Top 10 Ways To Celebrate World Rainforest Week
Happy World Rainforest Week! How will YOU celebrate rainforests from October 17-24? Please add your ideas, activities, and commitments as a comment to this blog to keep our thoughts and…
Activists Derail Business School Q&A With Chevron CEO John Watson
Change Chevron activist Josh Kahn Russell holds a banner reading “Energy shouldn’t cost lives” while Chevron CEO John Watson flees up a staircase (Watson is on the top left). Chevron…
Alberta Legislature Gets Eyeful On Tar Sands
Today I joined allies from Sierra Club Prairie and Greenpeace to transform the steps of the Provincial legislature in an attempt to give Albertans an idea of the amount of…
Citizens Occupy PNC: The Bank of Mountaintop Removal
UPDATE: Four brave activists were arrested at today’s PNC sit-in, including Reverend Billy Talen, George Lakey, Alexa Ross and Liz Nerat. Today, as part of Appalachia Rising, the largest protest…
Sept 27th: Take Action to Save U.S. Mountains
1 Change Your Facebook Status Thousands are marching to the White House today to save the Appalachian Mountains from being blown to bits by mountaintop removal (MTR) mining. What can…
RAN Pays Illegal Dumping Fine + Video
Last week I traveled to West Virginia with a few friends and loaded a pickup truck with dirt from the coalfields. We then drove the dirt to the EPA’s headquarters…
Massive Banners Dropped on Cargill, Grain Exchange Skyway
Despite state-wide flood warnings, the skies opened for just enough time to allow five RAN activists to hang two billboard sized banners off of a 3rd street skyway during morning…
Join RAN on 10/10/10 and Demand Chevron Get to Work!
On 10/10/10, RAN is joining our friends at 350.org, thousands of people around the world, and you for a global work party. We’re going to inspire our leaders, and even…
Chicago Pushes Back Against Canada’s Tar Sands
Following three significant spills of tar sands oil from aging pipelines in the Midwest, RAN Chicago took action. An afternoon protest was themed around pushing back on Canada’s tar sands…
Big Brother and King Coal
The guys at Climate Ground Zero are feeling a little frisky this week. Check out this funny response to an intelligence bulletin about anti-coal activists put out by the Dept….