About Us

We are a diverse coalition of organizations working together to end oil aid and address the issues at the intersection of oil dependence, climate change, and international debt. The individual organizations within this coalition work with a wide variety of national and international networks to: influence public policy with an eye towards third world debt cancellation; identify and overcome the political barriers to transitioning away from oil dependence; and hold private and public financial institutions accountable for bankrolling deforestation and climate destabilization. Together, we are helping to create the grassroots network, education framework, public policy reforms, and changes in public and private financing that are needed to end oil aid and address the inter-related issues of oil, debt and climate change.

	JUBILEE USA NETWORK www.jubileeusa.org The Jubilee USA Network is an alliance of 75 religious denominations and faith communities, human rights, environmental, labor, and community groups working for the definitive cancellation of crushing debts to fight poverty and injustice in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. As we work for freedom from debt, it is clear that we must also work towards freedom from oil and a clean energy future. A place to begin is by challenging the role that international financial institutions like the World Bank and private banks play in financing oil and extractive industries, together with our partners in the environmental movement.
	OIL CHANGE INTERNATIONAL www.priceofoil.org Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of oil and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We are dedicated to identifying and overcoming political barriers to that transition and building strategic alliances with organizations that are concerned about the role that oil is playing in many of the most urgent problems facing humanity today, including: debt, climate change, conflict, pollution and more.
	RAINFOREST ACTION NETWORK www.ran.org RAN’s competitive advantage lies in our ability to bring environmental, social, and climate values directly to the marketplace. In coalition with indigenous communities, activists, and allies from around the world, RAN uses sophisticated grassroots organizing, public education, media outreach, and boardroom negotiation strategies to convince powerful multinational corporations to adopt forward looking policies for the planet. Specifically, RAN’s Global Finance Campaign is at the forefront in transforming the way Wall Street does business. After years of strategic campaigning by RAN and allies, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and others have made groundbreaking commitments to invest in forest protection, climate change deceleration, and support for affected communities around the world. RAN will continue to advocate for stronger best practices to guide thoughtful and responsible investment, lending and financing decisions that help create the ecological u-turn the world needs.
	BANK INFORMATION CENTER www.bicusa.org The Bank Information Center (BIC) partners with civil society in developing and transition countries to influence the World Bank and other international financial institutions to promote social and economic justice and ecological sustainability. BIC monitors how the publicly-chartered international financial institutions promote socially and environmentally destructive projects, including fossil fuel development, instead of more sustainable paths to poverty reduction.
	AMAZON WATCH www.amazonwatch.org Amazon Watch works with indigenous and environmental partner organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples’ rights in the face of large-scale industrial projects such as oil and gas pipelines. We work closely with indigenous Amazonians to protect their territories and amplify their voices in the global North. In doing so, we recognize that a key driver of resource extraction throughout the Amazon Basin is external debt — much of which national governments accrued due to predatory lending practices by international financial institutions and private creditors. Rather than creating the much-touted prosperity and ‘development’, debt-driven resource extraction has led to greater economic disparity, environmental devastation, and social and health crises throughout the Amazon. Alleviating the debt burdens of Amazonian countries and promoting a clean energy future is the first step towards justice and true prosperity.
	FRIENDS OF THE EARTH US www.foe.org Friends of the Earth is a national environmental advocacy organization and the U.S. voice of Friends of the Earth International, the world’s largest network of grassroots groups in more than 70 countries. We have been a leading environmental group in fighting in the U.S. Congress for clean energy and an end to subsidies and tax breaks for oil companies. For many years, Friends of the Earth has also helped lead the fight to end oil subsidies from international financial institutions such as the World Bank and U.S. government agencies such as the Export-Import Bank. We are the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit, Friends of the Earth v. Mosbacher, charging that U.S. agencies have failed to assess the climate impacts of their lending for oil and gas projects around the world. We are also reaching out to new constituencies domestically and internationally to expose the impacts of climate change, particularly on developing countries.