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RESIST 450 ACTION CAMP SEPTEMBER 5-9, 2015 Join coalitions and groups from across the state of Florida by resisting, boycotting and protesting the city of St. Augustine 450th Anniversary Celebration, which shamefully celebrates and honors the doctrine of discovery and Spain’s crimes against humanity. Do not accept the covering up of 450 years of acts of genocide and crimes against humanity. The city celebration events culminate on Tuesday, September 8, 2015 with a re-enactment of the landing of Pedro Menendez de Aviles on the shores of St. Augustine. In 2013, the Viva Florida 500 Celebration, which honored Juan Ponce de Leon, was met with resistance, and we hope to continue this opposition to the glorification of colonial criminals. ...

IMAGE SOURCE: anarchistbookfair.ca Our Refuge Worker Center will be opening sometime in mid to late September 2015. We will be an organizing center for all who are committed to Revolutionary Change and ending all oppression and dismantling Capitalism. We will be organizing low wage and temporary workers, we will have a radical bookstore and library/reading room and computer lab and event/meeting space available for all. Call 727-278-1547. We will need furniture, computers, TV/DVD player, refrigerator/freezer, radical books, literature, CDs, DVDs, etc. We have some operating funds, but could use more. Gifts will be tax deductible. We will also be looking for monthly membership support with perks. ...

IMAGE SOURCE: tbo.com By Charlie Frago 8/10/15 ST. PETERSBURG— Faced with a wastewater system overwhelmed by weeks of torrential rainfall, the city dumped about 5.5 million gallons of treated sewage into Tampa Bay for eight hours beginning Sunday evening. The wastewater — everything from toilet sewage, sink drainage and rainwater — was treated at the Albert Whitted plant before being pumped about 1,000 feet into Tampa Bay, said Mayor Rick Kriseman’s spokesman Ben Kirby on Monday. ...

Ancient cypresses at Cypress Lakes Preserve AUGUST 2, 2015 BY SANDRA FRIEND Dear Hernando County Commissioners, It was ironic the way our visit played out. Rain pelted us on the drive up I-75, so we almost sought shelter with your neighbor to the south, Pasco County. But we were on a mission to visit and photograph a trail in your county for our new book, so we decided to stay near Ridge Manor, instead. I was sitting in the hotel room, catching up on the week’s news, when I saw this article in the Tampa Bay Times. ...

IMAGE SOURCE: Miami Herald By Jenny Staletovich from the Miami Herald August 2, 2015 To the surprise of biologists, a Virginia Key beach restored to lure sea turtles has become an incubator to some unlikely babies: rare American crocodiles. Last month, the baby crocs hatched from the first nest ever documented on the urban island that links the city of Miami to Key Biscayne. After incubating for 84 days, a team from the University of Florida and the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science helped tag 13 crocs on July 26. ...

IMAGE SOURCE: blisstree.com Published 7/28/15 Sanjay Shukla looked out over row upon row of tomato and pepper plants and had an idea: What would happen if he made the compacted soil rows taller and more narrow? Would the plants need less water, fertilizer and fumigation? Would the plants grow as tall? Would the plants produce as many vegetables? And so, instead of planting rows that were normally 6 to 8 inches high and about 3 feet across, the University of Florida professor planted them 10 inches to a foot high and 1 ½ to 2 feet across. Instead of needing two drip lines to irrigate each row, they required only one. In addition, they needed fewer square feet in plastic mulch covering. He calls it “compact bed geometry” or “hilling.” ...

The new ‘Living Shoreline’ is shown in this July 9, 2015 aerial handout photo provided by Palm Beach County July 14, 2015 in Lake Worth, Florida. REUTERS/Palm Beach County/Handout via Reuters In a growing trend that seeks to blend art with environmental restoration, a water filtration project was unveiled on Tuesday along a 575-foot sea-walled stretch of the intracoastal waterway in South Florida. ...

PHOTO CREDIT: Audubon.org Read more at the following link: http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/wildlife/thousands-of-birds-abandon-eggs-nests-on-floridas-seahorse-key/2236425

For folks on the east coast of Florida who have been watching the push for new oil drilling in the western Everglades - hold on to your hats. A new application just sent to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection would bring oil drilling to the Everglades of Broward County! Articles in the Miami-Herald and Sun-Sentinel - with soundbites from South Florida Wildlands - summarizes this breaking news. Much more to come - please get the word out by sharing this post widely. Articles are below. ...

Chris Byron // Deep Green Resistance Orlando May Day is one of the last vestiges of worker solidarity in the United States. Initially the holiday was a left-wing celebration of union organizing, and a protest against the state for executing seven innocent anarchists. Both are on the decline. Union membership in the United States has been rapidly dwindling since the 1960s, and anarchism is becoming less understood, and less known.1 ...