Bangkok: Day one of the UN Climate Negotiations

…and we’re off to a crawl cross posted from Grist. Coming right off the heels of the UN General Assembly in New York and the G20 in Pittsburgh, the world has taken its next step on the road to Copenhagen: the Bangkok round of negotiations for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). [...]

VIDEO: Banner deployment at Niagara Falls

BREAKING – activists drop 70′ banner off of NIAGARA FALLS to tell Canadian PM: NO TAR SANDS oil!

Rainforest Action Network drops Seventy-Foot Banner Over Niagara Falls to Welcome Prime Minister Harper to the U.S. Banner: “Canadian Tar Sands Oil Undermines North America’s Clean Energy Future” See more photos here. Before dawn this morning, a small team of climate activists rappelled from the US observation deck at Niagara Falls. Dangling hundreds of feet [...]

On Van Jones’ Resignation, Glenn Beck, and Right Wing “populism”

Cross Posted from Praxis Makes Perfect, Sept 6 Van Jones was a board member of Rainforest Action Network For the last couple weeks, American Patriot and movement leader Van Jones has been demonized by Fox News in a paranoid racist red-baiting witch hunt to continue to 1) scare white Americans into the idea that “their [...]

Group Stages Mock Death Outside new RBC Branch in Protest of Bank’s Involvement in Dirty Oil

By Maryam Adrangi Feigned Collapses Represent Real Impacts of Tar Sands Destruction, and Water Pollution of First Nations Communities Throughout The Athabasca Delta Toronto   Customers visiting RBC’s newly opened downtown banking centre today were met with the sight of motionless bodies strewn along the pavement in front of the bank entrance.  The bodies were [...]

Freedom From Oil Tour Diary #10 – THE END!

Check out the final glorious episode of the 10 day adventure of RAN and Substance educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere In this one we talk to bands, Chrissy Swain from Grassy Narrows, RAN activists, and talk about how YOU can get involved with the [...]

Freedom From Oil Tour Diary #9 – Clayton Thomas Muller tells us what’s up with the Tar Sands

Check out episode 9 of the 10 day adventure of RAN and Substance educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere

Freedom From Oil Tour diary #8 – crowdsurfin’ & neck breakin’

Check out episode 8 of the 10 day adventure of RAN and Substance educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere

Freedom From Oil Tour Diary # 7 – Interview with Ben Powless from Indigenous Environmental Network

Check out episode 7 of the 10 day adventure of RAN and Substance educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere

Freedom From Oil Tour Diary episode #6 – interview with propagandhi about the tar sands

Check out episode 6 of the 10 day adventure of RAN and Substance educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere