SWEDISH AIRPORT RUNWAY SEIZED BY CLIMATE ACTIVISTS

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> On 14 April, activists broke into Brom­ma Air­port in Stock­holm to
> occu­py the run­way for half an hour. The sched­uled flight to Gothen­burg
> – a short dis­tance indeed – was delayed, and some planes had to divert
> their land­ing. The ten activists, linked by chains and car­ry­ing a huge
> ban­ner which read “Stop domes­tic flights”, man­aged to enter the
> air­port and run­way with­out being detect­ed. After some five min­utes,
> police arrived to the scene, but refrained from vio­lent inter­ven­tion.
> When the block­ade had been car­ried to its planned end, the activists
> were arrest­ed and informed of the for­mal charge of aggra­vat­ed
> tres­pass. The most like­ly pun­ish­ment is some heavy fines, but prison
> terms are pos­si­ble.
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> The action was car­ried out by Cli­max, a group in Stock­holm formed two
> weeks ago. It is the seed of a direct action-move­ment against the root
> caus­es of cli­mate change in a coun­try which has just recent­ly wok­en up
> to the facts of ongo­ing glob­al warm­ing. Cli­max is inspired by Plane
> Stu­pid and Ris­ing Tide. The action of 14 April, coin­cid­ing with the
> enor­mous Nation­al Day of Cli­mate Action in the U.S., was the first of
> its kind to occur in Swe­den. More is bound to fol­low soon. Check for
> updates (and pic­tures of the recent action) at www.klimatet.org.
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> Glob­al action against glob­al warm­ing!
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> Kli­max-Stock­holm
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> 2007-04-15