It’s taken nearly a week but Rainforest Action Network — a group which “preserves forests” and “protects the climate” — has finally declared its position on the white nationalist rally last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia at which a Nazi sympathizer allegedly plowed his grey Dodge Challenger through a large group of people on a pedestrian mall, killing one woman and injuring 19 others.
“Rainforest Action Network condemns domestic terrorism, the white supremacist rally held in Charlottesville, Virginia” as well as “the inciteful [sic] and irresponsible rhetoric from” President Donald Trump in response to Saturday’s events, the group said in a statement sent to The Daily Caller.
“These past few days are a reminder that white supremacy is alive and well in this country. With the election of our current president and his appointment of Steve Bannon, a known white supremacist, to chief strategist, we know hate groups have a mandate from the highest office in the country,” Rainforest Action Network also said.
“We remember Heather Heyer, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, Tamir Rice and the many others who have lost their lives to the hands of white supremacy and state sanctioned violence. We stand with everyone who upholds civil rights and those who use civil disobedience to gain the collective liberation of all people,” stated the organization.
The nonprofit organization, which exists to defend rainforests, also quotes Martin Luther King Jr. in its statement for the proposition that “saving of our world from pending doom” will not come “from the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority.”
Everyone “holds responsibility to work in solidarity to dismantle racism, xenophobia, sexism, ableism and homophobia,” Rainforest Action Network says.
Rainforest Action Network was founded in San Francisco in 1985 by Randy “Hurricane” Hayes and Mike Roselle. The group made its first major national splash in 1987 by persuading Burger King not to buy $35 million of beef from Central America.
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