The 2009 festival coordinator was
Richmond native Doria Robinson.
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| September 19, 2009 - Our
Neighbors: Festival promotes overlooked gem of Point Pinole
Regional Shoreline - "Conservation
and celebration will converge at the fourth annual North Richmond
Shoreline Festival, an event that has grown from a small gathering
of like-minded activists into a community event...." Read
the full story in the CC Times >> |
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| June
29, 2009 - East Bay Parks - "Tentative Arrangement
Reached...that would provide $3,000,000 for tidal wetland
restoration on the 218-acre Breuner Property in North Richmond...
for Wetland Restoration at Breuner Marsh." . . .Read
the full story >> |
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| June
1, 2009 - High Country News - "Rebooting Urban Watersheds
Activists restore blighted Bay Area creeks --
and impoverished communities" -
We have just crossed Rumrill Boulevard from North Richmond
into San Pablo . . .Read
the full story >> |
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Urban
Creeks 2.0 - Video of the North Richmond Shoreline from High Country News - Watch
the Video >> |
March
2, 2009 - SF
Chronicle - "Richmond Hopes to Protect
5 Miles of Wetlands" - The north Richmond shoreline
has seen its share of blasts and explosions - from the
dynamite factory, shooting range, oil refinery and a century
of political fireworks . . .
Read
the Full Story in the Tom Butt E-Forum >> |
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Jan 24, 2009 - North Richmond Shoreline
Tour and Visioning Meeting
Download the Tour
Packet >> |
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Dec 5 , 2008
- Megaplex a gamble for Richmond
It is a plan that alternately stirs dreams of a more prosperous
Richmond and fears of gambling..
. . . Read
the full story >>
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Aug 21, 2008 - Richmond Casino Pact Illegal, Declares Judge
A Contra Costa County judge dealt
a blow to plans for a North Richmond casino Wednesday, saying
she intends to strike down an agreement . . . Read the
full story >> |
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"The fate of Richmond's Shoreline
lies with the City's general plan" Shore Lines, by Patricia
Jones, Spring, 2008 - Read
the ful story >> |
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View
the wonderful article, "Post Card from Parchester
Village - Saving the Marsh" on local activist
Whitney Dotson in the LA Times magazine! Article
page 1 2 3 4 " |
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| Sunday, Aug 6,
2006 - Los Angeles Times
~ Saving the Marsh ~ Whitney
Dotson was 5 years old when he moved into the brand-new house
his father bought on Jenkins Way in Parchester Village. It
was the early 1950s . . . Read
the full story >> |
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| Environmental
Justice Coalition for Water ~ The fight to save open space
in North Richmond: Parchester
Village, the predominantly African American community that
is next to the Breuner property, was developed in 1950 by
Fred Parr . . . Read
the full story >> |
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| Video
blog of 2007 North Richmond
Shoreline Festival |
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| July 22,
2007: "RECLAIMING
RICHMOND - The city's Green
Party Mayor Gayle McLaughlin and a cadre of residents fight
to take back the shoreline for public use," L.
A. Times as reprinted in SF Gate, by Tim Holt, . . . Read
the full story >> |
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| November 12,
2004: "Parchester
Village Residents Fight to Preserve Breuner Marsh, Open Space," Berkeley
Daily Planet, By Tomio Geron; Read
the full story >> |
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"Environmental Justice and Habit,"
Sierra Club Yodeler,
May-June, 2008 - Read the full story >> |
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| Video:
Whitney Dotson, Citizens for East Shore Parks, Richmond,
CA on YouTube |
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| "Battling for Bay Shore; Richmond Activists
Won't Give Up, " Ecology Center's Terrain Magazine,
Spring, 2007 - Read
the full story >> |
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"Parchester's Marsh," Ecology
Center's Terrain Magazine,
by Kathryn
Gillick - Read
the full story >> |
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| "Psst! Wanna
Buy a Bay Ecosystem? Company's plan to sell 'wetland credits'
to East Bay developers pits open-space advocates against
federal agencies " East
Bay Express - by Bill O'Brien, August 14, 2002 |
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