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Are you sick of inaction and half-measures in the face of the greatest threat to life on Earth in the history of humanity? Are you frustrated by the focus of mainstream environmental groups on techno-fixes and corporate friendly approaches to the climate crisis? Do you believe confronting the fossil fuel empire requires addressing root causes like consumerism, energy colonialism, corporate control, and our disconnection from the natural world?
Then join the Rising Tide North America (RTNA) network! There are several ways to get involved in RTNA:
Become a local contact
Local groups and local contacts are the heart of RTNA. While RTNA as a whole works to coordinate and build a continental direct action movement for climate justice, it really comes down to local groups taking action. Whether it’s organizing a community bike shop, blockading a gas station, or fighting a new coal plant, it’s up to all of us taking action in our own communities to bring down the fossil fuel juggernaut.
If there is an RTNA contact in your area, we encourage you to get involved in their efforts. If not, you might consider affiliating with RTNA yourself. Read more about becoming a local contact…
Get engaged with one of our four focus areas:
RTNA has four main focus areas. Each of these projects are open to collaboration from new and experienced organizers. These four areas are:
False Solutions - RTNA campaigns against some of the “False Solutions” to climate change currently on the market. The false solutions we are working to expose include carbon trading, offsets, and sequestration schemes and “alternative” fuels like nuclear power, “clean” coal, agrofuels (like ethanol), and liquefied natural gas. Our “Greenwash Guerillas” target proponents of false solutions, and we also do presentations and research on these bogus solutions. Email falsesolutions[-AT-]RisingTideNorthAmerica[-DOT-]org fore more information.
Convergences for Climate Action - This summer RTNA, in collaboration with other organizations, is hosting a number of regional Climate Convergences to create a space of collective empowerment to resist the fossil fuel empire and fight for climate justice. Contact us for more information.
Educational Undertakings - RTNA gives hundreds of interactive workshops, trainings, and presentations each year as well as distributing heaps of educational literature. If you’re interested in learning to give our presentations; sharing/developing presentations; writing, sharing, or distributing reading materials or the like; or hosting a RTNA presentation in your community email education[-AT-]RisingTideNorthAmerica[-DOT-]org
Action Campaign - Beyond organizing direct actions, RTNA provides training, support, and action ideas to community groups and organizations around North America. If you’d like to help with our direct action support work or get our help in organizing actions in your community email action[-AT-]RisingTideNorthAmerica[-DOT-]org
Hop on board one of our smaller projects:
Rising Tiders are developing educational resources and in some cases campaigns on a number of issues closely related to climate change. These include Anomalous Weather / Climate Science, Coal, Ecosystem Defense & Restoration, Indigenous Solidarity, Liquefied Natural Gas, Food Sovereignty and others. Contact us if you’d like to get involved in one of these projects, or, if you see an issue we’ve missed that you have expertise about, perhaps you’d like to start your own?
Other ways to help RTNA out:
If you’ve got skills to lend or just some extra time on your hands, we could use you help with odd jobs or more specialized work. We have an on-call email list of people willing to lend a hand with odd jobs that can be done remotely like basic internet research, reposting major RTNA announcements to other website, etc.
If you’ve got experience in graphic design, layout, art, PowerPoint, editing, web design, writing and research, grant writing, translations to Spanish or other languages, videography, media, or other talents to bring to RTNA, please contact us, we’d love your help!
Another way to help is to hold a fundraiser in your community for RTNA. As a deep grassroots organization, we have no professional fundraisers and rely largely on donations from people who believe in our principles and approach to confronting the climate crisis.
Feel free to contact us for more information about any of this. Don’t forget to join our email list!
