Cascadia Rising Tide is active in Eugene, Portland and Olympia, with contacts in British Columbia, California and elsewhere in the west. Our focuses include grassroots education and organizing resistance to Liquefied Natural Gas, the Columbia River Crossing highway expansion and forest destruction. We also work with local movements...
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Area residents opposed to the shipment of oil extraction and refining equipment up the Columbia River marked the one year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill with a rally in Hood River on Wednesday. Organizers with climate justice group Rising Tide brought a festive atmosphere to the with colorful kayaks, flags, and kites. The event brought together indigenous speakers from Alberta and British Columbia, as well as representatives from affected communities along the Columbia. It was affiliated with an international “Day of Action against Extraction” marking the Gulf oil spill anniversary.
read moreSunday afternoon a group of around 40 individuals marched through downtown Portland equipped with chalk, caution tape, and mud. The group paid a visit to the Bank of America on SW 5th and Stark and a Wells Fargo on SW 6th and Morrison, and created a climate crime scene on and around these banks. Signs were taped all over the widows...
read moreThe “True Cost of Coal” graphics campaign is here! Who: The Beehive Collective, a 100% volunteer-driven non-profit political organization that uses graphical media as educational tools to communicate stories. What: A presentation of the Beehive Collective’s newest work. Two years in the making, the “True Cost of Coal”...
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 moreContact after 9AM PST Chris Noble, Cascadia Rising Tide, 503-249-6343 Sara Jenkins, 503-231-2904 pictures, newspaper available at www.CascadiaRisingTide.org Late last night volunteers with Portland Rising Tide blasted the city with over 3,000 fake newspaper covers wrapping the Willamette Week. With...
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