dcRT hosts coal film festival-- next Tuesday (10/13)

Join DC Rising Tide for the...

**STOP MOUNTAIN TOP REMOVAL film fest!**

Come learn about Mountain Top Removal coal mining, and how folks in Appalachia are taking action to stop it!

**When? Tuesday 13 October at 7PM
**Where? Belmont House in Adams Morgan, 1830 Belmont RD. NW, Washington DC (located between columbia rd and 18th st. nearest metro: woodley park)


Find out how you can join DC Rising Tide in fighting MTR and fighting for climate justice right here in DC!

This night of short films about coal, environmental justice, and direct action is ***FREE***

For more info e-mail dcrisingtide@riseup.net


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What is DC Rising Tide? We are part of the Rising Tide North America (www.risingtidenorthamerica.org) collective. Rising Tide is a grassroots network of groups and individuals who take direct action to confront the roots causes of climate change and promote local, community-based solutions to the climate crisis.

Check us out at
dcrisingtide.blogspot.com

dc rising tide sends letter to Pepco saying "stop using Mountain Top Removal Coal!"

today, dc rising tide sent a letter to Pepco demanding that they stop sourcing their coal from mountain top removal sites, as well as asking them to not build any new fossil fuel power plants and to switch to renewable energy.

4 activists delivered the letter to the Pepco headquaters in Washington, DC.

the activists asked to speak with Joe Rigby, the president of Pepco, but his assistant said he was unavailable and accepted the letter on his behalf.



activists leaving the pepco office, after delivering letter




dc rising tide activists in front of pepco's headquarters in DC


here is a clip from the letter that was sent today:

"As residents of Washington DC and the surrounding area, we are extremely concerned that you have done virtually nothing to transition to renewable, clean energy for electricity generation. We urge you to immediately take real steps towards clean energy use, including the following:
• stop sourcing coal from mountaintop removal sites, publicly state your opposition to and refusal to source from mountaintop removal coal mining, and replace that supply with renewable energy (wind and solar energy); and
• halt construction of fossil fuel power plants."


pepco, we await your response...

in West Virginia: Two DC Rising Tide activsts arrested at MTR coal protest

Published by Indymedia, Washington DC

On the morning of June 18th, Lisa Ramsden and Jeanne Kirshon of Rising Tide DC were arrested in W VA while taking action against a mountaintop removal coal mine. They were arrested with 12 others after entering a Massey Energy MTR mine site near twilight, Western Virginia.

14 Activists Arrested in Peaceful Protest to Stop Mountaintop Removal scaled 20-story tall machinery to call attention to nation’s worst form of coal mining in first ever ascent of a mountaintop removal site’s dragline

How mountains are torn down so coal can be fed to your air conditioner and your 600W gaming computer

COAL RIVER VALLEY, W. VA – In the early morning hours of thursday, 14 concerned citizens entered onto Massey Energy’s mountaintop removal mine site near Twilight WV. Four of them scaled a 150-foot dragline and unfurled a 15×150 foot banner that said, “Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining”. The climbers were on the enormous dragline, a massive piece of equipment that removes house-sized chunks of blasted rock and earth to expose coal, and remained there for over three hours. Meanwhile nine others deployed a 20×40 foot banner on the ground at the site which read, “Stop Mountaintop Removal: Clean Energy Now”.

Continue:http://www.indymedia-letzebuerg.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28017&Itemid=1

conference crash in dc, forest ethics/RAN tar sands protest

RAN Disrupts Canadian Business Conference in DC, Says “No Tar Sands”

posted by Adrian in Freedom from Oil, RAN General on June 19th, 2009

Today, RAN took the fight against dirty Tar Sands oil to Washington.

full article: http://understory.ran.org/2009/06/19/ran-disrupts-canadian-business-conference-in-dc-says-no-tar-sands/

(activist being escorted out of the conference after deploying banner. activist is also a member of dc rising tide)