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In today’s “Chevron is a dirty liar” news: The oil giant pulls another dirty PR trick and lies to avoid paying $27 billion to clean up their toxic legacy in Ecuador. For years, the people of Ecuador have been trying to get Chevron to clean up the billions of gallons of toxic waste and unlined [...]
Continue reading...By Brianna, February 5 2010
Thanks to a big push from Avaaz yesterday, there are now over 150,000 people who have signed a petition telling Chevron’s new CEO John Watson to clean up the oil giant’s toxic legacy in Ecuador, and around the globe. It is undeniable that the world wants to change Chevron. People from all over the globe [...]
Continue reading...By Brianna, February 2 2010
As many of you know, there is lawsuit that has been going on for over 16 years to get Chevron to own up and clean up its toxic legacy in Ecuador. The lawsuit is on behalf of 30,000 Ecuadorean people who are suffering and dying because of Chevron’s refusal to the do the right thing. [...]
Continue reading...By Brianna, February 1 2010
In the weeks since the Supreme Court’s horrible, democracy-eroding ruling giving corporations unbridled spending on political contributions and advertisements under the guise of “free speech,” many of us have asked what impact this will have on climate legislation and contested 2010 races. After getting unintentionally embroiled in a corporate free speech campaign involving a scrappy [...]
Continue reading...By Brianna, January 15 2010
The Rainforest Action Network team that is running for human rights in Ecuador at this Sunday’s Chevron Houston Marathon was just kicked out of the marathon’s Expo by Chevron Marathon Managing Director Steven Karpas! The runners had paid for a table to distribute “I’m Running for Human Rights” stickers and information about Chevron’s refusal to [...]
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Who knew that leg stretching and laps could challenge the CEO of one of the world’s largest and most powerful corporations? I arrived in Houston, TX yesterday (yeehaw!) to run for human rights in Ecuador at this weekend’s huge Chevron-sponsored Houston marathon. We have a rad team of people who are running the marathon for [...]
Continue reading...By Brianna, July 30 2007
Check out this Jewish Weekly article about the awesome youth who took downtown San Francisco by storm with their “Clean Up Citi” carnival last week. These inspiring and creative youth activists brought so much to RAN while they were here. It was really exciting to see young people from around the country learning about global [...]
Continue reading...By Brianna, January 12 2006
I wanted to point all our current and future video activists to an awesome new resource
Continue reading...By Brianna, September 30 2005
As some of you may know its RAN's 20th birthday this year and i've spent some good time in the last weeks going through stacks of old photos- many of which showcase the famous RAN banner shots. We are an organization...
Continue reading...By Brianna, September 29 2005
The excitement is building around Alberta's Eco Action Camp as we sort through trainings and schedules, greet new and extraordinary activists everyday, move tables and chairs around, gather wood for the fire, drink LOTS of tea and cocoa, and figure out how exactly we are going to fit 60 plus young people from around the world (the number grows everyday and is three times as many people as last year) into 2 cabins - we were told there were more but they're apparently hiding.
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