<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 6, 29); font-family: Verdana; "><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/09/1335459/-Corporate-Agribusiness-dumps-850-000-into-Proposition-1">http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/09/1335459/-Corporate-Agribusiness-dumps-850-000-into-Proposition-1</a></span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#00061d" face="Verdana"><br></font><div> <img height="564" width="501" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:1AF65944-D1E7-4BE3-B6EA-4FE54DABE4BA"> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">Corporate agribusiness dumps $850,000 into Prop. 1!</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">by Dan Bacher</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d"><br></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">Opponents of Proposition 1, the controversial State Water Bond, today blasted Governor Jerry Brown and the backers of Prop. 1 for taking $850,000 in contributions from big agribusiness donors to pass public funding for water transfers to enrich them - and to enable the biggest dam-building program in California history.</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">Stewart Resnick, the Beverly Hills billionaire “farmer” who has made millions off of reselling environmental water to the public, has donated $150,000 to the Yes on Prop 1 campaign. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; ">Resnick and his wife, Lynda, have been instrumental in promoting campaigns to eviscerate Endangered Species Act protections for Central Valley Chinook salmon and Delta smelt populations and to build the fish-killing peripheral tunnels. (<a href="http://www.fishsniffer.com/blogs/details/rally-outside-the-resnick-mansion-on-october-2-luncheon-with-the-koch-broth/">http://www.fishsniffer.com/blogs/details/rally-outside-the-resnick-mansion-on-october-2-luncheon-with-the-koch-broth/</a>) </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">Adam Scow from Food and Water Watch noted, “Corporate agribusiness giants, including Stewart Resnick, are spending big to pass Proposition 1, a bloated $7.5 billion bond measure that would funnel more water to big agribusinesses at taxpayer expense. Prop 1 is a measure to quench their greed—it will not solve California’s water problems."</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">The Western Growers Association, the California Farm Bureau Federation, and the California Cotton Alliance have contributed a total of $700,000 to the Prop. 1 campaign to ensure the construction of Sites Reservoir and Temperance Flat dam. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">“Proposition 1 burdens taxpayers with debt to build projects for billion-dollar farming conglomerates that make up groups like Western Growers and the California Cotton Alliance," said Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla of Restore the Delta, who is the No on Prop 1 field director. "It includes the largest appropriation for new dams in California’s history that will benefit these corporate farmers who refuse to fund the dam projects themselves. Prop 1 will drive California and its taxpayers even further into debt for illusory and largely bogus ‘environmental benefits’. Prop. 1 shifts the financial burden from those who directly benefit from building new dams to the taxpayers.”</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">These groups are making large contributions as an investment to make sure that their pet projects are passed through the California Water Commission, according to Prop. 1 opponents.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">“Prop 1 will not ‘save water’ as Gov. Brown claims in ads paid for by these special interests. It’s a boondoggle to enrich his big ag contributors,” said Barrigan-Parrilla. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">Governor Jerry Brown’s Proposition 1 and 2 campaign has raised $6,621,946 and has spent $817,276 as of October 6, 2014, according to Ballotpedia:</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d"><a href="http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Water_Bond_(2014)">http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Water_Bond_(2014)</a> </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">The following are the donors who contributed $150,000 or more to the Yes on Prop. and 2 campaign as of October 6, 2014: </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">Sean Parker $1,000,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">California Alliance for Jobs - Rebuild California Committee $500,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">Health Net $445,600</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">Laborers Pacific Southwest Regional Organizing Coalition PAC $400,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">California American Council of Engineering Companies $250,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">California Farm Bureau Federation $250,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems $250,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">Northern California Carpenters Regional Council Issues PAC $250,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">Reed Hastings $250,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">SW Regional Council Of Carpenters $250,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">Western Growers Service Corporation $250,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">Doris F. Fisher $245,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">John J. Fisher $245,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">Robert J. Fisher $245,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">William S. Fisher $245,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">California Cotton Alliance $200,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">Northern California District Council Of Laborers Issues PAC $200,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">Stewart A. Resnick $150,000</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">The State Building And Construction Trades Council of CA $150,000 </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" color="#00061d">For more information on Proposition 1, go to <a href="http://www.noonprop1.org/">http://www.noonprop1.org</a></font></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">2. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Arial; ">Walton Family Foundation gave $9,234,866 to NGOs backing water bond </span> </font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Photo: Protesters block an intersection at an anti-Walmart protest in Roseville on November 29, 2013. Photo by Dan Bacher.</span></div><div><center style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><div class="media" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; "><img width="800" height="533" alt="800_blocking_the_street.jpg " style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; " src="cid:EBF36EFF-3519-4EF5-B10D-973EBB22BD2D"><br><strong>800_blocking_the_street.jpg</strong><br><small style="font-family: 'MS Sans Serif', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.1px; "></small></div></center><br><div class="article" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="6">Walton Family Foundation gave $9,234,866 to NGOs backing water bond </font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">by Dan Bacher </span></font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">An analysis of environmental grants that the Walton Family Foundation gave to conservation organizations in 2013 reveals that NGOs supporting Proposition 1, the water bond on California's November 4 ballot, received $9,234,866 in grants while opponents of the controversial measure received none. </span></font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">The Walton Family Foundation is governed by the descendants of Sam and Helen Walton, the founders of retail giant Walmart. </span></font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">“The Walton Family Foundation continues a philanthropic vision begun by Walmart founders Sam and Helen Walton,” according to the Foundation website. “Across diverse areas of giving that include education reform, freshwater and marine conservation and community and economic development, Walton family members carry forward the timeless Walton value of creating opportunity so that individuals and communities can live better in today’s world.” </span></font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Supporters of the water bond getting money from the Walton Family Foundation in 2013 include the Nature Conservancy, National Audubon Society (the parent organization of Audubon California, a bond backer), Trout Unlimited, American Rivers, Defenders of Wildlife and Ducks Unlimited. The Foundation lists their environmental contributions in three categories: freshwater conservation, marine conservation and other conservation grants. (</span></font><a href="http://www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/2013-environment-grants" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; color: rgb(11, 45, 90); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">http://www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/2013-environment-grants</a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">) </span></font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">The Nature Conservancy received a total of $5,482,699 from the Walton Family Foundation in 2013. This includes $1,545,963 for freshwater conservation on the Colorado River, $1,437,986 for freshwater conservation on the Mississippi River. $475,000 for marine conservation, and $2,023,750 for other conservation grants. </span></font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">National Audubon Society, the parent organization of Audubon California, received $2,570,767, including $312,100 for freshwater conservation on the Colorado River, $2,058,667 for freshwater conservation on the Mississippi River and $200,000 for marine conservation. </span></font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Trout Unlimited was awarded $610,650 for freshwater conservation on the Colorado River. </span></font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">American Rivers received $424,400 for freshwater conservation on the Colorado River. </span></font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Defenders of Wildlife got $100,058 for freshwater conservation on the Mississippi River. </span></font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Finally, Ducks Unlimited, Inc. received $46,292 for freshwater conservation on the Mississippi River from the Walton Family Foundation. </span></font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">On the other side, opponents of the water bond include the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, California Striped Bass Association, California Water Impact Network (C-WIN), Center for Biological Diversity, Central Delta Water Agency, Concerned Citizens Coalition of Stockton, Factory Farm Awareness Coalition, Friends of the River, Food and Water Watch, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, Restore the Delta, San Francisco Crab Boat Association, Sherman Island Duck Hunters Association, Small Boat Commercial Salmon Fishermens’ Association, Save the American Association , South Delta Water Agency, Southern California Watershed Alliance and the Winnemem Wintu Tribe. </span></font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Guess how much money the Walton Family donated to these organizations in 2013? Zero. </span></font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">Zeke Grader, Executive Director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, said, “It is highly troubling to see the impact that Walmart and a few big foundations are having on the conservation of our resources, as well as the protection of our artisanal and traditional fisheries including tribal fisheries.” </span></font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">The Walton Family Foundation is known for dumping millions of dollars every year into corporate environmental NGOs, including the Environmental Defense Fund, Conservation International, Nature Conservancy and the Ocean Conservancy, that promote the privatization of the oceans through "catch shares," questionable "marine protected areas" and other projects. </span></font><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;">For more information about the Walton Family Foundation and the environmental NGOs that it funds, go to: </span></font><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/29/walmarting-the-rivers-and-oceans/" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; color: rgb(11, 45, 90); border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/29/walmarting-the-rivers-and-oceans/</a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"> </span></font><br></div><div class="article" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3px;"><br></span></font></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 6, 29); font-family: Verdana; ">For more information on Proposition 1, go to <a href="http://www.noonprop1.org/">http://www.noonprop1.org</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">3. From Hawaii to California, Moore Foundation Violates Indigenous Rights</font></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.fishsniffer.com/blogs/details/gordon-and-betty-moore-foundation-spent-over-18-million-on-mlpa-initiative/">http://www.fishsniffer.com/blogs/details/gordon-and-betty-moore-foundation-spent-over-18-million-on-mlpa-initiative/</a></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 22px; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; ">GORDON AND BETTY MOORE FOUNDATION SPENT OVER $18 MILLION ON MLPA INITIATIVE</span></div><div style="color: rgb(71, 71, 71); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: none; ">Written By: <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; ">Dan Bacher, October 8, 2014</strong></div><div class="round_white" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(251, 251, 251); border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(211, 211, 211); border-right-color: rgb(211, 211, 211); border-bottom-color: rgb(211, 211, 211); border-left-color: rgb(211, 211, 211); height: 1272px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px 5px; position: static; z-index: auto; background-position: 0% 100%; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#474747"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial;"><img alt="Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation spent over $18 million on MLPA Initiative" title="Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation spent over $18 million on MLPA Initiative" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-right-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); " height="176" width="140" src="cid:5A2B9051-A836-439E-B6CD-FBB97B2D0A53"></span></font><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#07000d">The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the foundation that was established by Intel founder Gordon Moore and his wife Betty, contributed $18,086,716, through the Resources Legacy Fund Foundation, to fund the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative in California from 2004 to 2012.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#07000d">The MLPA Initiative was a controversial process that created a network of alleged "marine protected areas" in California, including "State Marine Reserves" that continue to violate traditional tribal gathering and fishing rights. <br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; ">The foundation gave the first grant of $2,714,946 to fund the MLPA process in 2004. The foundation then contributed $3,305,628 for Phase 2 of the MLPA Initiative Phase in May 2007, $7,066,142 for Phase 3 in July 2008, and $5,000,000 for Phase 4 in February 2012. (<a href="http://www.moore.org/grants/list/GBMF589" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none !important; font-size: 12px; ">http://www.moore.org/grants/list/GBMF589</a>)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#07000d">In one of the biggest conflicts of interest in California environmental history, Catherine Reheis-Boyd, the President of the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), chaired the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative Blue Ribbon Task Force that created so-called "marine protected areas" in Southern California.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#07000d">These alleged "Yosemites of the Sea" fail to the protect the ocean from fracking, oil drilling, pollution, military testing, corporate aquaculture and all human impacts on the ocean other than fishing and gathering. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#07000d">In spite of claims by MLPA Initiative advocates that the Initiative "protects" tribal rights, the State Marine Reserves created under the process in fact attempt to ban members of the Yurok Tribe and other North Coast Tribes from fishing and gathering in their traditional gathering areas.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#07000d">“Whether it is their intention or not, what the Marine Life Protection Act does to tribes is it systematically decimates our ability to be who we are,” said Frankie Joe Myers, Coastal Justice Coalition organizer and Yurok Tribe member, on the day of a peaceful direct action takeover by over 300 members of 50 Indian Nations and their allies at a MLPA Initiative Blue Ribbon Task Force meeting in Fort Bragg in July 2010. “That is the definition of cultural genocide.” (<a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/22/18654513.php" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none !important; font-size: 12px; ">http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/22/18654513.php</a>)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#07000d">More recently, in the 2014 election edition of the Yurok Today newsletter (<a href="http://www.moore.org/grants/list/GBMF589" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none !important; font-size: 12px; ">http://www.moore.org/grants/list/GBMF589</a>), Yurok Tribe Vice Chairperson Susan Masten said: </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: none; "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#07000d">"The State of California is beginning to implement the so-called Marine Life Protection Act. From the very start, the Tribe has not supported this initiative because it does not recognize the Tribe’s inherent hunting and gathering rights. Also, the Act lacked the sophistication required to properly steward the diverse ecosystems on the Yurok coastline. </font></em></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: none; "><em style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#07000d">Since time immemorial, the Yurok Tribe has practiced a highly effective method of marine resource management, which has ensured an abundance of sea life to sustain our people. The Creator gave us the right to properly harvest marine resources in the coastal areas within Yurok Ancestral Territory. With this right, comes a great duty to protect and conserve these resources. To that end, we are developing our own marine life management program, based on our traditional knowledge of ocean ecosystems as well as western science." </font></em></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#07000d">The MLPA Initiative officials also failed to appoint any Tribal scientists to the MLPA "Science Advisory Team" for the North Coast. Meanwhile, the Co-Chair of the "Science Advisory Team," Ron LeValley, was sentenced this May by a federal judge to 10 months in federal prison for conspiracy to embezzle over $852,000$ from the Yurok Tribe. (<a href="http://www.fishsniffer.com/blogs/details/former-mlpa-science-co-chair-sentenced-to-10-months-in-federal-prison/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none !important; font-size: 12px; ">http://www.fishsniffer.com/blogs/details/former-mlpa-science-co-chair-sentenced-to-10-months-in-federal-prison/</a>)</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#07000d">In an apparent attempt to manipulate the science, the same Ron LeValley and his cohorts on the "Science Advisory Team" rejected studies and presentations by Yurok Tribe scientists that challenged the terminally flawed and incomplete "science" that the MLPA Initiative was based upon.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#07000d">For more information on the Moore Foundation's funding of the MLPA Initiative, go to: <a href="http://www.moore.org/grants/list/GBMF589.%C2%A0To" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none !important; font-size: 12px; ">http://www.moore.org/grants/list/GBMF589. To</a> read about the MLPA Initiative's Inconvenient Truths, go to: <a href="https://intercontinentalcry.org/the-five-inconvenient-truths-about-the-mlpa-initiative/%C2%A0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none !important; font-size: 12px; ">https://intercontinentalcry.org/the-five-inconvenient-truths-about-the-mlpa-initiative/ </a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#07000d">The Moore Foundation is also the largest private funder of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), a project that will desecrate Mauna Kea, a sacred mountain on the Big Island of Hawaii. The foundation provided an early investment of $50 million towards designing the TMT in 2003. In 2007 they pledged an additional $200 million toward completion of the design phase and partial cost of early construction near the summit of the Maunakea volcano in Hawaii. (<a href="http://www.moore.org/programs/science/thirty-meter-telescope" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none !important; font-size: 12px; "></a><a href="http://www.moore.org/programs/science/thirty-meter-telescope" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none !important; font-size: 12px; ">http://www.moore.org/programs/science/thirty-meter-telescope</a>) <br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; ">Mauna Kea is sacred to the Hawaiian people, who maintain a deep connection and spiritual tradition there that goes back millennia. Native Hawaiian activist and singer Hawane Rios says the Thirty Meter telescope will be 18 stories tall and cover 6 acres of the top of Mauna Kea. <br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; ">“The TMT is an atrocity the size of Aloha Stadium,” said Kamahana Kealoha, a Hawaiian cultural practitioner and organizer of those who held a successful protest at Mauna Kea on October 7. “It is like building a sky-scraper on top of the mountain, a place that is being violated in many ways culturally, environmentally and spiritually.” <br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; ">The blocking of the access to the summit by protesters disrupted a planned groundbreaking ceremony, forcing officials to delay the groundbreaking to another time. (<a href="http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/278457291.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none !important; font-size: 12px; "></a><a href="http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/278457291.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none !important; font-size: 12px; ">http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/278457291.html</a>) </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; list-style-type: none; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: none; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#07000d">From the summit of Mauna Kea to the shores of California's North Coast, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation appears to be committed to descecrating sacred sites and violating the rights of Indigenous Peoples.</font></div></div></body></html>