He’s back, baby! Former Arcata City Councilmember Dave Meserve has written up a citizen’s initiative that would completely ban all military recruiting targeting minors [Thx, Shane!] within the Arcata city limits. He’s calling it the “Arcata Youth Protection Act,” and he hopes to get it on the November ballot. Will he be able to gather […]
Activism
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Railroad Wackers Army Assembles
It began with an outdoors column by Journal publisher Judy Hodgson detailing a day of “civil disobedience” spent cutting blackberries and brush along the railroad right-of-way between Arcata and Eureka. She followed with a publisher’s column saying in part, The response to the story was immediate and overwhelming. How can we help? Where can I […]
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K-i-s-s-i-n-g
Yep, after years of acrimony fueled, it is said, by pernicious personality differences, two of the biggest homegrown environmental organizations in this Humboldt/North Coast surroundscape have officially locked lips and sealed their alliance: the Environmental Protection Information Center and the Northcoast Environmental Center , wed at last. They’ve been sorta growing close over the past […]
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Citizen Media Revolution
Love ’em or loathe ’em — and we don’t know anybody who actually loathes them, per se — there’s something undeniably inspiring about the folks at Green Wheels . These fresh-faced alternative transportation activists have exploded on the scene in the last few months, making themselves ubiquitous in every countywide discussion that even remotely touches […]