BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:597@bfuu.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261018T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261018T180000 DTSTAMP:20261005T190955Z URL:https://bfuu.org/events/rainforest-radicals-the-history-of-rainforest- action-network SUMMARY:Rainforest Radicals: The History of Rainforest Action Network DESCRIPTION:RSVP Here\n\n\nJoin us on October 18th at 4pm for a discussion about how ordinary people can change international systems of corporate an d social injustice.\n\nOur panel will feature Rainforest Action Network fo under Randy Hayes\, former RAN forest campaign director Pamela Wellner\, P rof. David Benac\, professor of history at Western Michigan University and author of “A History of Rainforest Action Network and Transnational Org anizing”\, and other panelists to be announced soon. The discussion will be moderated by Prof. Robert Buzzanco\, co-host of The Green and Red Podc ast.\n\nFor more than forty years\, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has ex celled at using peaceful civil disobedience\, local and international orga nizing\, and strategic communications to change the destructive behavior o f some of the world’s biggest banks and corporations. As a result\, rain forest conservation became a fixture in American popular culture\, the rig hts of Indigenous peoples emerged as a key area of negotiation in the mana gement of ancestral homelands\, and some of the largest companies on the p lanet now face accountability for their role in our climate and biodiversi ty crises.\n\nMany of the strategies pioneered by Rainforest Action Networ k are used by social and environmental movements today. As we see new larg e-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 organizin g is more important than ever.\n\n WHERE: The Berkeley Fellowship of Unit arian Universalists\; 1924 Cedar St. Berkeley CA\n WHEN: October 18th\, 2 026. Doors open at 4pm. Event begins at 4:30pm\n Virtual viewing: We'll a lso be live streaming the event on the Green and Red Podcast’s YouTube P age\n\nPanelist Bio- Prof. David Benac is an environmental and public hist orian of the post-WWII United States at Western Michigan University. His r esearch investigates how people act on their perceptions of nature\, the s cience of ecology\, and the philosophy of eco-centrism. He is author of Ra inforest Radicals: A History of Rainforest Action Network and Transnationa l Organizing.\n\nPanelist Bio-Pamela Wellner is the Chief Strategist at Am plify Eco\, Pamela advises organizations on communications and campaigns f ocused on climate change\,sustainability\, and human rights. She has over 30 years of experience at the intersection of environmental protection\,hu man rights\, policy\, and public engagement.  She has directed cutting-ed ge sustainability and human rights campaigns for organizations such as Rai nforest Action Network\, Plastics and Climate Project\, Health Care Withou t Harm\, ClimateWorks\, Solar AquaGrid\, Center for Sustainable Energy\, G reenpeace\, and Fauna and Flora International.\n\nFor half her career\, Pa mela worked to protect old-growth forests and communities from rapacious l ogging and to advance corporate sustainability\, campaigning for sustainab ly sourced products ranging from musical instruments and Hollywood set ply wood to tissue paper. She helped found the Forest Stewardship Council. She also directed a campaign pressing oil companies to divest from junta-cont rolled Burma and investigated human rights abuses and forest destruction t ied to TotalEnergies' and Unocal's natural gas pipeline.\n\nPanelist Bio- Randy Hayes is the founder of Rainforest Action Network.\n\nModerator Bio- Prof. Robert Buzzanco is co-host of the Green and Red Podcast\, a profess or emeritus of history at the University of Houston\, and author of Master s of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era\, Vietnam and t he 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 Jus tice Committee\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \; ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://bfuu.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Rain forestRad_BERKELEY_1080x1350-scaled.jpg LOCATION:BFUU Fellowship Hall\, 1924 Cedar Street\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94709\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=1924 Cedar Street\, Berkele y\, CA\, 94709\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=BFUU Fellowship Hall:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR