What do you do when RBC’s lawyers threaten to sue you?
Several weeks ago – while we were busy organizing a banner hang at the headquarters of Royal Bank of Canada, the world’s biggest funder of the tar sands – a…
Grassroots Movement Demands Justice for the Oil Industry
Poor Big Oil. They’ve really been taking a hit lately. Between weak climate legislation that would marginally take a bite out of their mammoth profits, billion-dollar lawsuits accusing them of…
Mrs. Nixon, please help us stop the tar sands
In Toronto today, RAN appealed directly to Janet Nixon – the wife of Royal Bank of Canada’s CEO, Gordon Nixon – to help us end her husband’s company’s massive bankrolling…
Mrs. Nixon Mystery Solved
UPDATE: RBC CEO Gordon Nixon is outside at the rally watching the RAN activists who deployed the banner! More to come, but take a look at www.pleasehelpusmrsnixon.com. Members of the…
The Carbon Logic Problem Statement | Grist
All too often those debating the solutions and proposed actions to tackle global warming fail to challenge the assumptions. While it’s important to deal with emissions it can be argued…
The Yes Men Want YOU to Get Arrested to Stop Climate Change
The Yes Men – the same folks who have posed as corporate and government hacks to announce Dow’s apology for the Bhopal chemical spill and to admit the failure of…
Peru blockades called off but controversy remains
Here is the latest on the Peru conflict. As of Friday, June 19th, the BBC reported that due to the repeal of the two most controversial presidential decrees, the blockades…
Peru Protests for Life and Land on Democracy Now! and Take Action on avaaz.org!
In case you didn’t listen or watch Democracy Now! this morning, check it out online at http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/10/peru Here’s the summary of today’s show: Peruvian indigenous leader Alberto Pizango has been…
RANToronto Tells RBC’s Director of Corporate Environmental Affairs that Oil and Water Don’t Mix
A group of folks has come together in Toronto to help push the campaign to clean up RBC forward. Here’s their report on a recent confrontation with bank Executives over…
US Fuel Economy Standard to Meet California’s Standard…and Ford likes it!
Woo hoo! One of the great goals of Ford Motor Company just a few short years ago was to get one national standard rather than a ‘patchwork’ of state policies….