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		<title>EPA Rejects Palm Oil: Good News for Indonesian Rainforests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I started doing environmental work, I&#8217;d assumed that biofuel use would have a positive effect on the climate. It turns out the truth about biofuels is much more complex than I&#8217;d originally thought. Not every biofuel on the market today has a positive impact on the environment, and some actually pose a major threat. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/02/02/epa-rejects-palm-oil-good-news-for-indonesian-rainforests/</link>
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		<title>King Coal Ups The Ante In Oregon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[via fishandbicycles.com The reports of King Coal’s demise appear to be exaggerated. At least for now. After a year of fighting for coal export terminals proposals in Washington, coal companies are moving south into Oregon. Last week, it was announced that port officials at the Port of St. Helen’s, OR approved proposals to allow coal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/31/king-coal-ups-the-ante-in-oregon/</link>
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		<title>Can California&#8217;s New Law Stop Slave Labor In Palm Oil?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the US Department of Labor the Cultivation of Palm Oil in Some Countries Relies on Slave Labor Whether you&#8217;re one of the 3,200 companies that do business in California with at least $100 million in worldwide gross receipts, or a consumer that buys products from anywhere other than your local mom and pop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/26/can-californias-new-law-stop-slave-labor-in-palm-oil/</link>
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		<title>Why Did Chevron Pay Its “Dirty Tricks Guy” $2.2 Million?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Diego Borja is Chevron’s “dirty tricks guy” — that’s not an allegation, that’s how he once described himself. Recent court documents reveal that Chevron has paid Borja $2.2 million for his work. You have to wonder: What exactly is Chevron paying Borja to do? Ostensibly, that $2.2 million is for retainer fees, living expenses, income taxes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/26/why-did-chevron-pay-its-%e2%80%9cdirty-tricks-guy%e2%80%9d-2-2-million/</link>
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		<title>L.A.&#8217;s Dark Secret</title>
		<description><![CDATA[via movieposter.com In the 1974 classic Roman Polanski neo-noir film Chinatown, private detective Jake Gittes (played by Jack Nicholson) discovers one of LA’s dirty secrets: Wealthy developers are legally stealing precious water from poor struggling farmers in California’s central valley to hydrate the posh homes of Beverly Hills and a rapidly growing Los Angeles. It’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/26/l-a-s-dark-secret/</link>
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		<title>Farmers Unite with RAN To Fight Cargill And Challenge Corporate Control Of Our Food System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cargill, Guilty as Charged Last week, over 40 Minnesota residents made a citizens’ arrest of Cargill, Inc. in front of the company&#8217;s downtown Minneapolis office at the Grain Exchange. I walked away from the event struck with inspiration and hope. Why? In addition to being amazed that so many enthusiastic people braved below-freezing weather to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/24/farmers-unite-with-ran-to-fight-cargill-and-challenge-corporate-control-of-our-food-system/</link>
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		<title>Charlotte People&#8217;s Posse Hunts Person By Name Of &#8220;Bank of America&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pedestrians in uptown Charlotte were in for a surprise when they stopped to answer a routine question this Saturday: “Have you seen this person? He’s wanted for committing crimes in our community.” Hundreds of Charlotteans and local police found themselves swept up in a manhunt-style game of “Cowboys vs. Corporations,” organized by local RAN activists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/24/charlotte-peoples-posse-hunts-person-by-name-of-bank-of-america/</link>
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		<title>BREAKING: Occupy Cargill Activists Stage Citizens&#8217; Arrest of Cargill, Inc.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS &#8211; A colorful crowd of 40 Occupy activists, food justice advocates, farmers, and anti-corporate-personhood protestors braved below freezing temperatures today to gather with Rainforest Action Network to voice their grievances and stage a mock citizen’s arrest of Cargill Inc. in downtown Minneapolis. Bolstered by mass demonstrations nationwide on the second anniversary of the disastrous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/21/breaking-%e2%80%9coccupy-cargill%e2%80%9d-activists-stage-citizen%e2%80%99s-arrest-on-cargill-inc/</link>
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		<title>Wanted: Mr. Bank O. America, Menace To Society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning, we conducted a manhunt in San Francisco. Or, I should say, a “man” hunt. If corporations are people, then this Mr. Bank O. America fellow is a clear and present danger to society. So we teamed up with The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, rounded up a posse, and searched the streets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/20/wanted-mr-bank-o-america-menace-to-society/</link>
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		<title>HOW TO: #J20 Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the scoop on how to stay up to date on all the incredible actions going on at Occupy Wall St West today, as well as where to post photos, videos and key updates from the streets. News updates, OccupySF and Occupy Wall St West updates, maps, affinity groups, actions &#38; livestreams can be found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/20/how-to-j20-social-media/</link>
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		<title>Mourning Democracy, Coalition Vows Spring Of Resistance To Bank Of America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bank of America&#8217;s policies are killing our country. At every crime scene, we find the same corporate fingerprints. At the site of a foreclosure where a family has suddenly become homeless, we find Bank of America&#8217;s fingerprints. At the mountaintop removal mine site, where an Appalachian community has been permanently destroyed, we find Bank of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/19/mourning-democracy-coaltion-vows-spring-of-resistance-to-bank-of-america/</link>
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		<title>Keystone XL Rejected: Thank You President Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RAN board member Randy Hayes and actress Darryl Hannah at the White House protesting Keystone XL as part of the Tar Sands Action. President Obama has just rejected the Keystone XL pipeline! This puts a halt to current plans for a massive 1700-mile pipeline that would have allowed some of the world&#8217;s dirtiest oil to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/18/keystone-xl-rejected-thank-you-president-obama/</link>
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		<title>Levi’s Unzips New Policy Excluding Logging Giant Asia Pulp &amp; Paper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Levi&#39;s Announces New Forest Product Policy Asia Pulp and Paper is having a hard time holding onto customers these days. With the release of its forest products purchasing policy, Levi Strauss &#38; Company has become the latest major brand to ban business with Asia Pulp and Paper (APP). This comes on the heels of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/18/levi%e2%80%99s-unzips-new-policy-excluding-logging-giant-asia-pulp-paper/</link>
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		<title>Can You Arrest A Corporation?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click for larger image There are some who say that corporations are people. So can you arrest one? Well, we’re going to find out. Right now, corporations technically have the same First Amendment rights as real live people (as ruled by the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision in Citizens United v. FEC two years ago). So shouldn’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/17/can-you-arrest-a-corporation/</link>
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		<title>VIDEO Turning Bank of America ATMs Into Truth Machines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday night, a team of activists working with our Energy &#38; Finance campaign went out and turned all of Bank of America&#8217;s ATMs in San Francisco into Automated Truth Machines. A videographer rolled along with the team we sent out to hit the BoA ATMs in Chinatown and the Financial District, and put together [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/17/video-turning-bank-of-america-atms-into-truth-machines/</link>
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		<title>Benefit Corporations Show California What Good Business Looks Like</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RAN applauds those businesses that have formalized their commitment to social and environmental sustainability by becoming California’s first benefit corporations. With the enactment of California Assembly Bill AB 361 on January 1st, California became the seventh state to legalize this new corporate framework enabling businesses to take social and environmental impacts into consideration in their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/17/benefit-corporations-show-california-what-good-business-looks-like/</link>
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		<title>100 Years Of “Bread and Roses”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Massachusetts militiamen surround strikers (via Wikipedia). &#8220;One may live without bread, but not without roses&#8230;&#8221; - Jean Richepin, 19th century French Poet One hundred years ago this week, 25,000 textile mill workers, many of them women and young girls, walked away from their looms and out of the Dickensian sweatshops of Lawrence, Massachusetts in protest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/13/100-years-of-%e2%80%9cbread-and-roses%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Bank of America ATMs In San Francisco Turned Into Truth Machines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RAN activists took to the streets of San Francisco last night and turned every Bank of America ATM in the city into an Automated Truth Machine. The activists used special non-adhesive stickers designed to look exactly like BoA&#8217;s ATM interface. But instead of checking and savings accounts, these new menus offered a list of everything [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/13/bank-of-america-atms-in-san-francisco-turned-into-truth-machines/</link>
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		<title>Great Moments In Stupid Chevron PR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Chevron has been found guilty — again — for intentionally dumping a massive amount of toxic oil waste in the Ecuadorean Amazon, the company has become increasingly desperate to explain its refusal to take responsibility. But then, Chevron’s spokespeople have never been afraid to make absurd excuses for why their company puts profits [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/11/great-moments-in-stupid-chevron-pr/</link>
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		<title>A Brief History Of Chevron&#8217;s Shameless Response To Its Toxic Mess In Ecuador</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As detailed in our video, &#8220;Great Moments In Stupid Chevron PR&#8221; (view it below), Chevron will say anything to evade its responsibility to clean up its toxic mess in Ecuador. The company has tried just about every dirty trick it could come up with, too. Chevron’s immediate response to the decision in Ecuador was to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/01/11/a-brief-history-of-chevrons-shameless-response-to-its-toxic-mess-in-ecuador/</link>
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