Direct action to confront the root causes of climate crisis
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…
Join us for a rally calling on Chase Bank and CEO Jamie Dimon to divest from tar sands and other dirty fossil fuels, in solidarity with frontline leaders fighting the Line 3 pipeline. Tues. May 21, 2019 11am-12:30pm Chase Tower, 21 S Clark St, Chicago, IL RSVP on Facebook and Action Network. While Chase shareholders…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
PRESS RELEASE May 27, 2015 Press Contact: Angie Viands, 312-217-0145 / angiemariev@gmail.com Chicago, IL—Members of Rising Tide Chicago disrupted the North American Rail Shippers Association, held Wednesday at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, by interrupting a speech by the Burlington-Northern Santa-Fe (BNSF) CEO and dropping a banner in the hotel. These actions drew attention to…
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