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Environment

Organic Biting?

by Kristofer Young February 2, 2012

I may be naive, but this issue of Organic Bytes looks more like Organic Bites to me.

I have inserted above a copy of the top of today’s e-mail from the Organic Consumers Association (OCA). Please note that in the headline we are told that Monsanto and Big Ag are “Trying to…

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Corporations are NOT People and Money is NOT Speech

by SPK January 20, 2012

Why we need a Constitutional Amendment against Corporate Personhood

                   tea party

This will take a second. The jurisprudence behind corporate personhood did not come into existence overnight with the Roberts Gang in the Supreme Court and the Citizens United decision. The idea that a corporation is a person and therefore due the rights of a human being under the Bill of Rights finds its roots in post Civil War America. But to explain the whole issue we have to start back still further in our nations history. The Revolutionary War which birthed the United States was as much a war against Royally chartered corporations like the East India Company as it was against British rule.

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Stop The Trucks: State deals business blow to Ojai Quarry

by Howard Smith January 10, 2012

Read excerpts from Tony Biasotti’s new article in the Ventura County Star that appeared in Tuesday’s online edition:

“While Ojai Quarry owner Larry Mosler waits to see whether the county will revoke his mining permit, he got bad news from the state: His mine has been barred from supplying material for…

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Stop The Trucks: The Past and Future Legacy of the Ojai Valley

by Howard Smith January 9, 2012

By Michael J. Shapiro

The Stop the Trucks! Coalition (Coalition) has had to fend-off countless, scurrilous attacks from the moment we organized five years ago. We were vilified again following the most recent Ventura County Planning Commission hearing (December 15, 2011) after expressing our opposition to the Ojai Quarry (Quarry) being…

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Stop The Trucks: Two Breaking News Events: Mosler Delisted & Santa Barbara County Ready to stop the trucks

by Howard Smith January 7, 2012

Two new major breaking news stories have taken place this week as can be see from the emails below. The first is from Steve Offerman in Supervisor Bennett’s office and the second is from Gary Kaiser at the Santa Barbara Planning Department:

1)   When the Ventura County Planning…

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Kids’ Food-Induced Behavior Wreaking Havoc on Your Holidays?

by Kristofer Young December 18, 2011

photo courtesy Citril @ Flickr

An enormous number of American families suffer with children with food-induced challenging behavior. For many, the stress of these behaviors damages the entire family.

Many families don’t even realize that everyday foods can turn an otherwise wonderful child into a Mr. Hyde. Still others see their children…

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Sign Petition to Support Biking and Walking

by Kristofer Young December 16, 2011

Please sign this petition to support greater funding for bikes and pedestrians!
http://www.vccool.org/#signpetition

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During December and Beyond Remember to Bring in Your Own Bags

by linda Harmon December 9, 2011

During the busiest shopping season of the year Ojai will celebrate the fifth annual ‘Day without a Bag.’ On December 15 volunteers of the Ojai Valley Green Coalition will be out encouraging shoppers to give up the plastic bag habit in favor of reusable bags and make a big difference…

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Ojai Signature Gathering Trainings Nov. 29 and Dec.28

by Suza Francina November 29, 2011

Ojai Signature Gathering Trainings

November 29 at 7 PM and December 28 at 11 AM

What:  To help get signatures to place GMO labeling on food products on the California Ballot

When:  Tuesday, November 29 at 7pm and Wednesday, December 28 at 11 am

Where: Ojai Valley Grange, 381 Cruzero Street, Ojai,

Questions? Call…

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Stop The Trucks: County Aiding and Abetting the Delinquency of a Miner

by Howard Smith November 27, 2011

Rock Haulers similar to this one flooded the Ojai Valley Thanksgiving week

Even as the State of California issues a “30 Day Notice to Delist” the Mosler Rock Ojai Quarry as an acceptable supplier to government agencies and the Ventura County Planning Department files a “Notice of Revocation” of the quarry’s Conditional Use Permit (C.U.P.), another County…

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