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Subject: RAN Action News August 2005
INSIDE:
Huaorani Demand Oil Moratorium
Demanding Freedom From Oil
RAN Joins StopGlobalWarming.org
Revel 2005: Celebrating 20 Years of RAN
August 2005
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Huaorani Demand Moratorium on Oil Exploration
The Brazilian oil company, Petrobras, is moving forward with its plan
to drill for oil
in <http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102042>Yasuni National
Park and the overlapping Huaorani people\'s territory in the
Ecuadorian Amazon.
The Huaorani are demanding a 10-year moratorium on oil related
activities in their territory and the Yasuni National Park. They are
calling on Petrobras to immediately withdraw from an area the oil
company calls \"Block 31\" where road construction already underway is
carving up their pristine ancestral homelands.
Click here to
<http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102043>Tell Ecuador\'s
President Alfredo Palacio to respect the ancestral rights of the
Huaorani and protect the critical rainforest ecosystem of Yasuni
National Park.
Saskatchewan: The Province of Weyerhaeuser
Last week, RAN
released <http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102044>\"Saskatchewan:
The Province of Weyerhaeuser,\" a case study containing government
documents that confirm Weyerhaeuser\'s illegal logging in Canada\'s
Boreal forests. The Weyerhaeuser mills in question make plywood and
copy paper for US companies like Xerox.
Our <http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102045>grassroots
video documentary includes first-hand testimony by Saskatchewan
residents and former Weyerhaeuser loggers who tell the real story of
the logging giant\'s disregard of community concerns and destruction
of public forests.
<http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102046>Click here
to Tell Weyerhaeuser and Xerox to adopt a strong global policy that
protects endangered forests and respects human rights.
Pen Pals of the 21st Century
Back in the old days, pen pals were connected by the speed of the
postman. Today, the speed of the internet is allowing almost instant
connections between students all over the world. What do classrooms
in Dayton, Ohio and the Shipibo-Konobo community of Nuevo Egipto in
the Peruvian rainforest have in common? They are taking part in a
new <http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102047>Rainforest Pen
Pal Program
on <http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102048>RainforestHeroes.com.
In the coming weeks, the 7 to 12 year old students will
be <http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102049>exchanging
letters online as part of a cross-cultural effort to build
classroom-to-classroom ties that connect and educate children around
the world. A special feature allows students
to <http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102050>submit
questions, some of which will be translated and sent to
Shipibo-Konibo
children.<http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102048>Check out
RainforestHeroes.com each week to read some of their questions and
answers.
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Join the Energy Revolution at FreedomFromOil.com
On July 4th,
the <http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102142>Jumpstart Ford
Campaign, launched <http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102143>FreedomFromOil.com,
an internet initiative calling on Ford Motor Company, the American
automaker with the lowest fuel efficiency and highest greenhouse gas
emissions, to chart a new course and publicly commit to immediately
improve fleet-wide fuel efficiency and eliminate tailpipe emissions
by 2020. FreedomFromOil.com was launched with
<http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102144>full-page ads in
USA Today and The New York Times
<http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102145>inviting Americans
to join the energy revolution
and <http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102146>sign the
Declaration of Independence From Oil work toward your goals.
Sakhalin II: A high-risk Shell game
On July 15th, Royal
Dutch/Shell <http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102147>announced that
its Sakhalin-2 oil project, the largest integrated oil and gas
project in history, would double in cost to a staggering $20 billion
and be delayed for at least 8 more months.
The announcement follows
grassroots <http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102148>market
pressure calling on Credit Suisse to sever its relationship as
financial advisor to Sakhalin II. RAN and a global coalition placed
a <http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102149>full-page ad in
The Financial Times to coincide with
renewed <http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102150>demonstrations at
Credit Suisse headquarters in New York, Moscow, and Zurich, including
indigenous blockades on Sakhalin Island. CEO Brady Dougan also
received over 3,000 letters from children around the world following
a <http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102151>day-long kid\'s
art exhibit facing their New York City headquarters.
Join RAN and StopGlobalWarming Campaign!
The <http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102152>STOP GLOBAL
WARMING VIRTUAL MARCH ON WASHINGTON is a non-partisan, grassroots
effort to bring all Americans together in one place, proving that
there is a vast national consensus that global warming is a reality
today and that we must start addressing the dangers it presents now.
<http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102152>
With the support of leading scientists, political and religious
leaders, prominent Americans and concerned citizens, the Virtual
March on Washington will move across the United States via the
Internet from one town to the next, showing evidence of global
warming\'s alarming affects, and highlighting real people\'s concerns
and real solutions along the way.
Through our map, you can track the progress of the March in real time
as more people join, see the path on which we\'re traveling together,
and read the stories from March stops across the country.
<http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102152>Join RAN and
StopGlobalWarming.org and spread the word!
Revel: A Benefit So Fun It Should Be Illegal!
<http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102289>
<http://action.ran.org/ctt.asp?u=2074439&l=102051>Join us on October
7, 2005 at the San Francisco Design Center Galleria to celebrate
RAN\'s 20th anniversary and two decades of tough love for corporate
America.
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reservations, click here
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