Grassy Narrows Celebrates 10 Years of Historic Blockade
On December 2, 2002 the Indigenous youth of the Grassy Narrows First Nation lay down in the path of industrial logging machines—blocking access to their tribal homeland in Northern Ontario,…
KI Nation Paddles 300 km to Protect their Wild Watershed
Canada’s Boreal forest is part of the world’s largest land-based carbon storehouse. It is also the world’s greatest reservoir of fresh water, and is among the largest unlogged forests left…
Deep in the Amazon, A Story is Waiting to be Told
Media technologies and professional skills are valuable tools that enable Indigenous communities living in rainforests around the world to communicate about the crisis of deforestation through sharing their stories, language,…
Bank of America: Strong on Rhetoric, Weak on Climate & Coal
Bank of America released its new environmental initiative this morning, grandly declaring that “Today’s announcement builds on Bank of America’s legacy of leadership in the environmental arena.” While the bank’s…
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…
Appalachian Coalition to March on Blair Mountain June 4-11
I’ve been part of the movement to end mountaintop removal for five years now. In 2008, RAN and I helped organize blockade actions against Dominion Energy which was building a…
Mickey and Minnie Protest Disney Rainforest Destruction at Company HQ
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…
Is the “Happiest Place on Earth” Driving Tigers and Orangutans into Extinction?
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….
Corporate Tax Dodgers: The Dirtiest Dozen
Co-authored by Matt Leonard Billionaire real estate investor and legendary tax evader Leona Helmsley famously said: “Only the little people pay taxes.” It turns out Helmsley was all too right….
Climate Action Fund: Get Action, Not Offsets
Research shows that carbon offsets aren’t working to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stall global warming. That’s why RAN has founded the Climate Action Fund. In theory, a carbon offset…