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Protestors hang a flag from a construction crane in downtown Seattle in protest of the 1999 World Trade Organization conference. Reuters

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BREAKING: New report shows that banks pumped $1.9 TRILLION dollars into fossil fuels since the Paris Agreement was adopted – with financing on the rise each year. With that money, we could have provided solar for every house in the world.

Ready for change? Check out the latest edition of the #BankingOnClimateChange report.

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Andrew Bird on Instagram: “When the worlds on fire by the Carter Family. Donate to The Rainforest Action Network (ran.org) to help stop thes

2,137 Likes, 53 Comments - Andrew Bird (@andrewbirdmusic) on Instagram: “When the worlds on fire by the Carter Family. Donate to The Rainfor

Andrew Bird & friends - When the world's on fire" by The Carter Family

Plus some good links to where you can donate to help the rainforest action network!

[sataniccapitalist]

Activists Interrupt JPMorgan Chase CEO: "Stop Funding Climate Change!"

Jamie Dimon sits at the head of one of the top Wall Street funders of climate change.

#thewaronyou

[oilchangeus-blog]

Banking on Climate Change - Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2018

Banking on Climate Change - Download Banking On Climate Change: Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2018. The ninth annual fossil fuel finance report card shows how big banks continue to fund the climate crisis.

New report finds that most big banks continue to fund the climate crisis by financing dangerous fossil fuels.

Read more and see which banks made the list in the Banking on Climate Change report. 

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Fundraising Email

Rainforest Action Network they’re trying to get 100,000 in the next two days. They’re also doing gift matching. 

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Stop the Money Pipeline - Online Rally

On Thursday, July 23rd at 5pm ET / 2pm PT Rainforest Action Network is holding an online rally demanding Liberty Mutual stop insuring the climate-wrecking Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline. The risks of the Trans Mountain Pipeline are so great that it cannot legally transport any oil without insurance backing. That means if we can stop the flow of insurance money, we can stop the flow of oil. To learn more about the campaign to force insurers to drop Trans-Mountain check out this blog. 

[rjzimmerman]

Food manufacturers may be causing the destruction of a nationally protected wildlife reserve in Indonesia.

Excerpt from this Truthout story:

Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem is one of Earth’s most ancient forest ecosystems, a laboratory of life’s potential where the alchemy of evolution has been allowed to experiment, uninterrupted for millennia. And the results are astounding. Green upon green, vines hanging from towering old-growth trees, moss growing on ferns growing on bromeliads… you get the picture.

It is the kind of place one imagines primeval nature to be wild, abundant, impenetrable.

Tragically, undercover field investigations by my organization, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), have exposed major global food brands — including Unilever, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Mondelēz, General Mills, Kellogg’s, Mars and Hershey — sourcing illegal palm oil grown within the nationally protected Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve.

With more than a century of proud conservation history responsible for its continued existence, the province of Aceh where the Leuser resides is, against all odds, a sparkling ecological jewel standing in stark contrast to the devastated landscape that surrounds it. Most of the rest of Sumatra — once known as Indonesia’s “Emerald Island” — and sadly much of the rest of lowland rainforests across Indonesia, too, have been exploited and denuded by wave after wave of scorched Earth, industry, colonial extraction and modern-day corrupt corporate greed. What has already been lost is incalculable, but here, in this special place, remains a rare opportunity to stop the cycle of destruction and protect a globally valuable treasure before it’s too late.

The Leuser Ecosystem is considered the heart of Southeast Asia’s rainforest region, which, alongside the Amazon and the Congo Basin, is one of only three tropical forest regions on Earth. The beating heart of the Leuser is the lowland forests and peat swamps of the Singkil-Bengkung region. This area is part of the last remaining healthy peat swamp ecosystem in western Sumatra. This lush jungle contains some of the world’s richest levels of biological diversity.

The lowland peat forests of the Leuser Ecosystem deserve the highest levels of protection for multiple critical reasons. Dubbed the “orangutan capital of the world,” this region is home to the highest population densities of critically endangered orangutans anywhere. This includes a special, culturally distinct subpopulation of a few thousand individuals in the Singkil-Bengkung region, which demonstrate social structures and tool-using behaviors unique from all other orangutan populations. These forests are also home to some of the healthiest remaining breeding populations of highly imperiled Sumatran elephants, rhinos and tigers.