Rising Tide Orientation/Plug-In Meeting, 5/15/13
Wednesday May 15th, 7-9pm Laughing Horse Books 10 NE 12th Ave Portland Rising Tide hosted another orientation to share information about our work and how to get involved. During this gathering we discussed the onslaught of fossil fuel export terminals proposed in our region. We talked about the work of Rising Tide to oppose these terminals, climate justice and direct action and how you can plug-in as an organizer and a participant. May 15 has come and gone but check Future Events and Workshops for the next bi-monthly plug-in coming up in July, date TBA. Come learn more about the movement to...
Read More4th Annual Law & Disorder Conference, May 10-12th, 2013
This conference was not specifically an RT event but was presented by allies. This year’s L&D was a lively and well-attended consortium for grassroots campaigns focused on radical change in Cascadia– view the awesome workshop schedule! The Law & Disorder Conference is an annual event: This conference calls for people, movements, organizations and collectives to present alternative accounts to the political dimensions of civic engagement, mutual aid and revolution as they relate to economics, politics, invention, technology, work, artistic and cultural production, the...
Read MoreColumbia County Planning Commission Hearing, 5/6/13
A public hearing was held in St. Helens on Monday evening, May 6th to consider the proposed application to rezone 957 acres adjacent to the Port Westward export terminal, setting the stage for a major expansion of the terminal. The application is controversial because of its likely link to Kinder Morgan’s coal export proposal, which would involve over a dozen coal trains each day through Portland and Columbia County. The hearing and the Scapoose City Council meeting on the same evening appear to have been great successes. The room for Columbia County Planning was packed, due in part to...
Read MoreClimate Justice and Tar Sands Blockade Workshop, 4/23/13
Where: Laughing Horse Books – 12 NE 10th Ave, Portland, OR 97232 When: April 23rd, 7-9pm Cost: Free! Donations happily accepted This workshop will go explore the concept of climate justice through the work of the Tar Sands Blockade, which was initiated in part by Rising Tide North Texas. Several guest speakers that have participated in the blockade will be present to talk about their involvement. This will include a participant in the recent Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance action camp in Ponca City, Oklahoma. This most recent action camp is an example of how the campaign is growing...
Read MoreBidder 70: RT Monthly Film Series 4/18/13
Follow Tim, Bidder 70, from college student to incarcerated felon. Redefine justice for yourself. Choose your side. Bidder 70 centers on an extraordinary, ingenious and effective act of civil disobedience demanding government and industry accountability. In 2008, University of Utah economics student Tim DeChristopher committed an act which would redefine patriotism in our time, igniting a spirit of civil disobedience in the name of climate justice. Check Diane Sweet’s report on Crooks and...
Read MoreAction against ESCO Corp, Tar Sands Profiteer, 2/17/13
On Sunday afternoon February 17th, Portland Rising Tide took action against Tar Sands profiteer ESCO corp. in solidarity with climate action protests across the country. ESCO corp. is a corporation local to Portland, OR that designs and manufactures equipment for resource extraction projects all over the world. They had recently bought one of their major suppliers in the Alberta Tar Sands and are in the process of expanding their supply to the Powder River Basin in Wyoming, which is the site from which coal intended for export in the Pacific Northwest would be mined. ESCO corp. in the...
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