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	<title>The Understory : Understory.RAN.org</title>
	<link>http://understory.ran.org</link>
	<description>The Understory is the official blog of Rainforest Action Network.</description>
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		<title>Leprechauns Unite!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday March 14, a crowd of leprechauns entered several Twin Cities grocery stores and froze with shock, horrified to discover that beloved Lucky Charms cereals are contributing to rainforest destruction! These 17 leprechauns were SO shocked, they stayed frozen for 3 minutes as grocery store shoppers read their pamphlets and green cloth patches describing General Mills’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Justice Spring Break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I&#8217;m at Mountain Justice Spring Break with folks from all over Appalachia and the east coast.  Ex-coal miners, college students, people from Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, California, West Virginia and lots more are here. Here&#8217;s the scoop from Marley Green&#8230;
85 Supporters of Mountain Justice gather at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2010/03/15/supporters-of-mountain-justice-gather-at-natural-tunnel-state-park-for-spring-break/</link>
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		<title>NASA Photos Reveal True Impact of Mountaintop Removal Mining</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Satellite photos recently released by NASA illustrate the real impacts of mountaintop removal (MTR) mining in Appalachia.
They were taken between 1984 and 2009 at the Hobet mine site in Boone County, West Virginia.
You can see through the time lapse the scale of the deforestation that has taken place, followed by the leveling of the mountain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2010/03/13/nasa-photos-reveal-the-true-impact-of-mountaintop-removal-mining/</link>
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		<title>Indonesian Groups Reject APP’s Greenwash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aida Greenbury, Director of Sustainability and Stakeholder Engagement at Asia Pulp &#38; Paper (APP), took the stage today at the 12th Annual RISI pulp and paper conference to promote APP&#8217;s products and &#8220;corporate responsibility.&#8221;  At the same time, leading Indonesian NGO’s called on buyers and investors of APP to reject the company’s misinformation and stop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2010/03/10/indonesian-groups-reject-apps-greenwash/</link>
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		<title>How Did They Get In Here? Part One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mike Roselle, co-founder of RAN and Earth First!, now works in southern West Virginia with Climate Ground Zero campaigning against coal companies to end mountaintop removal. Last Thursday, he was released after two weeks in a West Virginia jail for sit-in at Massey&#8217;s HQ.  Here&#8217;s his story:
How did they get in here?, Part One.
As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2010/03/08/how-did-they-get-in-here-part-one/</link>
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		<title>Emergildo’s Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past week, Emergildo Criollo, an Indigenous Ecuador leader of the Cofan people traveled 3,000 miles from his home in the Amazon rainforest to California. He came to California to share his story and ask for support in getting one of the world’s largest oil companies (Chevron) to clean up one of the largest environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CA Lawmakers Want to Help Make Chevron Clean Up Ecuador</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Emergildo Criollo, the Indigenous leader from Ecuador, met with California legislators and asked for their support in the 16+ year campaign to demand Chevron remediate massive oil contamination affecting over 30,000 people. Along with supporters from Amazon Watch and Rainforest Action Network, Emergildo spoke with lawmakers about the impact of California’s largest company [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2010/03/04/ca-lawmakers-want-to-help-make-chevron-clean-up-ecuador/</link>
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		<title>Indigenous And Hundreds More Challenge RBC On Tar Sands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Today more than 170 people rallied outside of the Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC’s) Annual General Shareholder meeting (AGM) in Toronto after a series of creative non-violent actions all morning.  Inside, First Nations Chiefs and community representatives from four different Nations demanded RBC phase out of its Tar Sands financing and to recognize [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2010/03/03/indigenous-voices-challenge-royal-bank-tar-sands-policies-supported-by-hundreds-at-shareholder-meeting/</link>
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		<title>Seattle Activists Target JP Morgan Chase</title>
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Activists in Seattle have been busy lately targeting their local JP Morgan Chase branches.  
Here&#8217;s a description of last Saturday&#8217;s protest from Chad in Seattle:
&#8220;It was another fun filled day of protest at Chase Bank. A lot of people stopped and chatted with us and a lot of info was handed out to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2010/03/03/seattle-activists-target-jp-morgan-chase/</link>
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		<title>Reverend Billy: “Let us CHASE the Devil Out of Mountaintop Removal!”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve got some friends in New York joining the campaign to end mountaintop removal. 
Today, I got the following email from Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping:
Our new song &#8220;Mountain-top&#8221; begins with this re-questioning from Dr. King&#8217;s last sermon: 
Have we been to the mountain-top?
Did we do all we could do?
JP Morgan rains [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://understory.ran.org/2010/03/03/rev-billylet-us-chase-the-devil-out-of-mountaintop-removal/</link>
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