RAN wants you. Specifically, for the position of Communications Manager. You could be the person behind the camera at RAN actions, fielding press calls, placing op-eds, and writing press releases. Media work is part of pretty much everything we do here. As communications manager, you’d become the voice of RAN’s Freedom From Oil and Global Finance [...]

Not since the mid-1970s, roughly a decade before Toyota Motor Corp. opened its first U.S. assembly plant has the union ordered a national strike against one of Detroit’s automakers. Thirty seven years later, the United Auto Workers are still raising the same concern against the automakers: Job security. In one swift act [...]

Just winding down from a great event in Toronto this afternoon. RAN teamed up with the Christian Peacemaker Teams to influence the elections coming up here in Ontario. Volunteers worked on the massive banner for weeks. Today it found a home on the lawn of Queen’s Park, the provincial legislature. The [...]

I’m a big fan of blue and green solidarity. No, I’m not talking about color patterns. I’m talking about labor and environmentalists organizing, marching, picketing, holding lines and supporting each other as much as possible. You know: Teamsters and Turtles at the WTO; Judy Bari (a personal she-ro) organizing with loggers during [...]

Yesterday, we sent out a message for concerned individuals to post comments to the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) and their legislators about the Bush administration attempting to relax rules regulating mountaintop removal. Here’s the link. Below is the message. Please act now. Dear Friends, George Bush has declared war on Appalachia’s environment and people. Ravenous [...]

RAN’s geek contingent has been experimenting with live mobile Web video for a while now, but today was the first time we used it for an action. While RAN activists floated a balloon banner outside, our own Brant Olson infiltrated the Bank of America investor’s conference, held at the Ritz Carlton in San Francisco, wearing [...]

Today in San Francisco, Bank of America had their 37th Annual Investor’s conference where they showcased to the investment banker crowd their dirty investments. Bank of America’s investment portfolio includes– • American Electric Power: The largest greenhouse gas emitter in the United States • Dynegy/LS Power: Currently, responsible for the largest build-out of coal-fired power plants [...]

Our inside man Brant has infiltrated a banking convention and is broadcasting live. RAN activists will soon be putting the pressure on Bank of America for its investments in coal and other dirty energy. You can watch it all as it happens at ran.org/live! Join me in the chatroom if you have any questions about what’s [...]

Here’s a summary of the action at San Francisco’s OfficeMax location from yesterday, written by San Francisco Rainforest Action Group organizer, Christy. It’s been a few weeks now since activist groups put Grand and Toy on notice with an action in Toronto, Canada. Now we are calling on OfficeMax CEO Sam Duncan to also issue [...]

When her husband Gordon was honored at last year’s annual awards dinner, Revel, Anita Roddick took to the stage. With her characteristic grace, humor, generosity and wit, she charmed the audience. As always, her fierce energy challenged us to do more, to question ourselves, to push further, to act. [...]