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DFA-Marin MEETUP NOVEMBER 1ST
Come to DFA-Marin MeetUp Tuesday, November 1 and help get out every last Vote! Let's reach 100% participation in the special election among DFA-Marin members as well as family, friends, and neighbors. Getting out the vote in Marin County is a key component of the strategy to defeat the special election. If you can't make the MeetUp, we hope you will encourage everyone you know to vote!

DFA-Marin November Meetup
When: Tuesday, November 1 at 7:00PM
Where: Town Center Community Room
Suite 201 100 Corte Madera Town Center
Corte Madera CA 94925
415-455-8277

Get as Involved as you can! CAMPAIGN 2005
Remember that On November 8, Californians will be voting in Schwarzenegger's special election. Please help phone bank to urge a "No" vote on Propositions 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, & 78! On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, you can make a difference from 5:30-8:00 p.m. at the CTA at 210 N. San Pedro Rd. or during the same hours at the Carpenters' Union Hall, 647 Lindaro St., San Rafael. You can also walk precincts every Saturday leaving from 210 N. San Pedro Rd., San Rafael, 9:00-1:30 p.m. Good snacks and training provided! To "adopt" a precinct, please email John Dalrymple at Jdalrymple@allianceforabetterca.org

DCCM Meeting
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Democratic Central Committee of Marin meeting to be held at the California Teachers' Association , 210 N. San Pedro Rd., San Rafael, 6:30-9:00 p.m. Phone banking until 8:00 p.m.then the business part of meeting.

Don't Miss: The High Cost of Low Price
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13
National premiere of Robert Greenwald's latest film: Wal-Mart, The High Cost of Low Price with special guest Ruth Rosen;
sponsored jointly by DFA-Marin and the Lark Theater at 549 Magnolia Ave., Larkspur, 5:30 p.m. Tickets: $10. Reserve tickets at the Lark box office: (415) 924-5111.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29
San Francisco Supervisor Matt Gonzalez will present The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ,a documentary that captures the U.S. supported 2002 Venezuelan coup that failed to oust the populist president, Hugo Chavez, at the Rafael Film Center, 1118 Fourth St., San Rafael, 7:00 p.m. as part of the Reel Politics series. Order tickets at www.cafilm.org.

DOING THE RIGHT THING
Our County Supervisors need help to do the right thing about the Redwood Landfill and we hope you'll join us in providing it.
We are asking them to assert their authority to review the land use permit and require independent monitoring of the Landfill activities along with enhanced protections for the adjoining Petaluma Marsh wetlands.

We've been joined in this effort by the Sierra Club, Town of Novato, Marin Democratic Central Committee and Novato Democratic Committee, to name just a few. Can we count on you, too?

The owner of the Landfill is Waste Management, Inc., a $12 billion corporate giant and the largest garbage company in the country.  They plan to make the Landfill a regional dump, expanding its capacity by more than 70 percent.
They intend to create a steep-sided 166 foot tall waste mountain.  Apart from radio antennas, it would be the tallest man-made structure in Marin.

They want to dump more than thirty million cubic yards of solid waste on the site, most of it collected from outside Marin.  The location is completely inappropriate - in an earthquake prone zone, near two dangerous faults, on a flood plain.

All that stands between the garbage mountain and the defenseless wetlands is a shallow ditch and an old levee, and we've seen in New Orleans what can happen to old levees under pressure.  They've already had at least one illegal discharge of 8.6 million gallons of leachate there -liquid that seeped through the dump's pollutants and was released into the Marsh and the Bay beyond.

The expansion which Waste Management wants isn't necessary for any reason other than their bottom line. The Landfill without any expansion can already handle Marin's waste for the next 20 years without problem, but it can't give Waste Management the higher pretax profit which an expansion can.  Under accounting rules, the more capacity which remains, the less depreciation a landfill owner must account for.  See "Rumors of a Shortage of Dump Space Were Greatly Exaggerated." NY Times August 12, 2005. View

The California Integrated Waste Management Board, the agency which regulates California's landfills, has this to say: "If proposed today as a new facility in California, Redwood Sanitary Landfill wouldn't have been located in such an environmentally sensitive wetland as it is now situated.  The unfortunate location of the facility has resulted in serious concerns in the areas of traffic, air quality, plant and animal habitat, and impacts to subsurface and surface water."

It is imprudent, one might say irresponsible, to propose a massive expansion at such a site.  Please help us help the Supervisors to understand this and to place the needs of Marin's 250,000 citizens ahead of those of Waste Management, Inc.

We want them to be good stewards of our land and to begin by:
1) Imposing appropriate operating conditions at the Landfill under the land use permit, including an independent monitor paid for by Waste Management, Inc. but reporting to a community oversight committee:

2) Rejecting the Final Environmental Impact Report submitted by Waste
Management as inadequate in accounting for seismic activity, groundwater protection, increased traffic consequences and air pollution, as well as not considering reasonable alternatives to expansion such as an eminently feasible zero solid waste strategy for Marin.

Watch our website for the important Planning Commission hearing tentatively scheduled for sometime in December.

To learn more, or view videos go to www.noexpansion.org 

Better yet, contact your Supervisor today at http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/BS/main/index.cfm or email: HBrown@co.marin.ca.us; CMurray@co.marin.ca.us ; SAdams@co.marin.ca.us;  SKinsey@co.marin.ca.us ;  CMcglashan@co.marin.ca.us