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		<title>RAN Delivers Nearly 20,000 Petitions to Cargill HQ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The major tragedy that is still unfolding in Indonesia’s Tripa rainforest continues to threaten the survival of critically endangered Sumatran orangutans. As over 92 fires smolder, palm oil companies like Cargill are racing to deny the role they&#8217;ve played in the destruction and devastation of the Tripa forest. We&#8217;ve gathered thousands of petitions to Cargill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/05/17/ran-delivers-nearly-20000-petitions-to-cargill-hq/</link>
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		<title>Epic Greenwashing From Chevron</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Chevron has released its &#8220;Corporate Responsibility Report&#8221; with a straight face. (Here&#8217;s our post about last year&#8217;s report.) In this post, Amazon Watch&#8217;s Robert Collier exposes the irresponsible corporate abuses Chevron conveniently leaves out. Apparently believing that no outright whopper can&#8217;t be repeated again and again, Chevron has issued a report bragging about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/05/17/epic-greenwashing-from-chevron/</link>
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		<title>Larry Gibson: &#8220;Stand With Me Against BofA and Coal&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a native West Virginian, I have experienced the dire impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining firsthand. I used to walk around the forests surrounding my family&#8217;s home on Kayford Mountain and feel like I was a part of mother nature. Now all I feel is dynamite exploding and the vibration of heavy machinery. As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/05/09/larry-gibson-stand-with-me-against-bofa-and-coal/</link>
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		<title>LIVE STREAM: Watch the Bank of America Shareholder Meeting Protest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you can&#8217;t be in Charlotte tomorrow to join the protest at Bank of America&#8217;s shareholder meeting, that doesn&#8217;t mean you have to miss all of the action. There will be multiple live streams of the day&#8217;s events, which will include three marches, a boxing match between Brian &#8220;Big Banks&#8221; Moynihan and the 99% that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/05/08/live-stream-watch-the-bank-of-america-shareholder-meeting-protest/</link>
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		<title>UPDATED Bank of America Shareholder Meeting Protests Underway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED: Wednesday, May 9th at 1:30 EST As Bank of America&#8217;s executives, board, and shareholders gathered at the bank&#8217;s shareholder meeting in Charlotte, NC, thousands of protesters took to the streets and inside the meeting hall to speak out against BofA&#8217;s practices that are destroying our environment and our economy. The Flickr slideshow below will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/05/07/bank-of-america-shareholder-meeting-protests-already-underway/</link>
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		<title>Setting the Record Straight: Cargill and Tripa Forest Controversy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will Cargill Act in the Interest of Orangutans and Adopt Safeguards? Although there are no major fires still tearing through the Tripa peat forest in Sumatra — the largest remaining Sumatran orangutan habitat in the world — updates from our allies on the ground tell us that Tripa is still gravely at risk. With one or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/05/07/setting-the-record-straight-cargill-and-tripa-forest-controversy/</link>
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		<title>Bank of Coal: Bank of America Stadium Gets Renamed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the largest financier of the U.S. coal industry, Bank of America should be called the &#8220;Bank of Coal.&#8221; So we decided to rename it. Today, five RAN activists scaled Bank of America Stadium and dropped a 70&#8242; x 25&#8242; banner reading &#8220;Bank of America Coal.&#8221; What better place to send our message than BofA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/05/02/bank-of-coal-bank-of-america-stadium-gets-renamed/</link>
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		<title>Dirty Money: U.S. Banks at the Bottom of the Class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today Rainforest Action Network and the Sierra Club released our Coal Finance Report Card 2012, our third annual ranking of the largest financiers of mountaintop removal coal mining and coal-fired power plants. The report looks at the stated policies for mountaintop removal and coal financing from each of the largest US Banks and assigns a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/05/01/dirty-money-u-s-banks-at-the-bottom-of-the-class/</link>
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		<title>Bank Of America Shall Know The Truth And The Truth Shall Set Them Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RAN Boston Activist Transforms BofA ATM This week in Washington D.C. and Boston, merry bands of climate pranksters have been spanking Bank of America’s banksters with a little truth. Or a little “ATM” truth as we like to say. In Washington D.C. and Boston, activists collectively hit upwards of 80 Bank of America ATMs with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/04/27/bank-of-america-shall-know-the-truth-and-the-truth-shall-set-them-free/</link>
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		<title>Transforming Bank Lobbies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone once wrote that a bank is like a giant squid wrapped around the face of humanity. And it feels as if banks have overwhelmed the neighborhood, as I walk just two blocks around my office this lunch hour, counting six different bank branch lobbies along the way. They all reach to grab my attention [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/04/26/transforming-bank-lobbies/</link>
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		<title>Boston Tells Bank Of America: “No Coal”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[via RAN Boston On Tax Day, RAN Boston activists joined a national day of action targeting Bank of America over….. well… everything. Bank of America currently pay no taxes to the government, yet received massive bailouts after they crashed the economy. They are currently the largest forecloser of homes in the U.S. and the largest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/04/25/boston-tells-bank-of-america-%e2%80%9cno-coal%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Greenwash of the Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s the time of year when banks put their ‘best foot forward’ and prepare to be scrutinized by their shareholders at annual general meetings (AGMs). It’s a legal requirement, the AGM is held every year where the board of directors is elected, and the highest-ranking staff report to members on previous and future activities. So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/04/25/greenwash-of-the-week/</link>
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		<title>International Day of Action to Save Tripa Rainforest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While many of us realize on some fleeting, uncomfortable level that our generation holds the future of countless species and ecosystems in our hands, rarely is the choice to allow extinction to happen – or to fight like hell to stop it – so clear as it is right now with humankind’s closest relative, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/04/23/international-day-of-action-to-save-tripa-rainforest/</link>
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		<title>BofA Takes the Earth out of Earth Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there was ever a time for Bank of America to address the outcry over its ecological rampage, this was it. Environmental organizations in Charlotte, North Carolina received a surprising invitation: Bank of America was organizing an “Earth Day expo” to “promote environmentally friendly issues and causes.” Had Bank of America seen the light on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/04/20/bofa-takes-the-earth-out-of-earth-day-or-bank-of-americas-earthday-greenwash/</link>
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		<title>Playing Nice In The Sandbox: Feds Try To Inimidate Texas Climate Activists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ben Kessler at the Tar Sands Action last August; via We Are Powershift I’ve been organizing campaigns and non-violent direct actions for a long time. Over ten years now. Most of the time, I hear stories about the screwed up things our government and corporations do and I take it in stride. Every once in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/04/20/playing-nice-in-the-sandbox-feds-try-to-inimidate-texas-climate-activists/</link>
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		<title>Bringing a Competitive Spirit to Rainforest Protection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beach below Para Falls, Caura River. Photo by Kike Arnal Through our Protect-an-Acre program, RAN recently provided a small grant to Caura Futures. This lean, innovative organization supports the conservation of the 45,300 km² Caura River Basin in Venezuela, one of the few pristine tropical watersheds on Earth, by working with local Indigenous communities and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/04/20/bringing-a-competitive-spirit-to-rainforest-protection/</link>
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		<title>Driving the Company Off an $18bn Cliff: Ecuadoreans In Europe Highlight Chevron Management&#8217;s Misguided Litigation Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ecuadorean indigenous leaders Humberto Piaguaje and Guillermo Grefa began a one week European tour today. They will be educating major institutional investors in Chevron Corporation, including prestigious funds such as the Church of England Investment Fund and the Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church, about the oil giant&#8217;s grim environmental and human rights legacy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/04/19/driving-the-company-off-an-18bn-cliff-ecuadoreans-in-europe-highlight-chevron-managements-misguided-litigation-strategy/</link>
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		<title>What If You Owned Bank of America? We Teamed Up With The Yes Men to Find Out What You&#8217;d Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning, Bank of America announced that it was turning over a new leaf, rebranding itself as “Your Bank of America” and seeking the American public’s input on how it could become a bank that responds to real people. Or so it seemed. You know what they say: If it seems too good to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/04/19/what-if-you-owned-bank-of-america-we-teamed-up-with-the-yes-men-to-find-out-what-youd-do/</link>
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		<title>North Carolina Tax Day Actions Make BofA Pay</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo by John Duffy North Carolina activists put their training into practice today, filling Bank of America branches in five cities with the buzz of people power. The 99% of Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Asheville and Charlotte joined forces in a wave of coordinated actions organized by the North Carolina Coalition Against Corporate Power. There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/04/18/nc-tax-day-actions-make-bofa-pay/</link>
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		<title>Bank Of America Vs. The World: Charlotte, NC On May 9th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It sucks to be Bank of America. BoA is wrecking the planet for profit, wrecking the economy for fat cat executive bonuses, and foreclosing on millions of American Dreams. And it’s the biggest funder of coal, from mining to power plants, in the U.S. BoA may have gotten away with it for years, but now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2012/04/12/bank-of-america-vs-the-world-charlotte-nc-on-may-9th/</link>
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