Jam Down at the Bank of America; Mountain Music Day of Action;May 9-10

A coordinated Day of Mountain Music Action against the Banks that fund coal. Bank of America and Citi are the biggest funders of the coal industry. Continued dependence on coal as an energy source means dirtier air and water, more global warming and the all-out destruction of Appalachian communities and ecosystems by mountaintop removal (MTR) [...]

The Ballad of the Fantabulous Four

Here’s a little ditty about the Boston Bank of America lockdown on Fossil Fool’s Day.

Greenwash of the Week: Is Wal-Mart Selling Greenwash?

Supermarket Sleuths: Are they hiding rainforest destruction in our supermarkets?

It is not every day that we here at RAN get to announce the launch of a major new strategy… but today is one of those exciting days! The Rainforest Agribusiness campaign is launching a retail strategy, which will focus on holding ADM, Bunge, and Cargill responsible for the rainforest destruction that they are sneaking [...]

“Multi-Stakeholder” Process Misses the Mark (Police and barricades installed to prevent access)

I don’t necessarily expect to be welcomed into a closed, board-room meeting. Or, the secret negotiations of nation-states as they deliberate economic agreements, or arms deals. But, when a process like the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) markets itself as a participatory, transparent, democratic, and multi-stakeholder process, my expectations are a little different. Yesterday, I [...]

200 Indigenous Leaders Demand Their Rights in Malaysia

Yesterday, in Kuching, our fact finding team meet with 200 leaders from Indigenous communities around the state of Sarawak. Some had traveled by boat to attend, some had traveled 8 hours or more.  The meeting was sponsored by SADIA, the Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (an Indigenous peoples network), and they had only expected about 150 [...]

Houston RAN Solidarity Action with No Coal Groups at BOA AGM

Houston RAN did a solidarity action with No Coal groups at the Bank of America shareholders’ meeting. Coal activism is POPPING. If you don’t have a coal plant or coal mine in your town, think about Citi and Bank of America– they keep the coal extractors and burners lights on (no pun intended). Houston Rainforest [...]

Coal is over: get the picture?

A supporter from Texas created this video about why you should care about Bank of America (and Citi’s) investment in coal. If you want to get involved, start by signing RAN’s petition telling BofA and Citi to end their coal investments.

Coal makes BoA’s Ken Lewis red in the face at AGM

Today’s Bank of America shareholder meeting was a packed house and CEO Ken Lewis was not having a very good day. Poor guy, first he had to deal with the crazy shareholder lady who launched into a monologue about how much she loved him, then with shareholder annoyance over the impending Countrywide deal and THEN [...]

Bank of America: You Can’t Bail out a Dead Planet

Coal and climate activists have really been stepping it up in Charlotte and North Carolina. Between Duke Energy building a 800 NW new coal plant in Cliffside, NC and Bank of America funding every coal related enterprise under the sun, the Tarheel state is really seeing activist things happen. Today it happened again, Bank of [...]