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The Day of Against Coal Finance has been great, over 40 cities and towns did well over 100 actions against Citi and Bank of America (with a couple of actions against Duke and Peabody). The movements to stop destructive coal extraction and coal-fired power plants is building momentum. These are a few highlights from the [...]
Continue reading...By Matt Leonard, November 19 2007
I’m sure most of us realize that massive amounts of federal subsidies and private capital are going towards continuing our reliance on dirty fossil fuels. And despite lots of rhetoric from politicians and investment banks – very little money is going towards renewable energy or energy efficiency measures. Even though we’ve been aware of the [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, November 18 2007
I’ve gotten a lot of pictures and reportbacks from our day of action against Bank of America and Citi’s financing of King Coal in the past 2 days. But today, our friends at Coal River Mountain Watch sent me their action shots. They speak for themselves and serve as a reminder as to why we [...]
Continue reading...By Annie Sartor, November 16 2007
Early this morning the five RAN staff (and Global Exchange campaigner Nick) who are in LA for the “Triple Crown” week of actions got out of bed and headed to Long Beach to greet Weyerhaeuser at the 2007 Building Industry Show. Building conferences and shows happen fairly regularly around the country and serve as a [...]
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Now that I’ve been back in the office for a few days, I’ve had a chance to reflect on the intensely rewarding, multi-city, multi-layover, whirlwind inspiration that was our international delegation and U.S. speaking tour. Delegates from Brazil, Paraguay and Papua New Guinea traveled up to 46 hours in order to tell their stories to [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, November 16 2007
A quick update on National Day of Action against Coal Finance. If you did an action, send report backs to dirtymoney@ran.org AND lots more actions are happening TOMORROW in a city near you! Check the map for details. San Francisco, CA : Across downtown San Francisco, nearly every Bank of America and Citi ATM was [...]
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This week Bank of America subsidiary MBNA launched their new Eco-Logique MasterCard credit card for Canadian consumers. What makes the new card so special? Well, everytime you make a purchase you earn points, but instead of using the points to get airline tickets or electronics, MBNA buys carbon offsets. The more stuff you buy, the [...]
Continue reading...By Robin, November 16 2007
Yeah, so this is almost too crazy to be true. Yesterday Brant blogged about his run in with Toyota executive Bob Carter at the LA Auto Show and included a nice video of the encounter. In the comments someone using the name “fugazi48″ wrote that “Toyota is a money grubbing company. Buy a car from [...]
Continue reading...By Brant Olson, November 16 2007
According to this announcement, Heiko Liedeker is stepping down as Executive Director of the FSC after six years at the helm. My read of the announcement raises the question of whether his decision was made voluntarily or under pressure stemming from recent controversies? Those more plugged in to the internal dynamics of the international office [...]
Continue reading...By Becky Tarbotton, November 16 2007
And they’re coming. We’ve been telling Citi and Bank of America that their financing of coal fired power plants and mountaintop removal was going to get them some unwanted attention from lots of very concerned people. Today thousands have taken to the streets in fifty cities around the country to tell the banks that financing [...]
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By Scott Parkin, November 19 2007
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