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The horn blasted right outside the window where we slept early this morning. “Wake up, losers!” two miners yelled from their pickup truck, gunning the engine. “Wake up! Time to get a job! Better yet, time to get the f*** out of town!” Ah, yes. Mornings in the coal fields of West Virginia. For wake-up [...]
Continue reading...By Margaret, June 24 2009
A few weeks ago, I blogged about a critical bill waiting to be signed by Brazil’s President Lula de Silva, one that could devastate the Amazon forest by legalizing development of over 600,000 square kilometres of protected Amazon forest. After hearing from activists around the world – Lula seems to have postponed his decision from [...]
Continue reading...By Margaret, June 24 2009
According to reports from Grist today, House Ag committee chief Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) is becoming a key obstacle to passing strong climate change legislation this year, threatening to unite the 26 Ag committee Democrats against the pending Waxman-Markey bill unless the final version contains huge handouts to the agribusiness industry in the form of bogus [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, June 24 2009
Here is one of the videos coming out from yesterday’s action. Here is a great blog by Jeff Biggers on yesterday’s events. Great work by the organizers and participants for making this action happen despite all the tension with Massey’s supporters on site.
Continue reading...By Becky Tarbotton, June 23 2009
Today RAN and our good friends from Appalachia along with renowned climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, actress Daryl Hannah and more than a dozen Appalachian residents and allies were arrested crossing onto the property of leading mountaintop removal coal mining company, Massey Energy. This was Dr Hansen’s first arrest in an act of civil disobedience [...]
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Today, RAN’s own Michael Brune is joining leading climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen, actress Daryl Hannah, former Representative Ken Hechler, Goldman Prize winners, Judy Bonds and Maria Gunnoe, as well as dozens of Coal River Valley residents and allies in a protest to stop mountaintop removal. They will be risking arrest by crossing onto the [...]
Continue reading...By Jennifer Krill, June 22 2009
Here is the latest on the Peru conflict. As of Friday, June 19th, the BBC reported that due to the repeal of the two most controversial presidential decrees, the blockades were being called off. Indigenous federation leader Daysi Zapata said she expects President Alan Garcia’s administration to consult Indigenous communities on development plans that affect [...]
Continue reading...By joshua kahn russell, June 22 2009
I’m on a tour of Canada and the US with the bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere to educate, organize, and mobilize people to stop a disastrous oil project called the Tar Sands. Every night I’ll be speaking with the bands on stage, working with teams of volunteers and the organization Substance to get hundreds of [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, June 20 2009
Here’s a video of yesterday’s action in Twilight, WV that shut down a 20 story dragline. Watch the video here 14 were arrested after entering onto a mine site. Seven stopped the machine from operating, 2 documented the event and 4 scaled the machine to hang a banner that said “Stop Mountaintop Removal”
Continue reading...By Adrian, June 19 2009
Today, RAN took the fight against dirty Tar Sands oil to Washington. At the Capitol Hilton in Washington, DC today, the Canadian-American Business Council held a high-profile forum on energy and environment. Speakers included Canadian Prime Minister Harper’s senior energy advisor, the Premier of Manitoba, and several U.S. members of Congress – as well as [...]
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By Brune, June 24 2009
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