Rising Tide Vermont

05/24/2023

The Earth First! Gathering is in the Green Mountain National Forest this summer! Join us July 1-9 for a week outside under the stars, sharing skills of all kinds, having discussions, and doing direct action trainings, climb trainings, and plant walks.

The exact location will be announced in June — keep an eye on the Earth First! Journal page for more info!

2023 Earth First! The Gathering
July 1-9
Occupied Abenaki territory (so-called vermont or new hampshire)
exact location tba later.

Earth first! is, has been, and will continue to be a think tank and proving ground of direct action in defense of the earth and those who reside here. At 43 years old, earth first! may seem like an institution, but in reality it is still created every day by those of us who show up to resist ecocide. If you show up, you're at the table. There's no way to sell you on earth first!, cuz earth first! is not for sale.

So come to the gathering! Say your piece, make it yours, and let's fight the bastards together. You don't have to be an earth first!er to come to an ef! gathering - the fight for the earth is intimately intertwined with struggles against white supremacy, patriarchy, settler colonialism and all forces which oppose collective liberation. The more we work together and build connections across the intersections of struggle, the stronger our resistance grows. So join us in July for a week outside under the stars, sharing skills of all kinds, having discussions, and doing direct action trainings, climb trainings, and plant walks. There will be a lot to learn and share, but we will also leave good time for visiting, relaxing, exploring and having fun. See you there!

-2023 ef! The Gathering organizers

Email: 2023earthfirstsummergathering@riseup.net
Website: https://earthfirstjournal.news/
Donate to support q***r, trans, & BIPOC friends' travel costs: https://givebutter.com/earthfirsttravelfund #

02/21/2023

Stop Cop City: Defend Atlanta Forest! Tuesday morning 2/21, nearly a dozen protesters held signs outside of the Atlas Technical Consultants office on Knight Ln in Williston, VT. Atlas Technical Consultants is a national engineering firm with ties to the Cop City project that is destroying the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, Georgia.

"Cop City is the latest escalation in the militarization of policing in the United States, so protecting the Weelaunee Forest from development is not just an Atlanta issue, but one that impacts us all. If this Cop City is built, others will follow, and that at a time when the police are comitting one in every twenty homicides," said Geri, one of protesters at Atlas' offices.

Cop City is a proposed $90+ million, 300+ acre hypermilitarized police training complex that would be the largest police training facility in the U.S., complete with a mock city where police would train with fi****ms, tear gas, helicopters, and explosive devices. Despite the majority of residents opposing the development, the Atlanta Police Foundation has continued to push the project, spurring forest defenders to erect permanent encampments in Weelaunee. On January 18, 2023, 26-year-old Manuel "Tortuguita" Teran was shot and killed during a raid, making them one of the first Forest Defenders murdered by police in the United States.

After Williston police threatened the group with arrest for tresspassing, they then moved with the banner to Church Street in downtown Burlington, outside of Chase Bank. JP Morgan Chase is one of the financial backers of the Atlanta Police Foundation, which is the primary organization driving the creation of Cop City.

This action is part of a Week of Solidarity to stop Cop City, defend the Weelaunee, and honor Tortuguita! Learn more about Stop Cop City solidarity: www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org

And learn more about Defend the Atlanta Forest: https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/

03/20/2017

Please sign and share this petition to and - Vermont human rights leaders who have been directly attacked and targeted by ICE for their organizing work.

Sign the petition below to send a letter to ICE Boston Field Office Director Todd Thurlow demanding the release of Enrique "K**e" Balcazar and Zully Palacios! Click on "Read more" to find out more about the case.

02/11/2017

Success!

02/11/2017

Happening Now: Holding space inside and outside the bank. Calling on TD to in solidarity with Standing Rock. Protect Geprags Park 350 Vermont

02/11/2017

off to a strong start. Marching now!

02/11/2017

02/03/2017

130+ folks packed the house tonight to raise money and hear the stories of the Red Warrior Society and the Mothers Against M**h Alliance.

"So many of our sisters are missing," said Mama Julz. "We have so many sisters that have disappeared or been killed because of the oil industry. We have so many daughters that get taken from us and sold into s*x traffic, because of the oil industry."

01/25/2017

RESIST and organize and take direct action to stop this regime every chance we get.

01/16/2017

We will be joining Black Lives Matter VT at 2pm TODAY to call out continued police brutality in Chittenden County. See you there?

12/05/2016

Beverly Little Thunder is a Standing Rock Tribal member and a resident of Vermont. She urged the crowd to continue to protest the operations of TD Bank. She said it’s inappropriate for the state of Vermont to deposit short term funds in this bank.

“Our money going into these banks helps support them, helps them give more money to people who aren’t thinking about the environment, who aren’t thinking about the future, who aren’t thinking about the water that our children and grandchildren are going to drink.”

Eight people were arrested as several hundred protesters gathered in downtown Montpelier Monday to voice their continued opposition to a controversial oil

12/05/2016

We're still here! Business at TD Bank's Montpelier branch has been shut down all day.

12/05/2016

Update: Eight arrested so far, demonstration still going strong!

12/05/2016

solidarity at TD Bank in Montpelier, VT. Bank is shut down inside & out, 200+ people call for TD out of !

11/21/2016

LAST NIGHT dear friends of ours, who have organized and taken action against the Vermont Gas pipeline here at home, were attacked alongside thousands of others by the cops out at Standing Rock. Hundreds have been injured by rubber bullets, tear gas, mace, water cannons (in below-freezing temperatures, causing dozens of cases of severe hypothermia), and concussion gr***des. One of our comrades had her arm blown open by a gr***de and had to be flown to another state for emergency surgery. At least 19 others were hospitalized as well. DON'T BE PASSIVE IN THIS MOMENT--TAKE ACTION:

(1) Donate to Oceti Sakowin camp: https://www.paypal.me/OcetiSakowinCamp

(2) Mail supplies to medics on the ground: https://medichealercouncil.com/donate/

(3) Organize a solidarity action near you that puts tangible pressure on these targets: https://nodaplsolidarity.org/targets/

(4) Take these lessons to heart: Understand that ongoing colonization on this continent is inextricably connected to endless war, mass incarceration, and global poverty. Commit to staying in movement to dismantle these systems for the long haul, and keep fighting together.

11/07/2016

ICYMI: Rising Tide Vermont speaks out against gentrification, says vote no on Burlington Ballot items 3+4

11/05/2016

Have you been following coverage of the events at Standing Rock? Help support some of the incredible indigenous media producers helping making it happen!

West Coast Women Warriors are on the move, we are at Standing Rock killing the Black Snake. We are frontline media, decolonized freedom fighters telling the real stories. Please donate to purchase this yurt so we can have a frontline winter media centre.