At 7:00am this morning, a dozen brave activists released a 25-foot banner on the lawn of the EPA headquarters in Washington, DC. The message on the banner calls on the EPA to pledge to end mountaintop removal coal mining in 2010. But there’s a catch—the banner and two of its holders are suspended from two freestanding tripods 20-feet above the air, and after seven hours they are still hanging there.

Follow @RANactions on Twitter for updates Hi Res Pictures Activists Risk Arrest with Elaborate Protest at EPA HQ; Demand Immediate Action to Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Group Erects Purple Mountain Majesty At EPA; Say “If Administrator Lisa Jackson Won’t Visit the Appalachian Mountains, They Will Bring The Mountains to Her” WASHINGTON— In an attempt to further pressure EPA [...]

Activists in Seattle have been busy lately targeting their local JP Morgan Chase branches. Here’s a description of last Saturday’s protest from Chad in Seattle: “It was another fun filled day of protest at Chase Bank. A lot of people stopped and chatted with us and a lot of info was handed out to the [...]

We’ve got some friends in New York joining the campaign to end mountaintop removal. Today, I got the following email from Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping: Our new song “Mountain-top” begins with this re-questioning from Dr. King’s last sermon: Have we been to the mountain-top? Did we do all we could do? JP Morgan rains [...]

Philly EPA Considering 16 New Mining Permits This morning activists in Philadelphia descended upon their Regional EPA branch to put an end to Mountaintop Removal mining (MTR). Decisions made here in Philly have devastating consequences for Appalachian communities and our country as a whole. Activists prepared to enter the building and risk arrest by sitting-in until [...]

Reposted from It’s Getting Hot In Here By Matt Wilkerson If you live in the Southeast and want to do something for the struggle against mountaintop removal coal mining come on over to Atlanta March 1st to tell the EPA to ban MTR. End Mountain Top Removal! * Rally for the Mountains in Atlanta * 1:00 pm Monday, March 1st EPA [...]

Last Thursday, Rainforest Action Network along with several online allies including 350.org, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, the Waterkeeper Alliance, the Ruckus Society and others re-branded JP Morgan Chase in social media networks as being the largest U.S. funder of mountaintop removal [which is also the truth, BTW]. In the days before, the re-branding of Chase went [...]

In the last couple of weeks a slew of articles have come out announcing last year’s earnings for some of our favorite CEO’s. • JP Morgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon received a bonus of over $16 million ; • General Mills Inc. chairman and CEO Ken Powell received $13.4 million in compensation, up 105 percent from $6.5 million in [...]

Its easy to hate banks. From the vicious and predatory Mr. Potter in Its a Wonderful Life to the detached George Banks in Mary Poppins, bankers in TV and movies regularly play the role of cold, calculating penny-pincher who cares more about profit than people. Or the community. Or the environment. Or anything, really. [...]

Martin Mudd is an anti-strip mining activist who manages a Facebook group asking that JP Morgan Chase stop financing mountaintop removal. Members of Martin’s group closed their accounts with Chase today in protest of the company’s continued financing of MTR. Last week, JP Morgan Chase executive, Jim Fuschetti, sent a letter to Martin Mudd, [...]