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Fall is glorious in the Twin Cities! Leaves of brilliant reds, oranges and yellows hang in the streets showing off the changing seasons like a painting depicting a powerful symbol of community change. As the cold of winter creeps in, local Twin Cities folks are both preparing to hibernate for the cold of winter and [...]
Continue reading...By Hillary Lehr, October 26 2009
Displaced primates, having lost much of their Indonsian rainforest habitat, relocate to Minneapolis to tell the company responsible for destroying their rainforests to adopt a Global Forest Policy NOW. One distressed orangutan placed a call this afternoon to Cargill, the largest importer of palm oil to the United States. The orangutan apparently demanded that Cargill [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, October 26 2009
We’ve heard and seen evidence that Massey Energy is now clearing and blasting for coal extraction on Coal River Mountain. We’ve had a lot of victories in the past few months, but this is ours and our allies line in the sand. Coal River Mountain is the symbol of our clean energy future and the [...]
Continue reading...By Annie Sartor, October 26 2009
More and more people are demanding that JPMorgan Chase stop financing the coal industry and the destruction of Appalachia through mountaintop removal coal mining. Earlier this month, Bill McKibben sent a letter to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and this week, Gloria Reuben, actress, singer and social activist, sent her letter – posted below. Ms. [...]
Continue reading...By Adrian, October 26 2009
Cross-posted from It’s Getting Hot in Here. Written by Maryam Adrangi from RAN Toronto. This weekend in Ottawa, 100 concerned citizens staged mock deaths at the Royal Bank of Canada, accompanied by chanting and chalk outlines. Following a weekend of activity at Powershift Canada, the action called attention to RBC’s role as the lead financier of tar [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, October 26 2009
DC residents with the activist group DC Rising Tide today publicly presented their demands that Pepco stop sourcing electricity from coal, and particularly coal from Mountain Top Removal coal mining. The activists made their demands for renewable energy with a theatrical fight between “Pepcoal” and wind power in front of the headquarters of Pepco and [...]
Continue reading...By Annie Sartor, October 26 2009
New Yorkers and those nearby! Join us this Thursday, October 29th to tell JP Morgan Chase to stop funding mountaintop removal coal mining! JP Morgan Chase is the biggest financier of the devastating practice of MTR – and even funds Massey Energy, the company that has started blasting Coal River Mountain in West Virgina this [...]
Continue reading...By Scott Parkin, October 25 2009
Yesterday, millions marched and rallied around the world in the largest day of action ever on climate change. In Chicago as thousands marched through the windy city, hundreds rallied and watched as eight climate activists blocked the entrance into the Fisk Coal Plant. Currently, Fisk is the target of coalition campaign trying to shut it [...]
Continue reading...By David Gilbert, October 23 2009
A new, hard hitting, RAN case study on Cargill’s oil palm operations in PNG, ‘Commodity Colonialism’, is now available for download HERE. Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a nation that does not easily fit with our society’s dominant ideas of development, property, and conservation. Many Papuans have little interaction with the cash economy; although categorized [...]
Continue reading...By Ashley Schaeffer, October 22 2009
Yesterday’s global call-in day to Cargill’s CEO Gregory Page at his headquarters in Wayzata, MN was a huge success thanks to all of our wonderful supporters and activists! Great work! By 10am close to 2,000 people had already placed a call of concern into U.S. Agribusiness Giant Cargill and by the end of the day [...]
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By Ashley Schaeffer, October 26 2009
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