Cross-posted from Wild Idaho Rising Tide Updates and additions to Idaho & Montana Tar Sands Megaload Protests! Over the last month by Christmas Eve, Umatilla and Warm Springs tribes, Rising Tide groups, and allied organizations and activists have staged dozens of actions escalating Northwest resistance against tar sands mining and… Continue reading
It is time. The fight against fossil fuel extraction has never been so fierce. All over North America, a spirit as old as the forests and mountains is sweeping our movement. From the Appalachian Mountains to the great plains of Oklahoma to the Salish Coast on the Pacific Ocean, a… Continue reading
12/16/13 Media contacts: Yoko Silk, Portland Rising Tide – yokita@gmail.com; 541-517-7766 Stephen Quirke, Portland Rising Tide – stephen.quirke@ncf.edu – 941-525-0076 16 ARRESTED AS CLIMATE JUSTICE GROUPS HALT CONTROVERSIAL TAR SANDS MEGALOAD John Day, OR: On Monday Dec 16, climate justice groups stopped the movement of a controversial shipment of equipment… Continue reading
Megaload Protestors Take-Over Bellevue Office *Contact: Karen Looney, Spectrum@riseup.net <Spectrum@riseup.net>, 312-813-6306 * *Thursday, December 12, 2013* BELLEVUE, WA – Today, over a dozen protestors with the group Rising Tide Seattle took over the offices of a General Electric subsidiary to protest their role in the tar sands oil extraction project… Continue reading