The truth about Cargill’s palm oil plantations in Borneo
The truth is out! After months of investigations, RAN just released a report entitled CARGILL’S PROBLEMS WITH PALM OIL: A BURNING THREAT TO BORNEO. Slideshow of report images Our report…
Malaysian Communities Still Under Threat
In April 2008, I participated in an international fact-finding team that traveled throughout the Malaysian state of Sarawak to document reports that Indigenous communities were being systematically deprived of their…
Police Beat NGO Delegates Trying to Join Protest Outside Copenhagen Talks
Today, 100 delegates from the Copenhagen climate talks – mostly from NGOs, but led by two members of the Bolivian government delegation, and with dozens of members of organizations from…
REDD Forest Agreement Still Missing Basic Elements for Sustainability
As negotiations wrapped up in Barcelona at the UN Climate Talks, the opportunity for a robust agreement to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries (REDD) is dangling…
Big day for climate, Big new bill, and Big giveaways to coal, oil and loggers
With climate talks underway in Bangkok, Indigenous activists reviewing the text and engaged in the talks calling for no market-based REDD deal, Greenpeace activists blockading the tar sands in Alberta,…
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally…. A week in the Twin Cities with Matilda Pilacapio
It isn’t every day that you get go on speaking tour in Minneapolis/St. Paul with a delegate from Papua New Guinea. Or to meet activists and students in a city…
Seeing the Rainforests for the Trees in the Senate Climate Bill
Senators Kerry and Boxer have said that they are on track to introduce the first step for Senate version of the ACES climate bill next Wednesday, September 30th. The draft…
Mrs. Nixon, please help us stop the tar sands
In Toronto today, RAN appealed directly to Janet Nixon – the wife of Royal Bank of Canada’s CEO, Gordon Nixon – to help us end her husband’s company’s massive bankrolling…
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…
Bay Area Reportback from World Social Forum, This Tuesday, Feb.24, 7-8:30pm
BAY AREA REPORTBACK FROM THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM (WSF) Tuesday, February 24, 2009 7-8:30pm 522 Valencia, 3rd Floor Auditorium* (near 16th and Mission BART) San Francisco, CA $5-10 donation requested…