| Greetings from the streets of San Francisco! This month we're highlighting a few different campaigns and news items that might catch your eye. As we move closer to the holiday season we offer you all the warmest wishes and gratitude for all that you do in your own towns and cities across the world. Where Oil Flows, Debt Grows
As talks over a solution to the problem of global climate change wrap up in Nairobi this week, RAN and a broad coalition of environmental and human rights groups placed a full page ad in The Financial Times today calling on the World Bank, G-8 nations and Wall Street to stop funding debt, poverty and climate change through subsidies to the international oil industry.
In addition to the ad, a new web site, EndOilAid.org, links the crushing debt burden of impoverished nations to environmental destruction and calls for an end to oil aid as well as action from policymakers to help fight global poverty by supporting broader debt cancellation.
Sign the petition at EndOilAid.org
Grassy Narrows Grandmothers tour Ontario 
Judy Da Silva and Roberta Keesick, Indigenous leaders of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, embarked on a week-long tour to share front-line stories from the Trans-Canada Highway blockade and the struggle to stop clear-cut logging on their traditional territory. Sponsored by RAN, the tour reached 450 people in six cities throughout Canada. Highlights included a keynote address by Judy Da Silva at a conference focused on collaborations between Indigenous groups and non-governmental organizations like RAN, called "Re-envisioning Relationships," and the unfurling of a banner on the front steps of the Ontario legislature in Toronto.
View the pictures here City of Berkeley jumps on plug-in hybrid bandwagon 
On Oct. 31, the City of Berkeley placed a soft fleet order for 40 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), following closely on the heels of Marin County, which placed a similar order for 22 PHEVs just a month earlier. The commitments were forged by Plug-In Bay Area, a new initiative aimed at putting more of the fuel-efficient cars on Bay Area roads. By building demand for PHEVs via soft orders at the grassroots, municipal and corporate levels, Plug-In Bay Area is pressuring automakers like Ford Motor Company to mass produce the cars and make them available commercially.
Click here to sign the Plug-in Partners petition
Rainforest Heroes call on Gunns to stop destruction 
Last week, more than 4,000 letters and pictures from children around the world were delivered to logging giant Gunns Limited's annual shareholder meeting in Tasmania. Excerpts from the letters were read aloud to Gunns' CEO John Gay and the company's shareholders, all calling on Gay to stop destroying Tasmania's ancient forests and wildlife. The letters were assembled as part of an Earth Day Letter Drive launched by RAN's Rainforest Heroes last Spring calling on Gunns to protect Tasmania's temperate rainforests.
REVEL wrap-up Revel 2006 – The Art of Activism. What a fabulous event!
Vandana Shiva addressing the REVEL crowd in San Francisco
On Oct. 19, 2006, 500 of our closest friends gathered for REVEL, a benefit party so fun it should have been illegal! This year's REVEL celebrated The Art of Activism to honor the beauty and creativity of RAN's 21 years of direct action for the Earth. This magical evening raised $210,000 for RAN's critical work. Thank you so much to those that participated and helped to make REVEL such a success. For those that missed it, you must come next year! Click here to view the pictures from this year's REVEL Thanks for all that you do, Japhet Els
Online Organizer
Rainforest Action Network
http://www.ran.org | 
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