Scaling Our Climate Resistance Tour: Strategies and Stories from the German Climate Justice Movement

Rising Tide North America is launching a tour to bring stories and strategies from the global struggle against climate change to those of us in North America.

We all know that policy doesn’t get people free. Social change happens when people lead. Not corporations, not politicians… actual people.

But, as climate justice activists and organizers, how do we mobilize the numbers needed to truly stop the fossil fuel industry, topple the systems that let it run amuck, and create truly decentralized and democratized energy systems??

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To answer this question, we’re excited to announce that Rising Tide North America is going on a U.S. tour this February through April with radical climate justice group Ende Gelände to share stories from Germany’s wildly successful mass mobilizations.

• WHAT: Join German activists from Ende Gelände on their US tour as they share stories from organizing successful mass climate justice mobilizations — including their 6,000 person direct action against enormous open-cast lignite coal mines
• RSVP: Get tour updates by signing up here.
• WHERE: Across the U.S.
• WHEN: February to April (Specific dates are below and here)
• ONLINE WEBINAR RSVP HERE

A strong and diverse radical climate justice movement — called Ende Gelände (“Here and No Further”) — has been growing in Germany.

Last fall, they organized 6,000 people to collectively block a coal mine and 82 simultaneous tree sits to protect a forest from being completely bulldozed. No small feat, right? Demonstrators invaded mining pits, danced in front of the diggers, slept on the railways, and provoked pictures that made the connection between climate chaos and capitalism and exposed the dirty truth behind the German energy transition “Energiewende.”

To be crystal clear, politicians and corporations will not solve the climate crisis.

To win, we need to build a mass grassroots movement that uses direct action to bring down the fossil fuel industry and demand a just transition to decentralized and democratized energy systems. We also need to abolish false solutions like carbon trading and green capitalism; confront far-right “populist” lies for what they are; build international solidarity; use local and municipal power-building strategies; and, take leadership for the first and worst hit by pollution and climate catastrophes.

If the momentum of the Green New Deal and Extinction Rebellion has shown us anything, it’s the importance of building power on the ground and supporting communities taking action to win a world that’s livable for everyone.

Donate to the tour so we can get around!

West Coast: February 21 – March 16

• February 21: Portland, Oregon, Facebook event
• February 22: Seattle, Washington, Facebook event
• February 26: Olympia, Washington, Facebook event
• February 28: Portland, Oregon, Facebook event
• March 1&2: Eugene, Oregon, Facebook event
• March 5: Grants Pass, Oregon, Facebook event
• March 6: Humboldt, California, Facebook Event
• March 8: San Francisco, California Facebook event
• March 11: Webinar with 350.org and Rising Tide North America RSVP Here
• March 13: San Luis Obispo, California Facebook Event
• March 14: Santa Barbara. California Facebook event 
• March TBD: Los Angeles, California

East Coast/Appalachia/Midwest: March 6 – April 2

• March 7: (afternoon): Boston, Massachusetts Facebook event
• March 7: (evening): Boston, Massachusetts Facebook Event
• March 11: Webinar with 350.org and Rising Tide North America RSVP Here
• March 12: Brooklyn, New York Facebook Event
• March 14: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Facebook Event
• March 16: Baltimore, Maryland, Facebook event
• March 17: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Facebook Event
• March 18: Charleston, West Virginia Facebook Event
• March 20: Blacksburg, Virginia Facebook Event
• March 22: Roanoke, Virginia Facebook Event
• March 23: Charlottesville, Virginia Facebook Event
• March 24: Appalachia, Virginia Facebook Event
• March 26: St Louis, Missouri Facebook Event
• March 29: Minneapolis, Minnesota Facebook Event

Can’t catch a tour date in person? Join us online for the Scaling up the Resistance Tour Webinar! March 11th at 5pmPT/8pmET.

RSVP link: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/scaling-up-the-resistance-tour-strategies-and-stories-from-the-german-climate-justice-movement?source=direct_link&