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Action is Our New Year’s Resolution!

deadlyvine — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 03:18:54 +0000

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 and Idaho, led by Northern Rockies Rising Tide have organized to stop mining equipment shipments bound for Canada’s oil sands.

Sign up for the April 20 Day of Action Against Extraction

Oregon, Idaho and Montana have fast become a hub of resistance to tar sands oil expansion. Companies like Exxon and Conoco Phillips have spent millions in hauling this equipment from Korea, up the Columbia and Snake Rivers to Lewiston, ID where they are awaiting transport on big rigs to Alberta. Once in Alberta they will continue the expansion of tar sands to feed pipelines with oil to the United States and Asia.

Local activists from the region have fought these “heavy haul” shipments in the courts, the regulatory hearings, the media and the community. They’ve organized teach-ins and action camps, but each day the oil barons get closer and closer to beginning the shipments. This spring, the campaign will only escalate as residents will use people powered to slow the flow of climate-destroying earth-wrecking tar sands oil.

Northern Rockies Rising Tide is one chapter in Rising Tide’s network. On April 20th, the anniversary of the BP oil spill, Rising Tide groups all over North America will be taking action against extractive industry. It’s time we began to push back whether it’s in the mountains of Appalachia, the streets of San Francisco, New York or Chicago or on the oil drenched shores of the Gulf of Mexico. Get involved now!

Thanks for all you do.

For Mother Earth,
Rising Tide North America
http://risingtidenorthamerica.org

This November: Two movement-building gatherings

deadlyvine — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:38:32 +0000

This November there will be two climate justice movement-building gatherings in mid-western North America -

The International Tar Sands Resistance Summit will be held from November 19th to 22nd, in Montana.
The Everyone’s Downstream conference, from November 25th to 28th, in Alberta

International Tar Sands Resistance Summit: Nov. 19-22

Strategizing Globally to Win Locally: Building an international, grassroots movement to shut down the Tar Sands

The Summit will take place at the Lubrecht Experimental Forest conference center, 30 miles east of Missoula, Montana, USA. The summit is designed to be a place where individuals representing tar sands-impacted communities can come together to strategize, learn skills and network in order to grow and strengthen the international effort to effectively resist the most destructive industrial project on the planet, the Alberta tar sands. The four-day convergence will focus primarily on connecting individuals and communities affected by the Alberta Tar Sands, the XL Energy Pipeline, and the proposed mega-load shipments. This event is free and open to the public, but due to limited space we will have to cap the number of attendees. Feel free to register online, but please be sure to read the information provided on the form.

See the event web site for information about the schedule, food & housing, and other aspects of the gathering.

A ride share board is available on a separate web site.

You can contact the event organizers at TarSandsSummit [at] gmail.com

In Edmonton, Alberta, this annual conference will bring together community members, activists and others fighting the global infrastructure of the tar sands gigaproject.

This year’s themes include:

The Tar Sands go Global: reports from Madagascar, Trinidad and more
Environmental NGOs, secret deals, and how to build a democratic, transparent environmental movement
Ongoing resistance to pipelines, refineries, and other tar sands infrastructure

During the gathering, activists will be taking further steps toward building a Climate Justice Co-op that can support direct actions, and a wider range of climate justice mobilizations.

See the conference web site for the schedule, and for other conference material. Directions also are posted there, and a ride share board has been set up on another web site.

For more information, or to get involved, email the organizers at info [at] everyonesdownstream.org

CLIMATE ACTION CAMPS 2010: Edmonton + Montreal

deadlyvine — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:28:58 +0000

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 be an intensive three-day training session to help prepare participants to gain grassroots organizing skills, and training in Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA) to stop the growing climate crisis.

Participants will be trained on the following topics:
•   Climate change & climate justice
•   History of civil disobedience
•   Environmental justice and anti-oppression
•   Non-Violent Direct Action (NVDA) theory and practice
•   Action planning and decision-making,
•   Affinity groups
•   Campaign planning and powermapping
•   Working with the media
•   Know your rights, legal briefing

At the camp you will meet other participants ready to take action. The training will be provided by experienced grassroots organizers, and NVDA trainers, and will be open to those who have previously done activism, NVDA and/or Civil Disobedience, or have little or no experience but want to learn more!

We’ll be learning how to plan and implement activities that will RAISE THE ALARM ABOUT THE GROWING CLIMATE CRISIS. Whether you’re joining as an individual or part of a group, this camp affords an opportunity to meet and join others wanting to get active on climate change and create just and healthy communities for the future.

So what are you waiting for?!

Contact: Eryn

for more info about how to register in your area…

SAVE THE DATES IF YOU ARE INTERESTED!

TORONTO – June 4-6 DONE! and it rocked
EDMONTON AREA – September 24-26 APPLICATION HERE! Due Sept. 20 at Midnight MST
MONTREAL (Bilingual) – October 15-17 Application coming soon