Rising Tide North America released this statement in response to the "guilty" verdict rendered by a Federal court today against climate activist Tim DeChristopher in Salt Lake City, UT. "Rising Tide North America stands in solidarity with our good friend and ally Tim DeChristopher, who was convicted today by a federal court on two felony counts...
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MEDIA COVERAGE: CNN: Protesters arrested outside the White House Washington Post front page: About 100 arrested in mountaintop mining protest Huffington Post: Mass Arrests in DC: We Shall No Longer Be Crucified Upon the Cross of Coal (Jeff Biggers) The Hill: More than 100 arrested at coal mining protest in front of the White...
read moreRipplebrook, OR- Forest defenders from all over the US convened this week to artistically confront the local liquefied natural gas (LNG) proposal in Oregon, with Oregon LNG being the newest target. In recent news, Northern Star, the corporation that was previously funding an LNG terminal near Astoria called Bradwood Landing,...
read moreBoston, MA – Activists with climate group Rising Tide hung a 30-foot banner reading, “System Change, Not Climate Change” on the Harvard Bridge (Massachusetts Ave.), the largest bridge spanning the Charles River this afternoon. The action comes in the final days of the United Nations Climate Talks in Copenhagen, as 115 world...
read moreProtest and Non-Violent Civil Disobedience at Chevron, California’s worst climate polluter, on first day of United Nations climate change negotiations in Copenhagen ACTION VIDEO by Ariel López San Ramon, CA – As Chevron employees arrived to work early this morning, they were met by nearly 100 people who gathered in protest of...
read moreOn November 30th, I spent part of my day lying on the ground in the middle of a busy intersection in the heart of Chicago’s financial district with my arms locked into big plastic tubes that connected me to 11 other people. Our arms, in the tubes, were linked to form a big circle of bodies and tubes, around the outside of a...
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