Students sitting-in President Gee’s office at OSU in Columbus, Ohio left peacefully at around 5:00pm yesterday. Everyone who participated in both the sit-in and the rally outside the administration’s building are feeling really good about how the day went and are looking forward to following this action up with more pressure on OSU to [...]

At the end of January leaders from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation began sentencing proceedings for contempt of court charges in Ontario provincial court. The road to this point has been interesting and groundbreaking for KI and their supporters. In the past 2 years KI has been battling Platinex Inc. and the court [...]

5 students from Ohio State University are still sitting in OSU president Gordon Gee’s office. Gee is refusing to meet with the students and they are prepared to continue the sit-in as long as necessary. Below is a description of the rally that happened outside the administrative building from two Free The Planet [...]

About an hour ago, five students at Ohio State began a sit-in to demand ethical standards for the purchase of wood and paper. The members Free The Planet, a student group on campus, vow to stay until President Gordon Gee signs an agreement to stop the University from buying wood products obtained from Indigenous [...]

Students and youth in the southeast are FIRED UP! I just spent the weekend at Valdosta State University in Georgia with 400+ folks from Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana who want to do something about global warming. The whole weekend was organized by Valdosta State’s environmental group, SAVE, who [...]

Over the weekend, 70+ students from 9 colleges and universities in Ohio gathered in Columbus at Ohio State University to develop a network of student activists, coordinate cross-campus campaign activities and participate in an action to stop development of new coal-fired power plants in Ohio. It was incredibly inspiring to watch these students come [...]

As promised, General Motors hosted a live webchat to address “corporate greenwashing” for RAN supporters yesterday. The Detroit News covered the event, featuring GM executive Brent Dewar “answering” questions from more than 65 RAN supporters (I use scare quotes because of the large number of questions he ignored and the indirect responses he gave to [...]

Students at Ohio State University in Columbus are in the midst of a major campaign to pressure the University to commit to a sustainable paper purchasing policy. As a part of this campaign, Free The Planet at OSU participated in RAN’s day of action against OfficeMax last week – and one of their demands [...]

Ok, so this article was posted over a month ago. But I just saw it! One of the reasons I am so proud to work for this organization is because of the effort we’re making toward making RAN, and hopefully the environmental movement as a whole, a more inclusive, less oppressive place. It’s hard. We have [...]

So, big news on Wall Street today regarding coal and our climate. Three of the largest investment banks (Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and JP Morgan Chase) announced the formation of the “Carbon Principles” – a set of guidelines the banks will follow when lending money to carbon-intensive projects, such as coal-fired power plants. While the banks don’t [...]