This is Senator Mazie Hirono from the great state of Hawaii. I'm one of four women on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

I'm writing to you today because I am angry. I am angry at the way Senate...

This message was sent to Shepherd Bliss by Ai-jen Poo, NDWA through MoveOn's public petition website.

I can't stop thinking about Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who courageously came forward to share...

Today's PD has the following article on Michael Moore's new film, from the Washington Post.

Michael Moore’s latest documentary is an I-told-you-so about the 2016 election

MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN,...

Following is an email from my friend Philip R., who used to live full-time in Sebastopol, married a Cuban woman, and now lives mainly there. He is an excellent film-maker, musician, and host to...

Following is Amy Goodman's interview with Michael Moore this morning on Democracy Now, which is broadcast on KPFA, 94.1 FM at 9 a.m.

A Senate hearing with Supreme Court justice nominee Brett...

Michael Moore's new film "Fahrenheit 11/9!" is scheduled to open at the Rialto Theatre in Sebastopol this Fri. A friend and I are scheduled to go sometime this weekend. Is there a time that you might...

On Amy Goodman's "Democracy Now" program on KPFA, 94.1 this morning, she mentioned that today is the anniversary of the first Occupy event in New York. By the way, our Sebastopol Occupy tent was...

The Sebastopol Area Senior Center has many programs for elder lesbians/bisexuals, as well as other gender identities, including dances, parties, and outings. It is a simply wonderful place, open to...

O.W.'s response makes a lot of sense to me, having a ring of deep truth. I facilitated a discussion yesterday at the National Heirloom Expo on growing berries, and was able to talk about the...

Following is Chilean President Dr. Salvador Allende's last speech, before being killed by the fascists. I had fled the U.S. to work in a religious community and sought citizenship in Chile. My best...

Following is the draft of a presentation that I will give this afternoon to a class at Sonoma State University, where I used to teach. The short lines are not meant to be poetry, but to be easier to...

Yes, Trump is, indeed, a "criminal," who has been charged for his multiple crimes. Blessings to Congressman Jared Huffman, for speaking truth to power.

Do people think that Columbus Day, Oct. 8, is really the best day for such an event?

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2018-09-09_13-21-35.png Donald J. Trump did not just fall from the sky. His rise to the presidency was not an aberration and should not have come as...

I agree with this PD letter about the dangers of the bloated wine industry in our beloved county. With some important exceptions, especially among the few truly organic vineyards, they consume most...

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Close to Home: Back to school pesticide concerns
by MEGAN KAUN AND NICHOLE WARWICK

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This is a response to your last questions below. A recent listening for me, two weeks ago, at a shelter, was to adopt my dog Daisey, who is now sweetly rested in our bed. Bamboo is also good, which I...

I have been to these JC Dental teeth cleanings for years. They do a good job there, which I highly recommend.

“In a troubled time, the willingness to proceed like you’re needed is a radical act.”

That is a quote from Stephen Jenkinson’s new book “Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble.”...

Following is my letter to the editor in this week's Sonoma West, which they titled "Trees/not cellphones:

EDITOR:

I appreciate your informative front-page article “Watch Those Crosswalks” in...

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” French Nobel Prize winner Anatole France

Searching for a dog, I recently visited three animal shelters. At the final one,...

To: [email protected]
Dear Editor:
The guilty verdict in the Monsanto case is a heads up for Sonoma County where thirty-seven tons of glyphosate were used on Sonoma County farms in 2016.*
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Did you even read what I posted? It makes it very clear that it was a jury that decided--that is 12 people, and the judge merely affirmed their decision. Appealed it may be. There is lots of science...

Monsanto Loses Landmark Roundup Cancer Trial,
Set to Pay USD 289 Million in Damages

Aug 11 2018 by Sustainable Pulse

Monsanto has lost a landmark cancer trial in San Francisco and has been...

From Santa Rosa City Councilmember Julie Combs:

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Last night I announced at our Santa Rosa City Council meeting that I will not be running for election in our new City...

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DON'T BE AFRAID TO ROCK THE BOAT

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Going back to O.W.'s post that started this thread, I am going to do my best to join her and others this Fri. at noon in downtown Sebastopol at the intersection of Highways 12 and 116. She indicates...

Dear friend Barry,
Protesting is far more than "silly" or "therapy." It was protesting that helped stop the American Wars on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, as well as many other crimes. I was in the...

I was recently given a "NY Times" article entitled “The Positive Death Movement Comes to Life." It's in-print title is "They Say Death Has Gotten a Bum Rap" and the sub-title is "A Growing Movement...

My opinion is that we need more food farming, and less wine and cannabis growing. One cannot live by wine and cannabis alone. Real food is needed. I bought my farm 25 years ago. Who, other than the...

Go, birds, go! Eat away those grapes, which would be doing we food farmers a big favor. I love all the birds on my farm, even though they eat a lot of berries. The financial loss is worth the...

Cannabis, which this elder uses to sleep through the night, is certainly not food ag., as it says on most of the containers. The corporate wine and cannabis barons have made it difficult to do food...

Dear MoveOn member,
In Washington, D.C., today, 35,000 demonstrators braved 96-degree temperatures to march on the White House and send a crystal-clear message: Families Belong Together. There were...

For Native people, the trauma of family separation is nothing new

"When I heard that the U.S. government was removing other indigenous children from their families and putting them in cages — as a...

Trump's ongoing cruelty to children and their families could be what brings him down. Following is one of the latest of many efforts to end his abuse:

After a week of the Trump administration...

The following article in today's New York Times also reports on a California judge ordering that all families separated be reunited within 30 days. It also has an article on a 28-year-old Democratic...

Due process is not just a constitutional right, it is a human right. Yesterday, June 24th, 2018, Donald Trump proposed violating that right: "When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no...

Hi Shepherd,
Thank you so much for adding your name to Natalie Portman's petition asking that the United States government stop tearing children away from their parents. Here at the National...

I write as someone born in California and raised partly in San Antonio, Texas, and Tampa, Florida. Californian and American agriculture would be impossible without the skilled labor of Latin...

Assembly member Marc Levine, North Bay
Action for Immigrant Children

Dear Friends,
This is one of those times when outrage is not enough.

When the Trump administration uses family separation...

Statement of the
Interfaith Council of Sonoma County
on U.S. Government Family Separation Policy


June 19, 2018

We decry the deliberate separation of children from parents as a deterrent...

Thank you for signing my petition, Tell Secretary Nielsen: Stop separating families!.

As of now, the petition has received 124304 signatures! To really make a difference, we need a lot more people...

I consider an edict that children should not be picked up or cuddled to be cruel, evil, and inhumane. What does it say about us, as humans, that we tolerate such behavior? Much of the world looks...

This is sad news about Napa and does not bode well for the over-growth and environmental threats of Big Wine in Sonoma County.

I've been heartbroken by recent news stories of children being torn away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.

If you've been heartbroken too, then will you click here now to add your...

If ever there was a form of terrorism, it is babies and other children being taken from their parents, such as is happening in Texas, as described and documented below. And these people call...

Thanks, Michael, for posting this, and thus saving us the time to find these important results. They seem basically good, with some notable exceptions. The victory party for John Mutz for sheriff...

If you voted for John Mutz for sheriff, you would be welcome to join us at his victory party in Santa Rosa at the Stout Brothers Irish Pub, 2nd floor, 527 Fourth St., 8-11 p.m.

If you are...

At a meeting yesterday, a group of us agreed on the following:
Yes to Props. 68, 69, 71, & 72 and no on 70.

The Sierra Club recommends Newson for gov., Jeff Bleich for Lt. Gov., Xavier Becerra...

Yea to Muntz for sheriff, which I consider the single most important office to vote on. Remember the murder of innocent Andy Lopez, which the last sheriff rewarded the deputy who killed him. For...