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.

No Coal Exports Action Camp!

High Country Rising Tide is happy to announce the convening of the "West By Northwest" No Coal Exports Action Camp taking place Aug. 2-10 in Gillette, WY.

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

No Coal Exports Action Camp!

Regional Contacts

Direct Action

Climate Justice

Join Us, Fight Coal Exports
Dear Friends– King Coal is losing North America. Successful fights against coal fired power plants have forced them to change their business strategies or die. Their new plan is to export coal mined from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana to overseas markets in East Asia. In China and India, coal will devastate public health and cl ...
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 ...

Day of Direct Action Against Extraction April 20, 2011

The BP oil spill was unfortunately just one of an endless string of disasters born of an economic system that must endlessly consume the Earth’s resources. Communities around the world are under attack from extractive industries that poison our families, kill our loved ones on the job, and destroy the ecosystems we cherish. Rising Tide is calling for a day of direct action against extraction on the 1 year anniversary of the BP oil spill.

Australia: 73 arrests, 8 hour blockade of coal transport!

Hundreds of people gathered near Australia’s single largest source of carbon pollution – The Bayswater power station – for Climate Camp NSW over the last week. Climate Camp culminated in a day of mass action where 130 campers pushed over a fence and for eight hours occupied the train tracks adjacent the power...

“Thousand Cancúns” action comes to the UN Climate Conference All Photos by Orin Langelle/ Global Justice Ecology Project – Global Forest Coalition (the Global Justice Ecology Project is a Rising Tide affiliate and ally) Cancún, Mexico, December 7, 2010-the “Day of 1,000 Cancuns” actions. A press...