Cleaning up The Other Royal Bank
We’ve been going after the Royal Bank of Canada for bankrolling the tar sands for some time now. Today, we went after the other Royal Bank–the Royal Bank of Scotland–with…
Chevron’s Solar Project Bulls#%t!
Rainforest Action Network is bringing back our popular web TV show Greenwash of the Week. This week our charismatic hosts Nick and Brianna investigate the recent solar announcement by oil…
Activist Arrested at RBC’s Waterloo
An activist was arrested this afternoon at the Waterloo Branch of RBC Bank. Mark Corbiere was charged with mischief for hanging a banner reading “Boycott RBC” and “Stop the Tar…
Fossil Foolery in 13 Canadian Cities
From Maryam in Toronto: In the spirit of Fossil Fools day, 13 Cities in Canada have taken action and pulled creative pranks and tricks on tar sands supporters. 8 communities…
Shell Apologizes for Human Rights Violations in Niger Delta….. or Did They?
Happy Fossil Fool’s Day from the Yes Men [youtube zciWUOrIUqo&feature] Today the Yes Men called a faux press conference and posed as Shell Oil apologizing for human rights violations in…
Emergildo’s Story
This past week, Emergildo Criollo, an Indigenous Ecuador leader of the Cofan people traveled 3,000 miles from his home in the Amazon rainforest to California. He came to California to…
CA Lawmakers Want to Help Make Chevron Clean Up Ecuador
Last night, Emergildo Criollo, the Indigenous leader from Ecuador, met with California legislators and asked for their support in the 16+ year campaign to demand Chevron remediate massive oil contamination…
Indigenous And Hundreds More Challenge RBC On Tar Sands
Today more than 170 people rallied outside of the Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC’s) Annual General Shareholder meeting (AGM) in Toronto after a series of creative non-violent actions all morning….
Getting to Maybe with RBC
After a year of campaigning, this afternoon RBC and RAN finally sat opposite the same table to talk tar sands (here’s the background for those just tuning in). In RBC’s…
RBC Tar Sands activists have a posse
I just finished spending two weeks with some of my favorite organizers in Toronto. In the midst of strategizing to have an impactful presence at the Royal Bank of Canada‘s…