Archive for July, 2009
posted by Sparki in RAN General on July 31st, 2009
Here’s how intensely strange the conflict around mountaintop removal is getting. Poster child of mountaintop removal Massey Energy’s CEO Don Blankenship must have hired some new PR people trying to improve his public image (not that it doesn’t severely need it) in the world of online social networking.
Now we’re seeing him blogging and [...]
posted by Sparki in RAN General on July 31st, 2009
The Mobilization for Climate Justice-West (a coalition of over a dozen groups) are calling for a rally and mass civil disobedience in at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California on August 15.
Kicking off a season of direct action in the lead up to the UN climate talks in Copenhagen, MCJ-West wants people from all [...]
posted by Sparki in RAN General on July 31st, 2009
Ain’t democracy great?
Not only can the fossil fuel industry hire millions of dollars worth of lobbyists to influence Congress to water down the climate bill, but those lobbyists can also forge letters of support from groups representing people of color to Congress to further influence the recently passed climate bill.
Check out this article [...]
posted by Branden Barber in RAN General on July 28th, 2009
Indie rock sensation Trevor Hall has been an avid supporter of the Rainforest Action Network for many years, performing at a benefit concert for the organization in San Francisco in 2005.
Now – Trevor and his label, Vanguard Records are teaming up with ThinkIndie.com to support RAN with some of the profits from the sales of [...]
posted by Adrian in Freedom from Oil, RAN General on July 28th, 2009
In Toronto today, RAN appealed directly to Janet Nixon – the wife of Royal Bank of Canada’s CEO, Gordon Nixon – to help us end her husband’s company’s massive bankrolling of the Alberta tar sands.
During rush-hour commute this morning, two Indigenous Canadian women – RAN’s own Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, and Heather Milton-Lightening – scaled flagpoles [...]
posted by Robin in Freedom from Oil, RAN General on July 28th, 2009
UPDATE: RBC CEO Gordon Nixon is outside at the rally watching the RAN activists who deployed the banner!
More to come, but take a look at www.pleasehelpusmrsnixon.com.
Members of the Toronto RAN chapter have just deployed a banner outside RBC headquarters directing people to the site:
The site has a video of RAN’s executive director Michael Brune [...]
posted by Sparki in RAN General on July 27th, 2009
This year has seen an escalation in campaigns to stop mountaintop removal. It’s also seen an escalation in the backlash from Big Coal and it’s allies in the political world. Now is the time to not only resist mountaintop removal and Big Coal, but also inspire and organize your friends, families and neighborhoods to [...]
posted by Branden Barber in Global Finance, RAN General on July 24th, 2009
Claim your change by Kyle Thiermann
Changing where you bank might be the most simple and effective way to support your community and stop destructive projects all at the same time! Surfer, Kyle Thiermann shows you how your money gets used to create the world you live in by taking you on a trip to Chile. [...]
posted by Debra in RAN General, Rainforest Agribusiness on July 22nd, 2009
I just got home from the Animal Rights 2009 conference in Los Angeles, where I had the pleasure of meeting with activists from across the country involved in a broad a variety of important issues. At RAN’s table, we had a display that many activists found disturbing – linking the palm oil in vegan [...]
posted by Annie in RAN General on July 17th, 2009
Early this morning RAN sent out an email asking members to take action online. By 1pm this afternoon, RAN activists had called thousands of JP Morgan Chase employees in New York City telling them about the devastating practice of mountaintop removal coal mining, and asking them to help end it by stopping the financing [...]
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