Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal included coverage of “growing pains” at the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Jim Carleton quotes me saying “It’s a question of how do we improve the system, not whether we can keep the system… Because if you look at the alternative systems run by industry, those are [...]

Two of our international delegates, Hiparidi Toptiro and Francisco Avalos, arrived today from Brazil and Paraguay. Tomorrow we kick off our speaking tour, “Rainforest Agribusiness, Frontline Communities and the Biofuels Boom” in our hometown of San Francisco. The tour will then travel to Washington, DC for Powershift07, Minneapolis, MN and end at [...]

Rising Tide’s Greenwash Guerrillas paid a surprise visit to the Carbon Markets Insights conference in New York today. Their action brings new light to the growing carbon trading market, which is a huge boondoggle for the fossil fuel industry. Isn’t it funny that the very folks who got us into this whole mess are now [...]

Under the haze of smoke from forest fires in southern California on the day of No War No Warming, Freedom From Oil Campaign, Global Exchange, Plug In America, Interfaith Power & Light and RAN supporters rallied at Toyota Santa Monica to tell Toyota to drop out the Pavely lawsuit and to be a leader [...]

Take a look at the video below and this comment left on the earlier post about Charlotte. John Watterberg Says: October 24th, 2007 at 11:26 am e I am one of the climbers from Tuesday’s action at Bank of America on Tuesday and I would like to contribute one of my personal reasons for participating in this [...]

From our kick ass RAN NYC organizer Sam Bank of America customers were hard pressed to find a working atm in midtown manhattan yesterday when a group of volunteers took to the streets with little more than fliers and caution tape. How do you shut down 10 banking centers in just 2 hours? It’s easier than you’d [...]

We love you Al! So The Nation reports that Al Gore is considering our offer to engage in civil disobedience, specifically on our November 16-17 National Day of Action Against Coal Finance: Gore’s office confirmed that the former Vice President had received RAN’s invitation and was considering it, though no decision has been made. “He has not accepted [...]

WASHINGTON D.C. The arrests are still being tallied, the YouTube videos posted, and cars returned from impound lots – all residuals of Monday’s No War, No Warming mobilization that sent ripples from Washington D.C. to Santa Monica. Peace and climate activists banded together on October 22 to engage in an historical act of nonviolent civil disobedience [...]

At six am this morning (EDT) four intrepid RAN-ites scaled a crane outside Bank of America’s headquarters in Charlotte North Carolina and dropped a banner announcing: “Bank of America: Funding Coal, Killing Communities”. In full view of all their employees, the banner sent a powerful message to America’s largest bank that being one of the [...]

An AP story reports that the head of the IMF thinks “the global economy faces a period of uncertainty.” You don’t say? I guess the days of a predictable global economy, where perfect markets operated with transparency and always lived up to promises of increased prosperity for all, are coming to an end. No longer will we [...]