Anti-nuclear protesters declared the mass blockade at Hinkley Point on 3rd October as a victory over EDF Energy. The nine-hour blockade in Somerset attracted supporters from all over the UK including Rising Tiders from London, Bristol & Plymouth. Several people came from as far afield as France, Ireland, Germany and Belgium as numbers topped 250.
Once a year, the board of directors of the world’s largest mining company meet in London.
Be there to... *CONFRONT BHP BILLITON*
*WHAT: *The Annual General Meeting of BHP Billiton
*WHERE: *Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster
*WHEN: *Thursday Oct. 20, 10am
*Plus, on Wednesday Oct. 19, there will be a public event with special guests to talk about BHPB’s operations around the world.*
London Rising Tide has been up to a great deal since the beginning of 2011, however our website has been having some issues recently preventing us putting the details up. Most notably, in April, LRT and various other climate groups marked the anniversary of BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill with a week of action against the oil giant's sponsorship deals in London.
In May 2011, Coal Action Scotland are hosting members of Rising Tide when they come to Scotland to present Beehive collectives The True Cost of Coal to community and campaign groups around the country. The Beehive Collective are a group of artists who design graphics which raise social and ecological consciousness, in a way that is never boring. Touring with huge portable murals of collaboratively produced illustrations and an engaging narrative, “The True Cost of Coal” will take you on an interactive tour of the connections between coal mining, climate change, and the struggle for social justice throughout the world.
BP Week of Action
A week of action to kick BP out of our cultural spaces
14 – 20 April 2011
After the remains of the irish government gave approval on the 20th of January for the shell high-pressure gas pipeline and refinery in county mayo, activists have been staging blockades, actions and protests against shell in solidarity with the residents and activists of rossport. in london, on the 27th of January, LRT and Rhythms of Resistance's garage blockade was also called as a memorial to long-time climate activist val jones, who lost a long struggle against a debilitating disease just one year ago.
Join us at our next event and get an excellent and stunning insight into the coal industry and how direct action can fight the injustices it's causing.
DATE - Thursday 10th Feb, 2011.
TIME - 7.30pm (bar after the presentation).
LOCATION - London Action Resource Centre - 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London, E1 1ES.
The Beehive Design Collective (part of the Rising Tide North America Collective) create portable murals of collaboratively produced illustrations with an amazingly engaging central narrative.
The morning of Friday the 14th of January saw a few of us from London Rising Tide join the Big Society Trade Negotiators (aka UK Tar Sands Network) as they took over a coffee shop in Victoria station (to buy coffee), and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. We were there to voice our concerns about CETA (the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) and try to get a meeting with Stephen Green, the new Minister for Trade. And we achieved both of these, which is way more than we expected from this early morning escapade.
Rising Tide disrupt Shell in Bristol
Fossil Fools Day 2010
1 April 2010
Activists from Bristol and Bath Rising Tide visited the Shell garage in Muller Road, Eastville at 8.30am this morning to highlight the repression experienced by communities in County Mayo, Ireland who are trying to stop Shell building an onshore high pressure pipeline and gas refinery.
