Rising Tide Australia leads the way again. The Australian government won’t make even medium greenhouse gas emissions until 2020. That’s too late and why Rising Tide began making emissions reductions using direct action instead of government inaction. 29 were arrested. Four locked onto the conveyor belts, everyone else on the coal piles. From their [...]

Check out the new animated video from Greenpeace US. Coalfinger

Excerpt from former RAN staffer, Dan Firger, who is sitting in on the Bowoto v. Chevron trial happening in San Francisco. See full post here. Opening arguments in Bowoto v. Chevron began early Tuesday morning in federal district court in San Francisco, and it became clear within the first few minutes that company lawyers are [...]

I have almost nothing to say. this is mostly just bizarre. And disgusting. The giant bank HSBC has a new ad depicting a violent police disruption of a forest protest. Just strange. Oh, and I like Joanna Newsom, WTF?

Merl Saunders was such a beaming and passionate man. He was so excited to tell me about his trip deep into the rainforest – all the sights and sounds and smells and strange wonderful creatures. He knew what we were fighting to save. He wrote several songs inspired by the forest and named his band [...]

When my colleague Bria and I sent out action alerts to the Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign’s grassroots activists a few weeks ago, asking them to participate in our Halloween Stickering Week of Action, we had no idea that over 900 people – in 43 states and 5 Canadian provinces – would sign up. (We ended up [...]

From former RAN staffer Daniel Firger who is in the Bowoto v. Chevron courtroom this week in San Francisco Nigeria’s Delta State is not a good place to be an environmentalist. In fact, it’s not a very good place to be a Nigerian. Delta State is quite a nice place for oil companies though; since oil [...]

An activist adage goes “Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean you’re not being watched.” This week, it was revealed that my friend and colleague Josh Tulkin, currently the field director for Power vote and formerly the deputy campaign director at Chesapeake Climate Action Network (CCAN), had been put into the Maryland State Police’s “terrorist” database. [...]

The first nationwide poll to test voters’ opinions on mountain top removal mining is clear; voters in every region of the country are against mountaintop removal mining (MTR). Upon hearing that “more than 1,200 miles of streams in Appalachia already have been buried or destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining,” fully 85% of voters say they [...]

copy from : Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government 21 Oct 2008 ‘I hit it in the square to vote for Obama. Immediately, it went to McCain.’ Early-voting problems in Putnam –Touch-screen votes switched, then corrected 21 Oct 2008 Two more Putnam County voters – Martha Louise Harrington and Michael K. Koon – have [...]