An inspiring new video from smartMeme with leaders from frontline communities and allies talking about the Copenhagen moment.
Posted in Carbon Trading, Copenhagen 2009, United States [...] Cross posted from Grist
African negotiators at the U.N. climate talks in Barcelona just refused to continue formal discussions about all other issues until wealthy countries live up to their legal and moral responsibility to commit to deep emissions reductions. Rich countries (also called “Annex 1 countries”) have ground negotiations [...]
cross posted from Grist.
Today marked one of the final days of the Bangkok UN Climate Negotiations. With the end of this intersessional in sight, the International Youth Delegation (IYD) has officially declared “No Confidence” in the road to Copenhagen.
With youth delegates from over 30 countries engaging [...]
Think Climate Finance is boring? Think again.
cross posted from Grist.
Remember when the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and International Monetary Fund were constantly making global headlines for their fierce opposition from people’s movements around the world? Well, international Finance Institutions (including the World Bank) are rearing their ugly [...]
Cross Posted From Grist.
Flooding in the Philippines yesterday displaced over 600,000 people. As if we didn’t need more of an urgent call to solve the climate crisis.
Increased intensity of flooding is among one of the may well-documented impacts of global warming. The implications have hit [...]
…and we’re off to a crawl
cross posted from Grist.
Coming right off the heels of the UN General Assembly in New York and the G20 in Pittsburgh, the world has taken its next step on the road to Copenhagen: the Bangkok round of negotiations for the United [...]
Rainforest Action Network drops Seventy-Foot Banner Over Niagara Falls to Welcome Prime Minister Harper to the U.S.
Banner: “Canadian Tar Sands Oil Undermines North America’s Clean Energy Future”
See more photos here.
Before dawn this morning, a small team of climate activists rappelled from [...]
Cross Posted from Praxis Makes Perfect, Sept 6
Van Jones was a board member of Rainforest Action Network
For the last couple weeks, American Patriot and movement leader Van Jones has been demonized by Fox News in a paranoid racist red-baiting witch hunt [...]
By Maryam Adrangi
Feigned Collapses Represent Real Impacts of Tar Sands Destruction, and Water Pollution of First Nations Communities Throughout The Athabasca Delta
Toronto
Customers visiting RBC’s newly opened downtown banking centre today were met with the sight of motionless bodies strewn along the pavement in front of the [...]
Check out the final glorious episode of the 10 day adventure of RAN and Substance educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere
In this one we talk to bands, Chrissy Swain from Grassy Narrows, RAN activists, and [...]
Check out episode 9 of the 10 day adventure of RAN and Substance educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere
[...]Check out episode 8 of the 10 day adventure of RAN and Substance educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere
[...]Check out episode 7 of the 10 day adventure of RAN and Substance educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere
[...]Check out episode 6 of the 10 day adventure of RAN and Substance educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere
[...]Check out episode 5 of the 10 day adventure of RAN and Substance educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere
[...]Check out episode 4 of the 10 day adventure of RAN and Substance educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere
[...]Check out the third edition of the web diaries from the Freedom From Oil Tour. RAN and Substance have teamed up with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere to mobilize people against Tar Sands mining.
[...]The second edition in the 10 day adventure of educating and mobilizing people to stop the Tar Sands, with rock bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere
[...]I’m on a tour of Canada and the US with the bands Propagandhi and Strike Anywhere to educate, organize, and mobilize people to stop a disastrous oil project called the Tar Sands. Every night I’ll be speaking with the bands on stage, working with teams of volunteers [...]
About a month or so after the Capitol Climate action I wrote a movement strategy piece to reflect on its lessons. It is the cover story for the May issue of Z Magazine and pasted below. This magazine came out on the day we [...]
Check out this great video from the Cliffside Climate Action.
Posted in Act Locally, Coal Campaign [...] 
Community members engage in civil disobedience to prevent the construction of coal fired facility.
This morning, the Cliffside Climate Action brought hundreds to Duke Energy’s headquarters in Charlotte North Carolina to protest the construction of the new Cliffside coal facility.
The latest news is that 44 community members [...]
A news clip coverage of the Capitol Climate Action and Power Shift 09
[...]Five actions in one day in downtown Toronto? No foolin!
Today Rainforest Action Network activists kicked Fossil Fools Day off with a bang, dropping banners off of a highway, greeting over 4,000 cars stuck in deadlock traffic over a period of two hours. From bridges, we broadcast messages about [...]
Put together a slideshow of images from the Capitol Climate Action.
Remember, there are lots of ways to stay involved past this action, and even in the last couple days, people have been mobilizing & taking action and others facing repression.
p.s. the original slideshow had [...]
Yesterday thousands of people converged on the Capitol Power Plant to engage in mass civil disobedience, shutting it down for the afternoon to demand clean energy solutions to our economic and climate crises.
Check out the recent media coverage in Associated Press (AP), TIME Magazine, CNN, [...]
Is Banksy endorsing the Capitol Climate Action (CCA)?
It’s not photoshopped. Large scale stencils, wheatpasting, and paint graffiti is turning up in DC promoting the Capitol Climate Action on March 2nd.
So what’s keeping you from RSVPing?
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Is Banksy endorsing the Capitol Climate Action (CCA)? Or maybe Shepard Faery?
It’s not photoshopped. Large scale stencils, wheatpasting, and paint graffiti is turning up in DC promoting the Capitol Climate Action on March 2nd.
So what’s keeping you from RSVPing?
Posted in global warming [...] Susan Sarandon just made a video asking people to participate in the Capitol Climate Action on March 2nd (and you don’t really need to get arrested to join!)
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She’s lending her voice to a number of other endorsers, most recently including Appalachian groups who have more people interested [...]
See this recent piece in Time Magazine about Tim DeChristopher’s stunts and the upcoming mass action on March 2nd.
To Protect Public Land, Eco-Protesters Get Creative
By Bryan Walsh Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009
Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher tainted an auction of oil and gas drilling leases by bidding up [...]
Organizers asking action participants to dress in their “Sunday Best” at the mass civil disobedience at the Capitol on March 2nd. [...] Organizers asking action participants to dress in their “Sunday Best” at the civil disobedience at the Capitol on March 2nd.
We’ve all heard that movements for ecological sanity and social justice are in a crucial political moment. We’re moving from margin to center, and ideas that were once considered on [...]
This video was made by Yong Ping Loo from Singapore from the last day of youth action at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Conference of Parties (COP14).
We are everywhere.
[...]Youth action frames the conversation at the UNFCCC in Poznan, Poland
Young people from around the world made their voice heard today at the UN Framework Convention on Climate change in Poznan, Poland. After an inspiring speech from Al Gore, over 200 young people from India to the U.S. to the [...]
Young people in Poznan, Poland are stepping into the empty shoes of our stalling government.
Young people from the United States have been engaging full force in the 14th Conference of Parties (COP) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Unfortunately, we can’t say the same of our [...]
Melting I.C.E.
Yesterday was a Halloween to remember. Along with other RAN staff, I had the honor of participating in an inspiring action organized and led by Bay Area Latino & Latina youth. Over 400 high school students walked out of school on Halloween to protest the vicious [...]
My friend Jonathan McIntosh remixes videos. Specifically, he takes aspects of pop-culture and jumbles them around to make them accurate (and really funny). In his most recent video, the “So You Think You Can Dance” judges are far more honest (and tough) on the candidates stances on Clean Coal [...]
Did yall see the Presidential debate last night? What about that question about Green Jobs and Climate? I don’t know if you were as dissapointed with the candidates’ lukewarm answers as I was, but one thing is for sure - there’s one issue neither McCain nor Obama will argue about: [...]
Ever wanted to know what happens at RAN’s activist training camps and network gatherings? Last week we co-hosted a gathering of 60 activists in Chicago with the Student Environmental Action Coalition. Below is a reflection from Robin Markle, one of the youth leaders in RAN’s network. Robin serves on the [...]
(RAN is a nonpartisan organization that takes no stand on any political candidates. The observations below are intended to be a reflection on strategy and communication for activists and organizers, not as an endorsement of either candidate, or a comment on the policies or positions they represent.)
Last night I saw [...]
The Beginning
We woke up at 3:30 am, but few of us had slept the night before. You’d think we’d be groggy, but the adrenaline and excitement propelled us into action. By 5:30am two trucks holding steel barrels reading “good jobs, healthy communities: we deserve a clean energy future” and “prosperity [...]
I’m in Minneapolis, shortly before the 2009 Republican National Convention…and the gigantic protest spectacle here to greet it. But I don’t think I’m even going this year. Not to dis all the good folks who will be pouring into town in the coming week to express their dissatisfaction with that [...]
I just got back from seven days that reminded me why youth are gonna save the world. I had the privilege of helping train and learn from 200 brilliant young organizers in Minneapolis Minnesota at the Energy Action Coalition Power Vote camp.
It was the most [...]
Our friends Ryanne and Jay, over at Ryan is Hungry recently made an amazing video to help get folks excited about RAN.
Giving a presentation to a group of students? Explaining what RAN does to your friends before convincing them to join you in an action? Want to inspire [...]
I coauthored this with Amy Ortiz, a student activist from the RAN network, who also works with Southern Energy Network.
This past weekend, April 4-6th, something historic took place in Memphis, Tennessee. During the same few days where people from across the nation gathered in the place where Martin [...]
