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[All About The World] The Understory » Jobs Vs. The Environment in Appalachia | All ...: Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth’s rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
[RSS Feed for All Jobs] Online Organizer: In coalition with indigenous communities and allies from around the world, RAN uses non-violent direct action, grassroots organizing, education, and strategic communications to challenge corporations to stop destructive operations, respect human rights, and adopt comprehensive policies that reduce their contributions to global warming.
[Pasarici.NET Blog] The Understory » Jobs Vs. The Environment in Appalachia - Pasarici ...: Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth’s rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
[The Understory : Understory.RAN.org] The Understory » The Rainforest Action Complex: In the civil rights, human rights, environmental and anti-corporate globalization movements, non-violent direct action has been an important tool in giving women the right to vote, ending segregation, stopping the construction of U.S. nuclear plants, saving thousands of acres of forest and rainforest and putting transnational institutions like the WTO and the World Bank into crisis (actually stopping the WTO). Now we’re using it to fight for climate justice.
[NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network -] Online Communications Manager | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network: In coalition with Indigenous communities and allies from aroundthe world, RAN uses non-violent direct action, grassroots organizing,education, and strategic communications to challenge corporations tostop destructive operations, respect human rights, and adoptcomprehensive policies that reduce their contributions to globalwarming. Later this year, RAN will be launching a new campaign to holdChevron accountable for years of contamination and neglect in Ecuadorand a rash of human rights and environmental abuses around the world.This will be a multi-year campaign and a top priority for theorganization.
[Jorge Palmieri] VAN JONES RESIGNATION: The Understory » On Van Jones' Resignation, Glenn Beck, and Right Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct .
[Matador blogs] Trazzler Contest Update--Donating to 5 Organizations, but need ...: 3)NISGUA: Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala: Links people in the U.S. with the Guatemalan people and their struggles for justice, human rights, environmental protection, and dignity. RAN campaigns aggressively to protect forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
[The Understory : Understory.RAN.org] The Understory » Grassroots Update: Scotia Bank: He came up to me and told me that I had made misleading statements about Weyerhaeuser, and that the company was not doing anything illegal. We had a discussion about logging and the blockade in Grassy Narrows, and it turned out that he had never heard about the blockade and had no sense of the eco-system destruction that clear-cutting causes.
[Thomas Paine's Corner] Our species is waging war on nonhuman animals and the Earth ...: Despite my dualistic, dissonant existence, in which I maintain a foot-hold both in the culture of resistance and within the dominant culture, the park and its nonhuman inhabitants are sacred to me. If the “cull” takes place, those whove enabled and implemented it will have desecrated my “church” and murdered some of my “deities.” It is a moral outrage that our perverse and malignant social structure allows and promotes the barbaric blood-letting of innocent beings while shielding the lives of monstrous, sociopathic human beings via a legal system that primarily ”protects and serves the rich, property, profit, and, on a selective basis, human lives.
[blogs.telegraph.co.uk blog listings.] Those Evil Right Wing Extremists who would DESTROY America ...: Why would people who are getting taxed less go out and protest about being taxed more? These corporates might as well be telling these protesters, “Help us get taxed less, so you can be taxed more…..and remember, while we’re getting taxed less and you’re getting taxed more, you, too will be rich someday, too…..keep believing that, suckers”.
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