Climate Forum and Teach-In: Confronting Oil, Coal and Gas — Direct Action Movements at the Point of Extraction

Rising Tide will be hosting a teach-in/fundraiser on anti-extraction/direct action movements in North America.

The wealthy few are destroying our climate, our ecosystems and our
communities. They destroy Appalachia’s mountains for profit they make from
coal. They’ve poisoned the Gulf of Mexico and Indigenous and frontline
communities from Alberta to the Gulf Coast for profit they make from oil.
They are destroying communities from New York to American West for profit
they’ll make from natural gas.

In California and the Bay Area, the fight against extraction is becoming a
reality as industry is paving the way for more and more fracking while
“oil by rail” proposals are becoming more prevalent.

Now frontline communities and grassroots direct action allies from across
the continent have risen up against the fossil fuel industry. In the past
three years, from Washington D.C. to the streets of St. Louis and
Richmond,CA to the highways and byways of rural Idaho and Montana, the
fight against fossil fuels has intensified with massive amounts of direct
action and grassroots organizing.

Event to include:
– Panel on the North American anti-extraction movements; speakers TBA
– Amazing videos from recent direct actions
– Snacks, booze

Please join Rising Tide North America as we host a climate forum on the
growing movement against fossil fuel extraction in North America.

RSVP:

This event is a fundraiser for Radical Action for Mountain People’s
Survival [RAMPS]. A non-violent direct action campaign based in the
southern coal fields of West Virginia, dedicated to ending all forms of
strip mining in Appalachia.

This event is a Rising Tide production.