In 1996 he sailed with the Rainbow warrior to halt drift net fishing. He has traveled extensively throughout North America coordinating direct actions for Rainforest Action Network, Adbusters, Earth First!, Project Underground, Code Pink, the International Rivers Network, Students for a Free Tibet, the United Steel Workers of America and many others. John played a central role in Ruckus's efforts during the WTO summit in Seattle 1999.
Law-enforcement officials held him on one million dollars' bail at the 2000 Philadelphia Democratic convention.
He has been permanently banned from Canada. . . but enjoys sneaking in whenever possible.
That's saying something for Philadelphia, but of course that was the Democrat convention. Uh,oh, no it wasn't the Republican convention was in Philadelphia. Now it makes sense. New York better be prepared.