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The Billionaires for Coal are back on the streets once again – organizing their elite cadre in Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina in defense of Bank of America’s investments in Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining. Sipping “dirty martinis” made with coal and holding signs with slogans like “More profit, less mountains” and “Our [...]
Continue reading...By Ananda, June 30 2008
Abigail: Thursday, June 26 Activists in Charlotte paid a visit to B of A’s headquarters today, holding a banner that read “DIVEST FROM COAL” and passing out information on the bank’s dirty energy investments to bank employees and passers-by. We were visited a few times by some cops on Segways (you know, those electro-gyroscopic scooters), [...]
Continue reading...By Ananda, June 25 2008
Activists from around North Carolina have come together in Charlotte to take citizen action against Bank of America in their own company town. To highlight the socio-economic abuses perpetrated by the bank against the communities and ecosystems of Appalachia, several ATMs and bank branches have been shut down, roped off and declared “global warming crime [...]
Continue reading...By Ananda, May 6 2008
In conjunction with the international release of a report by Greenpeace today – that identifies the ridiculous risk, uncertainty and cost associated with industry-driven plans for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), Public interest groups (from across the country) sent the following letter to Congress, demanding that taxpayer subsidies be disallowed CCS, and that safe, affordable and [...]
Continue reading...By Ananda, March 28 2008
How often do you get to witness a band of activists deploy a direct action and successfully pressure the CEO of a corporation into agreeing to their demands – before the police even arrive on the scene? On Friday afternoon, student activists with Ohio Student Environmental Coalition and members of Mountain Justice occupied the lobby [...]
Continue reading...By Ananda, January 4 2008
Every now and then the Wall Street Journal provides some proverbial food for thought that exceeds its mandate of invisible hand ideology. In a recent piece – Oils Hits $100, Jolting Markets, the authors provide some insight into the current power dynamics of big oil and international markets. Beyond highlighting downstream impacts to big oil’s [...]
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By Ananda, July 11 2008
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