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.

Midwest Rises! Against Banks, Coal

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. We are still getting in reports from actions – this is just a partial list of communities that marked the anniversary with action...

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

Midwest Rises! Against Banks, Coal

Regional Contacts

Direct Action

Climate Justice

Activists Occupy Montana Capitol Building
Rising Tide and Earth First! demand Governor Schweitzer Publicly Oppose Keystone XL Pipeline and Tar Sands Megaload Shipments. Activists from across the nation and around the world join Montana and Idaho residents in demanding that Schweitzer finally stand up to “Big Oil.”

Rising Tide North America: 5 years and Still Going Strong

Dear Friends- Five years ago in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Rising Tide North America (RTNA) emerged as a radical force in the climate movements. Seeking to make the connection between climate change and social justice, RTNA has built a climate justice network throughout Canada, Mexico and the United States that includes...

Rising Tide International Political Statement 2011

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...

John Stewart, UK’s “most effective environmentalist” barred from entering US

Environmentalists from across America and Europe are surprised and outraged that John Stewart, voted the UK’s “most effective environmentalist,” was barred from entering the US. Stewart was invited to the US by a coalition of environmental organizations. On September 29, Stewart, who does not have a criminal record and meets...

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Rising Tide North America: 5 years and Still Going Strong

Rising Tide International Political Statement 2011

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