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DESCRIPTION:Join us on October 18th at 4pm for a discussion about how ordinary people 
 can change international systems of corporate and social injustice.\n\nOur 
 panel will feature Prof. David Benac, professor of history at Western 
 Michigan University and author of “A History of Rainforest Action Network 
 and Transnational Organizing”, and other panelists to be announced soon. 
 The discussion will be moderated by Prof. Robert Buzzanco, co-host of The 
 Green and Red Podcast.\n\nFor more than forty years, Rainforest Action 
 Network (RAN) has excelled at using peaceful civil disobedience, local and 
 international organizing, and strategic communications to change the 
 destructive behavior of some of the world’s biggest banks and 
 corporations. As a result, rainforest conservation became a fixture in 
 American popular culture, the rights of Indigenous peoples emerged as a key 
 area of negotiation in the management of ancestral homelands, and some of 
 the largest companies on the planet now face accountability for their role 
 in our climate and biodiversity crises.\n\nMany of the strategies pioneered 
 by Rainforest Action Network are used by social and environmental movements 
 today. As we see new large-scale resistance from the massive No Kings 
 mobilizations; the anti-data center movements; and fierce resistance to ICE 
 in Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis, we know that communities and 
 movements are fighting back. In 2026, the history of corporate campaigns 
 and transnational organizing is more important than ever.\n\n    WHERE: The 
 Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists; 1924 Cedar St. Berkeley 
 CA\n\n    WHEN: October 18th, 2026. Doors open at 4pm. Event begins at 
 4:30pm\n\n    Virtual viewing: We'll also be live streaming the event on 
 the Green and Red Podcast’s YouTube Page \n\nPanelist Bio- Prof. David 
 Benac is an environmental and public historian of the post-WWII United 
 States at Western Michigan University. His research investigates how people 
 act on their perceptions of nature, the science of ecology, and the 
 philosophy of eco-centrism. He is author of Rainforest Radicals: A History 
 of Rainforest Action Network and Transnational Organizing.\n\nPanelist 
 Bio-Pamela Wellner is the Chief Strategist at Amplify Eco, Pamela advises 
 organizations\non communications and campaigns focused on climate 
 change,sustainability, and human rights. She has over 30 years of 
 experience at the intersection of environmental protection,human rights, 
 policy, and public engagement.  She has directed cutting-edge 
 sustainability and human rights campaigns for organizations such as 
 Rainforest Action Network, Plastics and Climate Project, Health Care 
 Without Harm,\nClimateWorks, Solar AquaGrid, Center for Sustainable Energy, 
 Greenpeace, and Fauna and Flora International.\n\nFor half her career, 
 Pamela worked to protect old-growth forests and communities from rapacious 
 logging and to advance corporate sustainability, campaigning for 
 sustainably sourced products ranging from musical instruments and Hollywood 
 set plywood to tissue paper. She helped found the Forest Stewardship 
 Council. She also directed a campaign pressing oil companies to divest from 
 junta-controlled Burma and investigated human rights abuses and forest 
 destruction tied to TotalEnergies' and Unocal's natural gas 
 pipeline.\n\nModerator Bio- Prof. Robert Buzzanco is co-host of the Green 
 and Red Podcast, a professor emeritus of history at the University of 
 Houston, and author of Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the 
 Vietnam Era, Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life, and American 
 Power, American People.\n\nOther panelists to be announced 
 soon…\n\nHosted by Rainforest Action Network, Green and Red Podcast, Oil 
 and Gas Action Network, Mt. Diablo Rising Tide and the Berkeley Fellowship 
 Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Committee \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/09/30/18888922.php
SUMMARY:How to challenge power & systems of injustice: The History of Rainforest Action Network
LOCATION: Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists 1924 Cedar St., Berkeley, 
 CA 94709 US 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/09/30/18888922.php
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