Donate to Rising Tide North America and Help Make Climate Justice a Reality in 2013 Our climate movement is fierce. And we’re not afraid to stand up to the worst drilling and mining companies on the planet. Over six years ago in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Rising Tide… Continue reading
Rising Tide North America is excited to have led this call to support the Tar Sands Blockade. Not only is stopping the expansion of fossil fuels infrastructure of the utmost priority, but the harsh repression of environmental activists from both TransCanada and law enforcement needs to be called out again and… Continue reading
Yesterday two Texans, Shannon Bebe and Benjamin Franklin, were subjected to torture tactics at the hands of police under the active encouragement of TransCanada senior supervisors. Bebe and Franklin were exercising their constitutional rights to nonviolent protest when they locked themselves to Keystone XL construction machinery outside Winnsboro, Texas and… Continue reading
Two People Lock Themselves to Keystone XL Machinery to Defend Eight People in Tree Village Two Texas-born Tar Sands Blockaders have locked themselves to a critical piece of machinery for Keystone XL construction in order to protect a tree village occupied by eight people in the tar sands pipeline’s path of devastation… Continue reading