Lone Protester Shuts Down Bank; Mannequin demands end to funding of coal industry, foreclosure evictions BOSTON, MA – The Kenmore Square Bank of America branch was closed for business this morning by an activist with Mannequins for Climate Justice. The protester chained himself to the doors of the bank shortly before opening this morning. The protester, Guy [...]

As a former community college history teacher that taught a lot of radical labor and anti-authoritarian history (never used those buzzwords though), I love that one of the two mountains saved by Lisa Jackson’s announcement last week was Blair Mountain. Check out Jeff Biggers’ latest blog post about how rednecks and greens won the 21st century [...]

Who’s worse? Bank of America (who you might know we’ve been targeting for their role in financing the coal industry) or Starbucks (who does lot’s of bad stuff including selling undrinkable coffee)? Got an opinion? Check out The Consumerist’s Worst Company in America bracket and vote. I think what’s most remarkable about the whole thing, besides being [...]

Today at RAN HQ, we had a visit from Larry Gibson from Kayford Mountain, WV. Larry’s been fighting Big Coal for 25 years. He faces the violence, lies and oppression of the coal industry almost on a daily basis. The mountain where he lives, Kayford mountain is, as he calls it a [...]

Cap and trade, carbon offsets and carbon markets could soon spawn a massive trillion dollar derivatives market in sub-prime carbon, according to a new report from Friends of the Earth. Congressional climate legislation is poised to unleash new carbon markets with very little regulatory oversight, raising the spector of a new speculative bubble that [...]

A new Rising Tide chapter, DC Rising Tide, disrupted the Coal To Liquids conference in DC today. Pics here. Activists expose coal-to-liquids as a false solution; DC Rising Tide disrupt and denounce coal conference Washington, DC. – Local activists with DC [...]

Just to clarify the EPA is “reviewing” hundreds of mountaintop removal permits, no moratorium. The media stories that came out about were so overstated that the EPA put out another press release today. Here’s a clip of it. Pay close attention to the bolded part. Not what we want to hear. EPA will take [...]

Today’s announced decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to put a hold on all new mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining permits is a welcome change to the coal industry’s “rape and pillage” approach to Appalachia. Since the 1970’s, almost 500 Appalachian Mountains have been destroyed, hundreds of miles of streams and rivers buried [...]

Duke Energy’s in-construction coal plant in Cliffside, North Carolina is the target of a protest planned for April 20th. Duke’s Cliffside plant is one of over 150 new coal fired power plants that have been proposed in the past couple years, and is one of over 60 plants around the country that activists are [...]

EAST BAY REPORTBACK FROM THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM (WSF) Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:30 – 8 pm 5366 College Avenue (5 blocks south of Rockridge Bart station) Oakland, CA (click here for directions) • Hear from representatives of Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network, and International Forum on Globalization on their experiences at [...]