An injury to one is an injury to all. Last night, Rainforest Action Network, Global Exchange, and the Ruckus Society joined the picket line at Berkeley Honda, the longest running strike in auto dealer history. When Berkeley Honda was sold to millionaire real estate developers in June 2005, some of the most senior and talented mechanics [...]

Today, the Movement of Emancipation of the Niger Delta has warned oil companies and their employees to leave the delta before midnight Friday. If these oil companies do not leave, they plan on disrupting the oil supplies in Nigeria which will ultimately have an impact on the price of oil. Nigeria is U.S. fifth largest oil [...]

Jumpstart Ford organizer Mike Hudema has just returned from Caracas, Veneuzuela where he attended the World Social Forum. We're re-posting his diary here for your reading pleasure.

When I listened to Bush’s recent State Of The Union speech decrying America’s addiction to foreign oil, it made me hesitate for a moment—“Hey, he’s finally onto something!” But then I realized 2 key words—“FOREIGN OIL”. While Bush wants us off oil from “unstable parts of the world”, here in our own backyard big oil [...]

While President Bush remarke in his State of the Union speech last week that "America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world”, I was just returning from the fifth-biggest oil importer to the United States, Nigeria.

RAN's Mike Brune wrote an op-ed piece entitled, "A 12-Step Program to Break America's Oil Addiction" shows how easy America can simply get off oil and create a sustainable, energy efficient future.

The recent back-peddling by the Bush administration over the President's vows to get America off Middle-Eastern oil