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 Click on image for larger PDF Fossil Fools Day APR '08: After shaming Armando Olivera into surrender and flicking the off switch at FPL´s ´Old Stinky´ in Riviera, we endured a long, wet ride on our trusty steeds and finally arrived at the Kommissioners´ Evil Lair.
We breached security with ease, Joint Terrorism Task Force and all.
We stayed calm, trying to blend in, and sat around bored off our asses, waiting for exactly the right moment...
and sprung in action, spontaneously seizing
the airwaves, convincing everyone in TV World that we were indeed right.
FPL offered us zillions of dollars and begged for mercy--we showed them
none. ¨prison for corruption¨ we proclaimed--just like it says
there on TV--with a horn honk for emphasis! After we won, we were escorted out in victory
by our new personal security guards who have sworn eternal loyalty to
us REAL clowns in absence of their former bosses, those imposters at
the dais. Palm Beach County has been rescued from near disaster. nothing
left to see here, folks. you can all go back to sleep now... Also see our video presentations: Fossil Fools' Day 2008, Mr. Squeaky Speaks on Fossil Fools' Day, Barry Gives it to the Palm Beach County Commission, Clown speaks on Behalf of the Everglades, the Wild, Justice Earth First! shuts down FPL's power plant construction site!
26 people were arrested for refusing to leave the blockade after police dispersal orders. After about 36 hours in jail during which several people were handled roughly and/or assaulted, all activists were released on their own recognizance or on bond. One juvenile arrestee was never brought up on charges, one case was settled in court, and the other 24 await trial. For corporate media coverage of the action, check out http://www.furl.net/member/EvergladesEarthFirst
FPL Shareholders Meeting Blockaded
Activists Occupy Downtown West Palm Beach Billboard
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FEB
'08: In a wildly successful post-rendezvous action, hundreds
of Earth First! protestors shut down FPL's West County Energy Center's
construction site for almost 6 hours, as well as the related Palm Beach
Aggregates rock mine and a nearby cement plant. Palm Beach Aggregates
is the company that sold FPL the land for the power plant as part of
a corrupt land deal that has landed county commissioner Tony Masilotti
in prison for five years. In addition, rock mining is one of the first
steps in physically destroying Everglades wetlands and providing construction
material for new development to permanently replace the wetlands.
MAY
'07: As FPL shareholders arrived to meet at the company headquarters,
Project Awareness and EEF! members blockaded the entrance road.
MAY
'07: Activists from Project Awareness and Everglades Earth First! hung
banners and locked themselves to a prominent rooftop billboard to call
for a sustainable future for western Palm Beach County, just before
the county commission was to vote on a major development project. Their
colorful banners showed an alligator chomping a power plant and read:
“Got Water? They would: FPL’s West County Plant ->18
million gallons a Day” and “Callery Judge Town -> 5 million
gallons a day. Keep it Rural, Keep it Wild. No new FPL Plant.”
Both occupants were arrested but received plea deals of community service.
The Callery Judge project was not approved, and is undergoing revision
for a second application.