USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.
Pockets of Resistance to Fossil Fuels are Growing and Spreading. Check this video from Oregon.
Rising Tide International Day of Action Oregon Happenings
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On April 20th, 2011 Groups around the world commemorated the BP Deep Water Horizon Oil catastrophe with actions calling for an end destructive energy resourc…
30,000 Indigenous and rural Ecuadoreans have suffered at the hands of Chevron…their water, soil and food supply contaminated with oil waste. Will you be one of 30,000 people calling for justice?
Stand up with the people of Ecuador. Click LIKE, sign the letter, and share the link from our friends at Rainforest Action Network. Spread the word: It’s time for justice now.
Stand Up To Chevron, Demand Justice In The Amazon
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Watch this open letter to the United States from the communities in Ecuador devastated by oil giant Chevron’s contamination. Then sign the petition below to stand with the Ecuadoreans and demand justice in the Amazon.
Dear Friends–
If it was easy, they wouldn’t call it a “struggle.”
In 1921, 15,000 miners took up arms against the coal industry’s gun thugs and fought for the basic right to live and work in decent conditions. It was the second largest armed insurrection in the U.S. history (after the Civil War) and the only time the U.S. government used airplanes to drop bombs on it’s own people. The Battle of Blair Mountain has become an historic symbol of resistance against King Coal. Now, greedy coal companies have removed it’s historical preservation status and begun to strip mine Blair Mountain.
In fierce resistance, Appalachian residents most harmed by mountaintop removal coal mining are joining together with union rank and file, retired miners, environmentalists, students, teachers and more for a historic march and direct action to commemorate the battle’s 90th anniversary from June 5-11. And Rising Tide North America will be joining them.
The March on Blair Mountain builds on the energy of Appalachia Rising, which brought thousands to the streets of Washington D.C. last September, and spread to Kentucky where dozens occupied their governor’s office for justice in their state and the region last February.
Now we are bringing the movement to Blair Mountain.
Thanks for all you do.
For the mountains,
Rising Tide North America
https://risingtidenorthamerica.org
Update from Washington D.C.: The Department of Interior dropped charges for the 21 arrested during Reclaim Power March April 18.
On April 18th, a thousand people marched to the Dept. of Interior in an unpermitted march, organized by Rising Tide North America and Peaceful Uprising, singing “We Shall Overcome.” Hundreds stormed the building’s lobby for a multi-hour occupation which resulted in 21 arrests.
Today was their arraignment. All 21 were in court for our arraignment from all over the country. Some planned on going to trial.
But then there was a strange turn. The Dept of Interior essentially dropped all charges.
Here’s a first hand account from one of the DOI 21:
“The court called us up front and, one by one, called us up to the clerk who gave us a paper which said, in part, “The US Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia or the office of the Attorney General for the D. of C. has declined to proceed with prosecution against you for the incident that led to your arrest for the offense of UNLAWFUL ENTRY. This means that your arrest has been NO PAPERED. However, the prosecuting attorney could seek to proceed with prosecution at a later date.”
via Shadia Fayne Wood
Our lawyer afterwards said that in 20 years of experience he knows of only one case where someone who was “no papered” was later prosecuted for the charge.
The 21 of us went outside the courthouse and after exchanging hugs we sang “If I Had a Hammer” together. We also talked about the next big action for many of us, the March on Blair Mountain. We were all juiced!”
Was it the threat of taking it to court, the sheer number of arrestees, or the upcoming presidential election that swayed them? Maybe all three.