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Rainforest Action Network Records
BANC MSS 2006/161
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title:
Rainforest
Action
Network
records
records
creator:
Rainforest
Action
Network
Rainforest
Action
Network
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2006/161
Physical Description:
82 linear feet
(64 cartons, 2 boxes, 1 oversize box, 4 oversize folders)
Date (inclusive): circa 1980-2005
Abstract: Contains subject files for
Rainforest
Action
Network
(RAN) campaigns, Rainforest Action Groups,
Rainforest
Action
Network
publications, and small quantities of correspondence and photographs.
Rainforest
Action
Network
(RAN) campaigns, Rainforest Action Groups,
Rainforest
Action
Network
publications, and small quantities of correspondence and photographs.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English,
Portuguese and Spanish
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Bancroft Library staff
- Date Completed:
- July 2007, June 2019
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item],
Rainforest
Action
Network
Records, BANC MSS 2006/161, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Rainforest
Action
Network
Records, BANC MSS 2006/161, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
There are no alternate forms of this collection.
Photographs and posters have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
The
Rainforest
Action
Network
Records were given to The Bancroft Library by the
Rainforest
Action
Network
between 2006 and 2012.
Rainforest
Action
Network
Records were given to The Bancroft Library by the
Rainforest
Action
Network
between 2006 and 2012.
Future additions are expected.
Arranged to the container level.
Processed by Bancroft Library staff in 2007. Additions processed by Lisa Marie Monhoff in 2019 as part of a two-year NHPRC-funded
project to process a range of archival collections relating to environmental movements in the West.
Founded in 1985 by Randy Hayes,
Rainforest
Action
Network
(RAN) is an environmental organization that campaigns for the preservation of rainforests and the rights of the indigenous
peoples who live within those forests. See also: http://ran.org/who_we_are/our_mission_history/
Rainforest
Action
Network
(RAN) is an environmental organization that campaigns for the preservation of rainforests and the rights of the indigenous
peoples who live within those forests. See also: http://ran.org/who_we_are/our_mission_history/
Scope and Content of Collection
Contains subject files for
Rainforest
Action
Network
campaigns, Rainforest Action Groups,
Rainforest
Action
Network
publications, and small quantities of correspondence and photographs. Prominent among the campaign files, is information
pertaining to various oil companies, countries affected by rainforest logging, and the native U'Wa. The Rainforest Action
Groups files contain information on local grassroots groups supporting RAN and materials on RAN campaigns against corporations
that supported rainforest or old-growth logging. There are also several cartons of newspaper clippings and copies of RAN advertisements.
Within the general subject files are folders of unorganized correspondence, called by the organization "constituent mail,"
and photographs of promotional events.
Rainforest
Action
Network
campaigns, Rainforest Action Groups,
Rainforest
Action
Network
publications, and small quantities of correspondence and photographs. Prominent among the campaign files, is information
pertaining to various oil companies, countries affected by rainforest logging, and the native U'Wa. The Rainforest Action
Groups files contain information on local grassroots groups supporting RAN and materials on RAN campaigns against corporations
that supported rainforest or old-growth logging. There are also several cartons of newspaper clippings and copies of RAN advertisements.
Within the general subject files are folders of unorganized correspondence, called by the organization "constituent mail,"
and photographs of promotional events.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Rainforest
Action
Network
Rain forests--Papua New Guinea
Rain forests--Ecuador
Rain forests--Brazil
Rain forests--Conservation
Conservationists--United States
Environmentalists--United States
Environmental protection--Press coverage
Cobaría Indians
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