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Last week I told you that RAN supporters shut down interactive features on General Motor’s new greenwashing website, gmnext.com. We posted pictures of student activists at the Detroit auto show protesting automakers on the site and thousands of RAN supporters flooded GM with comments supporting the students and asking the giant automaker to take real [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Last week RAN supports shut down one of the biggest and most ambitious online corporate greenwashing campaigns. To mark its 100th anniversary two weeks ago, General Motors launched a new interactive website, gmnext, where the public was encouraged to submit photos, videos and comments in order to help the company answer questions like “how should [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 3, 2007
I noticed another climate change column from Thomas L. Friedman in my e-mail in-box this morning. On the whole, it was a lot more encouraging than this earlier piece, in which he lamented that the current generation of American college students isn’t making enough noise about the issue of climate change, among other things. (I [...]
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...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...Wednesday, October 24, 2007
We love you Al! So The Nation reports that Al Gore is considering our offer to engage in civil disobedience, specifically on our November 16-17 National Day of Action Against Coal Finance: Gore’s office confirmed that the former Vice President had received RAN’s invitation and was considering it, though no decision has been made. “He [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 23, 2007
At six am this morning (EDT) four intrepid RAN-ites scaled a crane outside Bank of America’s headquarters in Charlotte North Carolina and dropped a banner announcing: “Bank of America: Funding Coal, Killing Communities”. In full view of all their employees, the banner sent a powerful message to America’s largest bank that being one of the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 12, 2007
Today, the Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to Al Gore (and the IPCC). No one deserves it more than he does. We’re very happy for him. And we think he should go to jail. Specifically, he should go to jail on RAN’s November 16-17 Day of Action Against Coal Finance. As reported in Nicholas [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Yesterday, we sent out a message for concerned individuals to post comments to the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) and their legislators about the Bush administration attempting to relax rules regulating mountaintop removal. Here’s the link. Below is the message. Please act now. Dear Friends, George Bush has declared war on Appalachia’s environment and people. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 9, 2007
Slate sums up the general public reaction to the Live Earth concerts this past weekend: Lame Earth. Both the event itself and the criticism of it seemed off the mark to me. From the little bit I saw and what I’ve read in the coverage, the actual environmental movement seemed largely absent from the consciousness-raising [...]
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