LINK to the Grassy Conference Call - click here to listen On June 19th, 2008, RAN hosted a conference call to discuss the Old Growth Campaign’s part in the Indigenous lead efforts that brought us to the tremendous news that AbitibiBowater had decided it was time to leave the Whiskey Jack forest in the traditional territory [...]

If you say something enough after a while people start to believe it. It’s been many years since I started working on global warming and climate justice issues. It’s also been many years since we’ve used the term “climate criminals” to describe the executives who head the fossil fuel empire that has [...]

Check out these lengthy news pieces on Grassy Narrows’ victory in kicking the clear-cut logging corporations off their territory - an area three times the size of Yosemite National Park. CBC National primetime interview with Roberta Keesick Article on AlterNet Feature Article in Toronto’s Now Magazine Article on rabble.ca Environmental News Service newswire The Toronto Star

In the last couple of months we’ve heard quite a bit about a global food crisis.  There’s been a flurry of media coverage, emergency multilateral meetings (FAO), and concern even amongst U.S. consumers who have been hit with higher food prices at the store.  I want to share this article called “The Empty Plate Club” [...]

When it comes to climate change, we are all becoming child abusers. That’s the premise of a Father’s Day post by Marc Gunther of Fortune magazine in his blog, Corporate America: Making the World a Better Place…Or Not. …[A]s citizens and consumers, we are at best neglecting and at worst abusing our children…Start [...]

As activists challenging corporate power, Michael Clayton has nothing on us. A couple of months ago, Mother Jones posted an article about former cops and Secret Service digging through Greenpeace’s trash. Today’s Washington Post reveals more about the firm’s activities as one of their former investigators has been sharing files. “Beckett Brown International, had [...]

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RAN doesn’t have big campaign victories every day. We are definitely a very talented group of people who work with very talented activists, organizers, ally organizations, and community members every day, and we celebrate our successes when they happen - readers of this blog definitely know this to be true. But a victory [...]

This is pretty disturbing. Two weeks ago, the Richmond City Council voted in support of a crude cap. Now they’ve reversed it. Look for community calls to action on this. I suspect the Bay Area environmental justice community and other activists won’t take this laying down. RICHMOND Ruling reversed for Chevron No cap on [...]

I’m not sure if it makes me really excited, or really sad, you all have registered over 400 palm oil filled products on www.TheProblemWithPalmOil.org! Mostly, it makes me really excited, because each and every one of those companies is going to get a letter from the Rainforest Agribusiness team, asking them to join our effort to [...]