Friday, January 13, 2012

Rainforest Action Network


Rainforest Action Network (RAN) is at it again! Last night activists turned all 85 Bank of America ATM's in San Francisco into Automated Truth Machines. RAN placed non-adhesive stickers designed to look like BofA's interface on every screen the city. Instead of the checking or savings account menu, the stickers listed everything customer's money is being used for, including investment in coal-fired power plants, foreclosure on Americans’ homes, bankrolling of climate change, and paying for fat executive bonuses. The stickers also asked customers to stop doing business with Bank of America until they start acting responsibly.

I have a special place in my heart for RAN and the work that they do. I was an intern for them in 1998 and actively participated in their Don't Buy Old Growth campaign. Their mission is to campaign for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing and non-violent direct action.


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