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Website Re-Vamp
This website has served us very well over the past ten years but it has now reached the stage where we need to do a bit of a re-vamp!
Therefore for the next few weeks (maybe even months) please bear with us as we organise the upgrade and re-design.
Take the Flour Back! Mass action against GM wheat
Action:False solutionsSunday 27th May 2012
Public day of action against the Rothamsted genetically modified wheat trial.
We need local, community-based solutions to the climate crisis. Despite being much trumpeted for some years now as an answer to climate change, no GM drought tolerant or ‘climate ready’ crops have made it to the table anywhere in the world. Nor do we think, even if ever possible, these would be a solution.
BP under fire at 2012 AGM
Action:Confronting the fossil fuel economyLondon Rising Tide recently helped out their friends from the UK Tar Sands Network at the BP AGM...
Gulf Coast residents cut short by Chair, and environmental questions brushed aside before meeting disrupted by “die-in” protest. BP’s Annual General Meeting was once again an uncomfortable experience for the Board. They were confronted by questions on oil spills, tar sands, Olympic sponsorship and interplanetary escape pods, before nine people “died” in protest at the company’s contribution to climate change and human rights abuses, and were removed bodily from the room by security guards.
A grim protest at shell-sponsored southbank festival
Action:Greenwashactivists from london rising tide (helped by 'rhythms of resistance' samba players), staged a noisy and theatrical protest at the royal festival hall yesterday evening, highlighting the greenwashing of shell's image through cultural sponsorship in their 'shell classic international' festival at the southbank centre.
Action Report by Rikki - Contact email: rikkiindymedia(At)gmail[dot]com
The action in 12 PHOTOS
Get the Shell Out!
Friday 18th May 2012, Toynbee Hall, 7.30pm
UK Tar Sands Network, Indigenous Environmental Network, Rising Tide UK, Platform, FairPensions, Greenpeace and Art Not Oil present:
Get the Shell out!
You are warmly invited to a public meeting in advance of Shell's AGM, that will bring together a diverse coalition of individuals and organisations calling Shell to account for the social and environmental impacts of its activities around the world. Millions are being affected by Shell's past, present and future operations. The world's largest oil company has been violating indigenous rights for 55 years in the Alberta tar sands, committing grave human rights abuses in Nigeria, pumping dangerous levels of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, destroying communities in Ireland, lobbying against effective climate action in Europe and is now set to exploit the Arctic – which could devastate the world's most fragile ecosystem.
NO NUCLEAR POWER DEMO AT SIZEWELL - 21st April 2012
Building on the thousand strong success of the Hinkley Point demo/blockade last month, the biggest anti-nuclear UK event since 1979 ! ...
Saturday 21ST April - Coach from London TO NUCLEAR POWER DEMO AT SIZEWELL, SUFFOLK Coach leaves at 8.15am prompt from the Embankment (opposite side to the river to the left of the riverside entrance from Embankment tube) and will also pick up at 9am prompt from outside Redbridge tube station (Central
SCREENING OF MULTI-AWARD WINNING SHELL RESISTANCE FILM "The Pipe" - London - 26.04.12
Thursday 26 April 2012, 7.00 PM
Join us, London Rising Tide, for an evening of film and discussion about climate activism and the oil industry. Click here to see the london screening flier.
WHAT: Shining a spotlight on the ongoing battle between Shell Oil and the Irish coastal town of Rossport. This is a truely inspirational tale, telling the story of the Rossport community and their struggle against Shell's devastating pipeline construction. Despite the seriousness of the events surrounding them, their resilience and humanity never wains, and their wit and humour has an uncanny ability to counter the despair. Acolades include; Winner Best Documentary film 2011 - Irish Film & Television awards, Winner Best Documentary 2011 - Celtic Media Festival, Winner Best Documentary 2011 - Arizona International Film Festival, and official selection for the BFI London Film Festival 2010.
Shell, the Greenwash King, targeted by LRT during ExCel Centre security breach
Today's (Mon 26th March) prestigious Planet Under Pressure 2012 conference at the ExCeL Centre was
interrupted by London Rising Tide.
Click here to see a PHOTO
During a panel discussion entitled "The planet in 2050", as Shell's senior energy advisor Martin Haigh was about to speak two protesters walked calmly across the stage, holding a banner: SHELL - NO MORE GREENWASH. The pair were greeted with a spontaneous round of applause from over a thousand audience members. As they were ejected from the auditorium they were rewarded with hand shakes, thumbs up and a further round of applause. Haigh was flustered and quipped, no-one will want to listen to me after that.
