Speaking Truth to the Powers-That-Be at Chevron
This morning, some of the most powerful global voices calling for environmental justice gathered in our office for a press conference to tell the world why they’re attending Chevron’s shareholder…
Chevron’s Worst Year Ever, Episode 4: Australia
This has been one of the worst years ever for Chevron. From it’s ongoing massive legal losses in Ecuador, to offshore disasters in Brazil and Nigeria, to the tragic deaths…
Chevron’s Worst Year Ever, Episode 3: Richmond, CA
This has been one of the worst years ever for Chevron. From it’s ongoing massive legal losses in Ecuador, to offshore disasters in Brazil and Nigeria, to the tragic deaths…
APP’s Deforestation Commitments: Hollow Promises from an Untrustworthy Company
On May 15th, Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) announced several “new” commitments that appear to have the potential, if implemented, to address some of the numerous controversies surrounding the company’s…
WestLB Takes A Brave Step In The Right Direction
This post is by Yann Louvel, BankTrack Climate and Energy Campaign Coordinator. Last month we got some promising news from WestLB, the German bank. They produced a new policy on…
Chevron’s Worst Year Ever, Episode 2: Ecuador
This has been one of the worst years ever for Chevron. From it’s ongoing massive legal losses in Ecuador, to offshore disasters in Brazil and Nigeria, to the tragic deaths…
Chevron’s Worst Year Ever, Episode 1: Kazakhstan
This post originally appeared on City Brights. This has been one of the worst years ever for Chevron. From it’s ongoing massive legal losses in Ecuador, to offshore disasters in…
RAN Delivers Nearly 20,000 Petitions to Cargill HQ
The major tragedy that is still unfolding in Indonesia’s Tripa rainforest continues to threaten the survival of critically endangered Sumatran orangutans. As over 92 fires smolder, palm oil companies like…
Epic Greenwashing From Chevron
Once again, Chevron has released its “Corporate Responsibility Report” with a straight face. (Here’s our post about last year’s report.) In this post, Amazon Watch’s Robert Collier exposes the irresponsible…
LIVE STREAM: Watch the Bank of America Shareholder Meeting Protest
If you can’t be in Charlotte tomorrow to join the protest at Bank of America’s shareholder meeting, that doesn’t mean you have to miss all of the action. There will…
UPDATED Bank of America Shareholder Meeting Protests Underway
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 9th at 1:30 EST As Bank of America’s executives, board, and shareholders gathered at the bank’s shareholder meeting in Charlotte, NC, thousands of protesters took to the…
Setting the Record Straight: Cargill and Tripa Forest Controversy
Although there are no major fires still tearing through the Tripa peat forest in Sumatra — the densest remaining Sumatran orangutan habitat in the world — updates from our allies on…
Bank of Coal: Bank of America Stadium Gets Renamed
As the largest financier of the U.S. coal industry, Bank of America should be called the “Bank of Coal.” So we decided to rename it. Today, five RAN activists scaled…
Dirty Money: U.S. Banks at the Bottom of the Class
Today Rainforest Action Network and the Sierra Club released our Coal Finance Report Card 2012, our third annual ranking of the largest financiers of mountaintop removal coal mining and coal-fired…
Bank Of America Shall Know The Truth And The Truth Shall Set Them Free
This week in Washington D.C. and Boston, merry bands of climate pranksters have been spanking Bank of America’s banksters with a little truth. Or a little “ATM” truth as we…
Transforming Bank Lobbies
Someone once wrote that a bank is like a giant squid wrapped around the face of humanity. And it feels as if banks have overwhelmed the neighborhood, as I walk…
Boston Tells Bank Of America: “No Coal”
On Tax Day, RAN Boston activists joined a national day of action targeting Bank of America over….. well… everything. Bank of America currently pay no taxes to the government, yet…
Greenwash of the Week
It’s the time of year when banks put their ‘best foot forward’ and prepare to be scrutinized by their shareholders at annual general meetings (AGMs). It’s a legal requirement, the…
International Day of Action to Save Tripa Rainforest
While many of us realize on some fleeting, uncomfortable level that our generation holds the future of countless species and ecosystems in our hands, rarely is the choice to allow…
BofA Takes the Earth out of Earth Day
If there was ever a time for Bank of America to address the outcry over its ecological rampage, this was it. Environmental organizations in Charlotte, North Carolina received a surprising…
Playing Nice In The Sandbox: Feds Try To Inimidate Texas Climate Activists
I’ve been organizing campaigns and non-violent direct actions for a long time. Over ten years now. Most of the time, I hear stories about the screwed up things our government…
Driving the Company Off an $18bn Cliff: Ecuadoreans In Europe Highlight Chevron Management’s Misguided Litigation Strategy
Ecuadorean indigenous leaders Humberto Piaguaje and Guillermo Grefa began a one week European tour today. They will be educating major institutional investors in Chevron Corporation, including prestigious funds such as…
What If You Owned Bank of America? We Teamed Up With The Yes Men to Find Out What You’d Do
Yesterday morning, Bank of America announced that it was turning over a new leaf, rebranding itself as “Your Bank of America” and seeking the American public’s input on how it…
North Carolina Tax Day Actions Make BofA Pay
North Carolina activists put their training into practice today, filling Bank of America branches in five cities with the buzz of people power. The 99% of Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill,…
Bank Of America Vs. The World: Charlotte, NC On May 9th
It sucks to be Bank of America. BoA is wrecking the planet for profit, wrecking the economy for fat cat executive bonuses, and foreclosing on millions of American Dreams. And…