Nice article by Time Magazine reporter Bryan Walsh on Utah student and monkey wrencher Tim DeChristopher. At the end is a plug for the Capital Climate Action. To Protect Public Land, Eco-Protesters Get Creative http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1874446,00.html By Bryan Walsh Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009 Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher tainted an auction of oil and gas drilling leases by bidding up [...]

Organizers asking action participants to dress in their “Sunday Best” at the civil disobedience at the Capitol on March 2nd. We’ve all heard that movements for ecological sanity and social justice are in a crucial political moment. We’re moving from margin to center, and ideas that were once considered on the radical fringe are seen [...]

With the economy in meltdown, it’s no wonder that everyone is casting around for a fast way to make a buck. You can hardly turn around without hearing more dismal news about layoffs. Almost everyone (except maybe JPMC CEO Jamie Dimon who keeps telling everyone how much money he has) has been affected in some [...]

The new administration is up to its eyeballs trying to pull off an economic stimulus package that will genuinely stimulate the economy while also (to their credit) meeting another critical need – to jumpstart the transition to a green energy system. I don’t envy them that job, not for one second – particularly because [...]

Things never stop happening around coal and Appalachia. Wise County Va, Coal River Mountain, Harriman Tn, Meigs Oh and many other places are where that the coal companies, the utility companies, bankers and politicians have determined to be environmental sacrifice zones. Rising up with a fierce resistance are front line communities, students, radical environmental networks and ordinary [...]

Hello from Chicago! I’m out here in the blustery cold Midwest gearing up for PowerShift and the Capitol Climate Action as well as meeting the many great activists out here who are plugged in with RAN’s campaigns. I arrived yesterday evening and was plucked out of the brutal cold quickly by the amazing Debra [...]

As a part of its awareness campaign against the pollution of the Ganges River, RAN WEST BENGAL organized a meeting on January 17. The Ganges River, which the Indian government recently declared the National River of India, has become a soup of pollution. It is a beautiful river. It is just really mucked up. The river [...]

This morning Andrea, Atossa and I climbed out of bed as the sun was rising on the first day of the World Social Forum to go lay out an image 180 feet wide and 240 feet long on a muddy field under the creative leadership of  John Quigley with our friends. We had 4 hours before [...]

So, my friends and community back in Austin have been dealt a hard blow the past few months by a former comrade of theirs, Brandon Darby, turning FBI informant. I blogged on this a few weeks ago, but more has come out and I wanted to share it. Also, to put it in [...]

This year’s World Social Forum is officially kicking off tomorrow, and is being held in Belem–in the Brazilian Amazon. Approximately 100,000 people, representing civil society, social movements, and Indigenous people around the world are expected to participate throughout the week. Indigenous federations COIAB and COICA along with RAN, Amazon Watch, Amazon Alliance, and Spectral Q, [...]