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While automakers plan to offer more buyouts, permanently close more plants and continue to drag their feet to mass produce cleaner more fuel efficient vehicles, our labor solidarity allies (Bob Mabbitt and Melodee Hagenson) from Public Development in Flint, Michigan took our concerns to the street by creating a Freedom From Oil video highlighting the [...]
Continue reading...By Luke, January 23 2008
Coming to us via Think Progress: In Democratic presidential debate last night, CNN once again failed to ask any questions about global warming. Perhaps not surprisingly, last night’s debate was sponsored by the coal front group Americans for Balanced Energy Choices (ABEC). Considering that this is an ongoing greenwash and a blatant attempt to buy [...]
Continue reading...By Brihannala, January 23 2008
It has been an amazing few weeks for media about palm oil. Three articles, from the Sacramento Bee, the NYTimes, and CNN.com highlighted the problems with the expansion of palm oil in Indonesia and Malaysia. The Sacramento Bee article highlighted the role of palm oil in habitat destruction in Indonesia– underlining the threat to orangutans [...]
Continue reading...By Robin, January 23 2008
Last week RAN supports shut down one of the biggest and most ambitious online corporate greenwashing campaigns. To mark its 100th anniversary two weeks ago, General Motors launched a new interactive website, gmnext, where the public was encouraged to submit photos, videos and comments in order to help the company answer questions like “how should [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, January 23 2008
Last Friday, activists with RAN LA held a small informative demo outside of a Los Angeles area Citi bank branch. Signs were held and flyers passed out. Citi’s representatives in San Francisco contacted RAN LA and attempted to explain how green Citi really is and head off the event. It went off with plans to [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, January 18 2008
Two Sea Shepard’s activists that boarded a Japanese whaler were taken hostage while delivering a letter to the ship’s captain calling on them to stop the illegal killing of whales. The two were detained by the crew of the Yushin Maru No 2 and according to the Sea Shepards, tied to the radar mast and [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, January 18 2008
Two bits of bad news for coal giant Massey Energy 1. Massey agreed to pay $30 million for lootin’ and pollutin’. “The country’s fourth-largest coal producer, Massey Energy Co., has agreed to a $30 million settlement with the government over allegations that over seven years it routinely polluted hundreds of streams and waterways in West [...]
Continue reading...By Matt Leonard, January 17 2008
Ahh, 2007. What a year. The iPhone made its debut (got one). The Harry Potter series comes to an end (never read a single one). Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, OJ Simpson, Kid Rock, and Senator Larry Craig all went to jail. (As did I, but for the climate, not driving drunk or bathroom kink). Al [...]
Continue reading...By Brihannala, January 17 2008
On Saturday, January 26th, the Rainforest Agribusiness campaign will be joining hundreds of thousands of people across the world in a day of action being called by the World Social Forum. Along with Via Campesina–a global farmers’ movement that represents over 100 million farmers around the world–and other organizations worldwide, the rainforest agribusiness campaign is [...]
Continue reading...By Annie Sartor, January 16 2008
RAN’s international day of action for Indigenous rights is gaining steam! As of today, January 16, activists in 27 cities in the United States and Canada are planning actions at their local OfficeMax and Grand & Toy locations to demand that the companies publicly support a logging moratorium in Grassy Narrows. We are really excited [...]
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