Aí§í£o Direta por Justií§a Climática - Resistíªncia é Auto-Defesa!

Nós temos uma janela de 10 anos para agir. Assim que os megalomaní­acos lí­deres do G8 se encontrarem na Alemanha, mascarados atrás de uma barreira de cercas e soldados, intencionados em levar-nos mais a fundo no catastrófico e irreversí­vel caos climático, nos temos que atirar, gritar e berrar “basta”. Agora é o momento para a aí§í£o direta e derruba-los, eles e seus amigos criminosos da indíºstria climática.

Nós todos sabemos as terrificantes estatí­sticas: milhíµes de espécies extintas até 2050, 19 dos 20 anos mais quentes num recorde desde 1980,
Antártica derretendo, seca, inundaí§íµes, famintos… o G8 tiveram 30 anos para endereí§ar as mudaní§as climáticas e tiverem sucesso somente em subsidiar as grandes indíºstrias que estí£o destruindo nosso planeta e nosso futuro. E enquanto o G8 continua a alinhar os bolsos, estados ilhados desaparecem e centenas de milhares morrem como resultado de uma frenética condií§í£o climática causada por sua irracional e incontrolável obsessí£o em nunca cessar o crescimento econí´mico.

O 8 de junho Dia internacional de aí§í£o direta contra as mudaní§as climáticas e o G8 tem sido chamado pela Rede Internacional Rising Tide. Este é um chamado por aí§íµes autí´nomas e descentralizadas apropriadas em sua cidade, regií£o ou área local. Use este dia internacional para apoiar
as lutas locais contra refinarias de óleo, gasodutos, minas e carví£o ativado. Rompa os financiadores industriais de energias fosseis. Organize workshops para espalhar formas de vida sustentáveis pós-petróleo. Encontre um ponto fraco na infra-estrutura da exploraí§í£o dos recursos e se jogue literal ou simbolicamente nos trabalhos. É hora de visitar seu alvo local     e entregar-lhe o inferno!

Nós já sabemos das aí§íµes planejadas através do Reino Unido, América do Norte, Alemanha, Canadá e Austrália e isso é só o comeí§o. Por volta do 8 de junho estarí£o planejadas em volta do mundo. Passe este chamado para
todas justií§as ambientais, aí§íµes climáticas, sustentabilidade radical e movimentos relacionados em todos os paises do G8 e o do Globo.

Rising Tide irá criar uma coleí§í£o de materiais de chamados de alto alcance (incluindo este chamado em 5 diferentes lí­nguas) que pode ser usado por grupos em volta do mundo para se organizarem localmente. Estes materiais estarí£o disponí­veis neste site Rising Tide North America.

Aí§í£o direta e desobediíªncia civil sí£o a resposta racional nestes tempos de crise. Apóie o 8 de Junho, Dia Internacional de Aí§í£o Direta contra as Mudaní§as Climáticas e o G8! Conte-nos sobre aí§íµes planejadas para justií§a climática em sua comunidade. Entre em contato conosco - info@risingtide.org.uk e contact@risingtidenorthamerica.org.

Em Junho de 2007 o G8 irá entender o significado de Rebelií£o, revolta e
revoluí§í£o.

A receita deles para a catástrofe encontrará com nossa resistíªncia global!

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) has been touted as a “cleaner” alternative to coal, but behind all the greenwashing, LNG is responsible for massive environmental devastation. Natural gas extraction wrecks havoc on ecosystems. From threatening whale populations and being responsible for oil spills, massive fish die-off and water supply contamination on Sakhalin Island in the Pacific, to threatening the survival of indigenous communities in Peru, LNG’s dirty little secret is a very real threat. The shipping of LNG adds tremendously to the net emissions, and massive amounts of toxic sediments are stirred up from the floor of lakes and sounds when channels are dredged to make room for ships.

Rising Tide is working to support and provide alliance building opportunities for individuals and groups organizing in opposition to the fossil fuel industry’s development of LNG. Currently LNG development is being met with local, community-based resistance due to the poor safety record, environmental destruction, local-economic impact, and social injustice related to this foreign fossil fuel. Rising Tide aims to contribute to and foster the growth of this resistance as a necessary contribution to confronting the root causes of climate change. We seek to provide a networking opportunity for communities opposing LNG around the world in an effort to strengthen the power of our actions through mutual aid and resource sharing.

While referring to global warming in their advertisements and profiting off of so-called solutions, the fossil fuel industry is actively working to increase our dependency on foreign fossil fuels and build more structure for carbon-emitting fossil fuel extraction. Companies such as Halliburton, Shell and bp are trying to build the infrastructure for LNG to become the new global energy source. LNG is not a bridge to sustainability (as bp claims), but rather just another foreign fossil fuel that would contribute to social and environmental injustice as well as climate chaos.

LNG is NOT Clean Energy

A lot of gas men like to say that LNG is a clean fuel, claiming that LNG is cleaner than coal. While it is true that Natural Gas burns 40% cleaner than coal in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, Natural Gas is different than Liquefied Natural Gas. When dealing with the global issue of climate change, we have to look at Lifecycle Emissions.

While taking into account the emissions released from extraction, the energy consumed during the freezing process (natural gas is frozen to -260 degrees to become a liquid), and the fossil fuels burned in the process of transporting LNG on giant tankers around the world, the greenhouse gas emissions from liquefied natural gas are similar to, if not equivalent to those of coal. The processing cycle of LNG emits 40% more emissions than Natural Gas. Please look into the Heade Climate Report and the Carnegie Melon Report of 2007 for more information.

The New Foreign Fossil Fuel

LNG is different from natural gas, which we currently receive domestically and from Canada, because LNG involves the process of resource extraction from Nigeria, Indonesia, Algeria, Iran, Qatar, Peru and Russia, and shipping the gas in a liquefied state across oceans to the consumption centers of the UK and the US.

Transferring a portion of our dependence on oil to LNG only means expanding the fossil fuel industry’s colonial practices of resource extraction, often in the Global South, to benefit consumers and shareholders in the Global North.

From viruses brought during resource exploration by industry workers in Peru, to LNG plant explosions causing fatalities in Algeria, to noxious mud flows causing the displacement of thousands of people in Indonesia, the negative social and environmental impacts make LNG no better than oil. In fact, most oil companies are exploring LNG development, bringing along with them their horrible human-rights records.

LNG Development Projects

For materials and information about existing and proposed LNG projects, visit Public Citizen. Currently there are over 40 proposals in the United States, and many more in Canada and Mexico, to build import terminals, re-gasification plants and construct thousands of miles of pipelines to create this new fossil fuel infrastructure. This process would involve industrializing coast lines, dredging rivers, and clear-cutting 100 foot right-of-ways for the pipelines, which would negatively impact endangered aquatic and land-based habitats. In addition, the extraction, processing, transport, and burning of LNG release more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, greatly contributing to climate change.

Rising Tide North America opposes all Liquefied Natural Gas infrastructural development and seeks to call out these projects as environmental racism and detrimental to our survival. We support a no-compromise direct action approach to stopping LNG development and offer our support to communities around the world opposing LNG.

Current local work:

Cascadia - Rising Tide has been working closely with anti-LNG activists resisting the development of LNG infrastructure in their communities. Focusing on community health and safety, property rights, and Salmon protection, grassroots organizing has brought together hundreds of people to fight the developer’s plans to determine the future of Washingtonians and Oregonians. Rising Tide is contributing climate justice to the dialogue and fostering relationships between the local resistance movements and youth activists.

While on tour this spring we traveled from Southern Oregon to British Columbia sharing information and stories of local resistance in the anti-LNG movement with hundreds of people, directly counter-acting the industry’s attempts to keep the people ignorant about their plans for more foreign fossil fuel dependency. In addition, we have worked to link local struggles against LNG development on the import side, with stories of anti-fossil fuel work at the points of extraction, such as at the Climate Justice Summit, which saw over 100 students from the Northwest converge in Seattle last winter.

We also contributed to making LNG a major focus of the 2007 Environmental Law Conference at the University of Oregon and partnered with local organizers to apply pressure to powerful decision makers by lobbying in D.C. and protesting strategic targets in New York.

This summer the West Coast Convergence for Climate Action will be based adjacent to a proposed LNG site, providing the opportunity to support local activists within a broader framework of climate justice activism and creating a strategic space to confront the root causes of climate change.

Oxnard, CA - Australian resource giant BHP Billiton is trying to get approval for Cabrillo Port, a massive LNG terminal, which would emit 270 tons of air pollutants into a majority Latino community. LNG supertankers would arrive three times a week to offload LNG, which would then travel through a total of 27 miles of pipeline to the existing natural gas infrastructure, on the way disrupting coastal wetlands and habitats.

A coalition of groups is resisting the project, including Pacific Environment, the Environmental Defense Center, Sierra Club, Coastal Advocates, and the No LNG Community Alliance.

The video below details the route of the pipeline on land; a community member has compiled a number of videos, available here.

Dear Friends and Allies,

Many hearty greetings from Rising Tide and the Beehive Design Collective! We’re writing from snowy Maine and rainy Oregon with good news… our two organizations have joined forces this Spring, and are making plans to cross-pollinate the Pacific Northwest together!

We hope you’ll join us for an interactive, multi-media, combined presentation that celebrates fossil fuel resistance from around the globe AND embarks on a visual tour of the Beehive Collective’s Graphic Trilogy about corporate globalization in the Americas (FEATURING a behind-the-scenes look at the long-anticipated MESOAMERICA RESISTE graphic, currently on the cusp of completion!)

Beehive-RT Handbill

Beehive-Rising Tide Poster (14″ x 8.5″ size!)

Together we will expound upon the interrelated ecological and social crises threatening the hemisphere, making links between global economic structures, militarization, and resource and energy consumption, while also highlighting grassroots resistance struggles and what YOU can do to participate in active change.

We are now finalizing our tour schedule for upcoming months and hoped you would be interested in hosting this unique event. We will be visiting the Northwest region from March 20th to April 7th, 2007, and are excited to work with you to set up a presentation in your area!

Please read on for the nitty gritty and let us know if you are able to participate… we’d be happy to send you more details as needed! Contact us at pollinators@beehivecollective.org or for more information.

Miel y Solidaridad, the bees and RT

D I S M A N T L I N G M O N O C U L T U R E:

TALES OF ANTS AND ECONOMICS IN THE AMERICAS

The Beehive is a wildly motivated all-volunteer, art-activist collective that has gained international attention and participation for its collaboratively produced graphics campaigns. ( Wait You aren’t familiar
with the bees’ work? Visit http://www.beehivecollective.org )

With three giant illustrated portable murals, a six foot tall fabric storybook, and an engaging narrative, the Bees take audiences on an interactive VISUAL tour of the connections between COLONIZATION, MILITARIZATION, and RESOURCE EXTRACTION in the Americas. We will be exposing the agendas of the Free Trade Area of the Americas and Plan Colombia, and celebrating resistance to Plan Puebla Panama in Mesoamerica.

It’s a picture-lecture to be understood by anyone - not just the experts and political analysts JOIN IN as we de-construct the complex and overwhelming issues that are shaping our world, using bio-regionally accurate depictions of animals and insects as metaphors to link cultural and ecological diversity.

For MORE INFO on our half of the tour please visit the TOUR page via the link below. http://www.beehivecollective.org/english/tour.htm

RISING TIDE ROADSHOW: CONFRONTING THE ROOT CAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Rising Tide is an international grassroots network of groups and individuals who take direct action to confront the roots causes of climate change and promote local, community-based solutions to the climate crisis.

This spring, Rising Tide will bring home the global struggle for climate justice, connecting the dots between the overarching crisis of climate change and the grassroots struggles of communities resisting the fossil fuel industry’s assault on their land and culture.

In a multi-media presentation celebrating fossil fuel resistance from around the globe, we will highlight the diversity of creative tactics that are taking a bottom-up approach to connecting the dots between OIL, WAR CORPORATE POWER, COAL and the De-STABILIZATION of the GLOBAL CLIMATE. …with voices from the front lines of the struggle for ecological justice in the Pacific Northwest!

Your help in spreading the word to other potential hosts is much-appreciated.

THANK YOU, and again contact us at pollinators@beehivecollective.org for more information.

Coming soon.

To make a general donation to RTNA via PayPal, just click the image below. If you would like to direct your donation to a specific working group, please make a note of where you would like the money to go. Thanks.

You can also mail checks to:

Rising Tide North America

PO Box 11664

Portland, OR 97211

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a letter from Rising Tide North America…

December 12, 2007

Greetings friends and supporters of Rising Tide North America,

This is the time of year many people donate money and gifts to groups, organizations, and causes they care deeply about. We thought we’d share with you a brief summary of 2007 for RTNA, that you may see what we have accomplished this year and whether you relate to our work and approach. Would you like to see us grow and build our increasingly dynamic network of groups and individuals striking directly at the root causes of anthropogenic climate change? We are humbly yet vehemently asking you, your family, friends, neighbors, colleagues and friends to support RTNA’s grassroots efforts in any way with which you are comfortable and please forward his plea far and wide.

RTNA is comprised of full-time, all-volunteer activists who receive very little outside funding for our many projects. Often we utilize our own rather frugal monetary resources (usually obtained through odd jobs) to support many of these projects. 2007 has been an exciting year for us, here is just a sample of what we and our allies have been up to:

* After our intense and productive in-person strategy meeting in Austin, TX last February, our Spring Climate Action Tours traveled across the East Coat, West Coast, Midwest and Rockies Regions spanning over four months and visited hundreds of high schools, community centers, info shops, radio stations, and colleges giving interactive workshops about climate change and what people can do to take action in their own communities. This tour focused on community organizing and sustainability, local autonomy, debunking false solutions and exposing corporate and government greenwashing, and elucidating other critical issues conspicuously missing from the current climate debates. This tour often resulted in instantaneous networking and collaborating with many meaningful efforts already in place in each locality, ranging from community gardening and alternative energy to ecosystem defense and native land rights and sovereignty struggles. To read more about the tour link to: http://risingtidetour.blogspot.com/

* Organized a billboard banner-hanging in Asheville, NC protesting a new coal-fired power plant; the project was cancelled shortly thereafter. To read more link to: http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/2007/02/06/2-arrested-in-protest-against-woodfin-power-plant/

* Gave a workshop on Carbon Trading, its glaring flaws, and its colonial implications at the US Social Forum in Atlanta in June.

* Organized two Convergences for Climate Action in August one on the west coast in Skamokawa, Washington, the other in the Southeast near Ashville, North Carolina. Hundreds of people came together for a week workshops and skill-shares and a coordinated day of direct action targeting Liquefied Natural Gas, Bank of America’s funding of Coal, and PacifiCorp Energy’s developments of coal-fired power plants, and salmon-killing dams on California’s Klamath River. To find out more link to: http://www.climateconvergence.org/

* RTNA’s False Solutions Campaign launched with an action at the Point Carbon conference in New York City, publicly offering the Carbon Traitors a “deed to the sky” for their plans to commodify the Earth’atmosphere and industry’s greenhouse gas emissions. To find out more: http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/2007/10/30/rising-tides-greenwash-guerillas-discrupt-carbon-traitors-ahem-carbon-traders-conference/

* Civil disobedience lock-down action at Duke Energy’s 800-megawatt power plant in Charlotte, North Carolina; 2 people were arrested. To read more link to: http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/2007/11/17/duke-energy-headquarters-blockaded-in-opposition-to-new-coal-plant/

* Using fishing boats, sailboats, kayaks, and an umiak, participants in an occupation action crossed the Columbia River from Oregon to the Washington shore and occupied the beach at PacifiCorp Bradwood where Northern Star Natural Gas intends to construct a large LNG terminal.. There were no arrests-likely because the company wanted to avoid the negative publicity.

* Most recently Rising Tide played a major media prank on North America’s biggest coal and oil companies, by announcing that the members of the greenwashing lobby group The United States Climate Action Partnership had all committed to a 90% reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions. The hoax garnered international media attention. To read more link to: http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/2007/12/03/international-hoax-targets-us-business-consortium-amidst-bali-climate-negotiations/
* RTNA is currently working with Native Forest Network-Gulf of Maine to stop a proposed resort and gated community proposed by Plum Creek Timber Co. in the Maine North Woods. Two of RTNA’s organizers are testifying as expert witnesses against Plum Creek’s dismal plan in state hearings hosted by Maine’s Land Use Regulatory Commission this month. To read more link to: http://www.nrcm.org/issue_plumcreek.asp

*Marea Creciente Mexico-Rising Tide Mexico is helping organize a caravan delegation of women to the 3rd Gathering of Zapatista Communities with the Peoples of the World Comandanta Ramona. La Caravan America del Valle is a collaborative effort between various groups, collectives, and individual activists in Mexico City and Oaxaca. To read more go to: http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/2007/12/08/la-caravana-america-del-valle/

And Here Are Some of Our Exciting Plans for 2008:

-Coordinating three to Four Convergences for Climate Action next Summer (West Coast, Southeast, Northeast, and Rockies/Intermountain West).
-More workshops and trainings at high schools, community centers, and colleges. RTNA has just completed a menu of workshops that we offer to any interested parties-ranging from ant-oppression and non-violence trainings to video documentation and editing, climate science and ecosystem defense to Indigenous land rights and food sovereignty. To learn more, link to: http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/category/educational-undertakings/

-Organizing Fossil Fools Day, an international day of direct action against the fossil fuel industry on April 1st 2008. To fink out more link to: http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/category/fossil-fools-day-of-action/

-Expanding and strengthening local Rising Tide groups across the country (already there are four in the U.S., as well as groups emerging in Canada and Mexico). To find out more link to: http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/get-involved/
-Partnering with other organizations on dozens of events, including…
Indigenous Environmental Network
Black Mesa Water Coalition
Global Justice Ecology Project
Rainforest Action Network
Native Forest Network
Food for Maine’s Future
The Smartmeme Project
Student Trade Justice Campaign

-More organizing and actions from the False Solutions Campaign. Click this link for more information: http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/wordpress/category/false-solutions-campaign/

So as you may have surmised by now-WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!!! As a fledgling, all-volunteer collective it is more difficult for us to get funding than it is for more mainstream organizations-even if we are already off to an auspicious start. If you like our work and can help us grow by donating money or materials, we would be so appreciative!
For donations over $100, we have an excellent music Climate Compilation CD with appropriate songs and spoken-word from various radical and progressive musicians, as well as unique clothing patches made by the Beehive Collective in Maine. For those who donate over $500 we will also throw in an RTNA T-shirt (also designed by the Beehive Collective). Donors will also receive our monthly email newsletter.

You can send checks to: Rising Tide North America PO Box 11664 Portland, OR 97211
Or through Paypal on our website:
www.risingtidenorthamerica.org
The following is a wish list of material donations since we are a national organization please call (202) 657-6772 to find out where to send materials and equipment:

LCD projectors, Diesel vehicles that can run on waste veggie oil for tours, Art and banner making supplies, Free rooms or office spaces, Computers, Printers, Bicycles, Video and still cameras/videotapes and film/camera accessories, Office supplies (esp. blank CD & DVD disks), Software (graphics, music, video editing, etc.)

More coming soon.

Our general contact:

contact[–at–]risingtidenorthamerica[–dot–]org
Phone (202) 657-6772

Rising Tide North America
PO Box 11664
Portland, OR 97211

Rising Tide North America is comprised of local contacts and projects located around North America. On the right hand column of this website you’ll find several local contacts. If you are looking to contact a specific local group or campaign, please contact them directly for quickest results!

Reporters, please click here for contact information.

More coming soon.

[Don’t forget to keep up to date with Rising Tide North America by joining our email list!]

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!

Coming soon…

¡El ultimo viernes de agosto: “Masa Critica” para la justicia climática en el primer aniversario del Huracán Katrina!

El 25 de agosto marca el primer aniversario del dí­a cuando el Huracán Katrina alcanzó su fuerza y clasificación de huracán. En los dí­as siguientes, la tormenta se hizo mas fuerte sobre las aguas abnormalmente calientes del golfo de México, chocando con la costa del golfo frente a Nueva Orleáns y dejando miles de muertos y heridos, sin casas ni viviendas, victimas de un gobierno indiferente, cuatro siglos de racismo, y con un clima global cada vez mas caótico.

Este año, tomaremos las calles para despertar a la gente que sigue manejando en sus autos y contaminando al mundo sin darse cuenta que estan levantando la furia de la madre naturalesa.

Preparasen para una “Masa Critica”, una movilización de ciclistas retomando las calles para tirar una llave en los engranajes trafico y reclamar nuestro espacio el 25 de agosto en nuestras comunidades!

¿Porque una Masa Critica?- La Cultura del Automóvil, Petróleo, la Injusticia Ambiental.

La Masa Climática es una celebración de la cultura de la bicicleta, una verdadera alternativa a la cultura del caro, o automóvil, y las gases invernaderos que causa el calentamiento global y el cambio climático debido a la quema de los combustibles fósiles.

Si vemos de cerca, podemos ver como los puntos de injusticia se conectan desde Colombia a Bagdad, y hasta el Golfo de México por las relaciones oscuras del negocio de los hidrocarburos.

A lo largo de la costa del estado de Louisiana, antes existí­a maravillosos ecosistemas de ciénegas e isletas, ahora estén cubiertos por oleoductos, canales, y bombas petroleras. Alrededor del “Callejón de Cáncer” de Louisiana, un corredor de refinerí­as petroleras y plantas petroquí­micas, los moradores sufren de las cifras mas altas de cáncer en los Estados Unidos. Durante el Huracán Katrina, derrames de petróleo desde estas plantas y refinerí­as se mezclaron con las aguas de las áreas urbanas inundados y contaminado todo en una mezcla petroquí­mica.

Para la industria petrolera, demandamos nada menos que la Justicia Climática: desmantelar décadas de racismo, violencia y asesinato, polución toxica, y la negación del papel y la responsabilidad de la industria en la creación del caos climático.

La Injusticia Climática: Katrina, tsunamis, incendios forestales.

Mientras el caos climático sigue escalando, las tormentas asesinas serán mas frecuentes, los niveles de los mares seguirán subiendo, y los refugiados de los desastres climáticos subirán desde los miles hasta los millones. Y el racismo que perdura en esta sociedad asegura que las victimas de estos desastres climáticos seguirán siendo la gente pobre y de color.

El cambio climático nos afectará a todos- pero afectará - y a afectado algunos mas que otros. Combatiendo esta injusticia social y ambiental es el movimiento para la JUSTICIA CLIMATICA.

¡Acompañanos el 25 de agosto!

Marea Creciente Norte América (www.risingtidenorthamerica.org), es una red internacional de activistas radicales que trabajamos sobre las causas del cambio climático, (incluyendo activistas/trabajadores de primer auxilio desde Nueva Orleáns hasta Nueva Inglaterra) están trabajando en colaboración con grupos de Masa Critica en todo el paí­s para organizar y movilizar el 25 de agosto acciones de Masa Critica para llamar a la atención del publico al movimiento de justicia climática y las importantes relaciones entre el cambio climático, tormentas catastróficas, y el racismo ambiental.

Contacta de Marea Creciente

(Katrina@risingtidenorthamerica.org) para correspondencias en ingles, (justiciaclimatica06@gmail.com) para correspondencias en español- y haznos saber donde se realizara su Masa Critica para que podemos ayudar a difundir la convocatoria sobre todas las Masas Criticas en todo el continente. Pasa la vaz a amigos y ayudamos organizar para esta acción.

En la pagina de web de Rising Tide - Marea Creciente, se puede averiguar si hay una Masa Critica ya organizado en tu area. También tenemos volantes, ideas para pancartas para las bicicletas, y otras cositas interesantes.

Recuerda: el cambio climático solo fue el catalizador para el desastre del Huracán Katrina. Por favor ayuda y organiza otros eventos para el aniversario de Katrina para combatir al racismo en todas su formas, en el golfo y en tu comunidad! Revisa la pagina de Rising Tide para mas información sobre otros eventos de aniversario de Katrina de solidaridad con los sobrevivientes, y para informarnos de otro eventos de solidaridad en tu comunidad. También queremos animar a todos a participar en ayudar hacer una recolecta de donaciones para la ayuda y trabajo de reconstrucción en el golfo. Ver la pagina de Rising Tide - Marea Creciente para mas información.

Rising Tide North America- Marea Creciente Norte América - trabajando a apoyar a gente y grupos de base a tomar acciones en contra las causas del cambio climático
www.risingtidenorthamerica.org - en ingles
Katrina@RisingTideNorthAmerica.org - en ingles
Justiciaclimatica06@gmail.com - en español

Masa Critica - un movimiento internacional de grupos y individuos entusiastas de bicicletas retomando las calles.
www.critical-mass.org (pagina de web no-oficial))

Marea Creciente es una red internacional que nació desde la convicción de que las “solucionesâ€? propuestas y desarrolladas para combatir el cambio climático por parte de las transnacionales y favorables a estas y auspiciados por los estados-nacionales, de ninguna manera no nos salvaran! Esto es un caso de sobre-vivencia humana y planetaria; tenemos que desminuir nuestra dependencia en las industrias y instituciones que están destruyendo el planeta y trabajar hacia la autonomí­a comunitaria y la convivencia sustentable.

?Quien es Marea Creciente?

Marea Creciente - Rising Tide fue formada en los Paí­ses Bajos para gestar una voz mas radical durante la Conferencia de las Partes de la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático. En esta conferencia los paí­ses miembros intentaron salvar lo poco de lo que quedo del Protocolo de Kyoto (pero sin éxito, muy debido a las acciones de la delegación del gobierno del los Estados Unidos). Con este antecedente se estableció los capí­tulos Marea Creciente Reino Unido y Marea Creciente Australia.

Marea Creciente Norte América nace de las reuniones que se realizaron con la apertura del Comité Climático de Earth First! durante la Conferencia de Organizadores de 2006 de EF! Earth First! es el movimiento de ecologí­a radical de 26 años de militancia en la defensa ambiental. Por su historia primariamente en los Estados Unidos y Inglaterra, Earth First! como movimiento no tuvo mucho reconocimiento en paí­ses de habla español, o castellano. Pero con un análisis global sobre el cambio climático, y con clara comprensión de que un gran parte de los intereses de la industria de combustibles fósiles se concentra en América Latina, nuestra iniciativa como Marea Creciente Norte América es de también crear alianzas verdaderos y redes solidarios con grupos en todo el continente de las Americas, pero particularmente México y Centro América.

Marea Creciente, ya abarca tres continentes y enfocado en las causas del cambio climático con un énfasis en la “justicia climáticaâ€? se mantiene comprometida a sus principios de organización autónoma y acción directa. Nuestra estrategia esta basada en la “ofensiva sin concesiónâ€? para parar la extracción de combustibles fósiles y prevenir la construcción de nuevas infraestructuras de esta industria. Lo que significa esto en términos de organización local depende de las condiciones especificas y particular de cada región, cada comunidad, y cada individuo.

Marea Creciente recién realizo un llamado a emprender dí­as de acción directa internacional contra el cambio climático para el 15 de julio, coincidiendo con las reuniones del G8 en Rusia, donde participaron mas de 20 ciudades en el mundo en sintoní­a con un diversificado mensaje de que el tiempo a llegado a poner al fin a la industria de transnacionales privados y estatales de petróleo, gas natural, carbón y los otros derivados de combustibles fósiles y las muchí­simas otras empresas auxiliares que apoyen a la industria de energí­a y minas.

Justicia Climática

Después del Hurucan Katrina todos fuimos testigos de la clara injusticia de que la gente mas afectado por los cambios climáticos son la gente que ha siempre sido oprimidos y explotados por toda la historia de la “civilizaciónâ€?- los que estén fuera de la raza y clase dominante. En una dimensión mas global, las áreas que van hacer mas afectadas por sequí­as, tormentas y el creciente nivel del los mares, son los lugares con menos infraestructura de combustibles fósiles- o en otras palabras, los pueblos que son menos responsables por tanto caos climático.

El potencial para un racismo ambiental a un nivel mas elevado que todaví­a no hemos visto es verdaderamente horrifico; tuvimos no mas una pequeña muestra del futuro con lo que paso con Nueva Orleáns. Recordamos los refugiados de este desastre ambiental tratando de cruzar el puente de Cresent City al barrio de mas rico de Grenta, intentando huir del la cuidad inundada, los refugiados fueron negados el paso sobre el puente por los balazos de la fuerza policial de ese suburbio burgués. No podemos dejar que ocurra tales escenarios en el futuro; Ya es el tiempo que apresuramos nuestro esfuerzos para crear relaciones verdaderos con la gente pobre y de color quien son los que van a perder mas con el cambio climático.

Que es lo que hay que hacer?

No podemos detener el cambio climático; ya es una realidad- ya esta ocurriendo. Pero tenemos aun posibilidad todaví­a de evitar los peores escenarios, lo que los expertos cientí­ficos llaman “el punto de inclinaâ€? o el “cambio climático fugazâ€?.

Apoyando a las comunidades en resistencia a proyectos de construcción de nuevas infraestructuras para la industria de combustibles fósiles es la manera mas directa de contribuir a la reducción de los gases invernaderos, y al mismo ti