4.7.07

Rising Tide UK (1) has joined the growing list of partners to Alive Earth (2), a grassroots musical alternative to the Live Earth project.

Sam Chase from Rising Tide said: ‘The fatal flaw at the heart of Live Earth is the same as that at the heart of ‘An Inconvenient Truth’: it acknowledges the gravity of the crisis, but then goes into overdrive to convince us that electric cars, the convenient lie that is carbon offsetting and privatised technology can get us through it. Once again, an amazing opportunity to stimulate real social and climatic change has been squandered.’

London Rising Tide and Friends descended on Chelsea Tractor country on Friday night in a protest against the G8’s pathetic attempt to “consider” climate change and to reduce CO2 emissions.

Last year 800+ people descended on a field near Drax power station and built a
sustainable camp without the help of John Inman (although he would have been there
if able)! This was a base for 2 weeks of direct action, workshops and skillsharing
on climate change.

The camp was organised on a completely non-hierarchical basis with a series of
geographical "neighbourhoods" each providing their own kitchen, structures and
decision making bodies.

At about midday, members of London Rising Tide (in support of the 'Plane Stupid' short haul callout) entered the CAA building (in Kingsway London WC2), and asked to see their Chairman Sir Roy McNulty to present him with a copy of the Tyndall Centre report on aviation and climate change.

Three grassroots professors of Climatology: Herb Garrett from Proper Climatology Innit Inc, Winston O'Boogie from Whither Science Bona Fide, and Wolfgang Lumpenback from Klimate Kaos Kosher, persuaded his PA to accept the science report and she promised to reply in writing to London Rising Tide.

TELL SHELL - HANDS OFF IRAQI OIL!

Join the Hands Off Iraqi Oil Protest at Shell's Annual General Meeting

Tuesday 15 May 2007
8.30am - 12 noon

Novotel London-West Hotel and Convention Centre,
1 Shortlands, Hammersmith, London, W6 8DR

Map: http://tinyurl.com/25f3w3
(Nearest tube - Hammersmith)

Shell has been steering the agenda for de-facto oil privatization in Iraq.

Activists occupy Carbon Neutral Company While Carbon Neutral Company
Occupies Houses of Parliament, 21.2.07

Three activists from London Rising Tide today barricaded themselves inside
the London headquarters of the Carbon Neutral Company. The protest took
place to high-light the damage that offset companies are doing in
promoting climate complacency in the general public.

originally posted on 2005-07-09 06:34:36 +0000

This BBC piece (below) has a pretty sound take on what this action was about. We hope to have more detailed personal reports up here shortly...

Stuff happened in other parts of Scotland too:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/07/317527.html

...and in other parts of the world:
Australia: http://www.risingtide.org.au/
USA: http://www.mountainjusticesummer.org/actions/2005-7-08/index.php
Venezuela: http://www.noalg8.contrapoder.org.ve/

NRT Spoof action - Build the NDR: Concrete is freedom!

Posing as members of the fictional Coalition for Roads And Progress (C.R.A.P), and brandishing placards bearing slogans such as ‘Re-tarmac the streets!', ‘Oil is Good for the Planet’, ‘The NDR – an industrial paradise’ and ‘Walking is a Waste of Time!’, we held a series of mock press conferences outside the Forum in Norwich city centre. Click here to see full action report, photos and the spoof C.R.A.P leaflet (along with our own straight leaflet setting out our concerns about the NDR).

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We seem to have been preparing for it forever, but the G8 is finally upon us. My London life is sorted enough to leave behind for 10 days - I hope - and now it's time to pull together whatever courage and creativity I have. After all, this psychotic system needs to be dismantled and the seeds of new ones need to be nurtured, and fast. That's what I try to tell myself when the doubts and fears drop by for a chat every now and then.