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Fundraiser for Makwa Initiative-Line 3 Resistance Sunday Dec 17

December 15, 2017
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Join Rising Tide Chicago for a holiday fundraiser to raise money for Makwa Initiative- Line 3 Frontline Resistance Details: Folks throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin have been organizing for more than a year to stop Enbridge’s line 3 pipeline. They have been using a variety of tactics, some political others more direct action oriented. In Wisconsin,…

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Last Discussion of Naomi Klein’s Book No is Not Enough- Tuesday Dec. 19, 2017

October 27, 2017
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Join Rising Tide Chicago for a Discussion of Noami Klien’s New Book No is Not Enough What: Discussion of No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trumps Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need Where: Uncharted Books, 2620 N. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL When: Monday Nov. 6th at 6:30 p.m. Details: Join Rising Tide Chicago for…

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Direct Action and Movement Building in the Trump Era -May 13

May 4, 2017
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When: Saturday, May 13th @ 1 p.m. Where: Logan Square Library, 3030 W. Fullerton Ave. RSVP: FB event here Details:  Rising Tide Chicago invites you a workshop and discussion on direct action and movement building in our current political moment. Come to learn more about direct action: what it is, why people use it and how it’s been…

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Art for Action – Event Sunday April 2

March 31, 2017
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Facebook Event Here Join Rising Tide Chicago for a short presentation about making art for actions followed by a short art build for the upcoming March for Science, Peoples Climate Movement March and other upcoming events. We will share tips and tricks we’ve learned over the past 5 + years of creating art for protests…

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Chase Bank Occupied to Urge Divestment from DAPL

December 2, 2016
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Chicagoans Interrupt Business at Chase Bank to Urge them to Divest from the Dakota Access Pipeline Chicago, IL— More than two dozen people protested at a Chase Bank at branch on the Magnificant Mile Thursday morning, ten inside the bank and a dozen outside to demand that the bank stop funding the construction of the…

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5 Arrested at Chicago Citibank for Financing the Dakota Access Pipeline

November 20, 2016
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Photo Credit: Kelly Hayes #NoDAPL: 5 Arrests at Chicago Citibank Branch Occupied for Financing the Dakota Access Pipeline CHICAGO 11/19, 11:30AM — Chicagoans from Rising Tide Chicago, Chicago’s League of Abolitionist Whites (CLAW), Lifted Voices and Showing Up for Racial Justice Chicago occupied a Chicago Citibank branch located at 2555 N Clark St. risking arrest to demand that funding…

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Citibank Occupied to Protest Dakota Access Funding

September 17, 2016
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For Immediate Release: September 17, 2016 Press Contact: Angie Viands, angiemariev@gmail.com, 312-217-0145 Chicago Citibank Branch Occupied for Financing the Dakota Access Pipeline Chicago, IL–Chicagoans occupied a Citibank Branch on Chicago’s Magnificant Mile shopping district to demand they stop funding the Dakota Access Pipeline immediately. Over the past several weeks, thousands of Native Americans and allies…

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Banner Drop at BNSF

July 29, 2016
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  For Immediate Release: July 12, 2016   Chicagoans Drop Banner at BNSF Rail Yard Warning of Explosive “Bomb” Trains during Week Oil Train Week of Action CHICAGO, IL – Tuesday, a giant 25 ft banner that had the words “Oil Train Blast Zone” was held on the rail overpass and Burlington Northern Santa Fe…

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Invenergy CEO Home Demo: No Fracked Gas Plant!

July 29, 2016
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Banner Hang at Invenergy CEO’s Mansion to Protest Profit from New Fracked Gas Plant For Immediate Release: April 21, 2016 Chicago, IL–Early Thursday morning, activists with Rising Tide Chicago, hung up banners on metal fencing outside a mansion in Chicago’s gold coast neighborhood that Michael Polsky, CEO of Invenergy, owns and occupies.  The banners read,…

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Chicagoans Flood the Banks!

July 29, 2016
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For Immediate Release: Dec. 7, 2015 Chicagoans Flood the Banks to Protest Profit from Prisons, Gentrification and Climate Change Chicago, IL–One Hundred Chicagoans from a variety of movements joined up Monday to organize an event called ‘Flood the Banks!’, where they targeted various financial institutions that profit from prisons, home foreclosures, gentrification and climate change. Two…

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