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RBS under pressure as oil funding scrutinised

Hundreds of protesters across the country have demanded that the taxpayer-backed Royal Bank of Scotland stop using public money to extract tar sands.

Anti-poverty, human rights and environmental protesters hit out on the day of RBS's annual general meeting to highlight the negative impact of tar sands extraction on climate change and indigenous communities.

Simultaneous protests were organised by the World Development Movement and People and Planet in over 15 locations including London, Cardiff, Sheffield, Cambridge and Edinburgh.

RBS under pressure as oil funding scrutinised
Morning Star Online
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Ask Umbra dishes with Anna Lappé

The next time you bite into a burger, consider this: Livestock create more greenhouse gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, planes, and other fossil-fueled modes of transportation in the world. In fact, our current food system—from industrial farming to packaging to transporting—contributes as much as one-third of total greenhouse gas emissions.

Food's critical place in the climate-change equation is not common knowledge. But author Anna Lappé is doing her best to change that.

Ask Umbra dishes with Anna Lappé
Grist
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Bank of America Decision to Stop Funding Mountaintop Removal a Victory for Appalachia and Anti-Coal Movement

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO - Rainforest Action Network praised Bank of America today for its decision to phase out financing for companies that practice mountaintop removal coal mining, a highly destructive and controversial method of coal extraction. The announcement, part of a new coal policy released on the bank’s website, reads: “We…will phase out financing of companies whose predominant method of extracting coal is through mountain top removal.”

Protestors Tell Citi and Bank of America: "Not With Our Money, End Your Destructive Investments’"

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Saturday, September 27, 2008

CAMBRIDGE, MA - During the lunch rush at Harvard Square today, community groups, activists and students called on Citi and Bank of America to end the risky investment practices that are jeopardizing the homes and savings of American families, and threatening the global climate.

Rainforest Action Network Denounces Cargill on Lake Minnetonka

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Friday, September 26, 2008

MINNEAPOLIS - Area anglers caught more than fish on Saturday morning as agribusiness giant Cargill was publicly denounced as a driver of climate change and global deforestation. Activists with California-based Rainforest Action Network (RAN) transformed a Lake Minnetonka sailboat into a floating banner which read “Cargill: Biofueling Climate Change.” A second boat carried a large balloon with the message “Cargill: Foe to the Family Farmer.”

Eco-Police Find New Target: Oreos

Kraft Foods, Kellogg's and other U.S. food producers come under attack as demand for vegetable oil made from palm trees soars.

What do Oreo cookies made by Nabisco (KFT, Fortune 500), Cheez-It crackers from Kellogg's (K, Fortune 500) or General Mills' (GIS, Fortune 500) Fiber One Chewy Bars have to do with global warming and the destruction of tropical rainforests? A lot, say environmental activists.

Eco-Police Find New Target: Oreos
Fortune
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Rainforest Action Network Missive Urges Hundreds of Companies to Stop Using Palm Oil

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO – More than 2,000 concerned citizens across the country went to supermarkets in San Francisco, Minneapolis, New York and dozens of other cities today to apply stickers reading, “Warning! Product May Contain Rainforest Destruction,” on any items found to contain palm oil. The day of action was organized by Rainforest Action Network (RAN), which also sent letters to more than 300 companies urging them to stop using palm oil in commercial products until more sustainable palm oil sources are made available in the market.

Broad Coalition Welcomes Northern Boreal Plan, Urges Province to Uphold Indigenous Commitments

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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO – The province of Ontario announced last week an unprecedented commitment to protect 56 million acres of northern boreal forest, an area equal in size to the state of Minnesota. Today, Rainforest Action Network and a host of other labor, environmental, human rights, faith-based and social justice groups issued a joint letter to Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty welcoming the proposal while urging the province to make good on its commitment to Indigenous communities as implementation of the plan moves forward.

Protest Prompts Abitibi Pullout

One of the world's biggest logging companies has pulled out of a Northern Ontario forest because of opposition from a small local Indian community.

AbitibiBowater Inc. said it will surrender its licence to cut trees in the Whiskey Jack forest, about an hour's drive north of Kenora, because it can't wait for negotiations, recently announced by the province, that the company says will take at least four years.

Protest Prompts Abitibi Pullout
The Toronto Star
Thursday, June 5, 2008

Rainforest Action Network Welcomes Logging Giant’s Decision to End Clear-Cut Logging on Grassy Narrows Traditional Territory

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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO – Rainforest Action Network (RAN) praised the decision of logging company AbitibiBowater—the largest paper company in the world—to stop logging on the traditional territory of the Grassy Narrows First Nation. The logging company is the last to cease operations in the million-acre Whiskey Jack Forest that comprises Grassy Narrows traditional territory. Its decision comes in the wake of decades of lawsuits and peaceful protests by the people of Grassy Narrows, including the longest standing logging blockade in North America.

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