Ken Lewis, CEO of Bank of America! For his company’s massive support of the coal industry and other carbon intensive industry. The final results are in for the “Foolies.” Here are the other winners: Outstanding Performance in Corporate Greenwashing: GM CEO Rick Wagoner, for his company’s creation of GMNext.com, a website designed to promote GM’s environmental progress even [...]

Fossil Fools Day 2008 got an early start today – with London Rising Tide “kicking” things off. In front of the Football Association headquarters in London, Rising Tide protesters issued the FA a Red Card for accepting sponsorship from E.ON – a utility company proposing to build new coal-fired power plants in the UK. “We are [...]

Yesterday in a bold move backwards, California’s Air Resource Board (CARB) voted to kill the electric car. Again. Bowing to automaker pressure. Again. Ignoring the concerns of California’s citizens. Again. CARB reviews what is known as the Zero Emission Vehicle Program every 5 years. At one time, this cutting edge program pushed automakers to produce innovative pollution-free, petroleum-free [...]

How often do you get to witness a band of activists deploy a direct action and successfully pressure the CEO of a corporation into agreeing to their demands – before the police even arrive on the scene? On Friday afternoon, student activists with Ohio Student Environmental Coalition and members of Mountain Justice occupied the lobby of [...]

Earlier this week 6 political leaders of the Indigenous Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) First Nation were sentenced to 6 months in jail for refusing to allow mining and exploration on their traditional lands. KI councilor Cecilia Begg, the only woman among the KI six, is now all alone in the Thunder Bay District jail, a notorious jail [...]

In less than two weeks is Fossil’s Fool Day. And I gotta say MOMENTUM IS BUILDING and the WORD IS SPREADING. To join or organize and action, click here To get some ideas, click here To get some other ideas, click here To vote for your favorite Fossil Fools, click here It’s time to get involved. Hope [...]

Over five years ago, and many times since, we’ve marched, vigiled, written letters, lobbied and taken direct action to end the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Estimates put the number of Iraqi dead at over 1 million. Over 4,000 coalition troops have been killed. Companies like Halliburton and Blackwater profit directly in [...]

Last week women from Grassy went out to the edges of their land, near where some cutting of the forest is still taking place. One of the women sent out this statement: We will go there to feel a little bit of the suffering the land is feeling. We will go there to feel the life [...]

Yesterday, on March 15th, 2008, nearly 1,000 people gathered in Richmond, California – as part of a series of non-violent direct actions leading up to the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War. After 5 years, $2.8 trillion dollars wasted, 600,000 Iraqi’s dead, nearly 4,000 US soldiers dead, and opposition to the war at an all-time [...]