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Welcome to London Rising Tide

London Rising Tide (LRT) takes creative action on the root causes of climate chaos, and promotes socially just, ecological alternatives to the fossil fuel madness that we're living through. It's part of the wider Rising Tide UK and international networks, and seeks to be part of a growing European and worldwide movement of groups working to dismantle the oil industry and live the future we want to see right now. Find out more about what we stand for.

Contact us to find out when we meet at the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), which is at 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1, Whitechapel tube, on the corner of Fieldgate Street and Parfett Street. We elcome new people, there's plenty to do, including helping run the office, making banners, doing talks & stalls, helping with actions, designing websites & leaflets etc. Some people in the group stick with just one of these tasks, while others work on several. We'd love to hear from you, whether you've only got half an hour a fortnight to spare, or entire days to put in.

Let us know if you want to know anything else, or maybe just see you at a meeting or event. It might be best to email or ring (07708 794665) before coming on a future Thursday, to make sure it's happening.

We hope this site inspires you to get active to combat oil, war and climate breakdown, (not to mention car culture, dams,aviation, nukes, industrial forest plantations etc.), whether that be with us, with your own group or by yourself. Since there's no such thing as an ethical or sustainable oil company, they and the many companies and institutions in their orbit are all worthy of our creative attention. Let us know how you get on, what you think of this site, if you'd like to get involved or if you have any other query. Good luck and stay hopeful!

BP Annual General Meeting (timetable)

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 11/09/2004 - 11:09

TAKE ACTION with London Rising Tide...

 

Thursday 15 April, 'Oil Festival Hall', London, 10am-3pm

 

10am: Meet and greet the shareholders
10-3.30pm: Rally, performance and open mic... Sound system, Rhythms of Resistance samba band, voices from Colombia, the Caspian Region and other oil-cursed areas, poets, musicians, ranters, diggers and dreamers
3pm: The Beginning is Nigh! Say Bye Bye (Planet) to shareholders and contemplate saying farewell to BP for good.

Bring banners, drums, voices, music and friends

London Rising Tide EBRD weekly protest

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 11/09/2004 - 10:10

London Rising Tide will be bringing its opposition to BP's planned Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline to one of its potential funders, the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), every Thursday from now until October, when consultation on the public funding ends. We'll be there every thursday afternoon from 4.30-6pm. Feel free to join us; bring noise, colour and (fossil fuel-free) energy. Email london@risingtide.org.uk for more details.

Conference of Parties (COP9) Actions, 1-12 December 2003

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 11/09/2004 - 10:10

Activists from Oxford and London Rising Tide went to the Conference of Parties (COP9) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Milan, Italy to protest against the privatisation of the atmosphere and the false solutions that are exacerbating human rights and environmental problems.

THE BAKU-CEYHAN PIPELINE CAMPAIGN

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 11/09/2004 - 10:09

WHAT IT IS AND WHAT YOU CAN DO

Graffiti that appeared on AMEC offices in Leeds | Bigger pic

WHAT IS THE PIPELINE?
British Petroleum (BP) is leading the consortium of companies intending to build two pipelines to bring oil and gas from the Caspian oil fields to Europe. BP is also the operator and a similarly sized shareholder in the Azeri-Chirag-Guneshli oil field and Shah Deniz gas field, which would supply the pipelines.