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Advancing corporate accountability: Josh Mailman describes the Rainforest Action Network’s successful campaigns to stop environmental abuses

Mailman describes the power of nonprofits to advance corporate accountability. Case in point: the Rainforest Action Network convinced large companies selling products that used scarce rainforest resources that there is “a better way to do things.”

Advancing corporate accountability: Josh Mailman describes the Rainforest Action Network’s successful campaigns to stop environm
GiveSmart
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

GuideStar's Leader on Social Change

 

GuideStar's Leader on Social Change
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Monday, June 3, 2013

Rainforest Action Network Names Top Campaigner as New Executive Director

Release Date: 
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

For Immediate Release

CONTACT:

Kerul Dyer, kdyer@ran.org, 415-866-0005

SAN FRANCISCO—Today, the Board of Directors at Rainforest Action Network (RAN) announced the appointment of top campaigner Lindsey Allen as Executive Director of the international environmental and human rights organization.

'Follow the Money': How Rainforest Action Network Is Beating the Corporate Giants

We’ve arrived at a dangerous milestone. For the first time in human history, as Amy Goodman reported this week, "the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has topped 400 parts per million." Climate scientiststs have warned that we should seek to stabilize emissions no higher that 350 ppm if we hope to fend off catastrophic planetary changes.

'Follow the Money': How Rainforest Action Network Is Beating the Corporate Giants
Alternet.org
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

NGO profile: Rainforest Action Network

“Rainforest Action Network (RAN) envisions a world where each generation sustains increasingly healthy forests, where the rights of all communities are respected, and where corporate profits never come at the expense of people or the planet.”

NGO profile: Rainforest Action Network
Ethical Corporation
Thursday, March 7, 2013

Memorial Event to Honor Environmental Leader

Release Date: 
Friday, January 25, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO—Hundreds are expected to memorialize environmental leader Rebecca Tarbotton at the Herbst Theater Saturday at 5 p.m. There will be words and inspiration from environmental and social justice leaders and musician Sean Hayes in a Celebration of Life memorial event to honor the legacy of Rebecca Tarbotton. Admired by many for her visionary work protecting rainforests, pushing for the transition to a clean energy economy and defending human rights, Tarbotton died unexpectedly December 26, 2012, at the age of 39.

Rainforest Action Network mourns the unexpected loss of our visionary Executive Director Rebecca Tarbotton

Release Date: 
Friday, December 28, 2012

 

SAN FRANCISCO (12.28.12)—Rainforest Action Network (RAN), and the community that has grown around it for more than 25 years, are mourning the sudden and tragic loss of Executive Director, Rebecca Tarbotton, who died unexpectedly on Wednesday, December 26.

Bob Weir Joins Vinyl at Sweetwater

When a co-owner of the venue you're playing at is one of the Bay Area's most famous musicians and he offers to join you on stage, you simply nod your head and hang on tight.

The result for attendees of the Rainforest Action Network's benefit show Wednesday night at the Sweetwater Music Hall were horn-laden, funky versions of the Grateful Dead's "Turn on Your Lovelight" and rock classics “Little Red Rooster” and “All Along The Watchtower" by Bay Area area funk band Vinyl and Dead co-founder, Mill Valley resident and Sweetwater co-owner Bob Weir.

Bob Weir Joins Vinyl at Sweetwater
Mill Valley Patch
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Protesters Take Aim At Wells Fargo's Annual Shareholder Meeting

Becky Tarbotton, an executive director of the Rainforest Action Network, called Wells Fargo "one of the worst corporate offenders" when it comes to tax payments and other issues. "The Occupy movements has opened a real space to talk about inequality and corporate power in this country. We are channeling that energy into focused pressure" at annual meetings, she said during a conference call with reporters on Monday.

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Protesters Take Aim At Wells Fargo's Annual Shareholder Meeting
Fox Business
Monday, April 23, 2012

Ninety-Nine Percent Power: Activists Ready To Crash Wells Fargo, General Electric Shareholder Meetings

Tomorrow, organizers are hitting Wells Fargo's shareholder meeting. Rebecca Tarbotton, executive director of the Rainforest Action Network, said they expect 2,000 demonstrators including 100 clergy. They plan on circling the building where the meeting is set to take place, "non-violent blockades," sit-ins inside the building, as well as placing activists inside the shareholder meeting.

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Ninety-Nine Percent Power: Activists Ready To Crash Wells Fargo, General Electric Shareholder Meetings
Huffington Post
Monday, April 23, 2012
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