2 Camps for Climate Action are happening in the UK this summer - one in Scotland and one in Wales. Rising Tiders will be at both. Get involved and come along.
Camp for Climate Action 2010 (Scotland)
Break the Bank!
Occupy and set up the basecamp: 19th–20th August
Four days of training and direct action: 21st–24th August
Day of action against RBS: 23rd August
Return basecamp to nature: 25th August
Eighteen people from Bristol and Bath were in court last week (July 8) to answer two charges of obstructing the railway at Ffos-y-Fran open-cast coal mine in Merthyr Tydfil. Seven people who had chained themselves to the track and six who had been acting as support and legal observers all pleaded guilty to Section 36 of the Malicious Damages Act 1861, and not guilty to Section 35 of the same act (the section carrying the infamous life penalty). Five people including a legal obvserer and drivers pleaded not guilty to both charges.
In the context of the 16th U.N. Conference of the Parties (COP16), Rising Tide Mexico and Art not Oil invite all graphic artists to participate in the Itinerant Art Exhibition for Climate Justice, which will integrate graphic arts collectives, and diverse social organizations and collectives from Mexico, with the goal of educating and inspiring people on topics related to Climate Change and the grassroots struggles which fight the principal causes of global warming and the environmental crisis.
London Rising Tide has been helping out our friends at UK Tar Sands Network and Liberate Tate with these two kick ass actions...
a film about some of RT’s friends...
3 Organisations
2 Loose Affiliations
& 1 Domestic Extremist
Doing whatever they can think of to draw attention to the root causes of climate change and fight for climate justice
This film is crowd-funded – please donate!
Greenwash Guerillas deal with greenwash spill... by visionontv
Last night at 6.07 PM the London brigade of the Greenwash Guerrillas got a call from a panicked pedestrian outside the National Portrait Gallery. It seemed that the prizegiving ceremony for BP Portrait Award was about to start, and toxic greenwash had begun to gush uncontrollably from the gallery’s front doors.
Jyri Antero Jaakkola – February 11, 1977 - April 27, 2010
Loosely translated from Finnish:
“If by my own presence, I have the chance to prevent the violence; that would be the thing to do...” Jyri, in an interview before traveling to Mexico.
Crank up the volume and enjoy...
Why target Shell?
Party at the Pumps Part 2 is taking place just three days before Shell’s AGM, where the company will come under fire from shareholders over its plans in the Canadian tar sands; and a week before the Merthyr to Mayo solidarity bike ride, which will link two communities in Wales and Ireland resisting fossil fuel extraction.
An action report as promised.
All cameras were seized by police - instead sketches have been drawn to document the action.
Click on read more for a detailed action report and 4 full size sketches.
A group of individuals who met through the Rising Tide network and were inspired to take direct action against the route causes of climate change. They maintain an 8-hour blockade of coal trains carrying fuel from Ffos-y-Fran open-cast coal mine to Aberthaw power station.
26 April 2010
Ffos y Fran is one of the largest opencast coal mines in Europe. The local community in Merthyr have led a long-running campaign against it. One day last April we shut down the rail link to nearby Aberthaw power station.
(All cameras were seized by police - instead sketches have been drawn to document the action.)
