Rising Tide Spring 2007 Climate Action Tour!

The Rising Tide Spring 2007 Climate Action Tour is Coming to Your Region - Host Us in Your Town!

This spring, Rising Tide will bring the global struggle for climate justice to the belly of the beast, connecting the dots between the overarching crisis of climate change and the grassroots struggles of communities resisting the fossil fuel industry’s assault on their land and culture.

Through partnering with local environmental and climate justice organizations in each region, we seek to amplify the voices of those most affected by climate change and the fossil fuel industry, boosting support for these revolutions on the local level and creating a culture of solidarity across lines of race, class and gender.

Consumer capitalism and the climate-disrupting fossil fuel industries that power it are committing ecocide and genocide on a level unprecedented in human history, destroying not only entire cultures, mountains, and rivers, but the very life-support systems of the planet. The question before us is, what are we going to do about it?

The possibilities for action are infinite and as diverse as all our combined ideas and desires. Two mutually-beneficial strategies that we will explore on the roadshow are: sparking and supporting local struggles against fossil fuel infrastructure, and building real, sustainable alternatives that foster community and decrease our dependence on the industries and institutions destroying the planet.

The Spring Roadshow will take a popular education approach to organizing and agitating for climate justice, employing music, theatre and multi-media to foment life-affirming resistance. We will travel the country in a bus powered by recycled veggie oil, bringing the struggle for justice and sustainability to a community center or college campus near you. Our tentative roadshow dates are listed at the end of this page.

In addition to offering a “main event,” the Rising Tide Roadshow is available for longer tour stops of up to a few days to do more in-depth workshops on direct action, anti-oppression, strategic campaigning, radical mental health, and the consensus decision-making process. Other trainings may be available depending on the tour date and location – let us know if you have specific ideas or needs.

We want to hear from you! Are you engaged in a climate-related campaign or community project and would like to work with us on a tour stop or two in your area? Can you host a tour stop in your town? Get in touch at contact@risingtidenorthamerica.org.

Note: we define “climate-related” in a broad sense. Work around food sovereignty, preserving and restoring ecosystems, indigenous rights, mining, power plants, environmental justice, bikes, and energy production/consumption are all important pieces of the climate web. We also believe that climate change can only be addressed by exposing the intersections between the oppression of humans and the earth. The people hardest hit by climate-induced natural disasters have been and will continue to be those most disenfranchised by our society and least responsible for the emission of greenhouse gases: the poor, women, and people of color. RTNA is committed to challenging all forms of oppression in our organizing.

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Please Support the Climate Action Tour!

The Rising Tide Spring Roadshow is coming together-and we need your help!

United continental action is urgently needed to stop the global climate catastrophe that is already underway. As you read this, a team of international climate activists is organizing a cutting-edge traveling multi-media tour to network communities across the continent and the planet in defense of the Earth’s climate-and we urgently need your help!

This Spring, Rising Tide North America (RTNA) will carry the global struggle for climate justice to the belly of the beast, connecting the nodes between the overarching crisis of climate change, ecosystem destruction, and the grassroots struggles of communities resisting the fossil fuel industry’s assault on their land, lives, and culture.

Your generous support can help us mobilize a mass movement that will challenge to its very foundation the current domination of this fossil-fuel-based, Earth-destroying, corporate capitalism that is the driving force behind human-caused climate change. Every donation helps!!

THE ROADSHOW

Through partnering with local environmental and climate justice organizations in each region, we seek to amplify the voices of those most affected by climate change and the fossil fuel industry, boosting support for these revolutionary movements on the local level and creating a culture of solidarity across lines of race, class, and gender, while serving as a voice for the ecosystems and wildlife of the planet.

The Spring Roadshow will take a popular education approach to organizing and agitating for climate justice, employing art, music, theatre, science, story-telling, bike culture, video, and more to foment life-affirming resistance. We will travel the continent in a bus powered by recycled veggie oil, bringing the struggle for justice and sustainability to community centers and college campuses around the continent.

In addition to offering a “main event,” the RTNA Roadshow is available for longer tour stops of up to several days to conduct more in-depth workshops on direct action, anti-oppression, strategic campaigning, and the consensus decision-making process. Other trainings may be available depending on the tour date and location, and each community’s specific ideas or needs.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Consumer capitalism and the climate-disrupting fossil-fuel industries that power it are committing ecocide and genocide on a level unprecedented in human history, destroying not only entire ecosystems, species, cultures, mountains, and rivers, but the very life-support systems of the planet.

The question before us is: what are we going to do about it? The possibilities for action are infinite and as diverse as all our combined ideas and desires. Two mutually-beneficial strategies that we will highlight on the roadshow are: sparking and supporting local struggles against fossil- fuel infrastructure, and building real, sustainable alternatives that foster community and decrease our dependence on the industries and institutions that are currently destroying the planet.

We define “climate-related” in a broad sense. Work related to food sovereignty, preserving and restoring ecosystems, indigenous rights, mining & clearcutting, urban sprawl, power plants, environmental justice, bicycle-centered communities, and energy production/consumption are all important strands of the climate web. We also recognize that climate chaos can only be addressed by exposing the intersections between the oppression of humans and that of the Earth and other species. Those hardest hit by climate-induced natural disasters have been and will continue to be those most disenfranchised by our society and least responsible for the emission of greenhouse gases: the Indigenous, poor, women, people of color-and all other species on Earth. RTNA is committed to challenging ALL forms of oppression in our organizing.

ABOUT US

The Roadshow participants are well-networked, experianced activists with a variety of skills and talents who form a tight, focused, mature, and productive collective. We are artists, writers, scientists, performers, musicians, mechanics (vehicular and bicycle), farmers, organizers, strategists, videographers/producers, teachers, networkers, activists, and visionaries.

CLIMATE CONVERGANCE SUMMER 07

Later in the Summer of 2007 the networking and alliance-building accomplished during the Roadshow will manifest itself in a convergence of groups and people committed to tackling the root causes of climate change and the heinous environmental injustices it engenders. This convergence will cement the strategizing already underway to take on headlong the root causes (as well as the impacts) of climate change.

So we are humbly and sincerely requesting your financial and/or logistical/infrastructural support for this Roadshow effort. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and please consider supporting us.

Sincerely,
Rising Tide North America

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Climate Action Tour Dates (tentative)

Here’s our tentative schedule for the Climate Action Tour.

Febrauary
Austin Feb 28

March
Austin — Radical Encuentro Camp at Belle Springs
outside of Austin 2-3
Houston March 4, 5
New Orleans 6, 7
Tallahassee 8, 9
Gainesville, FL 10,11
Miami 12, 13, 14
Charleston,SC 15, 16
Millidgeville, GA 17,18
Atlanta 19, 20
Knoxville,TN 21, 22
Asheville,NC 23, 24
Chapel Hill,NC 25, 26
Richmond, VA 27, 28
DC-Baltimore 29, 30 31

April
Shepherdstown, WV 1, 2
Harrisonburg, VA 3, 4
Blacksburg, VA 5, 6
Charleston, WV 7, 8
Athens OH 9, 10
Lexington, KY 11, 12
Chicago 13, 14, 15
13-15: Chicago, IL (LAS Conference)
16-18: Madison, WI (rest days too!)
19: Iowa
20-21: Saint Louis, MO (Riot-Folk! Convergence)
22: Yellow Springs, OH
23-24: Pittsburgh, PA
25-26: Philadelphia, PA
27-28: New York City
29-30: Connecticut

May
1: Providence, RI
2-4: Seed Sow Road Show
(Bike ride from Providence to Worcester to Boston)
5-8: Boston, MA (Biojustice 2007)
9-10: Maine
11-12: Western Mass
13: Albany, NY
14: Syracuse, NY
15-16: Ithaca, NY
17: Erie, PA or Cleveland, OH
18-20: Michigan (Detroit, Ann Arbor, Lansing)
21: Indianapolis, IN
22-24: Drive to Black Mesa, AZ Spring Gathering)

More dates to be posted soon, including our West Coast Tour with the Beehive Collective!