Good news from the Wal-Mart world: it appears they’re more serious about adopting substantial corporate ethics strategies than previously thought. Wal-Mart has issued a new job posting for a corporate executive business ethics point person to work for the world’s largest retailer and who… …will oversee a team of about ten staffers inside Wal-Mart’s Global Ethics [...]

Last weekend, Jumpstart Ford Organizers, Nile Malloy and Mike Hudema facilitated two non-violent direct action (NVDA) and corporate campaign strategy trainings at The Midwest Student Clean Energy Conference. The conference was sponsored by Energy Action, Global Exchange, Student PIRGS, Sierra Student Coalition and the Apollo Alliance, and brought together over 300 students from across the [...]

In case people forgot that shareholder activism works here’s a quick refresher. Actvists in Winnipeg, Manitoba attended Scotia Bank’s annual shareholder meeting last week and had an amazing response to their questions around corporate-social responsibility. Here are Beau and Shelagh’s report from Winnipeg: Scotiabank held their Annual General Meeting in Winnipeg, Manitoba on March 3. My [...]

Wendell Covalt and fellow RAN activist David Rosenstein led a victorious effort to show the Santa Monica Co-Opportunity natural foods store why they should stop buying Weyerhaeuser paper bags. In his own words… The Santa Monica Co-opportunity is a natural grocery co-op that is well regarded in Santa Monica, California. It is member owned and has [...]

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.