On October 17th, police in ski masks carrying automatic weapons raided the home of Carlos Zorrilla, the Executive Director of Defense and Ecological Conservation of Intag (DECOIN), a grassroots group comprised of farmers, peasants and priests that he co-founded in Intag of Northwest Ecuador in 1995. Mr. Zorrilla was able to get out of his [...]

Oil was discovered in the 1970s in a remote region of the northern Peruvian Amazon that the Achuar have inhabited for thousands of years. Over the past 30 years, the community’s consent was neither sought nor gained as U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum (OXY) drilled over 150 wells and built more than 300 miles of roads and [...]

A big thank you to all of you who decided to take action last week during the fourth annual World Rainforest Week. Over 2,000 of you pledged to take action during the 7 day effort to highlight rainforest destruction all over the world. 1,162 of you lived tree-free on Tuesday, while 1,053 of you supported the [...]

Please join us in celebrating a milestone for the Jumpstart Ford campaign. Last week, AutoNation became the first major car dealer to join Plug-In Partners, calling on automakers to manufacture plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and make them available to American customers. PHEVs are hybrid vehicles that dramatically reduce our dependence on oil by plugging into [...]

We get tons of questions here at RAN. Here’s a good one from Anne, about buying wood floors for her home: I’ve been looking into what I thought were “green” options for redoing my floors. Specifically, I’m considering FSC-certified Brazilian Cherry or Lyptus. I saw on your web-site, however, that Weyerhaeuser, which has the patent on [...]

On Wednesday, September 27, 2006, representatives from oil-impacted communities in Nigeria and Micronesia met with Ford officials to ask the company to sign a pledge to help end America’s oil addiction by building vastly more fuel-efficient vehicles. The community leaders were shocked that not only would they not sign the pledge but that Ford has no plans to [...]

Recent activities in Seattle and LA and over 2000 letters sent to Quadrant CEO Peter Orser are begining to make an impact. Last week, the company issued emails signed by Mr. Orser (download a copy here). While it’s good that he took the time to respond, he misses the central point–that Quadrant shares a [...]

On July 13 one hundred supporters joined Indigenous mothers and grandmothers from Grassy Narrows in a blockade of the Trans-Canada highway to slow the destruction of Grassy Narrows’ forests and culture by Weyerhaeuser and Abitibi corporations. Two months later, Chrissy Swain from Grassy Narrows joined RAN interns and activists [...]