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Recent News (for the latest see the front page)
An open invitation to climate change activists, people from
environmental NGOs, social justice & community groups and anyone interested in
finding out more about climate action in the run-up to the G8 Summit.
As the International Energy and Environment Ministers' Roundtable
meets in London (March 15th-16th), the establishment's climate change agenda is
dominated by hot air - and completely undermined by an absence of
action. Currently Tony Blair's government, and by extension the G8, are
capturing both the media attention and the moral high ground on this issue,
further marginalising those calling for just and real solutions to climate
change.
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Airport occupation at Schipol, Netherlands
More traffic growth? More roads? Airport Expansion? You must be CHOKING! It's time to take ACTION!
Labout are backsliding on the victories of the 1990's roads protests, and many road schemes, dropped in the 1990s, are back on the road builders' agenda. Meanwhile the Government is also proposing large-scale airport expansion... and all in the same breath as talking about tackling climate change.
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Controversy is raging over oil development activities slated for Ecuador's largest national park - Yasuni National Park, which protects one of the world's most megadiverse regions. Jaguars, harpy eagles, caimans and 13 primate species live in this lowland rainforest, the ecological treasure of the western Amazon basin.
Last month, Ecuador's Environment Ministry granted the Brazilian national oil company Petrobras a long-awaited license to begin pumping oil out of the park in northern Ecuador.
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"People need the G8 like a fish needs a bicycle"
Coming straight from the High Court for the Fairford trial, the sambistas gathered in the cafe of the Royal Festival Hall to have a chat over coffee. We were already joined by some of the police, but spirits were high and we were ready to visit some of the climate criminals haunts.
A big crowd started to form under the bridge, made up of fish on bikes, snokellers on drums, fishermen with banners...
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The government says it wants to take action against climate change but also plans to double air travel - the most damaging form of transport - over the next twenty years. You can help stop this disastrous plan by pledging to take personal action...
more info...
sign the pledge now...
Climate change is turning agricultural land to dust in China
If you want evidence that global warming is happening, you need only look to China.
Unseen by the rest of the world, much of the north of the country is turning into a
land of droughts, dust storms and deserted villages.
The Ecologist Climate Change special issue features in-depth analysis of the growing climate crisis...
 download cover
download part 1
download part 2
Beyond Oil booklet
This new 32 page A5 booklet brings together background info on oil and conflict, repressive regimes, development, oil industry workers, and climate change. Together with info on the revolving doors and mutual support between the oil industry, government and the International Financial Institutions which fund new oil projects, it lays out the UK’s involvement in the oil curse, and the action we can take to challenge it.
download or order from nonewoil.org...
A true portrait of BP?
Over the past 12 months, direct action group London Rising Tide planned and completed an inaugural ‘exhibition of resistance to Big Oil and the corporate sponsorship of the arts’, specifically targeting oil giant BP and its sponsorship of the annual National Portrait Award.
This summer, the counter-capitalist expo of specially commissioned paintings, drawings, photographs and texts took place to popular acclaim, and even managed the odd article in the mainstream press...
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The writing on the wall is simple: We need to start dismantling the oil economy now. Although this sounds radical, unachievable and unrealistic, it’s something which we could and should have started years ago...
This new article by Jo Hamilton draws the links between ending the slave trade, and ending the oil economy.
more...
19 April 2004 - Today, over fifty environmental and social justice NGOs and other groups, including Rising Tide, sent a letter of protest to the World Bank calling for the closure of its new emissions trading fund, The Prototype Carbon Fund.
Tthe groups state that the Bank's new fund is destructive greenwash and has exacerbated existing human rights violations and furthered environmental destruction...
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Labour is backtracking on the victories of the 1990s anti-road building campaigns and it's promisses whilst in opposition. It wants to build more roads, expand existing roads, and also build new runways and terminals at airports across the UK. At the same time, the Government claims to be serious about tackling climate change. Want to know what's in store?...
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As part of the many grassroots events sprouting up all around the European Social Forum in London, London Rising Tide today (dis)organised a very public exposure of some of the forces that are sending our planet tumbling into climate chaos.
London Rising Tide's critical mass theme was London in 2050 when sea levels may be a tad higher than at present.
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In a chilling case of censorship, the FBI, acting on a request from Italian and Swiss authorities, ordered two servers confiscated from Rackspace in London last Thursday morning effectively removing 20 Indymedia sites and some others from the internet.
Indymedia is regularly used by UK climate change activists to post events, reports and photos from actions that are ignored by the mainstream media.
More from indymedia.org...
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 Carnival and Kritical Mass Tour of the G8's Top Climate Criminals...
Friday 15th October, Midday, London
As part of the many grassroots events sprouting up all around the European Social Forum in London, London Rising Tide has (dis)organised this very public exposure of some of the forces that are sending our planet tumbling into climate chaos.
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Rising
Tide Gathering
1-3 October 2004, Nottingham
Help build a vibrant and
varied network, and find out about current Rising Tide
campaigns.
Workshops include SUV's,
climate change science, oil war and climate change,
anti-road and anti-airport expansion campaigning and
much more.
£15 - £35 includes
food. Early booking essential.
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Details, Programme and Travel Info now available... |
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| Call for European days of action against the oil industry and for a fossil fuel-free future
To coincide
with the European Social Forum and related grassroots
events in London, 14-17 October 2004
The October action days are
a time for people who see climate change as a symptom
of this screwed up system also known as capitalism to
draw strength from a widespread show of simultaneous
unity-in-diversity.
Leave the oil in the ground.
Let our communities own and run their own renewable
energy supplies. Dismantle capitalism and Big Oil, in
October 2004 and everyday in various diverse ways. Spread
hope.
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Take Action The Day Before Tomorrow!
It's probably not escaped your notice that a huge hollywood film about Climate Change was released recently... around the country groups have been using this chance to bring Climate Change issues into the public consciousness.
For a taste of what's going on and what you can get involved in, including leafletting cinemas, click here... |
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A True Portrait of BP?
Greenwash or Us: Exhibition of Resistance to Big Oil & the Corporate Hijacking of the Arts'
London Rising Tide invite you to join them in a celebration of DIY expression and organisation, fighting corporate control with creativity
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| Urgent
Action Needed: Tortured Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline campaigner
considers indefinite hunger strike
Ferhat Kaya, the prominent human rights
defender detained and allegedly tortured in Turkey following
his work to mitigate the impacts of the controversial
Baku-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline
has indicated that he will commence a 'death fast' hunger
strike on 12 May 2004 if his application for release
is not accepted. Human rights and environmental groups
are calling on the international community to intervene
urgently to guarantee the safety of the campaigner.
For further information and details of
how you can help please click
here...
[Update: Ferhat has been granted
bail... click
here for details...] |
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BP Annual General Meeting, 15.04.04
London Rising Tide and friends attended the BP AGM to expose their blatant hypocrisy and attempted greenwash
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Oil
on the Warpath - challenging the oil empire
A Day gathering of speakers,
videos, workshops, campaigns was held in Sheffield on
27th March.
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Oil,
war and climate change - Dismantling the Oil Economy
For more details of the No New
Oil campaign and the gathering held on Sat 11th Oct
please see the new No New oil website:
www.nonewoil.org |
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Rising
Tide Activists Occupy ECGD Offices to Protest Baku Pipeline
Activists occupied
the UK Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) offices
for much of the morning, protesting against their activities,
in particular its likely support for the (BTC) oil pipeline,
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Rising Tide disrupts Caspian oil & gas conference,
27.01.04
Activists from London Rising Tide
disrupted a conference dedicated in part to 'overcoming
ecological and environmental concerns' about the pipelines
that are beginning to criss-cross the Caucasus with
Big Oil and US military backing.
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| Conference
of Parties (COP9) Actions, 1-12 December 2003
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.
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Report
from BP boss action, RIBA, 23.10.03
London Rising Tide's action at BP boss's talk on 'the
role of energy in sustainable development' at the Royal
Institute of British Architects.
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AMEC
Blockaded over Baku Pipeline Construction
On Thursday 10th of
July the entrance to AMEC House in Warrington, Cheshire
was closed off in protest against the construction company's
role in the proposed Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline
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London Rising Tide EBRD weelky protest
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.. more... |
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BP
at the BM: London Rising Tide action against BP
London Rising Tide
(LRT) took the struggle to bury BP's planned Baku-Ceyhan
pipeline (before it's built) to the heart of the British
cultural establishment on Saturday 5th July 2003.. more... |
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BP
and friends greeted at the BP National Portrait Awards
London Rising Tide
had a special greeting for BP on Tuesday 10th June,
as the company played host to the great and the good
at the National Portrait Gallery on the occasion of
the announcement of the winner of the £25,000 BP National
Portrait Award. more... |
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MASS
CLIMATE
PROTESTS AT BP AGM 24.4.03
BP's AGM at the Royal
Festival Hall in was disrupted by protests in and outside
the building, spoof annual reports were handed out and
an alternative AGM was held outside. more...
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IMC Reports...
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Pictures...
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The background |
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PROTESTS
AROUND WORLD
Feb 4th Day of Action.
NO
WAR FOR OIL!
Pickets at over 100 petrol stations
in the US and UK. Occupation of the offices of Exxon
Mobil in UK. Petrol station occupation in Barcelona.
More...
Articles and essays on connections
between the oil economy and the war against Iraq More...
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GROWING
PROTESTS AGAINST THE BAKU PIPELINE
-Occupation of ERM consultancy in
Manchester and London
-Occupation of EBRD in London
-Protests outside BP Quarterly Results
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Activists
invades ERM offices over BP Baku pipeline
Activists from London Rising Tide and
others protested at the offices of the Enviromental Resource
Management over their complicity in plans by BP to build
2 massive oil pipelines from Azerbaijan to Turkey. The
enviromental damage could be catastrophic for the region. Several
activists got inside the MD's office and occupied it
while other outside hung banners from trees and demonstrated
outside the entrance.
More......
Baku-Ceyhan
Pipeline Campaign
The issues, the campaign-
what it is about and what you can do... More.......
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Rising
Tide UK Gathering report
4-6th October
2002, Manchester Mark
Thomas kickstarted the gathering on the friday night
linking climate change, oil, pipelines, corruption,
water privatisation and very dodgy politics together
in his own unique, punchy style.
The weekend was a chance
to look at the spectrum of climate issues, movement
building and action planning. Workshops on carbon trading,
why the Kyoto protocol fails, the Baku pipeline, local
community campaigning, worldwide impacts of climate
change, climate justice, inspiration for taking local
action, climate change despair and empowerment, networking,
videos, music and more.
Gathering
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Freak
Weather in 2001
A summary of weather news stories from around the world
in another record breaking year for climate change.
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Wonky
weather tour 2002
Rising
Tide on tour with Generator X, Latest tour news.
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Campaign
Against Carbon Trading
In
February 2002, two carbon trading conferences in Amsterdam
and London were disrupted by activists.
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