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The bully pulpit is a great thing. It inspires me when someone like Al Gore gets on his soapbox about young people doing civil disobedience at coal plants to stop global warming. Over the past year or so he’s done it three times in the pages of the NY Times, Rolling Stone and most recently, [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, October 8 2008
“I can’t understand why there aren’t rings of young people blocking bulldozers, and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants.” -Al Gore August 2007 “We are here because now is the time to take greater action as individuals, as communities, and as a country to create a sustainable future and stop the destruction of our [...]
Continue reading...By joshua kahn russell, October 8 2008
Did yall see the Presidential debate last night? What about that question about Green Jobs and Climate? I don’t know if you were as dissapointed with the candidates’ lukewarm answers as I was, but one thing is for sure – there’s one issue neither McCain nor Obama will argue about: their support for (and astronomical [...]
Continue reading...By Becky Tarbotton, October 7 2008
Check out this video of RAN’s executive director facing off with Joe Lucas from the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. Considering how heated this topic is, the two of them were as polite as polite can be – but perhaps that’s because Joe Lucas is so predictably blind to the hypocrisy of the notion [...]
Continue reading...By Debra, October 7 2008
Climate crisis, housing crisis, financial crisis… more and more people are connecting the dots. I just returned from a rally in Harvard Square that put all of the pieces together in a powerful way. More than 150 people came together on a sunny fall day to protest the banks that are financing coal power, foreclosing [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, October 6 2008
Thanks in part to the support from tens of thousands of RAN activists and supporters, this past June the Grassy Narrows First Nation won an unprecedented victory when AbitibiBowater, the largest paper company in the world, agreed to stop logging in their traditional territory and the provincial government agreed to honor Grassy Narrows’ consent for [...]
Continue reading...By Brihannala, October 2 2008
When the Rainforest Ag team learned that the CEO of Archer Daniels Midland, Patricia Woertz, would be attending Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit at the ultra fancy Four Seasons Aviara Resort- we knew it would be a great time to give her a special delivery of your letters and petitions. Leila- the Ag campaign [...]
Continue reading...By Dana, October 1 2008
The amount of change, collapse and consolidation in the finance sector in recent weeks has been hard to fathom, and the implications for the U.S. and global economy are dramatic. Although the crisis is still playing out, here’s a quick summary of some of the recent fallout: March 16th: Bear Stearns collapsed, with the Federal [...]
Continue reading...By Becky Tarbotton, October 1 2008
With the economy in tatters and Congress fumbling for answers, at high noon today activists scaled the 40-foot flagpoles behind the iconic Wall Street bull and raised an American flag with the word “FORECLOSED?” emblazoned across the front. An accompanying rally of fifty people, surrounded by teams of tourists and onlookers, called for an end [...]
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By Scott Parkin, October 9 2008
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