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Fossil Fools Day

Sat, 2008-03-01 12:50 — Cyber Activist

For those who don't know there will be a Fossil Fools Day on April 1st all around the world.

Details, resources and Facebook Event (that you can forward to people on Facebook) follow. Please also see Cassies invite to join the Brisbane (Australia) Fossil Fools organising team (or just join to keep in touch
with what is going on).
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Roll up, roll up! The climate circus is in town. Climate change threatens our very survival, but the fools at the head of the fossil fuel empire continue to plunder the earth, with governments the willing court jesters at their side.

They would have us believe that we can escape climate change with techno-fixes, market mechanisms and offset schemes -- all technocratic acrobatics that distract us from the truth: the only real solution to climate change is to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

For over a century the fossil fuel industry has been fooling with our lives. From extraction to combustion they have poisoned our air, polluted our water and ruined our climate. On April 1st, 2008, we're
going to turn the tables and show them who the real fools are.

Find a local fossil fool -- the coal-mining clown, the offset contortionist, the aviator tripping on the high wire, the supermarket food mile freak show, the oily strong man, or any other fool that deserves your attention -- and join with thousands around the world in
taking one step closer to dismantling the fossil fuel industry.

On Fossil Fools Day, bring the spirit of carnival and mischief to the fight for climate justice.

http://www.fossilfoolsday.org
http://www.risingtide.org.uk/fossilfoolsday
http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=10594570495

(I can't find it on MySpace, sorry!).

Cheers,

Brooke
via the Climate Change Action Group:
http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/ClimateChangeAction/message/2577 for further information

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Sat, 2008-03-15 06:52 — Cyber Activist

Update from the UK - Fossil Fools Day, 2008

Fossil Fools Day has really taken off! While some groups are keeping their plans under wraps for obvious reasons, others have been writing in with publicly announced actions that all are welcome and encouraged to go along to.

So far two biggies in London (sorry to the non-UK people), both focused on Kingsnorth, which if built will be the first new coal-fired power station in the UK in 30 years:

*Funeral for coal in Parliament square*
Plans include a giant power station complete with smoke being built in parliament square and a mass of mourners dressed in black.
Planning meeting on 18th March at 6pm at Gordon House 106, University College London. All welcome! Organised by People and Planet, WDM and Greenpeace.
More info: Richard Roaf, rich...@hotmail.com, 07890085938

*Stop Kingsnorth Laugh-In*
Meet 8 AM at 1 Victoria Street (nearest tube: St. James’s Park) for a laughing extravaganza to show BERR, the government department responsible for the decision, how ludicrous their plans few new coal at Kingsnorth are.
Organised by Stop Kingsnorth/World Development Movement.
More info: w...@wdm.org.uk, 0207 820 4900

Plans are also afoot in many other places around the country, so contact us if you’d like to get involved, or better yet, organise your own action! Check out www.risingtide.org.uk/fossilfoolsday for loads of resources and support:
-actions booklet with 15 ideas for action against the fossil fuel industry, including planning tips, target locations, examples of successful actions and more
-posters, leaflets and graphics to make your own materials
-coming soon: a generic leaflet you can adapt to hand out on the day and a
Q&A sheet for answering media questions

Whatever you do, make sure to call (07961 917 535) or email us (i...@risingtide.org.uk) on the day so we can add your action to our end-of-day round up, and show the world what grassroots action against the fossil fuel industry can achieve.

We are in the middle of an unstoppable rise of creative, radical, necessary direct action against climate change… be part of it, on Fossil Fools Day and beyond.

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