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Groups including Oxfam, the World Development Movement, the RSPB, the Woodcraft Folk, the Green Party, WI and the National Union of Students will show the broad spectrum of people standing up for action to save the climate.

There will be music, games, refreshments, and most important, a powerful message to government that building a new dirty coal plant at Kingsnorth will not be tolerated.

The government is preparing to make a decision about the future use of coal in this country and this is the time to influence that decision. The cabinet is split with some wanting to continue dirty business as usual, and others recognising the serious threat climate change presents.

This decision will affect the future of us all and we need to make sure they hear us load and clear – we don't want dirty coal, we want a clean energy future.

Ed Miliband, Minister in charge of climate and energy, has the power to reject dirty coal. He understands we need to take urgent action to tackle climate change and he’s gone part of the way to addressing the problem by proposing that coal plants like Kingsnorth should capture about a quarter of their CO2.

The rest of the cabinet want to stop him going any further but we need to push him all of the way.

Joining in the Mili-Band will help to give him the momentum he needs to drag this government out of the dark ages of coal and into a clean, climate-friendly energy future.

Burning coal is the single greatest threat to the climate. If a new plant at Kingsnorth goes ahead the plant would emit more than six million tonnes of CO2 every year. That’s more than the combined emissions of the 25 countries which emit the least CO2. These emissions could be responsible for creating 20,000 climate refugees.

We need you to take a stand with hundreds of people across the country on July 4 at Kingsnorth. We’re not asking you to do anything illegal, you just need to come out and show your opposition to dirty coal to the government. If you can't make it on the 4th, you can still make a pledge to take action against coal in the future.

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