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Action is Our New Year’s Resolution!
Dear Friends,
While many environmental groups have spent the past year bumbling over climate legislation and devising better list-building and branding strategies, Rising Tide has been building the climate justice movement and challenging the root causes of climate change. Nowhere is this more evident than in the northern Rockies.
Over the past year, climate activists in Montana [...]
Take Action to Support the Youth People’s Assembly in Canadian Parliament
At 10:30 a.m. on November 16th, organizers with Climate Justice Ottawa began a People’s Assembly for Climate Justice in Canada’s House of Commons staging a sit-in and dropping a banner that reads “If the Politicians Will Not Get to Work on Climate Justice, We Will.”. The organizers are risking arrest to deliver a message that [...]
A Tar Sands Pledge of Resistance
Engagement à la Résistance contre les Sables Bitumineux [En français ici]
At a recent climate camp in North America, activists began collecting signatures for a tar sands pledge of resistance. We invite you to sign on to commit to action against a fossil fuel pipeline and pumping project (”Trailbreaker”) that may bring tar sands bitumen through infrastructure across several [...]
Climate Change Activists: Join the Vancouver Convergence
A coalition of environmental activists led by GatewaySucks.org is calling on climate change activists to join the convergence at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.
When the 2010 Winter Olympics start a couple of weeks from now in Vancouver, BC the athletes and spectators will be joined by organizations with some of the worst [...]
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 [...]
