Over the past months, I have spent a lot of time writing and talking about the environmental crisis in Appalachia around the coal industry. This week, I took a heartbreaking, yet inspiring, trip to the mountains of West Virginia to spend some time with folks working to stop strip mining and mountaintop removal throughout [...]

Horrible reports coming this morning from Nigeria. A gas pipeline exploded killing between 150-200 people after a leak in the pipeline caught fire igniting scores of people scavenging for fuel to sell. An explosion of this type doesn’t leave a pretty picture and hundreds of bodies were found with a 3 mile radius of the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]