Climate change is no laughing matter – but that doesn’t mean we can’t confront the Fossil Fuel Empire with subversive humour. Once again the Fossil Fool jokers were out in force celebrating the beginning of BP Tar Sans Fortnight of Shame, here's a round up of the actions that happened, let us know if you're isn't here.
London Rising Tide are supporting the UK Tar Sands Network and are combining meetings for the near future. For more information please visit http://www.no-tar-sands.org/ or http://tarsandsinfocus.wordpress.com/
The Tar Sands
Visible from space, the tar sands mines and processing facilities in the province of Alberta, Canada have been labelled the largest industrial project on earth.
Rising Tide-Plymouth & Art Not Oil-Plymouth took the Plymouth city centre streets to bring you the big “Fossil Fools Farce”, a street theatre to remind us there are facts and names behind the Climate drama. Citizens and cops, all they took leaflets and showed their interest...!
Saturday, 10 April 2010
Meet 1 PM at Oxford Circus
BP want to start extracting oil from the tar sands, the single most destructive project on earth - fuelling climate chaos and trampling the
rights of indigenous communities.
We want to stop them.
On Saturday, 10th April, hundreds of people from London and beyond will gather at the pumps to send a message to BP: “you’re not going into the
tar sands without a fight!”
Come to a mass action! Bring yourselves, your friends, whistles and drums if you have them, and a Zone 1-2 travel card. Meet at Oxford Circus and be ready to make a move to our final destination.
Take action to keep BP out of the tar sands – the single most destructive project on earth.
The BP Fortnight of Shame is a call to action from the UK Tar Sands Network, Rising Tide and the Camp for Climate Action to force BP to reverse their crazy plans to move into Canada’s tar sands. It runs between the annual Fossil Fools day on April 1st, which in recent years has seen a flurry of action against the fossil fuels industry, and BP’s Annual General Meeting on April 15th. Grassroots groups across the UK and around the world, will be taking action in solidarity with First Nations communities in Canada to stop BP's deadly plans in their tracks.
Rising Tide North America's 'The Climate Movement is Dead: Long Live the Climate Movement', Kate Evan's 'Carbon Supermarket' and new from Carbon Trade Watch, 'Carbon Trading - How it works and why it fails'.
Rising Tide North America is pleased to announce the release of our latest publication: The Climate Movement is Dead: Long Live the Climate Movement.
The Oil-ympics saw activists from London Rising Tide and the London Tar Sands Network divided into three teams: BP, Shell and RBS, all ready to ‘Race to the Tar Sands’. Traditional winter sports were subverted to illustrate the irony of Canada portraying the Vancouver Winter Olympics as an event which celebrates Canadian indigenous culture and environmental sustainability, while in the neighbouring province of Alberta, Canadian First Nations are finding that their lands, communities and health are being devastated by the Tar Sands.
*Call for “system change not climate change” unites global movement
*Corrupt Copenhagen ‘accord’ exposes gulf between peoples demands
and elite interests
Copenhagen, December 2009
The highly anticipated UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen
ended with a fraudulent agreement, engineered by the United States
and dropped into the conference at the last moment. The
"agreement" was not adopted. Instead, it was "noted" in an absurd
parliamentary invention designed to accommodate the United States
and permit Ban Ki-moon to utter the ridiculous pronouncement "We
have a deal."
