Bay Area Benefit To Protect Glen Cove
Come one, come all: RAN and local Bay Area music blog Wiretap Music are proud to present a concert to benefit the spiritual encampment at Glen Cove on Thursday, June…
The Last Mountain
A new must-see movie is out about the anti-mountaintop removal movement. Featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr., “The Last Mountain” focuses on the issues of mountaintop removal and hard work of…
Defending Appalachian History
“The corporations take advantage of people in Appalachia, and this is happening all over Appalachia, not just West Virginia… We have to save one mountain at a time.” -Psera Newman,…
Respect Sacred Sites: Protect Glen Cove
“Everyone has the right to a final resting place. Our ancestors deserve to have a resting place on their original land without the threat of being removed for the sake…
Northwest Coal Summit in Seattle, WA; June 24-27
Coal is the topic on everyone’s minds. Greenpeace are taking over smokestacks in Chicago. People are marching on Blair Mountain. And Rainforest Action Network has no end in sight for…
“Mountaintop Removal?” I Prefer to Call it Flat Land Enhancement
“Mountaintop Removal? I prefer to call it Flat Land Enhancement” No, this isn’t another attempt by the coal industry to re-brand their egregious mining practices. It was Stephen Colbert’s response…
Chevron Responds To Human Suffering With Cowardly Evasions and Duplicitous Attacks
Last week three courageous Ecuadoreans traveled from the Amazon to Chevron’s shareholder meeting in San Ramon, CA to take their calls for justice directly to the company’s management, board, and…
Virginia Residents March to Celebrate Ison Rock Ridge and Protest Mountain’s Pending Demise
Ison Rock Ridge is a mountain in southwest Virginia under attack by coal companies seeking to blow the top off of it for seams of coal. Today in Appalachia, VA,…
Appalachian Coalition to March on Blair Mountain June 4-11
I’ve been part of the movement to end mountaintop removal for five years now. In 2008, RAN and I helped organize blockade actions against Dominion Energy which was building a…
RAN Activists Unfurl 50′ Banner: “Chevron Guilty-Clean Up Amazon”
UPDATE (10:57AM PST 05/24/11): All of the activists were released from jail early this morning. Everyone was charged with misdemeanors. UPDATE (7:34PM PST): The seven activists who pulled off today’s…