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Rainforest Agribusiness Campaign Director
Since the release of our report on Cargill’s problems with palm oil in Borneo, Cargill has been scrambling to clean up their palm oil supply chain. Cargill has been engaging with customers including Kraft and General Mills; announced a supply chain audit in collaboration with WWF; and just last week announced that the assessment of [...]
Continue reading...By Leila, July 1 2010
Last week, I had the opportunity to travel to Detroit for the second U.S. Social Forum. It was an incredible gathering of over 15,000 people from every corner of the United States, as well as allies from countries such as Honduras, Haiti and Palestine. In the spirit of the World Social Forum, which will take [...]
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The truth is out! After months of investigations, RAN just released a report entitled CARGILL’S PROBLEMS WITH PALM OIL: A BURNING THREAT TO BORNEO. Slideshow of report images Our report reveals that Cargill is clearing and burning rainforests, displacing Indigenous and traditional communities and exacerbating climate change. While Cargill claims that it is committed to [...]
Continue reading...By Leila, February 5 2010
Earlier this week, the Brazilian environmental agency (IBAMA) issued the first environmental license for the Belo Monte dam. By doing this, IBAMA gave the first green light for the construction of the world’s 3rd largest dam and ignored 25 years of resistance by the Indigenous and riverine communities of the Xingu river basin. Read Zachary [...]
Continue reading...By Leila, January 20 2010
Thanks for taking action after we alerted you that General Mills products contain rainforest destruction. Nearly 8,000 of you took action by sending a letter to General Mills about your concerns about palm oil containing rainforest destruction in trusted brands such as Pillsbury, Betty Crocker and Hamburger Helper. Your letters, in combination with our massive [...]
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The Rainforest Agribusiness campaign team attended the Natural Products Expo East in Boston, Massachusetts, where we participated in two very successful events entitled “Little Seed. Big Problem. Bold Solution” in coordination with Seventh Generation to expose the problems with palm oil and share what we are doing collectively to reduce our impact on the world’s [...]
Continue reading...By Leila, June 10 2009
In case you didn’t listen or watch Democracy Now! this morning, check it out online at http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/10/peru Here’s the summary of today’s show: Peruvian indigenous leader Alberto Pizango has been granted asylum in Nicaragua after leading protests against oil and mining projects in the northern Peruvian Amazonian province of Bagua. Over the weekend, an estimated [...]
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At Chevron’s 2008 Annual General Meeting (AGM), Chevron’s CEO David O’Reilly agreed to debate Sierra Club’s President Carl Pope on energy issues. Well, a year and another AGM have passed and the day of the debate has finally come. It’s tonight in San Francisco! While the debate goes on inside the Hotel Nikko, we will [...]
Continue reading...By Leila, June 8 2009
It is with a heavy heart that I write this post to request that you PLEASE TAKE ACTION to support our Indigenous brothers and sisters in Peru who are literally fighting for their lives and the future of the Peruvian Amazon at this very moment. In protest of the Peruvian government’s attempts to change laws [...]
Continue reading...By Leila, March 24 2009
EAST BAY REPORTBACK FROM THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM (WSF) Tuesday, March 24, 2009 6:30 – 8 pm 5366 College Avenue (5 blocks south of Rockridge Bart station) Oakland, CA (click here for directions) • Hear from representatives of Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network, and International Forum on Globalization on their experiences at the World Social [...]
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By Leila, July 28 2010
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