What: CDFA is holding a meeting in Sonoma prior to covering the Arnold Drive portion of the valley with thousands of toxic twist ties. Where & When: June 2nd, 5:30 PM at Flowery Elementary School which is located at 17600 Sonoma Hwy Sonoma. CA 95476 It is especially horrific to me that this meeting is [...]

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Dr. James Carey and two of his respected Davis colleagues have written an official letter to the head of the USDA, requesting that he urge CDFA’s A.G. Kawamura to revisit his plan to eradicate the Light Brown Apple Moth. These men of science point out that there is no evidence that the LBAM presents any [...]

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New Study Examines LBAM Spray Ingredients That Could be Stronger Endocrine Disruptors Than Bisphenol-A The Health Hazards of Particles, Toxins, Inflammatory Cascades and Genomic Predisposition May 29, 2008 – San Francisco, California. New study of the ingredients of the Checkmate LBAM-F spray and the capsules used for its delivery raises public health safety issues that [...]

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So threatened is the California Department of Agriculture by the 28 strong and still growing number of cities which have firmly resolved against the aerial spraying of the pesticide CheckMate on human beings that they have determined to send their employees into the Central Valley to squeeze pro-spray resolutions out of California farming communities. Just [...]

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One of my heroes in the LBAM spray public health crisis is my mother. Since learning about the spray, she has written to senators, representatives, newspapers and everyone else she can think of in an attempt to protect the people of California from this bio-chemical assault. Last week, she decided to write to CDFA and [...]

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This week, former presidential adviser, Karl Rove, has been the subject of international headlines, greeting the demands that he appear before Congress with a queer and deafening silence. According to his lawyer, Rove has been ordered by the White House (the Bush Administration) not to obey the subpoena or give testimony about the possible politicization [...]

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When citizen Mike DeLay traveled back to his childhood home of Reedley, California to explain to the region’s farmers how his central coast community had been gravely sickened by the aerial spraying of Checkmate in 2007, his audience listened with visible discomfort. DeLay was not the first emissary sent to them to talk about the [...]

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Since the spraying began on the Central Coast in 2007, people have been asking what the synthetic pheromone in Checkmate does to people and animals. We already know that the other elements in the spray are carcinogenic, mutagenic and endocrine disruptive…in numerous cases causing Central Coast women to experience extremely disturbing reproductive health effects. But [...]

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What: Don’t Spray California and Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists” present Who’s Afraid of the Light Brown Apple Moth? Join Dr. Daniel Harder and David Theodoropoulos for a panel discussion and community brainstorm. CalTrans workers injured by ongoing pesticide spraying will be present and their story needs to be told and heard. When Tuesday June [...]

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From LBAMSpray.com: USDA EA Public Comment Period is Due NOW! – San Jose to be sprayed with Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki – BT [comments should be received no later than May 23, 2008] – Sonoma will be subjected to contamination with toxic twist ties [comments should be received no later than May 30, 2008] – Pescadero, [...]

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