The Bay Area is my home. I grew up in the South Bay. Went to college in the East Bay, and currently live with my amazing roommates in San Francisco. And, while I haven’t always been an activist (in fact, I’m pretty  new on this turf), I have always loved the places I called home. [...]

Crude has been described as the movie Chevron doesn’t want you to see. It was a truly beautiful film which brought to life the horrors that the Amazon and the Ecuadorians have lived under for the past decades, and it thrills me to know that since a month of its screening launch, already thousands of people around the world have seen it. But it must not end here.

The good: the art
The bad: the message
The are you serious? The gendered and racist depiction of natives vs. colonizers
Avatar is a beautiful work of art in which unique creatures are brought to life in a natural world where everything is, generally, living in harmony. Everything about Pandora was absolutely spectacular, and the special effects made [...]

On Tuesday Nov 10th, RAN activists disrupted a speech by Gordon Nixon, president of RBC at Ryerson University. Nixon was speaking as part of a business conference on Canadian Manufacturing. RAN activists interrupted the speech four times with banners and comments, as well as once during the question and answer period.
During the event, Nixon admitted [...]

Rainforest Action Network Toronto activists took part in a nation-wide campaign against Royal Bank of Canada, and set up a DIY coffee shop in front of RBC at Yonge and Bloor in Toronto to protest the bank’s involvement in the tar sands. Activists served coffee and tea, providing a visual protest against the water contamination [...]