A group of DC based polar bears made a “bank run” on Bank of America withdrawing $27k in COLD CASH from the banking giant over their fund of coal and climate change.
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 21, 2007
San Francisco NYC (“How Citi Stole Christmas”)
Continue reading...Monday, November 19, 2007
The Day of Against Coal Finance has been great, over 40 cities and towns did well over 100 actions against Citi and Bank of America (with a couple of actions against Duke and Peabody). The movements to stop destructive coal extraction and coal-fired power plants is building momentum. These are a few highlights from the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 16, 2007
A quick update on National Day of Action against Coal Finance. If you did an action, send report backs to dirtymoney@ran.org AND lots more actions are happening TOMORROW in a city near you! Check the map for details. San Francisco, CA : Across downtown San Francisco, nearly every Bank of America and Citi ATM was [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 16, 2007
And they’re coming. We’ve been telling Citi and Bank of America that their financing of coal fired power plants and mountaintop removal was going to get them some unwanted attention from lots of very concerned people. Today thousands have taken to the streets in fifty cities around the country to tell the banks that financing [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 15, 2007
Al Gore recently predicted that it won’t be long before people are putting their bodies on the line protesting the construction of new coal fired power plants. He’s being proven correct again and again as people are putting their bodies on the line around the world (in fact, he is considering joining these efforts). Today [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 6, 2007
You may know that Al Gore is reported to be considering RAN’s offer to participate in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal-fired power plants, stop mountain top removal mining, and help prevent climate destruction. Just last week, in Rolling Stone, he again talked about civil disobedience in connection with coal, the world’s biggest [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 5, 2007
I just spent the weekend at Powershift. Powershift is a climate summit, organized by Energy Action, organizing students and youth around global warming and climate justice issues. It featured hundreds of workshops, panels and networking meetings where youth from Alaska to Appalachia got together and educated and organized themselves to do something about the climate [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 28, 2007
Take a look at the video below and this comment left on the earlier post about Charlotte. John Watterberg Says: October 24th, 2007 at 11:26 am e I am one of the climbers from Tuesday’s action at Bank of America on Tuesday and I would like to contribute one of my personal reasons for participating [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 27, 2007
From our kick ass RAN NYC organizer Sam Bank of America customers were hard pressed to find a working atm in midtown manhattan yesterday when a group of volunteers took to the streets with little more than fliers and caution tape. How do you shut down 10 banking centers in just 2 hours? It’s easier [...]
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
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