Take action to keep BP out of the tar sands – the single most destructive project on earth.

The BP Fortnight of Shame is a call to action from the UK Tar Sands Network, Rising Tide and the Camp for Climate Action to force BP to reverse their crazy plans to move into Canada’s tar sands. It runs between the annual Fossil Fools day on April 1st, which in recent years has seen a flurry of action against the fossil fuels industry, and BP’s Annual General Meeting on April 15th. Grassroots groups across the UK and around the world, will be taking action in solidarity with First Nations communities in Canada to stop BP's deadly plans in their tracks.

Rising Tide North America's 'The Climate Movement is Dead: Long Live the Climate Movement', Kate Evan's 'Carbon Supermarket' and new from Carbon Trade Watch, 'Carbon Trading - How it works and why it fails'.

Rising Tide North America is pleased to announce the release of our latest publication: The Climate Movement is Dead: Long Live the Climate Movement.

In the aftermath of the COP15 talks in Copenhagen, the inability of the Big Greens, governments, and market approaches to find genuine and sustainable solutions to climate change is undeniable. As author Naomi Klein so aptly observed at the end of COP15 talks, “A particular model of dealing with climate change is dying.”

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The Oil-ympics saw activists from London Rising Tide and the London Tar Sands Network divided into three teams: BP, Shell and RBS, all ready to ‘Race to the Tar Sands’. Traditional winter sports were subverted to illustrate the irony of Canada portraying the Vancouver Winter Olympics as an event which celebrates Canadian indigenous culture and environmental sustainability, while in the neighbouring province of Alberta, Canadian First Nations are finding that their lands, communities and health are being devastated by the Tar Sands.

*Call for “system change not climate change” unites global movement
*Corrupt Copenhagen ‘accord’ exposes gulf between peoples demands
and elite interests

Copenhagen, December 2009

The highly anticipated UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen
ended with a fraudulent agreement, engineered by the United States
and dropped into the conference at the last moment. The
"agreement" was not adopted. Instead, it was "noted" in an absurd
parliamentary invention designed to accommodate the United States
and permit Ban Ki-moon to utter the ridiculous pronouncement "We
have a deal."

On Monday 30th November, Rising Tide-Plymouth 'Climate refugees' (and friends) d-locked themselves to Barclay's bank building's entrance in town, to highlight the investments this bank is doing on Coal, Tar Sands and Arms Trade in times of Climate emergency.
Coal is the dirtiest, most dated and inefficient fossil fuel. Tar Sands Oil is the dirtiest and most expensive oil in terms of extraction and emissions -and global oil resources are running out! (1)

Don't be confused - 2009 is just another year of climate talks, in which governments and corporations will continue business as usual and tell us how a load of corrupt (but profitable) trading is in fact a real attempt to save the world.

To solve climate change we're going to have to get together and make a real noise. CO2 levels are rising 20,000 times faster than at any point in life's astonishing billion year history and coal is the biggest source of emissions. If we burn all the coal in the ground we're toast. No butter, no jam, just toast. So stopping the burning of coal in the rapidly warming world is a good place to start.

Bristol Co-Mutiny Convergence Space: LOCATION REVEALED!
If you haven’t heard through the grapevine already Bristol Co-Mutineers have taken an old cathedral (of the holy apostles) near the Triangle in the