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I spent the past couple of days talking with a longtime movement friend of mine who has been organizing civil disobedience and mass mobilizations since the 1970′s. She told me about organizing a thousand person blockade at C.I.A. headquarters in 1987 as part of the Central American solidarity movement. In those days, Ronald Reagan, George [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 18, 2008
On Nov 14, 2008, activists from the Coal River Valley, an area hard-hit by mountaintop removal coal extraction, took action against Citi in Beckley, WV. They distributed fliers outside a Citi Financial office, informed Citi employees that their employer had a major role in destroying their communities, and handed fliers to customers entering the office. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 17, 2008
Last Friday, members of Rising Tide Boston set up “Green Coal” marketing tables outside branches of Bank of America and Citibank to highlight these banks’ high-risk investments in coal power and mining. Emulating the coal industry’s marketing pitch of “clean coal”, activists handed out samples of “green coal” while informing fellow citizens not to expect [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 17, 2008
Activists across North Carolina took action against Bank of America’s dirty coal financing. In the early hours of commuter traffic, Raleigh commuters encountered banners at key thoroughfares – reminding them that “Coal Ain’t Clean”, and that Bank of America continues to finance the coal industry, including Mountaintop Removal coal mining and dirty coal power companies [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 15, 2008
Yesterday, actions against mining companies, utility companies, Citibank and Bank of America swept the nation from coast to coast. You can read the first roundup of report backs here. RAN Flickr Site: Check here for lots of pics from yesterday. Dr James Hansen said in support of the Day of Action: “The science is clear: [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 15, 2008
At noon today, activists affiliated with the New York Action Network convened in midtown dressed in their finest business wear to apologize to the public on behalf of Citi for the bank’s role in the funding of coal, the climate crisis and the financial turmoil worldwide. Citi recently received 25 billion dollars of US taxpayer [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 14, 2008
Today is the day, actions against mining companies, utility companies, and coal financier’s Citi and Bank of America are planned all over the U.S. and in parts of Canada. And of course, it’s not too late to organize a quick and easy action. Just check out the resources at www.dirtymoney.org and let us know what [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 13, 2008
A few months back, when tomorrow’s day of action against coal and coal finance was already in our calendars, the Global Finance Campaign team discovered that Bank of America would be hosting a conference for the energy industry in Miami, Florida November 12th-14th. Executives from the oil, coal, natural gas and nuclear energy sectors would [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 13, 2008
Thanks to the good work of the Sierra Club and a large coalition of western and Utah organizations, the phrase ‘No New Coal’ may have gone WAY out of style today. The Environmental Appeals Board of the EPA just ruled that the EPA has the authority to establish a Best Available Control Technology (BACT) limit [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Over the past year, thousands of people have been part of the anti-coal movement taking action against the coal and coal finance sectors. AND the struggle continues. On Nov. 14-15, We need all of you to join RAN, Greenpeace, Rising Tide, Southern Energy Network, Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC), Heartwood, Coal River Mountain Watch, Ohio [...]
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
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