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Rising Tide Chicago hosts Virtual Direct Action Trainings in Solidarity with Line 3 Water Protectors

March 23, 2021
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Rising Tide Chicago hosted two online direct action trainings to prepare people to take action to Stop Line 3. If built, Line 3 will go through treaty territory of Anishinaabe peoples and the Mississippi River headwaters to Lake Superior. These trainings were held in January and February of 2021. https://www.stopline3.org/

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Home Demo at Illinois Commerce Commisioner’s Home for Approving DAPL Double

March 2, 2021
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Members of Rising Tide Chicago and friends visited Illinois Commerce Commissioner and Chairperson Carrie Zalewski’s home on November 1st. Zalewski and the other four ICC commisioners voted to approve the building of pump stations along the current Dakota Access Pipeline route which will allow Energy Transfer Partners to double the amount of oil flowing through…

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Letter Writing Party: Flood Chase Board Member James Crown with Letters!

May 10, 2020
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Join us for a Zoom Call!  When: Thursday, May 14th @ 7 p.m. RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/letter-writing-party-flood-chase-boardmember-james-crown-with-letters Details:We made our voices heard on Stop the Money Pipeline Day of Action – let’s keep up the pressure until Chase Bank divests! Can you spend five minutes writing out a letter to Chicago-based Chase Bank board member James Crown telling him…

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Read the 2020 Banking on Climate Change Report!

April 13, 2020
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The latest Banking on Climate Change Report is out! Surprise surprise – JP Morgan Chase Bank is still the worst funder of the worst fossil fuels, pouring almost $270 Billion into the industry between 2016-2019. We won’t stop until they join us on the right side of history. Read and download the report here.

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Rising Tide Chicago Birddogs Chase Boardmember Mellody Hobson

April 13, 2020
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This action originally took place Jan 9, 2020. At a fancy corporate dinner, three members of Rising Tide Chicago approached Chase Bank boardmember Mellody Hobson, handing her the 2019 Banking on Climate Change Report, and asking her to use her leverage to transition the bank completely away from fossil fuels. We will follow up with…

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Frontline Leaders Disrupt JP Morgan Chase-funded Health Care Conference Demanding Climate Justice

April 13, 2020
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This action originally took place Jan 13, 2020. On Jan 13, 2020, frontline leaders and allies disrupted business as usual at a health care conference in San Francisco funded by JP Morgan and Chase, calling out the bank for its hypocrisy: as the #1 Wall Street funder of climate chaos, the bank is also funding…

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Dozens Shut Down Chicago Intersection For Wet’suwet’en Solidarity

April 13, 2020
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This action originally took place March 6, 2020. On March 6, dozens took to the streets of downtown Chicago in a march and rally led by Chi-Nations Youth Council, as part of a Day of Action in Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en defending their territories, and Indigenous land defenders around the world, in the face of…

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Rising Tide Chicago Birddogs Chase Boardmember – Again!

April 13, 2020
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This action occurred Feb 28, 2010. We all know Chase’s new policy on Arctic drilling is the babiest of steps; so Rising Tide Chicago birddogged Mellody Hobson, a Chase Bank boardmember who claims to be inspired by social movements like youth uprisings and the anti-Apartheid movement, and concerned about migrant child detention. We gave her…

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Three Climate Activists Arrested at Chase Bank at 150 N. Michigan Ave for Protesting Chase as #1 Funder of the Climate Crisis

September 23, 2019
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Protest Part of International Week of Climate Action Media Contact: Colin Crowley 217-720-9803, jccrowley@gmail.com CHICAGO, IL –A Chase Bank branch at 150 N Michigan in downtown Chicago was shut down when three people locked to one another and refused to leave the bank. The activists shut down the bank and were arrested. This action was…

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Rising Tide Chicago Joins Resistance Against Line 3

September 11, 2019
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Over 50 water protectors successfully stopped work at an Enbridge office on Aug. 19, 2019. Photo courtesy of @ResistLine3. Members of Rising Tide Chicago recently returned from a weekend action camp to support the resistance against the Line 3 tar sands pipeline in what’s now known as northern Minnesota. It was a humbling weekend of…

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