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

BP Fortnight of Shame

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:30:18 +0100

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.

Fossil Fools Day 2010

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:13:24 +0100

Climate change is no laughing matter – but that doesn’t mean we can’t confront the Fossil Fuel Empire with subversive humour.

WHAT: Direct actions, practical jokes and throwing a spanner in the works to stop the fossil fools.
WHERE: Your street, town or city.
WHEN: April 1st, 2010.

Last December in Copenhagen, the politicians sold us out to the fossil fools, corporate lobbyists and big banks. Now we’re left with “green capitalism,” a deeply unjust carbon market and continued assaults on our communities and ecosystems. If we’re going to stop climate chaos, the only real solution is to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

3 New Resources

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:40:00 +0100

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.”

Download here.

The Tar Sands Oil-ympics comes to London

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:22:37 +0100

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.

Copenhagen 2009: Call for “system change not climate change” unites global movement.

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:50:02 +0100

*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."

Plymouth-Rising Tide 'Climate refugees' d-locked on Barclay's building's entrance!

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:40:41 +0100

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)

The Great Climate Swoop, October 17-18 2009

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:00:30 +0200

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!

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:29:13 +0200

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

London Rising Tide New People Film Night

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:09:16 +0200

London Rising Tide will be having their annual new people's film night on September 24th 2009 from 7.30pm at the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), 62 Fieldgate Street, London, E1 1ES Nearest tube - Whitechapel. The night will feature a couple of upbeat films to give an insight into the climate justice movement, followed by a short discussion and the chance to ask questions. Where we go next is up to all of us, so if this sounds like your cup of tea, do come along and get involved, there might even be cake! If you can't make it, LRT meet on the 2nd & 4th Thursdays of each month at LARC, so do come along or get in touch.

The Art Not Oil Diary 2010: Abandon Despair All Ye Who Enter Here

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:00:56 +0200

The Art Not Oil Diary 2010: Abandon Despair All Ye Who Enter Here

The Art Not Oil Diary 2010 is a beautiful, stirring 365 day reminder of the extraordinary art that is
being made in the struggle for a safer, more just future, and the crucial
role that our creativity will need to play if we’re to have a chance of

Bristol Rising Tide support Vestas workers

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:12:23 +0200

On Tuesday 4th August, protesters (including Bristol Rising Tide) descended on the Bristol Headquarters of the Environment Agency in Aztec West carrying windmills and banners to support the action of Vestas workers who have occupied the St Cross wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight for the last two weeks because of plans to close the site with the immediate loss of 600 jobs. A further two solidarity demos took place on Friday 7th August. A couple of Bristol RT'ers also visted the Isle of Wight."

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?