Last week, Stop the Spray’s founder, John Russo, wrote a piece that was published in the California Progress Report regarding a new strategy for halting aerial spraying without consent. From the article:

StopTheSpray.org is already evaluating ballot initiatives and other measures necessary to curtail the power of the CDFA to endanger the health and human rights [...]

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The above map depicts the SF Bay area water bodies that will be illegally exposed to the toxic pesticide, Checkmate, in defiance of the product label warning which forbids introducing into water. Starting in August, the California Department of Food and Agriculture will begin flying their pesticide planes over human habitations and wildlife [...]

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Thinking of taking the kids to Monterey Bay Aquarium this year for a family vacation? If you’re considering doing this because you love sea life and want to share the wonders of it with your children, don’t give your money or support to the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
In the fall of 2007, the Monterey Bay Aquarium [...]

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A hearing was convened last week in the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on the scientific integrity of the decisions of the Environmental Protection Agency. Senator Boxer delivers a keynote testimony regarding the way in which the EPA is guilty of putting special interests ahead of scientific data in order to serve its [...]

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Read the text of the letter
Press Release from Pesticide Watch:
Congresswoman Barbara Lee Asks for Freeze of Apple Moth Aerial Spray
Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) has sent a strongly worded letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) calling for a halt to aerial spraying for the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM ) in California until comprehensive [...]

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In the fall of 2007, the women of Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties were subjected to 3 months of forcible aerial spraying of the pesticide called Checkmate. Following this exposure, women began talking to one another about strange reproductive health symptoms they were experiencing. The intention of this article is to document the symptoms experienced [...]

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Roy Upton’s research on LBAM spray’s deadly consequences for our vital but diminishing honeybee population is one of the most important documents that has been authored in this public health crisis.
Read Upton’s Final Report
Any threat to honeybees should be all the reason we need not to spray Checkmate. No other cause is needed to prove [...]

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It is with a sort of agony that I watched the DeLays – a kindly, peaceable Pacific Grove couple – relate their experiences of being sprayed with biochemicals by their own government. These are people who have gone through life working hard, taking care of family, enjoying the simple pleasures of life in their village. [...]

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Breaking News:
The Monterey Superior Court has ruled in favor of HOPE and ordered CDFA to conduct an EIR prior to any further pesticide spray. Read Brief Summary of Ruling
This is a repeat of Judge Burdick’s ruling in last month’s lawsuit in Santa Cruz.
This is now 2 cases of a superior court ruling that CDFA violated [...]

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Imagine a spray plane pilot, flying at night.
Imagine a spray plane pilot, flying at night over San Francisco.
Imagine a spray plane pilot on drugs, flying at night over San Francisco.
Imagine a spray plane pilot on drugs, flying at night over San Francisco at 500 feet amidst 800 foot tall skyscrapers.
It’s not a safe [...]

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