Workshops, Skill Shares and Other Events
Portland Rising Tide is organizing a series of skill shares and social events. The goal of these events is to provide an opportunity for community building, for connections to be made between interested individuals and Rising Tide members, for people to learn about getting involved with Rising Tide and to empower individuals with knowledge and skills. This grassroots empowerment is a critical and important part of addressing the root causes of climate change and altering the way we relate to one and other as well as to the environment.
2/16: 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!
2/19: Occupy, Climate Justice and Coal Export Terminals in the NW
Sunday, February 19, 2012
2:00pm until 4:00pm
Basement Room, St Francis of Assisi
1131 Southeast Oak Street, Portland, OR
The Occupy Movement has not often engaged environmental destruction, climate change, or other related issues. How can we infuse the economically-dominated messaging of Occupy with an environmental perspective? This conversation will be grounded in a discussion of climate justice, the work of Portland Rising Tide and coal in the Pacific Northwest as an example of the destructive practices occurring in our region.
Join us to find out how the world’s dirtiest fuel is traveling through our backyard and strategize how we can stop coal in its tracks and keep it in the ground!
2/29: F29 Shut Down the Corporations day of action! Rising Tide Climate Justice Bloc
What: March to challenge ALEC and corporate power, Climate Justice Bloc
When: Feb. 29th, 11am to 5pm
Where: Meet under the Burnside bridge on the West side at 11am, look for the huge wave!
Occupy Portland calls for a national day of non-violent civil disobedience targeting corporations who are members of ALEC, one of the most successful mechanisms that the 1% uses to control legislation. We are asking people around the country to choose members of ALEC in their home towns and SHUT DOWN BUSINESS AS USUAL.
Portland Rising Tide will be putting together a Climate Justice Bloc to call attention to ALEC’s role in propelling us further into climate chaos while stalling efforts to help slow climate change. ALEC is a friend to energy companies, corporate polluters, factory farms and their political allies. Among many other climate crimes, ALEC has helped to: Forbid local governments from limiting pesticide use, streamlined siting for nuclear and other power plants and prohibited local efforts to oppose genetically modified (GMO) crops. Join us for this huge national day of action!
