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.
The photos are ordered from east to west around the world (New Zealand is 1st, U$A last)…
60 actions are featured here: if you have a photo from an action that is
missing email it to fossilfools–AT–RisingTideNorthAmerica–DOT–org
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.”
We’re actively looking for donations to get people out of jail!
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.
Please support legal costs for this action!
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.
