Video: Mountain Action team shuts down and climbs 20 story dragline
Here’s a video of yesterday’s action in Twilight, WV that shut down a 20 story dragline. Watch the video here [youtube wH6vYtQGLws&eur] 14 were arrested after entering onto a mine…
RAN Disrupts Canadian Business Conference in DC, Says “No Tar Sands”
Today, RAN took the fight against dirty Tar Sands oil to Washington. At the Capitol Hilton in Washington, DC today, the Canadian-American Business Council held a high-profile forum on energy…
End the Killing In Peru!
On Tuesday, RAN activists joined about 40 other people from Amazon Watch, the Earth First! Roadshow, and Rising Tide North America in a protest at the Peruvian consulate in San…
Obama Administration’s Disappointing Position on MTR
First thing this morning I joined journalists and other environmentalists on phone call/press conference. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of the Interior (DOI) and Army Corps of Engineers announced…
Peru Protests for Life and Land on Democracy Now! and Take Action on avaaz.org!
In case you didn’t listen or watch Democracy Now! this morning, check it out online at http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/10/peru Here’s the summary of today’s show: Peruvian indigenous leader Alberto Pizango has been…
Forest Hit Job
Check out this fascinating post about organized crime, carbon offsets and smuggling illegally cut forest from Earth Island Journal’s EnvironmentaList. Call it a case of fact following fiction. Moviegoers may…
REDD: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
This is cross posted on Grist Apparently, neither rain or large groups of NGOs descending on them to discuss climate change negotiations serves to deter people in Bonn from enjoying…
Police Attack on Indigenous Amazonians in Peru Kills 25. Take Action NOW!
It is with a heavy heart that I write this post to request that you PLEASE TAKE ACTION to support our Indigenous brothers and sisters in Peru who are literally…
What do we want – Forest Protection!
Delegates entering the second week of the climate change negotiations at Bonn were greeted today with a demonstration on forest protection organized by the International Youth Caucus (supported by RAN…
RANToronto Tells RBC’s Director of Corporate Environmental Affairs that Oil and Water Don’t Mix
A group of folks has come together in Toronto to help push the campaign to clean up RBC forward. Here’s their report on a recent confrontation with bank Executives over…