download a door hanger. Print out copies of the door hanger and send them to friends and family.
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to http://action.defenders.org
On Monday, April 17 Defenders of Wildlife will launch the Pay it Back Pombo RV and do a rolling press conference with stops throughout the district.
What's to know about Richard Pombo? Plenty.
... Pombo floated a proposal to sell off some of our most beautiful national parks after the Pombo family took a taxpayer-financed vacation in parks like the ones he's proposed selling off.
... Pombo is pushing for harmful drilling off California's coasts, a wildly unpopular idea that would threaten the state's coasts and the local economies and wildlife that depend on them.
... Pombo rammed through legislation to gut the Endangered Species Act, the law that helped save the bald eagle and return the gray wolf to the American West.
... He tried to push through a massive transfer of public lands to real estate developers and mining companies.
... He worked to relax protections that keep pesticide and mercury out of our children's drinking water.
For more information on Richard Pombo go to www.Pombointheirpocket.org.
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Fremont Earth Day
The Tri-City Earth Day Family Fair will be held Saturday, April 22, from 10am to 4pm at the Teen Center at Lake Elizabeth (off Paseo Padre Pkwy. at Sailway Drive). The Alameda Creek Alliance will have a display booth at this event.
The Fair features music with folk singer Michael McNevin; crafts with East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse & Math/Science Nucleus; innovative recycling (bring your cell phones, stuffed animals, eyeglasses, hearing aids, mercury thermometers (exchange), household batteries); as well as 20 Hands-on displays, information, crafts, games, prizes, and food. For information call (510) 494-4580.
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Sunol Compost Facility – Will Sunol Stink?
This month is the last chance to stop the ill-advised siting of a compost dump in the Sunol Valley. The final EIR for the Sunol compost dump has been issued. Please contact the ACWMA board of directors as well as your County Supervisor, and voice your opposition to the siting of the dump in Sunol.
Please attend the ACWMA Board
meeting on April 26 to
let the Board know the public is against locating the facility in Sunol. The
Board vote on approving the EIR is May 24th. There is a community meeting organizing opposition to the
dump at the Sunol school on April 18th,
at 6:30 p.m.
Visit the CHACE web site (http://www.stopthedumpinsunol
Editorial: Will Sunol stink? - April 11, 2006
The answer to this question is up to a little-known board of directors. Less than 2 miles from Sunol's Main Street and across I-680 from the Sunol Golf Course, hundreds of tons of decomposing "green waste" and "food waste" will be dumped on 40 acres of land managed by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. In all, 600 tons of waste will be left to rot every day in the open for a period of 90 days. That is a whopping 54,000 tons of rotting food and green waste sitting on Andrade Road in Sunol. These piles of rotting garbage will be allowed to compost within a short distance of homes, a school, businesses, ranches, a golf driving range and a beautiful golf course…..
Read the rest of the editorial at http://www.tricityvoice.com
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Sign the Petition to protect Coyote Hills Natural Area
Your Signature May Make the Critical Difference in Protecting the Coyote Hills Natural Area from Development
The Friends of Coyote Hills and Fremont (FCHF) are seeing an enthusiastic community response in our drive to collect the 13,000 signatures needed to qualify the "Protect Coyote Hills Natural Area Initiative" for the Fremont ballot in November. Our deadline for delivering the signatures is May 1st. So we need all our supporters who are eligible to vote in Fremont and have not yet signed the petition to come to Fremont’s Central Park on Saturday, April 22nd, or Saturday, April 29th, and sign the petition.
This may be your last chance to sign, and your signature may be the one that qualifies the initiative for the November ballot!
On
Saturday, April
22nd, we will have a booth and will be collecting signatures
at Fremont's Earth Day celebration at the Teen Center in Central Park. Earth Day
is a family-oriented event, so bring your children and enjoy the fun while you
help protect the Coyote Hills Natural Area. For directions and more information
on Earth Day, go to www.ci.fremont.ca.us/Environmen
On Saturday, April 29th, we will again have a booth and will be collecting signatures at Central Park. This time we'll be near the boat dock, in front of the snack bar, at the Ducks for Bucks event. Come see entrants race ducks for prizes and sign our petition! For more information about the Ducks for Bucks charity event, go to www.ducks4bucks.org.
Many thanks to those of you who have
already signed, but we need every additional signature to qualify. So bring your
Fremont friends and neighbors to one of these fun events where they can sign the
petition to protect the Coyote Hills Natural Area. For photos of the land,
birds, and animals at Coyote Hills, please go to: http://www.fchf.org/photos
Alameda Creeks and Watershed meeting May 9
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Alameda County Supervisors Nate Miley, Alice Lai-Bitker, and Gail Steele will host a meeting on the creeks and watersheds of west Alameda County.
The meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 9 from 6:30 – 8:30 pm at the Eden United Church of Christ in Hayward (21455 Birch Street). Come hear about the present condition of the creeks and engage in a discussion leading to future plans, ordinances and activities for our creeks. The meeting will also discuss a potential "creek development moratorium" in unincorporated Alameda County.
For more information contact:
Seth Kaplan at (510) 891-5588 or at seth.kaplan@acgov.org
Shawn Wilson at (510) 272-6693 or at shawn.wilson@acgov.org
Allison Lewis at (510) 272-6691 or at allison.lewis@acgov.org
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Jeff Miller
Director
Alameda Creek Alliance
P.O. Box 192
Canyon, CA 94516
(510) 499-9185
Fax (415) 436-9683
E-mail: alamedacreek@hotmail.com
Web site www.alamedacreek.org
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