Strip Mining Appalachia’s History
We’re starting hear rumblings that Arch Coal might be preparing to begin mountaintop removal coal mining operations on historic Blair Mountain. Blair Mountain is the site of the second largest…
Chevron’s Kangaroo Court Is Its Most Shameless Ploy Yet For Evading Justice In Ecuador
It may sound like the plot of some hackneyed corporate espionage thriller, but it’s all too true: Having lost a massive environmental lawsuit in two different countries based on the…
EPA Rejects Palm Oil: Good News for Indonesian Rainforests
Before I started doing environmental work, I’d assumed that biofuel use would have a positive effect on the climate. It turns out the truth about biofuels is much more complex…
King Coal Ups The Ante In Oregon
The reports of King Coal’s demise appear to be exaggerated. At least for now. After a year of fighting for coal export terminals proposals in Washington, coal companies are moving…
Can California’s New Law Stop Slave Labor In Palm Oil?
Whether you’re one of the 3,200 companies that do business in California with at least $100 million in worldwide gross receipts, or a consumer that buys products from anywhere other…
Why Did Chevron Pay Its “Dirty Tricks Guy” $2.2 Million?
Diego Borja is Chevron’s “dirty tricks guy” — that’s not an allegation, that’s how he once described himself. Recent court documents reveal that Chevron has paid Borja $2.2 million for his…
L.A.’s Dark Secret
In the 1974 classic Roman Polanski neo-noir film Chinatown, private detective Jake Gittes (played by Jack Nicholson) discovers one of LA’s dirty secrets: Wealthy developers are legally stealing precious water…
Farmers Unite with RAN To Fight Cargill And Challenge Corporate Control Of Our Food System
Last week, over 40 Minnesota residents made a citizens’ arrest of Cargill, Inc. in front of the company’s downtown Minneapolis office at the Grain Exchange. I walked away from the…
Charlotte People’s Posse Hunts Person By Name Of “Bank of America”
Pedestrians in uptown Charlotte were in for a surprise when they stopped to answer a routine question this Saturday: “Have you seen this person? He’s wanted for committing crimes in…
BREAKING: Occupy Cargill Activists Stage Citizens’ Arrest of Cargill, Inc.
MINNEAPOLIS – A colorful crowd of 40 Occupy activists, food justice advocates, farmers, and anti-corporate-personhood protestors braved below freezing temperatures today to gather with Rainforest Action Network to voice their…
Wanted: Mr. Bank O. America, Menace To Society
This morning, we conducted a manhunt in San Francisco. Or, I should say, a “man” hunt. If corporations are people, then this Mr. Bank O. America fellow is a clear…
HOW TO: #J20 Social Media
Here’s the scoop on how to stay up to date on all the incredible actions going on at Occupy Wall St West today, as well as where to post photos,…
Mourning Democracy, Coalition Vows Spring Of Resistance To Bank Of America
Bank of America’s policies are killing our country. At every crime scene, we find the same corporate fingerprints. At the site of a foreclosure where a family has suddenly become…
Keystone XL Rejected: Thank You President Obama
President Obama has just rejected the Keystone XL pipeline! This puts a halt to current plans for a massive 1700-mile pipeline that would have allowed some of the world’s dirtiest…
Levi’s Unzips New Policy Excluding Logging Giant Asia Pulp & Paper
Asia Pulp and Paper is having a hard time holding onto customers these days. With the release of its forest products purchasing policy, Levi Strauss & Company has become the…
Can You Arrest A Corporation?
There are some who say that corporations are people. So can you arrest one? Well, we’re going to find out. Right now, corporations technically have the same First Amendment rights…
VIDEO Turning Bank of America ATMs Into Truth Machines
Last Thursday night, a team of activists working with our Energy & Finance campaign went out and turned all of Bank of America’s ATMs in San Francisco into Automated Truth…
Benefit Corporations Show California What Good Business Looks Like
RAN applauds those businesses that have formalized their commitment to social and environmental sustainability by becoming California’s first benefit corporations. With the enactment of California Assembly Bill AB 361 on…
100 Years Of “Bread and Roses”
“One may live without bread, but not without roses…” – Jean Richepin, 19th century French Poet One hundred years ago this week, 25,000 textile mill workers, many of them women…
Bank of America ATMs In San Francisco Turned Into Truth Machines
RAN activists took to the streets of San Francisco last night and turned every Bank of America ATM in the city into an Automated Truth Machine. The activists used special…
Great Moments In Stupid Chevron PR
Now that Chevron has been found guilty — again — for intentionally dumping a massive amount of toxic oil waste in the Ecuadorean Amazon, the company has become increasingly desperate…
A Brief History Of Chevron’s Shameless Response To Its Toxic Mess In Ecuador
As detailed in our video, “Great Moments In Stupid Chevron PR” (view it below), Chevron will say anything to evade its responsibility to clean up its toxic mess in Ecuador….
Top Five Ways to Change the World in 2012
2011 saw more people power than I could have dared to hope. Last New Year’s Eve, who could have predicted that the protests in Tunisia, just then making the news,…
New Blog Calls Out Bank Of America For Bankrupting America
There’s so much opposition to Bank of America’s practices that it’s almost become a movement unto itself. We figured it was high time the movement to hold BoA accountable had…
Vote 4 Energy: Brought to You By The American Petroleum Institute
The American Petroleum Institute wants you (and the politicians it buys) to Vote 4 Energy in 2012. Our friends at Greenpeace describe API’s new ad campaign: “Vote 4 Energy attempts…