Huge News for Ontario’s Boreal Forest and its peoples.
The Ontario Government just announced plans to protect 56 million acres of Northern Boreal forest from all industry. The area falls entirely in the traditional territories of 36 First Nations…
Shame on ADM! Vote ADM for Corporate Hall of Shame TODAY!
Vote for ADM in the Corporate Hall of Shame Today! –Shame on ADM for its role in destroying tropical rainforests for soy and palm plantations; –Shame on ADM for displacing…
Canada Looking for Terrorists in Grassy Narrows
The National Post just reported that Canada’s top Federal spooks were keeping *really* close tabs on last year’s National Day of Action for Native Rights–apparently including protests planned in support…
Grassy Victory Articles
Check out these lengthy news pieces on Grassy Narrows’ victory in kicking the clear-cut logging corporations off their territory – an area three times the size of Yosemite National Park….
Amazon Soy Moratorium Extended. RAN calls for expansion too!
Last week, we wrote to ADM, Bunge and Cargill, to call for an extension and expansion of the Amazon Soy Moratorium. Great news! The Soy Working Group (GTS), including U.S….
New indy film about 2005 deportation of Texan peace and environmental activist from Australia
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-800073345267667553&hl=en Not sure how well this is known in the RAN blogosphere, but in 2005, before I came to RAN, I was detained and forcibly removed from Australia for reasons…
KI6 and Bob Lovelace are Free!
Last week, as hundreds of supporters gathered to demand their release, Bob Lovelace and the KI6 won a ground breaking legal appeal to secure their unconditional release. The community leaders…
Gathering of Mother Earth Protectors, day two
An update on the Gathering of Mother Earth Protectors at Queens Park in Toronto by Judy Rebick (via their blog): Today was the second day of the Gathering of Mother…
Hundreds Kick off a Week of Protest in Toronto
Update: Photos can be found here and here. RAN joined with more than a dozen other groups to sponsor a week-long occupation of the Ontario Legislature in Ontario. Pictures and…
Xingu: A sea of forest surrounded by agribusiness
After spending 4 days at the “Encontro Xingu”, I had the opportunity to fly over the entire Xingu river basin beginning in Altamira, Para and ending in Canarana, Mato Grosso…soy…