1st April — Manchester Fossil Fools Parade! / London Protest circus for a coal Fossil Fool / Notts / Leamington Spa

We’ve all been fos­sil fooled and now…the Cli­mate Cir­cus is com­ing to Man­ches­ter.…
Join the Fos­sil Fools Parade on April 1st
and take part in fun and games with some of our best known local Fos­sil Fools!

That’s right this event is all about con­grat­u­lat­ing our spon­sors
RBS, Man­ches­ter Flight Cen­tres, Petrol Sta­tions, The City Coun­cil and oth­er
experts in pol­lu­tion, cli­mate change and destruc­tion of our glob­al
eco sys­tems.

The Parade will meet at 10.30am out­side AMC cin­e­ma in Deans­gate and
fin­ish with a street par­ty out­side the Town Hall (by 12 pm).

Fea­tur­ing music, mad­ness and veg­an cakes — lets make this a hol­i­day at
home and encour­age peo­ple to leave fos­sil fuels in the past.

Dress in suits, as clowns, come as a fos­sil fuel or a fos­sil fool but
come!!

Please cir­cu­late this invite wide­ly!

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Protest cir­cus for a coal Fos­sil Fool (BERR, 1 Vic­to­ria Street, Lon­don, 8 am on 1 April 2008)

(please post far and wide)

1st April is set to pack a punch this year. Across the world April Fool’s Day is being marked by cli­mate change activists as Fos­sil Fool’s Day, a day of action against the cli­mate wreck­ing fos­sil fuel indus­try.

For those not able to take the many direct actions of the day, the Lon­don World Devel­op­ment Move­ment groups are co-ordi­nat­ing a hilar­i­ous protest out­side the Depart­ment for Enter­prise Busi­ness and Reg­u­la­to­ry Reform (or BERR) to laugh at the min­is­ter for busi­ness, John Hut­ton. John Hut­ton is cur­rent­ly set to make a right fool of the gov­ern­men­t’s cli­mate pol­i­cy if he signs off on EON’s new Kingsnorth pow­er sta­tion.

Every­one’s wel­come to join in the col­lec­tive hilar­i­ty and to demand Hut­ton takes the Kingsnorth deci­sion very seri­ous­ly. There will be a real cir­cus feel, with jug­glers, clowns and acro­bats, so don’t hes­i­tate to bring jug­gling balls or wear your squeaky nose or sil­ly hat.

Protest starts at 8am and will be over in time for you to be at work. Con­tact Rachel on 0207 8204900 for more infor­ma­tion.

More infor­ma­tion on the Kingsnorth cam­paign, see www.stopkingsnorth.org

More infor­ma­tion on Fos­sil Fool’s day, see www.fossilfoolsday.org

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Funer­al for coal in Par­lia­ment square, Lon­don
Meet at 11 AM in Par­lia­ment Square

The Peo­ple & Plan­et net­work invites you to join us at an action and
mass lob­by. We will be build­ing a coal pow­er sta­tion com­plete with 12ft cool­ing tow­ers in West­min­ster, while peo­ple dressed in Jesters hats and Gor­don Brown masks will ‘burn’ a mock Cli­mate Change Bill.

Con­tact james.lloyd@peopleandplanet.org for more infor­ma­tion.
http://peopleandplanet.org/nonewcoal

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Pub­lic Apol­o­gy on behalf of Porsche, Lon­don
Meet 7.15 AM, Bond Street tube sta­tion

Pos­ing as protest­ing polar bears and pen­guins, green­wash win­dow clean­ers and con­cerned cus­tomers, help Porsche say sor­ry:
• “For being so pig­head­ed in push­ing for a judi­cial review of the recent changes in the con­ges­tion charge. A bit rash we know! Sor­ry. But now that we think about it, the change does actu­al­ly seem quite a good idea.”
• “And ok, you’ve got us, with a few of our mates, we have been doing our best to rail­road EU plans to set bind­ing emis­sions tar­gets for gas guz­zlers by 2012. Can’t blame us for hav­ing a go though can you…ok so you can. But look, we know it’s wrong”.
• “Oh, and last, but by no means least, we should stop claim­ing we’re ‘green’ while mak­ing incred­i­bly pol­lut­ing cars. So we’re pleased to announce a new con­cept mod­el, tak­ing the 4×4 into the 2×2 age.”

More info: e‑mail thomas_fern@hotmail.com or call Richard on 0796 046 5594

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Roll up, roll up! The cli­mate cir­cus is in town. Con­front­ed with melt­ing ice caps, unprece­dent­ed species extinc­tion, droughts and extreme weath­er, cli­mate change threat­ens our very sur­vival. The fools at the head of the fos­sil fuel empire con­tin­ue to plun­der the earth, with the gov­ern­ments as 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.

On April 1st, 2008, we’re going to turn the tables and show them who the real fools are.

Nation­al­ly peo­ple will be tar­get­ing fos­sil fools — See the clowns invest­ing in coal — The car­bon off­set con­tor­tion­ist or the oily strong man? join­ing with thou­sands around the world in tak­ing one step clos­er to dis­man­tling the fos­sil fuel indus­try.

In Not­ting­ham we are going to take action on a local Fos­sil Fool. We are meet­ing at Mar­ket Square Tram Stop at 8am to head off togeth­er on a mag­i­cal mys­tery tour to a cli­mate clown near us.

Dress 4 Cli­mate Chaos: Ski Hat, Bermu­da Shorts and Wellies; Som­brero and Rain­coat; Swim­suits and Woolens; Flipflops, Umbrel­las and Sun­glass­es; what­ev­er you think the weath­er may do today. Bring ban­ners and plac­ards against cli­mate chaos and lets pull a prank that packs a punch

info@eastsideclimateaction.org.uk
http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org

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Ris­ing Tide “Fos­sil Fools Day” “Fun Demo” Leam­ing­ton Spa

Roll up, roll up! The cli­mate cir­cus is in town. Con­front­ed with melt­ing ice caps, unprece­dent­ed species extinc­tion, droughts and extreme weath­er, cli­mate change threat­ens our very sur­vival. The fools at the head of the fos­sil fuel empire con­tin­ue to plun­der the earth, with the gov­ern­ments as 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.

On April 1st, 2008, we’re going to turn the tables and show them who the real fools are.

JOIN US IN LEAMINGTON SPA TO PROTEST AGAINST THE PROPOSED CLARENDON SHOPPING ARCADE…DO WE NEED MORE SHOPS? CONSUMERISM CAUSES CLIMATE CHAOS! Make the con­nec­tion between OIL and RETAIL THERAPY — come in fan­cy dress, bring music, bikes, a sense of humour, chil­dren WELCOME.

Assem­ble BATH PLACE COMMUNITY VENTURE, @ BATH PLACE, LEAMINGTON http://www.bathplace.org 12.00 for a 12.30 march around Leam­ing­ton. Fin­ish­ing at the TOWN HALL.

Please call 07782 299181 for any fur­ther infor­ma­tion.