Rising Tide North America

Who We Are

Rising Tide North America was born out of the conviction that corporate-friendly and state-sponsored "solutions" to climate change will not save us. We're a 100% volunteer, grassroots network of groups and individuals who take direct action to confront the roots causes of climate change. We promote local, community-based solutions to the climate crisis and support climate justice.

Regional Contacts

Rising Tide North America's network has over 50 local chapters, contacts and allies in 28 U.S. states, 3 Canadian provinces, 3 Mexican states and the District of Columbia. The network is the foundation of Rising Tide North America. In communities all over the continent, Rising Tide activist are promoting bottom-up climate solutions and organizing grassroots resistance to dirty energy.

Direct Action

Those in power offer little more than lip service when it comes to fighting climate change. It is up to us to take matters into our own hands, using creative non-violent direct action to disrupt the workings of climate criminals and to create the future we want to live in. Direct action is empowering, allowing us to sidestep the passive process of waiting for change from those in power. When the government won’t stop a power plant from being built, we put our bodies in front of the bulldozers to shut down construction. When we want healthy, sustainable food for our community, we plant gardens in our backyards and abandoned lots.

Climate Justice

Low-income, politically marginalized communities—historically those least responsible for CO2 emissions—are also those hardest hit by climate change and every aspect of the energy industry, from toxic pollution to resource wars. Rising Tide supports a “just transition,” in which social and ecological needs are prioritized in the shift to a low-carbon society. We oppose policies that cause collateral damage to communities or strengthen existing inequalities. No effort to create a livable future will succeed without the empowerment of marginalized communities and the dismantling of the systems of oppression that keep us divided.

Who We Are

Regional Contacts

Direct Action

Climate Justice

Rising Tide North America Continental Gathering in Utah; July 18-20
Our strength comes from our connection, our power from our unity. WHAT: Rising Tide Continental Gathering WHEN: July 18-20, 2013 (17th arrival, 21st departure) WHERE: Utah; Exact Location TBA CONTACT: gathering@risingtidenorthamerica.org INFO: http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/2013/05/gathering/ DONATE: https://www.wepay.com/donations/rising-ti ...
RTNA & Thirty National & International Groups Call For Support Of the Tar Sands Blockade
Rising Tide North America is excited to have led this call to support the Tar Sands Blockade. Not only is stopping the expansion of fossil fuels infrastructure of the utmost priority, but the harsh repression of environmental activists from both TransCanada and law enforcement needs to be called out again and again. We stand with the Tar Sands Blo ...
Daring Tree Occupation Launched In Texas To Stop Keystone XL Pipeline
DARING TREE OCCUPATION LAUNCHED IN TEXAS TO STOP KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE Dear Friends, Exciting news has broken. This fight to stop the flow of tar sands oil in Texas has taken a dramatic turn. This morning, courageous actionistas with Rising Tide North Texas and the Tar Sands Blockade have begun tree-sits in rural East Texas blocking the constru ...
“Everything Has to Get Bigger From Here”
Dear Friends- This fight to end mountaintop removal coal mining is not over. Lifelong West Virginian Larry Gibson recently said: “Everything has to get bigger from here. We need to put our backs up against the wall and not back down.” Mountain fighters from all over are taking these words to heart. Recently, five mountain-loving activists stopped ...
Occupying the “Hot Zone” of Tar Sands Refinery in Colorado
Workers contracted by Suncor use vacuum trucks and absorbent material to suck up water mixed with an unidentified liquid leaking into Sand Creek north of downtown Denver on Nov. 30, 2011. (Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post )…Today, black goo is still seeping into waterways from Suncor Energy’s oil refinery north of Denver, and the lat ...
Ordinary Heroes Standing Up to Big Oil!
Dear Friends- Besides the story of the massive campaign to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, do you know about the other battles going on around the U.S. to stop the tar sands? Since last summer, the small town of Moscow, Idaho has seen numerous rowdy protests and civil disobedience, organized by Wild Idaho Rising Tide, in opposition to Exxon’s “mega ...
Shut Down the Corporations on Feb. 29
Shut Down the Corporations on Feb. 29 Dear Friends- Ever heard of the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC? They are one of the political arms for the biggest corporations in America. Corporations like ExxonMobil, Bank of America, BP, Monsanto, Pfizer, and Wal-Mart all use ALEC to buy off legislators and craft legislation that serves their ...
Activists Occupy Montana Capitol Building
Helena, MT – On the morning of July 12th, six activists from Earth First! and Northern Rockies Rising Tide have risked arrest by occupying Governor Schweitzer’s office in an act of non-violent civil disobedience. The activists have locked their arms in a mock oil pipeline made out of PVC plastic pipe. In the wake of the Silvertip spill, Governor ...

Rising Tide North America Continental Gathering in Utah; July 18-20

This July, many of the members of Rising Tide-affiliated, anti-extraction, and climate justice groups around the U.S., Mexico, and Canada will converge in beautiful Utah to train, discuss, strategize, and develop the structure, dynamics and capacity of the Rising Tide network.

Three Arrested at Peabody Coal Shareholders Meeting in Gillette, WY; Mineworkers, Navajo Ask Pointed Questions of CEO Boyce

3 arrested at Peabody Shareholders meeting in Gillette, mineworkers, Navajo ask pointed questions of CEO Boyce 3 Arrested at Peabody Shareholder Meeting in Gillette Groups from Wyoming, Black Mesa, St. Louis and Colorado Join Together to Confront World’s Largest Coal Company GILLETTE, WY– Peabody Energy shareholders...

Oklahoma: Two Activists Lockdown to Protect Cross Timbers from Tar Sands

Two Protesters Lock Themselves to Equipment to Protect the Cross Timbers from Tar Sands Press Contact: Eric Whelan, gptsrmedia@gmail.com, 405-863-2888 Monday, April 29th: Spaulding,OK Earlier this morning two Texas residents locked themselves to machinery being used to construct TransCanada’s dangerous and controversial Keystone...

Anti-Extraction Campaigner Glen Collins Sentenced to 60 Days for KXL Action

From RAMPS: Glen Collins is in Smith County Jail in Texas tonight after pleading guilty to charges of trespassing and illegal dumping stemming from his blockade of the Keystone XL pipeline last December. In one of the most striking actions in the Tar Sands Blockade campaign, Glen locked himself with Matt Almonte to a concrete...

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Who We Are

Regional Contacts

Direct Action

Climate Justice

Rising Tide North America Continental Gathering in Utah; July 18-20

RTNA & Thirty National & International Groups Call For Support Of the Tar Sands Blockade

Daring Tree Occupation Launched In Texas To Stop Keystone XL Pipeline

“Everything Has to Get Bigger From Here”

Occupying the “Hot Zone” of Tar Sands Refinery in Colorado

Ordinary Heroes Standing Up to Big Oil!

Shut Down the Corporations on Feb. 29

Activists Occupy Montana Capitol Building

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Rising Tide North America Continental Gathering in Utah; July 18-20

Three Arrested at Peabody Coal Shareholders Meeting in Gillette, WY; Mineworkers, Navajo Ask Pointed Questions of CEO Boyce

Oklahoma: Two Activists Lockdown to Protect Cross Timbers from Tar Sands

Anti-Extraction Campaigner Glen Collins Sentenced to 60 Days for KXL Action

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