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…
Forest Hit Job
Check out this fascinating post about organized crime, carbon offsets and smuggling illegally cut forest from Earth Island Journal’s EnvironmentaList. Call it a case of fact following fiction. Moviegoers may…
REDD: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
This is cross posted on Grist Apparently, neither rain or large groups of NGOs descending on them to discuss climate change negotiations serves to deter people in Bonn from enjoying…
Police Attack on Indigenous Amazonians in Peru Kills 25. Take Action NOW!
It is with a heavy heart that I write this post to request that you PLEASE TAKE ACTION to support our Indigenous brothers and sisters in Peru who are literally…
What do we want – Forest Protection!
Delegates entering the second week of the climate change negotiations at Bonn were greeted today with a demonstration on forest protection organized by the International Youth Caucus (supported by RAN…
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…
Chevron’s True Cost
Today, communities from across the world and the bay area converged on San Ramon, CA to protest and take direct action against the third largest corporation in the world, Chevron….
Bunge Shareholder Meeting Update
Great report back from Samantha Corbin, who attended Bunge’s shareholder meeting last Friday! “I’m more of a party crasher than someone who gets an engraved invitation. Certainly so when the…
Act Now for Climate Justice
Are you over the corporate compromised climate politics of the DC Beltway? Want to find more empowering ways to build power, stop climate change and take action? Now’s your chance!…
Chevron Gets Reamed on 60 Minutes over It’s Toxic Legacy in Ecuador
As a coal finance campaigner, I often see scumbag behavior from King Coal and the banks that love them on a regular basis. But then I forget that we have…