WHAT: Direct actions, practical jokes and throwing a spanner in the works to stop the fossil fools.
WHERE: Your street, town or city.
WHEN: April 1st, 2010.

Last December in Copenhagen, the politicians sold us out to the fossil fools, corporate lobbyists and big banks. Now we’re left with “green capitalism,” a deeply unjust carbon market and continued assaults on our communities and ecosystems. If we’re going to stop climate chaos, the only real solution is to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

The stakes couldn’t be higher: destabilisation of the global climate, local communities destroyed by dirty energy extraction and combustion, devastating freak storms, droughts, floods, the list goes on …

This April 1st, join Rising Tide in some creative direct action … use the simply subversive to the downright disruptive: office occupations, banner drops, clownish parades, road blockades, spoof websites, subvertising, street theatre, leaflets, lock-ons or laugh-ins. Whatever works for you and your group.

Join us this Fossil Fools Day and hatch some harebrained schemes that will strike a blow to climate criminals everywhere!

WANT MORE? Fossil Fools Day also marks the launch of the BP Tar Sands Fortnight of Shame: a two-week campaign culminating in actions surrounding BP’s AGM on April 15th. The goal? To stop BP from going into the Canadian Tar Sands – the biggest, dirtiest fossil fuel project on earth. Find out more: www.tarsandsinfocus.wordpress.com. And a word to BP: be afraid… be very afraid.

NEED A HAND? If you would like ideas for actions, graphics for leaflets or websites, advice on dealing with the press, a generic FFD 2010 leaflet, etc., visit our Fossil Fools Day resources page ( http://risingtide.org.uk/fossilfoolsday/resources) or send us an email and we’ll do our best to help out:  info@risingtide.org.uk.

To download the FFD 2010 graphic to put on your website or in a leaflet just visit -  http://risingtide.org.uk/files/rt/Final%20FFD%202010%20Graphic%20-%20M%20Size_0.jpg

If you want to see what people around the world got up to last year, you can read an action round up here -  http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2009/category/frontpage/.

If you are organizing a public action email us the details and we’ll advertise it on the Rising Tide website. Lastly, once your action is over email us a photo and short write up and we’ll put it up on the website.

For more information see:
 http://risingtide.org.uk/fossilfoolsday
www.fossilfoolsday.org
Or email -  info@risingtide.org.uk

In the words of that master of pranks: “That’s All Folks”.