JP Morgan Chase bank, based in New York City, is living in the past. While they have a fancy new advertising campaign, that most of us have undoubtedly seen in the past few months, JP Morgan Chase still invests hundreds of millions of dollars into coal each year – reflecting an antiquated and highly [...]

The Yes Men – the same folks who have posed as corporate and government hacks to announce Dow’s apology for the Bhopal chemical spill and to admit the failure of HUD’s reconstruction efforts in New Orleans – have just launched a new website as part of a national climate justice nonviolent civil disobedience pledge campaign. The [...]

Here is the latest on the Peru conflict. As of Friday, June 19th, the BBC reported that due to the repeal of the two most controversial presidential decrees, the blockades were being called off. Indigenous federation leader Daysi Zapata said she expects President Alan Garcia’s administration to consult Indigenous communities on development plans that affect [...]

Activists in Chicago, including RAN’s Chicago chapter, organized a protest and rally on Monday demanding that the city of Chicago shut down the 2 existing coal-fired power plants that are currently polluting the air and spewing greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. The event was a great success, check out pictures and a summary below! -Annie On [...]

A group of folks has come together in Toronto to help push the campaign to clean up RBC forward. Here’s their report on a recent confrontation with bank Executives over the bank’s financing of the tar sands. Check out the video on YouTube Five activists with the Rainforest Action Network attended the Investing in Water [...]

> Original story at Center for American Progress. Cattle graze in front of wind mills of the Spanish utility Endesa in the Eolico Park, Spain. SOURCE: AP/Javier Barbancho. By Vanessa Cárdenas | May 20, 2009 Léalo en español When so-called experts with little credibility and ties to the energy industry [...]

Woo hoo! One of the great goals of Ford Motor Company just a few short years ago was to get one national standard rather than a ‘patchwork’ of state policies. At that time, RAN’s Jumpstart Ford campaign was partnered with Global Exchange and allies, and we told Ford: Fine, great, we’d love a national standard [...]

I joined a group of activists from New York PIRG and Rainforest Action Network today outside the JPMorgan Chase annual shareholder meeting. We were at the base of the skyscraper in Manhattan’s financial district, handing out flyers outlining JPMC’s many ties to the coal industry (MTR, new coal fired power plants) to shareholders as [...]

About a month or so after the Capitol Climate action I wrote a movement strategy piece to reflect on its lessons. It is the cover story for the May issue of Z Magazine and pasted below. This magazine came out on the day we heard from the Administration that they have begun to implement their [...]

One of the biggest culprits behind air pollution is – you guessed it – dirty coal plants (that would be all of them.) Global warming, acid rain, massive amounts of toxic waste, and straight-up, old-fashioned air pollution that is killing people – all brought to you by this dinosaur that continues to promote itself as [...]