Archive | August, 2008

Will the real Billionaires please stand up?

By Becky Tarbotton, August 11 2008

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Will the real Billionaires please stand up?

I don’t mean to start sounding like a broken record, but I really do love it when I scan the news and find reports of actions challenging banks’ investments in coal….that I didn’t even know were happening! Today, my quick morning peruse of the blogs rewarded me with tales of Billionaires in Asheville, Raleigh and [...]

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RAN Condemns Violent Response to Free Tibet Protests

By Dana, August 6 2008

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RAN Condemns Violent Response to Free Tibet Protests

Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) launched a series of peaceful protest actions around the world in the past 24-hours, just before the Olympic torch entered Beijing, to call attention to China’s ongoing brutality in Tibet and the systematic repression of human rights by the Chinese regime. The first of these actions occurred in Beijing, [...]

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Tom Stephens: Amnesiac or Poor Brand Manager?

By Brant Olson, August 4 2008

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Tom Stephens: Amnesiac or Poor Brand Manager?

Forest News Watch posted an interesting interview with Boise Cascade CEO Tom Stephens Friday.  When asked what effect “the agreement reached with Rainforest Action Network” had on day-to-day operations of Boise Cascade, Stephens responds in part that “I’m not aware of any agreement between the two parties, either before I came or after.” Stephens is [...]

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