Climate Change

Rising Tide has never believed that national governments are capable of truly and fairly tackling climate change. This is partly because they refuse to accept the root causes and partly, as people have seen in Germany, even an elected "Green" Party is quickly co-opted into mainstream political approaches. So over the past ten years, rather than lobbying, we have focused our attention on tackling these root causes and building grassroots alternatives to the crisis. Our analysis – that climate change is intimately connected to social justice struggles and indeed, is a product of global inequality – has gained ground during that time.

London Rising Tide has been helping out our friends at UK Tar Sands Network and Liberate Tate with these two kick ass actions...

a film about some of RT’s friends...

3 Organisations
2 Loose Affiliations
& 1 Domestic Extremist

Doing whatever they can think of to draw attention to the root causes of climate change and fight for climate justice

This film is crowd-funded – please donate!

Ecological Direct Action without Compromise!
www.earthfirst.org.uk.

5 days of workshops, skill sharing and planning action, plus low-impact living without leaders. Meet people, learn skills, take action.

Want to do something to stop our planet from getting trashed?
EF! is about direct action to halt the destruction of the Earth. It's about doing it yourself rather than relying on leaders, governments or industry. Direct action is at the heart of it, whether you're standing in front of a bulldozer, shutting down an open-cast mine or ripping up a field of GM crops.

5 Rising Tide activists (from 3 continents) are currently in Cochabamba, Bolivia, at the 'World Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights' (19-22 April 2010).

Lots of comments have been made online regarding transport to the conference ... those from RT Ecuador took a 52hour bus journey and the rising tider from the UK travelled to South America by sail boat.

**NEW BLOG**
A new blog, set up by visitors from rising tide, cja and no borders is also now up and running. You can visit the blog by clicking here Cochabamba Blog

The mobalisation meeting that happened in Copenhagen this weekend was very successful. 21 countries and 5 continents were represented as well as a very diverse mix of organizations, individuals, networks, and political perspectives. An international call out text was finalised and the debate regarding shutting down the negotiations or locking them in until we get a genuine solution - was begun. This will continue at the next international climate meeting (probably March of next year). What needs to happen now is this call out needs to spread around the world, so please cut, paste and email it to any lists you havn't seen it on yet.