Fossil Fools Day action round up

EV-EON Carbon Capture launched on Southbank!
The first ever
Fossil Fools day has been given a terrific christening today with the launch of
EV-EON Unnaturally Carbonated Water. This innovative new technology will be used
at E.ON’s Kingsnorth PowerStation and used to capture the carbon dioxide given
off by the burningof coal.The carbon di-oxide is then bubbled through fresh
spring water from nearby Kingsnorth Hills to create carbonated drinking water
which is bottled and sold in Italian restaurants.

Polar bears take on
Porsche, London, UK
Climate change activists today delivered a mock apology
on behalf of Porsche, highlighting the company’s blatant disregard for the
environment. There to receive the apology, to be delivered at 8.30am outside
Porsche’s main London showroom in Berkeley Square, was an audience of protesting
polar bears and Londoners.

Leamington Spa, UK
In Leamington Spa
today there had a demonstration parade against the
proposed Clarendon
Shopping Arcade. There were 50 adults and children, many dressed up as
fairys, polar bear, jestor's, and deaths with oil drips. Alongside musicians
playing a fossil fool's song written specially for the event. The Group
had banners, placards and fliers.

Glasgow (UK) Fossil Fools present
awards to local Climate Criminals
The Glasgow Fossil Fools present their
local Climate Change Criminals with Awards for their contribution to Climate
Chaos.
Fossil Fools Day “kicks off” early in London! UK (monday)
Fossil
Fools Day 2008 got an early start today - with London Rising Tide “kicking”
things off. In front of the Football Association headquarters in London, Rising
Tide protesters issued the FA a Red Card for accepting sponsorship from E.ON - a
utility company proposing to build new coal-fired power plants in the
UK.
Cambridge (UK) Fossil Fools Day Protest at RBS Bank
The Royal Bank
of Scotland is one of the main financiers of climate crime, in the form of oil
and gas exploration. After targeting the Trinity Street branch last year for the
RBS day if action, this time protesters paid a visit to the Hills Road Branch to
mark the occasion of Fossil Fools Day.

34 4x4's and sports cars
'disarmed'
One of Edinburghs' more affluent areas was targeted for April
fools fun!
"We chose only rich peoples vehicles to symbolise how the
wealthy and powerful are mainly responsible for the destruction of our planet.
We did the mung bean trick. It was very easy and fun!"

Fossil Fools in
Sheffield
As part of Fossil Fools Day activity across the country, motorists
in Sheffield were reminded of an alternative to their fuel-consuming, carbon
producing transport... Petrol stations belonging to Waitrose and Shell were
targeted with drivers being offered leaflets and bike route maps while being
entertained by a cycle ballet performance.

Banner Hang in
Scotland
This banner was hung on Charing Cross motorway intersection in
central Glasgow this morning reading “Climate change doesn’t exist. (APRIL FOOLS
YOU FOSSIL FOOL!)”
Banner Hang in Lancaster
Building up to the Fossil
Fools Day, some people in Lancaster, England hung a banner at the side of
Lancaster’s busiest roundabout for the “rush” hour gridlocked car drivers to
enjoy. The banner read: “Worried about Climate Change? Stuck in Traffic? Get a
Bike!”

Banner Hang for Fossil Fools in Wrexham
Reading "Car culture
= Climate Chaos"

North America

Billionaires for Dirty Energy
blockade Citibank in New York, USA. 2 arrested
At 12:30pm today over 25
“Billionaires for Dirty Energy” blockaded the main entrance of Citibank’s Upper
East Side headquarters. Two were arrested after chaining themselves to the front
doors and refusing to leave. Police eventually sawed them out of the chains, and
a rally continued in front of the bank.

8 Arrested as North Carolina,
USA Residents Shut Down Construction at Cliffside Coal Plant
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,

Activists Blockade Bank of America to
Protest Funding of Coal, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Boston, MA – Copley
Square, April 1, 2008. April Fools! At of 9:00AM, in conjunction with a downtown
rally, four activists locked themselves to the front entrance of the Bank of
America branch in Copley Square. They were 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. There were four arrests.

Banner drop in
Portland, OR, USA
In support of Fossil Fool’s Day, Stumptown Earth First! in
protest of the LNG Oregon Pipelines, performed a four-story banner hang off of
the Burnside Bridge in downtown Portland, OR. The banner reads No New Pipelines
with a no LGN logo directly in the middle.

Pranksters market
“infidelity offsets” to downtown Portlanders, Oregon USA
Portland, OR – With
a bouquet of heart shaped balloons, a group of Portland-area climate activists
calling themselves the “Greenwash Guerrillas” presented a highly experimental
new business model to passersby in downtown Portland on Tuesday. Drawing their
inspiration from so-called carbon neutral companies like Portland’s Climate
Trust, the activists claim to be launching a new company called “Cheat
Neutral.”

Plum Creek Receives “Fossil Fool’s Award”, Maine,
USA
Fairfield, ME - Volunteers with the Native Forest Network (NFN) staged a
mock “Fossil Fool’s Day” awards ceremony today at the offices of the Plum Creek
Timber Company to draw attention to the potential impacts of the company’s
Moosehead region development proposal on the regional and global
climate.

AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND

Air New Zealand in
Auckland received a ‘Fossil Fool’ Award
A group of climate change activists
have presented Air New Zealand with New Zealand’s first ever ‘Fossil Fool’
award.

3 arrests at peaceful parade in Christchurch, New
Zealand
Three people were arrested at at the Christchurch Fossil Fools Day
protest

Australian Pranksters attempt to Purchase Goods with
Coal

A group of people from Rising Tide Newcastle went to a K-mart armed
with a fist full of leaflets, bags full of coal, and a large banner which asked
the question “How does buying stuff fuel climate change?” and directing the
reader to a website for the answer. They planned to swap their bags of coal for
some cheap consumer products (thereby cutting out the middle
man).

Pictures, more info on all these actions and updates at http://www.fossilfoolsday.org