Coal Export Madness Spreading to Oregon
Coal companies are bound and determined to get that dirty black rock out of the Powder River Basin and send it over to Asian markets to line their pockets. While…
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…
The Struggle For Justice In The Amazon Spans Generations
Over the past few weeks we’ve told you a lot about the courageous Ecuadoreans who traveled to America to take their calls for justice directly to Chevron’s management and board…
Ecuador’s Innovative Plan To Save The Yasuní In Jeopardy
In 2007, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa presented the Yasuní ITT Initiative to the United Nations General Assembly, declaring the country’s willingness to forego the exploitation of an estimated 846 million…
The FBI’s Not-So-Secret War Against Green Activists
“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” -Joseph Heller, Catch 22 Ever wonder where your tax dollars go? I mean besides wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, bailouts…
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,…
Leading Rainforest Destroyer APP Issues Attack on RAN’s Credibility
UPDATE: On October 11, 2012, Disney announced a comprehensive paper policy that maximizes its use of environmentally superior papers like recycled and eliminates controversial sources like those connected to Indonesian rainforest destruction….
Disney’s Ties to Rainforest Destruction Exposed…Again
UPDATE: On October 11, 2012, Disney announced a comprehensive paper policy that maximizes its use of environmentally superior papers like recycled and eliminates controversial sources like those connected to Indonesian rainforest destruction….
A Guest Post About A Guest In The Jungle – By James Polster
This post was written by James Polster, author of A Guest In The Jungle, a novel that “explores the intense nuances of the conflict between civilization and nature”. A Guest…
World Bank Raises The Bar On Human Rights. Will Private Banks Follow?
Last December, I hinted that the World Bank was moving to adopt stronger new standards on Indigenous rights. After nearly three years of deliberation, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the…
RAN Translates Banker-Speak
Earlier this year, thousands of RAN supporters wrote to Deutsche Bank boss Josef Achermenn to urge that his bank cease financing mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. Deutsche Bank have…
Girl Scout Activists Take America By Storm With Monumental Media Sweep
I had the good fortune of joining rock star Girl Scout activists, Madison Vorva and Rhiannon Tomtishen, on a whirlwind media tour in New York City that brought their compelling…
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…
The March on Blair Mountain Begins
Despite threats and intimidation by King Coal’s supporters, 600 courageous marchers kicked off a five-day march from Marmet, WV to Blair Mountain. Blair Mountain was the site of the second…
Investors Don’t Want To Go To Hell With Chevron
The fallout from Chevron’s annual shareholder meeting continues. In addition to the protesters outside the meeting, Chevron found itself “under siege” inside the meeting as well, according to the San…
Proposed Coal Port Stirs Up Bellingham, WA
Lots of attention is being focused on coal exports in the Northwest these days. In Cherry Point, WA, near Bellingham, the biggest coal company in the world, St. Louis-based Peabody…
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…
Amazon Victory Party & Fundraiser at Lake Chalet on May 25th, 2011
What a party we created to celebrate a most-significant milestone in our efforts to hold oil-giant Chevron accountable! Thank you for celebrating with us, our Ecuadorian allies and our terrific…
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,…
More Coal Along the Columbia River
This week the Port of Morrow Commission (located in Boardman, OR) announced that they had agreed to a lease with Salt Lake City based Ambre Energy for the construction of…
Massey Energy: That’s the Way the Kingdom Crumbles
This is like a John Grisham thriller put onto a reality show for all of us to see. Months ago, it was announced that Alpha Natural Resources began the process…
Does the RSPO Care About Forests and People?
Yesterday was the deadline given to IOI Corporation by the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) to resolve its social conflict with the community of Long Teran Kanan or else…