17-12-2009, 10:16 AM
Wed Dec 16, 2009 at 06:33:29 AM PST
There was a massive non-violent direct action this morning at the Copenhagen Climate Conference, as protestors attempted to make their way into the conference center to deliver a message that stronger action on climate change is necessary. Police beat back the chanting protesters with batons, tear gas, and pepper spray, making hundreds of arrests. At the same time, the police also beat back several hundred delegates who were attempting to leave the conference center to try and meet with the protesters!
More beneath the fold.
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According to a surprisingly decent New York Times article, the action successfully disrupted the morning's routine at the conference. Many conference delegates were forced to walk a mile to enter the conference center passing by hundreds of arrested protesters:
Authorities were restricting access to the rail station serving the Bella Center, forcing many conference attendees to walk a mile or more in cold drizzle and biting winds.
Groups of delegates and members of nongovernmental organizations continued to stream on foot past subway stations that had been closed to prevent demonstrators from converging. They passed groups of detained protesters seated in neat rows, their hands tied with plastic police strips.
The protesters acted using non-violence guidelines which allowed for the removal of physical barriers placed in the way of demonstrators (such as fences and barricades), but which prohibited violent action against people (including the police).
According to Danish Indymedia:
Multiple marches tried to make their way to the Bella Centre where the COP15 is held. The group meeting at Orestad station (Green) was surrounded by police and some arrested, but other managed to move towards COP15. A second block (Blue), of more than 1000 people, made their way to the Bella Center whilst resisiting attempts from the police to break it [Video 1 | 2]. Police have been repeatedly attacking the crowds with batton charges and pepper spray, as well as arresting protesters throughout the morning [police line], and arresting medics.
Meanwhile at the COP15 Friends of the Earth and Via Campesina were refused entry despite aquiring a second accreditaton. Delegates staged a sit-in protest [pic], whilst 200 others from NGOs, indigenous people and the Global South marched out [Pics 1 | 2 | 3 | video] but police with battons and pepperspray prevented them from reaching the People's Assembly.
Much more extensive coverage, including pictures, video, and timelines can be found at Danish Indymedia:http://indymedia.dk/
There was a massive non-violent direct action this morning at the Copenhagen Climate Conference, as protestors attempted to make their way into the conference center to deliver a message that stronger action on climate change is necessary. Police beat back the chanting protesters with batons, tear gas, and pepper spray, making hundreds of arrests. At the same time, the police also beat back several hundred delegates who were attempting to leave the conference center to try and meet with the protesters!
More beneath the fold.
* Zack23's diary :: ::
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According to a surprisingly decent New York Times article, the action successfully disrupted the morning's routine at the conference. Many conference delegates were forced to walk a mile to enter the conference center passing by hundreds of arrested protesters:
Authorities were restricting access to the rail station serving the Bella Center, forcing many conference attendees to walk a mile or more in cold drizzle and biting winds.
Groups of delegates and members of nongovernmental organizations continued to stream on foot past subway stations that had been closed to prevent demonstrators from converging. They passed groups of detained protesters seated in neat rows, their hands tied with plastic police strips.
The protesters acted using non-violence guidelines which allowed for the removal of physical barriers placed in the way of demonstrators (such as fences and barricades), but which prohibited violent action against people (including the police).
According to Danish Indymedia:
Multiple marches tried to make their way to the Bella Centre where the COP15 is held. The group meeting at Orestad station (Green) was surrounded by police and some arrested, but other managed to move towards COP15. A second block (Blue), of more than 1000 people, made their way to the Bella Center whilst resisiting attempts from the police to break it [Video 1 | 2]. Police have been repeatedly attacking the crowds with batton charges and pepper spray, as well as arresting protesters throughout the morning [police line], and arresting medics.
Meanwhile at the COP15 Friends of the Earth and Via Campesina were refused entry despite aquiring a second accreditaton. Delegates staged a sit-in protest [pic], whilst 200 others from NGOs, indigenous people and the Global South marched out [Pics 1 | 2 | 3 | video] but police with battons and pepperspray prevented them from reaching the People's Assembly.
Much more extensive coverage, including pictures, video, and timelines can be found at Danish Indymedia:http://indymedia.dk/
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass