FOSSIL FOOLS Day of Action!

Proclaiming April 1 "Fossil Fools' Day," climate change activists with the international Rising Tide network and its allies across the globe targeted companies responsible for runaway carbon dioxide emissions.

The Fossil Fools' Day of Action was called for by Rising Tide and was joined by Earth First!, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), the Energy Action Coalition, the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, the Australian Student Environment Network and many others. Although we have listed many actions here, we couldn't fit them all. For the full scoop, visit www. fossilfoolsday.org.

Building on the momentum of Fossil Foots' Day actions, Rising Tide is again planning international Camps for Climate Action this Summer, in a half-dozen countries. The camps will focus on mobilizing the grassroots movement for climate justice and will culminate in direct actions against local climate criminals. In the US, camps are planned in New York, Virginia and Oregon.

The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA) invades a grocery store in Bristol, England.

Boston, Massachusetts

At 9 a.m., in conjunction with a downtown rally, four activists locked" themselves to the front entrance of a Bank of America branch in Boston's Copley Square. They were protesting the bank's funding of coal and energy companies, which are among the worst contributors to climate change and are directly responsible for innumerable human rights abuses in communities where coal is extracted and burned. The demonstrators demanded that Bank of America stop providing funding for coal companies engaged in all forms of surface mining and cancel all loans to new fossil-fuel-burning power plants.

"Without the financial support of large banks like Bank of America, the fossil fuels industry could not continue destroying the Earth and our communities," said Elise Ansel, who locked her arms to other activists in order to prevent the bank from doing business as usual.

For more info, contact Boston's fossil fools, [email protected].

Olympia, Washington

Activists with the Environmental Resource Center, Olympia Rising Tide, the Cascade Climate Network and Washington State Public Interest Research Group targeted a Bank of America at Evergreen State College in Olympia. The students built and attacked a pinata in the shape of a Bank of America ATM. As the fake ATM fell apart, chocolate shaped like coal, as well as "credit cards" that bore...