The Day of Action Against Extraction is One Week Away!
April 20th, the anniversary of the BP Oil Spill, is only a week away. Rising Tide North America and allies have called for an International Day of Action against All Extraction to take action against fossil fuel extraction.
Are you ready to rise up? It’s not too late.
Sign Up Here!
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon [...]
Montana Citizens Stall Tar Sands Refining Shipments
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Susie Rosett
Ph. # (406) 546 – 8998
Northern Rockies Rising Tide
northernrockiesrisingtide@gmail.com
Montana Citizens Temporarily Block Tar Sands Refining Shipments
Missoula, MT, March 10, 2011 – At about 2:30 am on Thursday morning, two residents of Missoula, MT, Carol Marsh, 69, and Ann Maechtlen, 50, sat down in the middle of Reserve St. in an attempt to [...]
CLIMATE ACTION CAMPS 2010: Edmonton + Montreal
Politicians talk a lot about climate change, but do nothing! Are you tired of all that hot air? Now, you CAN do something…
Come learn how peaceful civil disobedience can help defend our climate at the Greenpeace Climate Action Camps in Toronto, Montreal and the Edmonton Area. If we don’t act, millions will suffer.
Each camp will [...]
Local Citizens ‘Die-in’ at Xcel HQ in Coal Protest
Group calls on Xcel to Keep Comanche 3 Closed and Produce 100% Renewable Electricity by 2020
February 26, 2010
Contacts:
Brian Bernhardt; ‘Power Past Coal’ Organizer; 703-439-0725; brian.bernhardt@colorado.edu
Amy Guinan, ‘Power Past Coal’ Organizer; 303-999-6374; amyguinan@yahoo.com
Tom Weis, President of Wind Power Solutions; 303-499-9648; tom@windpowersolutions.com
Denver, CO – At 11:45am on Friday, February 26th, local citizens demonstrated at the Denver headquarters [...]
100,000 Take the Streets of Copenhagen for System Change in Response to Climate Change
Global UN Climate negotiations (COP15) are proceeding in Copenhagen with over 100 heads of state expected to attend in the next week. With 2009 the 5th hottest year on record, Scientists are saying a Climate Treaty is more urgent with Global carbon emissions still increasing and acidification threatening marine biodiversity.
There are major differences between the [...]
N30: International Day of Climate Justice Action
Today, on November 30, one week before the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen open, and on the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protest in Seattle in 1999, major demonstrations, teach-ins and civil disobedience are taking actions place in cities around the U.S
Reports are now starting to come in from:
Chicago, Illinois: Activists target [...]
San Francisco Climate Justice Action at Bank of America; 200 Rally with at least 22 Arrested
Today on the Global Day of Climate Justice Action, a rowdy march in San Francisco made it’s way to Bank of America’s skyscraper (the tallest building in San Francisco), where dozens of activists blockaded the doors all around the building. Over 200 marched and rallied with at least 22 being arrested in the blockade.
Some [...]
Ontario: Sit in and Office Occupation at Minister of Finance’s Office
PEOPLE FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
For More Information Contact:
Crystal Metham 416-435-3516
Katelyn Blacisk 647 929 2400
POLICE ISSUE ULTIMATUM TO PROTESTERS ORDERING THEM TO LEAVE BY END OF DAY OR BE FORCIBLY REMOVED
November 30, 2009 (Whitby, Ontario) — Police have issued an ultimatum to the seven climate activists inside Finance Minister Jim Flaherty’s Whitby office, stating they [...]
Chicago Climate Activists target Carbon Trading @ Chicago Climate Exchange
*More details and photos coming soon!*
Chicago climate activists returned to the streets today – this time in the financial district in downtown Chicago – in a colorful demonstration against cap and trade, carbon offsets and other “false solutions” to climate change. Building on the long-term campaign to shut down the Crawford and Fisk coal-fired power [...]
Citizens ‘Die-in’ at Department of Public Health and Environment in Coal Protest
Group calls on the Air Quality Control Commission to deny the Cherokee coal plant’s ‘permit to pollute’
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 30, 2009
Contacts:
Brian Bernhardt; CU Graduate Student; 703-439-0725; brian.bernhardt@colorado.edu
Amy Guinan, CU-INVST; 303-999-6374; amyguinan@yahoo.com
Denver, CO – This morning, approximately fifteen local citizens, representing a diverse coalition of groups, demonstrated at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (DPHE) [...]
