The International Rising Tide network and its allies called for a day of action against the fossil fuel industry on April 1st 2008, FOSSIL FOOLS DAY!
In the UK, check out Days of Climate action for more upcoming days of action.
In North America, email contact–at–risingtidenorthamerica–dot–org or visit RTNA online to keep the action going.
Members of bristol rising tide are succesfully blockading Aberthaw power station, Wales worst polluter. 10 Bristol activists have undertaken this as a joint action with Bath, Cardiff and Oxford activists as part of the international Fossil Fools Day protests protests against some of the worst polluting companies on the planet.
Posted Apr 3rd, 2008
What a day! UK actions by the numbers: 30 actions, 18 cities, 31 arrests UK actions.
Roundup from risingtide.org.uk: http://risingtide.org.uk/node/273
More details & photos for may of these actions can be found on http://www.fossilfoolsday.org and UK Indymedia: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/04/395361.html
At 6:30 this morning, North Carolina residents locked themselves to bulldozers to stop the construction of Duke Energy’s massive Cliffside coal-fired power plant being built 50 miles west of Charlotte, NC. “In the face of catastrophic climate change, building a new coal plant is tantamount to signing a death sentence for our generation,” said local farmer Matt Wallace, while locked to a bulldozer. The concerned citizens also roped off the construction site with “Global Warming Crime Scene” tape and held banners that read “Coal Fuels Climate Change” and “Social Change, not Climate Change.”
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Boston, MA – Copley Square, April 1, 2008. April Fools! As of 9:00AM, in conjunction with a downtown rally, four activists have locked themselves to the front entrance of the Bank of America branch in Copley Square. They are protesting the bank’s funding of coal and energy companies who are among the worst contributors to climate change, and directly responsible for innumerable human rights abuses in communities where coal is extracted and burned.
Update: Four arrests in Boston, some lock boxes were cut, but others were loaded into the police wagon still locked to each other.
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Earth First! UK activists today blockaded the UK’s largest off shore gas terminal at Bacton in Norfolk. 40% of the UK’s domestic gas comes ashore here, is processed and distributed by pipeline. Activists blockaded the main road outside the site at 6.30 am this morning, preventing construction workers and shift workers from arriving.
Protesters Shut Opencast Coal Mine Direct action exposes ‘black hole’ in climate change policy Tuesday, 1st April, 2008: At 7am this morning, protesters halted work at one of the biggest opencast coal mines in Europe, on the outskirts of . They intend to remain on the site for several days.
Climate activists from Eastside Climate Action blockaded E-on workers as part of International Fossil Fools Day.
At 7:30 this morning 30 people blockaded the entrances to E-on’s offices on Mount St, Nottingham City Centre. People covered in green paint to represent E-on’s greenwash, locked onto the front entrance to E-on’s office and stood in front of other entrances preventing E-on workers from getting to work.
Countries around the world observed Fossil “Fools” Day yesterday - which is an international day of protest focused on climate change and energy issues.
In Durban, petrol giant Engen became the focal point for residents who have long focused their anger at the refinery, holding it responsible for causing various lung diseases among the community.
The protesters laid floral wreaths signifying deaths in this community due to lung infections. Asthma has been one of the main problems here. The general prevalence rate of the lung disease worldwide is between 10% and 12% and this area has over five times the norm.
