Rising Tide UK - Taking Action on the Root Causes of Climate Change

Disco-tinged resistance to BP at the Portrait Award ceremony, 16.6.09

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:48:50 +0200

New band Green Kite Midnight spent the early part of Tuesday evening serenading those
attending the BP Portrait ceremony with a series of tunes inspired in part
by visions of BP decommissioned. NPG employees were very helpful, (though
they were outnumbered by BP and BP-funded security men), and we set up our
banner and instruments just beneath one of the 'supported by BP'
statements on one of the huge posters on either side of the door.

Direct Action stops Shell’s operations in Co.Mayo

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:24:10 +0200

At the end of May, Bristol Rising Tiders joined others from around the UK and the Republic of Ireland for a weekend gathering at the Rossport Solidarity Camp at Glengad in County Mayo. The gathering had been called to support the local community in their fight to stop Shell and Statoil from wrecking their environment and destroying their livelihoods of farming and fishing. Shell and Statoil (the Norwegian State oil and gas company) are extracting gas off the coast of Co. Mayo and are now planning to lay a gas pipeline to connect the drilling rig to the gas refinery they are building on seized land at nearby Ballanaboy. The 150 people who came to the gathering took part in direct action workshops led by the Tripod collective from Scotland and learnt from local activists about the massive oil and gas developments planned for the Atlantic seaboard of Ireland. A workshop run by an activist from Platform also showed that the struggle at Rossport was just one of many being waged by small communities around the world against Shell - the multinational oil company. The hallmarks of Shell’s operations are disregard for the environment, destruction of livelihoods, coercion and violence against local activists and gaining favourable terms by giving backhanders to politicians.

News from RISING TIDE ECUADOR (MAREA CRECIENTE)

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:49:36 +0200

Rising Tide-Ecuador (Marea Creciente) is opening its way as the newest member of our International Network by joining forces with other grassroots groups, which includes the Ecuadorian indigenous movement.

"Mining industry out!"

First, to resist the big fossil fuel national battle against mining on a large scale, which is an aggressive project that the ecuadorian assembly and government are trying to put forward.

Guardian/E-On Greenwash Climate Summit

Thu, 28 May 2009 11:40:48 +0200

London Rising Tide and the Greenwash Guerillas cordially invite you to a morning of greenwash detecting at the Guardian Climate Summit, sponsored by E-On, Monday 15th June 2009. Following on from the success of last years detecting, a team of Greenwash Guerillas are said to be meeting at 8am at the Hotel Russell, 1-8 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1B 5BE

Protective attire can be easily obtained by contacting Rising Tide on 07708 794665 / london@risingtide.org.uk or attending the next Rising Tide meeting at 7.30pm on 28/5/09. The more the merrier, and what better way to start the week than by highlighting the hypocrisy of E-On's sponsorship of this event?

Call-out to join the Co-Mutiny

Wed, 27 May 2009 13:11:58 +0200

Call-out to join the Co-Mutiny

Bristol September 12th – 20th, 2009

Social Change not Climate Change

Capitalism and its puppet de‘mock’cracy are spiralling out of control: a self-created recession, rocketing unemployment, soaring national debt, the illegal and unjust occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, apathy towards massacres in Palestine and Sri Lanka, the criminalisation of free movement, the police assaults and murders of people on the streets, the construction of larger airports and coal-fired power stations in the face of devastating environmental degradation, the privatisation of social housing, the list goes on.

ART NOT OIL REQUESTS THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY AT 'A WAKE FOR BP' AT ITS CENTENARY PARTY, (BRITISH MUSEUM, 6-7PM, 6.5.09)

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:52:20 +0200

Dress rehearsal to take place at BP's 100th AGM, Custom House DLR, 10.30am, 16.4.09

Oil goliath BP, already forced to postpone its centenary party at the British Museum on April 1st, (also known as Fossil Fools Day[1]), has rescheduled the event for May 6th. Art Not Oil[2], the group behind the original demonstration against its 'tarnished centenary', will be throwing 'A Wake for BP' as guests arrive at the British Museum between 6pm and 7pm on the new date.

Fossil and Financial Fools Day goes global

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:35:08 +0200

Today saw not only mass protests in London ahead of the G20 summit, but local demonstrations in cities around the UK and across the globe. Under the banner of Fossil Fools Day, activists held protests at banks, energy companies and power stations across the UK, the USA and South Africa to highlight the twin economic and climate crises.

Actions and Resources for Fossil Fools Day 2009

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:24:13 +0100

FFD is soon! We know of various affinity group actions around the UK but thought we’d upload some inspirational public actions you can get involved with on the April 1st and some resources to help inspire you to take action in you local area. So, whether you’ve been looking for a chance to dip a toe into the growing climate action movement, or have had your kick-ass action planned since last year, now is the time to do it – whatever it is. On April 1st, join the global day of resistance and pull a prank that packs a punch.

'Shell Sells Suicide' in the National Theatre foyer, 3.1.09

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:10:47 +0100

On Saturday January 3rd, Art Not Oil activists put on an impromptu performance in the foyer of the National Theatre prior to the matinee performance of Shell-sponsored 'Oedipus'.

While a singer took to the stage (where there was a conveniently placed live microphone), another activist handed out leaflets, including a glossy spoof that looked like the National Theatre was inviting an open discussion about the morality of accepting oil company sponsorship. A third person joined in on cornet as security guards surrounded the singer. After singing, playing and speaking their point for a few minutes, they ended the protest, to a gratifying round of applause from the theatregoers who had watched the performance with interest.

National E.On F.Off Actions Round Up

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:30:17 +0100

Over the past 48 hours E.on has been targeted across the UK. If your action is not listed below, email E.on F.off (eon.foff@gmail.com) to let them know what happened where you were.

Overall, the 48 hours of action was a great first shot across the bows. E.On were rattled, local and national media took an interest, resources were gathered and are now ready to go, a new website is now up and running, a list of targets has been compiled and E.on know that if they try to build a new coal fired power station at Kingsnorth then they will face a barrage of direct action - both towards their daily operations and their supply chain. E.on be warned.

NRT Rat Race

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:18:50 +0100

To mark Buy Nothing Day, activists from Norwich Rising Tide held a Rat Race in the Norwich city centre.

The busiest high street in Norwich was today full of rats. The rats were equipped with placards reading Work Harder, Earn More Money, Buy More Things, Keep Going, and leaflets telling people to join the consumption Rat Race. The reverse of the leaflet, revealed the spoof and informed people that today was buy nothing day and perhaps they should consider the environmental and social consequences of excessive consumption.

Australian power station shut down by six hour protest

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:07:19 +0100

29 people were arrested after a climate change protest by Rising Tide Australia at Bayswater power station in New South Wales on 1 November. Four people locked themselves to machinery (the conveyer belt and its motor), stopping the conveyor belts that carry coal to Bayswater’s furnaces while about 25 others occupied the coal piles.

48 HOURS OF ACTION AGAINST E.ON AND NEW COAL

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:18:52 +0100

Friday 28th and Saturday 29th November 2008

The UK Government is calling for an 80% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050, we are calling for 48 hours of action against E.ON and new coal NOW.

It's easy enough to set a target that's 42 years away, but we don’t stand a rapidly melting snowball's chance of achieving it if the government give the green light to new coal fired power stations (7 are in the planning stages, with E.ON’s new Kingsnorth being first up) and keep dishing out subsidies to new coal mines. Coal is the dirtiest fuel there is, so while the government continues with business-as-usual through the last 100 months we have to make a difference on climate change, we call for 48 hours of action against new coal – now!

Barclays' coal investments targeted in Leamington Spa

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:43:18 +0100

Leamington Rising Tide took aim at a town centre Barclays over the weekend in protest at the bank's heavy investment in dirty coal. Banners, leaflets and balloons let people know that 'Barclays are fuelling global warming'. One of the banners used an image of scales to demolish the myth that Barclays cares about climate change: they invest a whopping 3,300 million invested in coal against 15 million inrenewable tech on the other. Over the last two years, Barclays has been involved in 17 separate loans to the coal industry, and together with RBS and HSBC, has loaned $70 billion to E.ON alone. A clown played a special Barclays song he wrote for the event, and several chats were had with interested people. At the end of the demo the helium balloons were let off inside the bank. They were still up there an hour later!

Greenwash Guerillas EDF Action

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:14:00 +0200

London Rising Tide's Greenwash Guerillas Brigade, Detection Platoon #1, moved into action on Monday morning at 08:00 hours – targeting energy corporation Électricité de France (EDF) at the central London headquarters of their UK subsidiary EDF Energy.