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The event was a success! That was after the problems in the beginning when we were told to find a new location because we could not hold the event in the Tribes Community Building, which has been used for several community events since it was built. On April 1st the doors of...
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Nous avons distribués environs 500 poissons d’avril à travers la population de l’école Polytechnique en invitant les gens à les coller dans le dos de leurs collègues ou amis. Sur chaque poisson figurait l’adresse internet du comité environnemental de l’école Polysphère. L’act...
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Vassar and Marist College Students rode down a main arterial around the outskirts of Poughkeepsie with signs and in costumes. We only took up no more than one lane in a multi-lane road. The police made an appearance and said it was unsafe to ride down the street, and made us r...
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After rescheduling for rain, on Thursday we held Fossil Fools Day Cornell.
In the center of campus, we placed a ton of coal to remind everyone what we are burning each day. We placed colorful signs around with facts about our coals use- and Bank of America's contributions ...
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30 Billionaires for Coal Blockaded the front Entrance to Citibank's HQ in mid-town Manhattan. 2 billionaires chained themselves to the doors.
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We had a great turnout for the critical mass. People from the newspaper and radio station showed up. Be biked around town and to all the gas stations yelling chants and slogans to people in cars. About half way through the ride we had a brief stand off with a police officer. A...
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We exceeded our goal of 20 riders by more than half and got an above the fold front page story in the paper with a picture!
Also, the riders signed a letter congratulating our administrators for not moving forward with a new proposed coal plant on campus and encouraging the...
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About a dozen of us - Pacific University students and two staff from the Oregon Sierra Club - paraded through our campus and into downtown Forest Grove, talking to bystanders, building up petitions, and "ticketing" gas-guzzling vehicles in the parking lots. We don't want foss...
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Ten activists with Rainforest Action Network Houston showed up to take action on Dynegy's headquarters. While two activists delivered our Fossil Fool of the Year award to CEO of Dynegy, Bruce Williamson, eight others released a balloon banner in the Wells Fargo Plaza's main l...
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Two members of the group enacted a 'battle scene' between Captain Clean Energy and King Coal. These student activists were dressed in costume complete with plastic light sabers. The other activists held signs and passedout informational pamphlets.
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About 18 cyclists and 7 pedestrians showed up for our Fossil Fools Day Critical Mass in Ottawa, Canada on April 1st. We met outside the city's Museum of Nature during rush hour. Giant plastic replicas of woolly mammoths stood nearby -- an apt symbol for fossil fools day, a ...
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Le logo du Centre de Réparation et d'Ajustement de Bicyclettes de l'ÉTS (CRABE) a été dévoilé et l'atelier officiellement inauguré. Des réparations gratuites de vélo ont eu lieu toute la journée. Le CRABE vise a promouvoir l'utilisation du transport actif pour la communauté de...
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We did two actions:
1) On Friday afternoon, student activists with Ohio Student Environmental Coalition and members of Mountain Justice Spring Break occupied the lobby of American Municipal Power and forced an impromptu meeting with CEO Mark Gerken – who was not a happy cam...
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RICHMOND, April 1—In Richmond, 25 youth leaders from William and Mary, VCU, and Univ. of Richmond gathered outside Dominion’s Headquarters to present the “Virginia Fossil Fools Award” to Dominion CEO Tom Farrell for his company’s foolish rush to build another coal-burning plan...
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Yesterday members of the self-appointed OEA set-up a climate crime scene at the Premiers constituency office in Fort Saskatchewan. The OEA taped off the Premiers windows and doors with caution tape and then set-up a perimeter to ensure public safety.
"We've been wanting to ...
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About a dozen people from four different groups did street theater at the state capitol. It was fun to clap for Joe Manchin getting the award—even though Don Blankenship made a pretty good case that he deserved it more, and they got into quite a tussle over it. King Coal was t...
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We awarded a Foolie to Exxon Senior VP and Director J. Stephen Simon, on video
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