Nice article about our friends at Rising Tide. It’s a rapidly growing global movement. Climate Crisis Energizes Radical Environmentalists November 26, 2008 By DINA CAPPIELLO, Associated Press Writer LOUISA, Va. (AP) — Under arrest, Paxus Calta raised two fingers from his shackled hand to flash a peace sign. Fellow environmental activists cheered as police escorted him to the [...]

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has approved Massey Energy’s revision of one of the mountaintop removal coal mining permits for Coal River Mountain. That means Massey may begin blasting at any time. Read about it here on Grist. West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin can still stop Massey Energy from ruining Coal River Mountain’s [...]

This is too much. Don Blankenship and Massey Energy are the poster children for mountaintop removal. They not only wreck the planet by selling the coal they mine to be burned, but wreck Appalachian communities and landscape in extracting it. It’s a pretty horrible process and this guy labels us as the [...]

Multinational Monitor released their annual listing of 10 Worst Corporations of the Year yesterday. No surprise to us – Cargill made it on the list as a shining example of food profiteering. Cargill: Food Profiteers The world’s food system is broken. Or, more accurately, the giant food companies and their allies in the U.S. and other rich country [...]

I spent the past couple of days talking with a longtime movement friend of mine who has been organizing civil disobedience and mass mobilizations since the 1970’s. She told me about organizing a thousand person blockade at C.I.A. headquarters in 1987 as part of the Central American solidarity movement. In those days, Ronald [...]

Where to start? For the last 5 days, I have been observing the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in the resort area of Nusa Dua, Bali. Just like last year, I joined the Sawit Watch delegation- a group of almost 50 small farmers and affected community members from across Indonesia. Over the last 6 years, [...]

…but not RAN. We don’t take money from large corporations as a rule. And that’s one of the reasons why we can be nimble and effective in our campaigns. Check out this article from Marc Gunther on CNN’s Money. From http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/13/news/companies/corporate_green.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2008111409 Corporate ties bedevil green groups When environmentalists work with big business, sometimes big money changes hands. By Marc [...]

You need to see this – electricity use is DOWN all over the country….and energy executives don’t think it’s because of the economic downturn, but rather because of a ‘fundamental shift’. Key quote: ” Michael Morris, the chief executive of AEP, one of the country’s largest utilities, says he thinks the industry should to be wary about breaking ground on [...]

RAN released a new report today, “Financing Global Warming: Canadian Banks and Fossil Fuels“, which calculates for the first time the carbon footprint from financing of fossil fuels by 7 leading Canadian banks – RBC, TD, Scotiabank, BMO, CIBC, Desjardins and Vancity.  Along with the report, we also launched a new website, climatefriendlybanking.org. The report results [...]

On Nov 14, 2008, activists from the Coal River Valley, an area hard-hit by mountaintop removal coal extraction, took action against Citi in Beckley, WV.  They distributed fliers outside a Citi Financial office, informed Citi employees that their employer had a major role in destroying their communities, and handed fliers to customers entering the office.  [...]