Background to this statement Rising Tide is a grassroots international network of groups and individuals who take direct action to confront the root causes of climate change and to promote local, community-based solutions to the climate crisis. It is part of a wider global movement for social and ecological justice. Rising Tide...
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“Thus far and no further” Dear Friends- We’re about the movement, not the moment! And we’re coming for the worst polluters and earth destroyers. We’re building a movement to counter Corporate America’s hold on our environment, our climate and our democracy. Grassroots direct action in the climate movement...
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Today, hundreds marched and saw fifteen community and climate activists arrested as the Midwest Rising! Convergence took the streets of St. Louis to protest Bank of America and Peabody Coal. The arrest action occurred in the intersection connecting Bank of America’s St. Louis offices and Peabody’s national...
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This weekend, folks are coming together in St. Louis to create a community with the power to break the social barriers of a society dictated by corporate greed. It’s time we come together and build the movement that moved forward together. Back in April, 1000 people took over the Department of the Interior during...
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The Spring Edition of RTNA's newsletter, Burning Issues, is out! This season's pieces include: direct action halting of heavy-haulers carrying tar-sands equipment shipments through Montana; Kentuckians occupying their governor's offices to demand the abolition of MTR; our "Nuclear Reaction"; shutdowns of the National Coal Council's meeting in St. Louis; updates on Tim DeCristopher and more.
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Dear Friends-Our movement is strong. We take risks and push envelopes. We take action when the places and communities we hold dear are threatened. And we won’t be intimidated by government or corporate efforts to break our resolve. We have no choice. Big Oil and Big Coal want to poison our water, cloud the air we breathe...
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