Orangutans Loose in Downtown Minneapolis!

Displaced primates, having lost much of their Indonsian rainforest habitat, relocate to Minneapolis to tell the company responsible for destroying their rainforests to adopt a Global Forest Policy NOW. One…

Keep the heat on Cargill

Yesterday’s global call-in day to Cargill’s CEO Gregory Page at his headquarters in Wayzata, MN was a huge success thanks to all of our wonderful supporters and activists!  Great work! …

The Coal Sludge Is About to Hit the Fan

We have heard from coalfield residents that Massey Energy has resumed operations on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, and that blasting is imminent. The blasting will take place only…

Yes Men Spoof the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Great action this morning by the Yes Men and Avaaz. They threw a faux press conference saying that the Chamber had reversed it’s position on global warming. During the press…

Jobs Vs. The Environment in Appalachia

Back in the 1980’s and 1990’s forest wars of the Northwest, the false dichotomy that emerged out of that conflict was “jobs vs. the environment.” Loggers, mislead by industry, contended…