Posted by Justin on 18 Nov 2011 /
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Tuesday November 22nd
Meet 10.30 am, Parliament Square – Facebook event
In the UK, thousands of people die every year because they cannot afford to heat their homes. Whilst wholesale oil and gas prices have fallen, the UK’s Big 6 energy companies have hiked prices, meaning five-year record high profits for them and cold homes for us.
The government is letting its corporate allies rake in billions from leaving society’s most vulnerable people to freeze, including pensioners, babies, and people who are ill or disabled.
These same energy companies are also relentlessly investing in fossil fuels at the cost of countless lives through climate change and pollution.
On Tuesday 22nd November, the government will announce its excess winter death statistics for 2010-2011, which will reveal the extra deaths last winter in comparison to other seasons. On this day, join Fuel Poverty Action in a ‘die-in’ to expose the collusion of the Big Six and the government in leaving people to die in the cold.
We will meet at 10.30, Parliament Square. From there, we will proceed to a Big Six target and use our cold and ‘dead’ bodies to disrupt their operations.
The Fuel Poverty Action die-in will actively confront the profiteering energy companies and corrupt government whose actions are killing people through fuel poverty and climate change. In doing so, we will take action against cold homes, winter deaths and the destruction of the climate, and take a step towards the energy system that we need to see, run for people’s needs, not private profit.
From Fuel Poverty Action
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