Activities
Rising Tide's first direct action was closing down a coal-fired power plant near Carbo, Virginia. Rising Tide would later be instrumental in defeating a proposal by Progress Energy to build an oil-fired power plant in Woodfin, North Carolina.
Rising Tide North America has hosted Convergences for Climate Action since the summer of 2007, in multiple locations around the United States.
Contingents have also worked in Mexico. Brad Will, the Indymedia journalist who was assassinated in Oaxaca, Mexico, was a member of Rising Tide and Earth First!.
A network of protesters within the Rising Tide, named the 'Greenwash Guerillas' have disrupted a number of public speakers in recent times. Thomas Friedman, a number of banking and fossil fuel industry CEOs and others have been notably targeted by this organization.
Beginning in 2011, activists with Wild Idaho Rising Tide began protesting and blocking tar sands "megaloads" in Moscow, Idaho. Oil companies transport tar sands extraction equipment through Idaho to the Alberta tar sands.
In the summer of 2012, activists with Rising Tide North Texas formed the Tar Sands Blockade with Texas landowners to campaign against the construction of the southern leg of TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline. TransCanada responded by hiring off-duty police officers, filing civil suits against protesters, and calling on-duty officers to remove protesters by using, at times, pepper spray, pain compliance, and Tasers.
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