Archive for March, 2008
posted by Sparki in RAN General on March 14th, 2008
So, tomorrow a whole bunch of people are going to be taking action at Chevron’s refinery in Richmond Ca for their role in the war in Iraq (cheerleading and profiting from it), polluting local communities in Richmond Ca with their refinery expansion and burning up the climate with greenhouse gas emissions.
By boat, bike and blockade, [...]
posted by Stan in RAN General on March 13th, 2008
The Vatican, in an effort to modernize the Catholic Church, has revised the list of mortal sins. Even those of us who fell asleep in the pews could recite the old list thanks to its archaic but charismatic words (sloth, wrath, avarice, etc.) but the new list has a decidedly contemporary character:
Genetic modification
Human experimentation
Polluting the [...]
posted by Brihannala in RAN General, Rainforest Agribusiness on March 13th, 2008
UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal has video of RAN activists confronting ADM CEO Patricia Woertz!
Three RAN activists– Levana Saxon, Annie Sartor, and I– made Patricia Woertz, CEO of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) feel really uncomfortable in front of her peers today.
The Wall Street Journal is currently putting on a conference called the ECO:nomics conference (www.economics.wsj.com) [...]
posted by Matt Leonard in Freedom from Oil, Global Finance, Old Growth, RAN General on March 12th, 2008
“We All Live at Climate Ground Zero”
It is time for American citizens to take leadership & direct action and make our politicians accountable to us. To this end we announce a Citizens Direct Action Training Camp in June 2008 in Montana to oppose and confront the massive fossil fuel development of the Rocky Mountain Corridor [...]
posted by Andrea in RAN General, Rainforest Agribusiness on March 9th, 2008
Final Dispatch: Andrea and Jodie writing from the South American soy frontier
On the way back from visiting the threatened Yaguarete forest and the community of Tava Guarani, we happened upon a soy plantation called Laguna Blanca. It wasn’t hidden; in fact, a large billboard outside the plantation gate proudly advertised it, and called our [...]
posted by Sparki in RAN General on March 7th, 2008
Mountain Justice Spring Break has been kicking it up in southwest Virginia this week.
I got here Tuesday night and through the week over 100 students, youth, environmentalists and activist-organizers have been working on building that better world we all work to see.
Folks from all over Appalachia, the Mid-West and the Southeast are here. [...]
posted by Sparki in RAN General on March 7th, 2008
Our friends at Mountain Justice Spring Break have been busy this week. Perhaps we can get a Blue Grass day of action at Citi and Bank of America branches soon.
“At noon on Wednesday, March 5th, approximately two dozen Mountain Justice activists visited a Bank of America in Boone North Carolina to protest the
bank’s [...]
posted by Cameron in Freedom from Oil, Global Finance, Old Growth, RAN General, Rainforest Agribusiness on March 7th, 2008
Well, it’s that time of year…time to select your Fossil Fool of the Year!! Voting is just underway here, and we’ve got a vested interest in the outcome, so, please, go vote, and pass the link on to everyone you can.
This year, we’ve pulled out all the stops. We’ve created five categories to cover every [...]
posted by Luke in RAN General on March 5th, 2008
This week’s greenwash is Shell Oil’s “Say No to No” campaign. Starring our own Robin Beck. Also appearing: Lawrence Lessig’s laptop (no joke).
posted by Levana in RAN General on March 5th, 2008
It’s not a secret. Environmentalism has a bad name with a lot of people – and for lots of good reasons (check the article “Soul of Environmentalism” if you are not on the same page with me on this). The mainstream, majority white environmental movement has a checkered history of ignoring (or working against) the [...]
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