Archive for April, 2006
posted by Sparki in RAN General on April 28th, 2006
From Gina Ruth in Walnut Creek
After being told by everyone at my school that no one would show up to a protest on prom day, the Walnut Creek action ended up having the most successful turn out of any wells fargo action in the bay area. It began when groggy [...]
posted by Sparki in RAN General on April 26th, 2006
Yesterday, after weeks of preparation, organizing and outreach the big day came—the Wells Fargo shareholder’s meeting. Not only did Rainforest Action Network, ACORN and lots of other economic justice and environmental activists have a loud colorful protest on the streets of San Francisco, but a couple of us had shares and were able to [...]
posted by Sparki in RAN General on April 26th, 2006
written by cri in Ft Worth, Texas
yahoo! we celebrated Earth Day last Saturday with a good old fashioned ‘brandin’, where instead of branding a cow we in fact branded a company with a nice big insignia of ’stink’. Wells Fargo will continue ripping on the environment unless folks know what they’re up to. We made [...]
posted by Sparki in RAN General on April 26th, 2006
Written by Deb Russell in Austin Texas
Spencer, Tracey, Smitty (director of Public Citizen, TX) and I converged on the Wells Fargo drive through branch at S. Congress and Riverside (chosen for visibility’s sake) at 1:00pm CST. Our aim was to educate the public, who was hopefully in a little more sympathetic environmentally responsible mode since [...]
posted by Brant in Old Growth, RAN General on April 20th, 2006
JESSICA BELL REPORTS:
This morning, we attended Weyerhaeuser’s shareholder meeting at the company’s headquarters just south of Seattle. The crowd consisted of over 500 mostly white men and women.
Those expressing concerns included four folks from RAN, Lynne Barker from the Healthy Building Network, the Teamsters, the Carpenters, Calvert Group, the world’s largest socially responsible investment institution, [...]
posted by Brant in Old Growth, RAN General on April 19th, 2006
It’s been a good two days.
Yesterday, Bonnie and I met with one of Weyerhaeuser’s customers in the Seattle region. Bonnie delivered a letter stating that “This notice is to advise you that you are taking part the destruction of our Traditional Territory and you are being given fair notice that this will not [...]
posted by Japhet in RAN General on April 17th, 2006
The Philly Inquirerer delves into the changing demographics within the environmental movement. Apparently, you don’t have to be a hippie anymore to be a greenie.
“You don’t have to be a crunchy granola person anymore. Environmentalists are people who think about their kids’ futures.”
Wow. So that narrows it down to just about…well everyone. The article [...]
posted by Brant in RAN General on April 17th, 2006
Last week, Bonnie Swain got in a van with four of her friends and drove more than 2000 miles from her home in Northern Ontario to have just three minutes of face time with Weyerhaeuser, the biggest lumber company in the world. This Thursday, at the company’s Annual General Meeiting, she’ll ask a room full [...]
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