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What would you risk to save the planet?

Ten years in prison? Your career? Or just your permanent record?

A little over two years ago, our friend and comrade Tim DeChristopher put it all on the line when he entered a federal auction and derailed it so that oil and gas companies could not destroy the planet.

Tim is now facing ten years in prison [...]

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

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 [...]

Blockade at BP San Francisco Offices on 5th Anniversary of Katrina: 15 arrested, 150 march

Blockade at BP San Francisco Offices on 5th Anniversary of Katrina: 15 arrested, 150 march

The Mobilization for Climate Justice West (MCJ-West) turned out 150 people on a Monday afternoon and marched to the SF financial district offices of Chevron, the Environmental Protection Agency and BP calling for Big Oil to stop harming our environment and communities and pay up for the damage they’ve caused.
A coalition of national, regional and [...]

CALL FOR SUPPORT: Donations Needed for N30 Legal Expenses!

CALL FOR SUPPORT: Donations Needed for N30 Legal Expenses!

Dear Friends, Supporters, Comrades and Community,
As you may recall, a lively protest took place on the streets of Chicago’s financial district last November 30, on the 10th anniversary of the “Battle of Seattle” and a week ahead of the big UN climate summit in Copenhagen.  Several groups from across the city had come together to [...]

Anti-MTR Activists Risk Arrest at EPA HQ with Elaborate Protest

Anti-MTR Activists Risk Arrest at EPA HQ with Elaborate Protest

Activists Risk Arrest with Elaborate Protest at EPA HQ; Demand Immediate Action to Stop Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Group Erects Purple Mountain Majesty At EPA; Say “If Administrator Lisa Jackson Won’t Visit the Appalachian Mountains, They Will Bring The Mountains to Her”
In an attempt to further pressure EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to enforce the Clean Water [...]

Local Citizens ‘Die-in’ at Xcel HQ in Coal Protest

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 [...]

Climate Change Activists: Join the Vancouver Convergence

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 [...]

Petition! Stop Danish Police Abuses Against Peaceful Climate Protesters

Petition! Stop Danish Police Abuses Against Peaceful Climate Protesters

To: Hans Gammeltoft-Hansen (Ombudsman), Per Larsen (Detective Commander of the Danish National Police) and Ritt Bjerregaard (Lord Mayor of Copenhagen)
Over the past two weeks, citizens of countries all over the world have come to Copenhagen for the UN COP-15 climate negotiations. Many have engaged in peaceful, nonviolent protest, trying to push world leaders to sign [...]

San Francisco Climate Justice Action at Bank of America; 200 Rally with at least 22 Arrested

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 [...]