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UPDATE: RBC CEO Gordon Nixon is outside at the rally watching the RAN activists who deployed the banner! More to come, but take a look at www.pleasehelpusmrsnixon.com. Members of the Toronto RAN chapter have just deployed a banner outside RBC headquarters directing people to the site: The site has a video of RAN’s executive director [...]
Continue reading...By Robin, April 8 2009
In and AP interview (how much longer will we be able to reference those by the way?) President Obama’s top science adviser John Holdren suggested that we may have to launch extra pollution into the upper atmosphere in order to prevent the rays of the sun from reaching Earth. This, of course, isn’t anyone’s first [...]
Continue reading...By Robin, March 30 2009
Who’s worse? Bank of America (who you might know we’ve been targeting for their role in financing the coal industry) or Starbucks (who does lot’s of bad stuff including selling undrinkable coffee)? Got an opinion? Check out The Consumerist’s Worst Company in America bracket and vote. I think what’s most remarkable about the whole thing, [...]
Continue reading...By Robin, March 2 2009
The largest mass civil disobedience for the climate in U.S. history is happening today in Washington, DC. The best way to get updates is to check out the action website: www.CapitolClimateAction.org. We’ll be live-blogging and posting images and videos all day. Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
Continue reading...By Robin, December 10 2008
Check out this letter from Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben calling for mass civil disobedience outside a coal-fired power plant near Capitol Hill March 2, 2009. Click here to sign up to receive updates about participating in the action, There are moments in a nation’s — and a planet’s — history when it may be [...]
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I just saw this on Huffington post and I had to share. Newsweek got a great quote from Barack Obama on what goes through his head when he gets stupid questions about global warming during presidential debates: I often find myself trapped by the questions and thinking to myself, ‘You know, this is a stupid [...]
Continue reading...By Robin, November 5 2008
Michael Brune, RAN’s Executive Director, just sent out this email asking all of us to bring our excitement and inspiration from yesterday’s election to a discussion around how we should move forward together. Take a look and use the comments to add your voice. Michael and other RAN staff will join in as the discussion [...]
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I have almost nothing to say. this is mostly just bizarre. And disgusting. The giant bank HSBC has a new ad depicting a violent police disruption of a forest protest. Just strange. Oh, and I like Joanna Newsom, WTF?
Continue reading...By Robin, September 15 2008
At roughly 6 A.M. this morning more than 20 peaceful protesters participated in a lockdown with steel barrels at the construction site for a giant new coal-fired power plant in Wise County, VA. Right now, at 7:19 A.M. the lockdown, which is the first project of RAN’s new Action Tank, continues at the site where [...]
Continue reading...By Robin, May 12 2008
Weyerhaeuser, by way of its iLevel brand, has been broadcasting the construction of a new house in Reedley, CA live over the Web. Quick background: In northwestern Ontario’s stretch of boreal forest, Weyerhaeuser owns and operates a major mill which obtains wood from the traditional territory of the Grassy Narrows First Nation. The community has [...]
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By Robin, July 28 2009
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