London Rising Tide (LRT) takes creative action on the root causes of climate chaos, and promotes socially just, ecological alternatives to the fossil fuel madness that we're living through. It's part of the wider Rising Tide UK and international networks, and seeks to be part of a growing European and worldwide movement of groups working to dismantle the oil industry and live the future we want to see right now. Find out more about what we stand for.
Contact us to find out when we meet at the London Action Resource Centre (LARC), which is at 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1, Whitechapel tube, on the corner of Fieldgate Street and Parfett Street. We elcome new people, there's plenty to do, including helping run the office, making banners, doing talks & stalls, helping with actions, designing websites & leaflets etc. Some people in the group stick with just one of these tasks, while others work on several. We'd love to hear from you, whether you've only got half an hour a fortnight to spare, or entire days to put in.
Let us know if you want to know anything else, or maybe just see you at a meeting or event. It might be best to email or ring (07708 794665) before coming on a future Thursday, to make sure it's happening.
We hope this site inspires you to get active to combat oil, war and climate breakdown, (not to mention car culture, dams,aviation, nukes, industrial forest plantations etc.), whether that be with us, with your own group or by yourself. Since there's no such thing as an ethical or sustainable oil company, they and the many companies and institutions in their orbit are all worthy of our creative attention. Let us know how you get on, what you think of this site, if you'd like to get involved or if you have any other query. Good luck and stay hopeful!
On Saturday, the busiest shopping day of the year, activists from London Rising Tide dressed up as Santas and elves and invaded Oxford Street to make the point that excessive Christmas consumption is causing climate chaos.
Spotted in Eco Soundings –
Seen those BP ads on TV and in the Press? Impressed that the oil giant is getting the message on climate change? Think Again. BP is also running a big advertising campaign in the US to coincide with the Montreal climate talks. Both versions have the same graphics, the same nifty tune, the same style. But where as we Brits are told to “work out your carbon footprint – it’s a start”, the American consumer is told: “We’re investing $15bn in finding new oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico – it’s a start.”
LONDON RISING TIDE OCCUPY HEAD OFFICE OF CARBON NEUTRAL COMPANY IN LONDON
More at http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/362941.html
London Rising Tide have occupied the head office of the Carbon Neutral Company (formerly Future Forests) on the day they had been invited to appear before the All Party Parliamentary Committee on Climate Change, chaired by the Carbon Neutral Company.
This is what they have to say:
CARBON ‘OFFSET’ = CLIMATE UPSET
Read on for info re.
1. POST-CAMP FOLLOW-UP MEETING (OCT 13/14) DETAILS
2. AN A-Z OF WHY THE CAMP FOR CLIMATE ACTION WAS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT
3. WE'RE WITNESSING THE BIRTH OF A NEW PROTEST MOVEMENT TO FORCE ACTION ON GLOBAL WARMING, Johann Hari, Independent, 5.9.06
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1. The Camp for Climate Action seems to have catalysed commitment to build a real movement to combat climate chaos, a movement that feels more motivated by direct action than lobbying deadbeat governments.
'We are now able to announce the location of the Camp for Climate Action.
It will take place on Barlow Common, about 3 miles south east of Selby,
and about 2 miles north west of the Drax perimeter fence. Directions and
further details of the location can be found on our website at
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/location.htm
* for creativity, climate justice and an end to oil industry sponsorship of the arts *
Art Not Oil at The Foundry, 84-86 Great Eastern St, London EC2A 3JL, (Old Street tube)
June 29th-July 9th 2006
Image: Fabio Sassi
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Art Not Oil sheds light and shadow on the oil industry...
Here's a report from a London Rising Tider with a single Shell share, who went into its Annual General Meeting, while others quietly infiltrated the hotel or stayed outside to leaflet and chat to shareholders and passers-by. The main meeting took place in The Hague, with a video feed to London, or the Novotel Hammersmith, to be precise. Keep an eye on Indymedia for reports of how others got on outside...
The very wonderful Society of Imaginary Friends have sorted a benefit for us...
Society of Imaginary Friends, Catherine Anne Davies and Katy Carr are performing
live and Luminous Frenzy are DJing at
The Dragon Hall,
17 Stukeley Street,
London WC2B 5LT
Nearest tube: Holborn/Covent Garden
Doors open 7.30pm
Entrance 5 pounds:
Society of Imaginary Friends
www.societyofimaginaryfriends.com
www.myspace.com/societyofimaginaryfriends
Members of the provisionally musical theatre wing of climate justice
action group London Rising Tide (LRT) set out on April 20th 2006 to communicate their
warm feelings about BP in song to shareholders heading for the oil giant's
Annual General Meeting (AGM) at the ExCel Centre in Docklands.
The 28th Annual Arts & Business Awards gala ceremony was held at the (BP-sponsored) Barbican Centre in London on Monday April 3rd 2006. It consisted of free drinks, schmoozing, mutual pat-on-the-backs concerning the 21st Century snake oil that is 'Corporate Social Responsibility', followed by an vain attempt to raise the tone with a performance by the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO).
