Community Members Blockade Oil Train in Downtown Vancouver, WA

reposted from Shut Down Fossil Fuels Community Members Blockade Oil Train in the Face of Police Presence in Downtown Vancouver, WA with Pop-up Sunflower Garden On Site Media Contact: Jessie Braverman, (617) 833-9766 Media Contact: Sophie Scholl, (360) 601-7187 Vancouver, WA — Community members blocked an oil train in downtown… Continue reading

Two Arrested After Shutting Down Kinder Morgan Terminal in Escalating Protests Against Major Tar Sands Oil Pipeline

For immediate release, July 31, 2017 Contact: Laurel Sutherlin, Rainforest Action Network — 415. 246. 0161 For High Resolution Photos, please contact Ayse Gursoz at ayse@ran.org Kinder Morgan Richmond Terminal Richmond, CA 94804 For Second Consecutive Week Activists Shut Down Kinder Morgan Richmond Terminal; Demand Halt to Trans Mountain Tar… Continue reading

Rising Tide North America Statement on Trump’s Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement

San Francisco, CA– Today, the Trump Administration announced that they were pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Rising Tide North America responded with the following statement: “In unsurprising news today, Donald J. Trump announced that the United States would be formally withdrawing from the Global Agreement on Climate Change… Continue reading

An Open Letter from Environmental & Climate Justice Organizations on May Day

via Climate Workers An Open Letter from Environmental & Climate Justice Organizations on May Day Worker power, immigrant rights, and racial justice must be at the heart of environmental and climate movements As environmental and climate justice organizations, we declare our support for protests planned for International Workers Day (“May… Continue reading

Activists #FloodTrump with Human Wave at Trump Hotel

For more information contact: Drew Hudson, 802-272-9763 Trump Hotel – Saturday April 29, 7pm. Clad in blue and surging like the rising seas that threaten millions around the world due to climate change, activists staged a mass nonviolent action and sit-in at Trump International Hotel. Activists performed a choreographed motion,… Continue reading