2/16 Climate Justice Bloc Art Make
What: F29 Climate Justice Bloc art party Where: 4734 n Williams (enter through the back door) When: Thursday, Feb. 16th, 6pm-9pm Rising Tide will be forming a Climate Justice Bloc for the Feb. 29th Shut Down the Corporations day of action. Help us construct a giant wave to crush corporate power! We will be sewing, painting and using hot glue! RSVP on Facebook!
Read MoreTheater of the Oppressed 1/8/12
Saturday January 8th, 2012 1:30-3:30 @ People’s Co-op community room (upstairs) 3029 Southeast 21st Avenue Portland, OR 97202 come prepared to move, play, and have fun free! open to all ages! Theater is a channel for knowledge; it is the art of looking at our selves and can be a means of transforming society. Brazilian theater activist, Augusto Boal, created Theater of the Oppressed (T.O.) in the 1960′s out of a belief that “we can make this world a place where we can be happy in rather than just a vast market place in which we sell our goods and our souls”....
Read More11/13 Keep Coal Out of the Northwest! A Teach In/Strategy Session
Sunday, November 13 · 2:00pm – 4:00pm Tabor Space, Muir Hall 5441 Southeast Belmont Street Portland, OR 97215 As the market for coal in the US falls, Big Coal threatens to open the Northwest as a gateway for coal export. The town of Longview, WA, 60 miles north of Portland, is facing a proposal from Millennium Bulk Logistics (a subsidiary of Big Coal giants Ambre Energy and Arch Coal) to become the second largest coal export terminal in the world, exporting up to 80 million tons of coal annually. Boardman, St. Helen’s and Coos Bay, OR as well as Bellingham, WA are all at some...
Read MoreRising Tide Portland Undead Army Descends on BOA
One Arrested at Anti-Coal Zombie March Targeting Bank of America Portland Rising Tide, a direct action environmental group confronting the root causes of climate change resurrected the first ever undead zombie army against coal. On Monday October 31st, the zombie army against coal marched from Occupy Portland at 3:00 PM to two Bank of America branches in downtown Portland. One protestor, Tim Swenson, was arrested in the protest for allegedly putting red corn syrup on the exterior of the Bank of America on 2nd and Morrison. Nearly 100 zombies participated in the march. Twenty police...
Read MoreDance Party Shakes Bank of America
Protesters from Occupy Portland and Portland Rising Tide confront Bank of America with a dance off in the lobby of their corporate office tower in downtown Portland. A march left Occupy Portland Monday afternoon and headed for the Bank of America tower and financial building which houses corporate offices of this thieving corporation. Thirty five protesters entered the building and kicked off a rowdy dance party in the lobby, playing on bucket drums and rhythm sticks. The Bank of America branch immediately locked its doors, preventing protesters from bringing the dance party inside As...
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