Nearly 4,000 people march in Fresno for water
By TRACIE CONE Associated Press Writer
Posted: 07/01/2009 08:52:12 AM PDT
Updated: 07/01/2009 02:29:06 PM PDT

FRESNO, Calif.—Thousands of farmers, farmworkers and their supporters rallied at City Hall on Wednesday, calling on federal officials to ease regulations that have cut water supplies to the nation's most prolific growing region.

The peripheral canal proposed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and corporate agribusiness will appoximate the width and length of the Panama Canal, according to Assemblymember Joan Buchanan (D-Alamo).

THE PR FIRM FROM HELL
As published in the June 30th, 2009 edition of the Fresno Community Alliance newspaper
(First of two parts)
By Lloyd G. Carter  READ MORE »

Huge hurdles ahead for effort to restore fisheries above Folsom, Shasta dams

Sacramento Bee-6/22/09

By Matt Weiser

The American River once hosted thousands of steelhead migrating upstream from the ocean in three separate runs. Today it's down to just two runs of a few hundred fish.

The Sacramento was the only river in western North America with four salmon runs. They numbered in the millions – so numerous that American Indians and settlers could catch a salmon dinner with their bare hands. Now one run is gone, and two are endangered. The fourth could join them soon.

Picture taken Saturday (06/20/09) along Interstate 5 near Patterson. Doesn't look like much of a "Dust Bowl" in the background, does it?

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=6872766

This link to Channel 47 Fresno has video. Growers didn't let CHP know about highway protest. Please pass this link on.

http://www.cbs47.tv/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=102366@kgpe.dayport.c...

I-5 tractor protest linked to injury accident
Written by Business Journal staff
Monday, 15 June 2009 14:49

I-5 CRASHA morning protest involving up to 50 farm tractors driving on northbound Interstate 5 in Fresno County is believed to have been a factor in a traffic collision between two big rigs today, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Environmental rights lawyer dies in crash
Luke Cole defended small Valley communities in dairy and toxic-waste cases.
Published online on Thursday, Jun. 11, 2009
By Mark Grossi / The Fresno Bee
Environmental justice lawyer Luke Cole, well-known in the San Joaquin Valley for his defense of small communities against large corporate projects, died June 6 in a head-on crash while visiting Uganda. He was 46.

Patrick Porgans & Associates and the Law Office of Joel C. Baiocchi announced Thursday, June 11, that they are filing a sixty day notice of their intent to sue federal and state officials and culpable parties for killing tens of millions of listed salmonid and other species in the Delta export pumping plants. Here's the news release from Patrick Porgans:

PRESS RELEASE – Sixty Day Notice of Intent to Sue Officials for Killing Fish Filed
June 11, 2009

Patrick Porgans & Associates, (916) 543-0780 or email porgansinc [at] sbcglobal.net