Our Climate, Not Your Business Demo +Medic Arrests

11 Decem­ber 2009

11 Decem­ber 2009
This morn­ing at 10am cli­mate activists gath­ered at Nytorv to take part in the Don’t Buy the Lie march to take direct action in protest against cor­po­ra­tions tak­ing part in Cop15 [report].  Lead­ing police a mer­ry dance, pro­tes­tors moved en masse up Rosenørns Allé to the Copen­hagen ‘Forum’ venue, which is host­ing the cyn­i­cal green-wash­ing Green Busi­ness expo dur­ing Cop15. The mes­sage to the cor­po­ra­tions was to stop turn­ing the sav­ing of our envi­ron­ment into yet anoth­er busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ty in which car­bon cred­it trad­ing, tar sands and CCS are the order of the day.

Peo­ple were blocked sev­er­al times by police but also man­aged push through and around sev­er­al attempts by police to block their path. In total there is report­ed to be over 60 arrests, although it is unclear how many are just pre­ven­ti­ta­tive arrests where the peo­ple will be released after up to 12 hours. What is clear is that police tar­get­ed the Street Medics, arrest­ing 11 of them before the demon­stra­tion, and threat­en­ing them that they would be deport­ed if they were found on the streets again [report]. Many activists were stopped and searched out­side the con­ver­gence cen­tre / sleep­ing space at Ragn­hildes­gade [pho­tos]. There were also sev­er­al reports of peo­ple being searched through­out the city [2], with some arrest­ed for hav­ing things like spray paint or items that could be used to cov­er faces. Ear­li­er in the day the fire ser­vice also told Ragn­hilds­gade accom­mo­da­tion space that part of the build­ing could not be used for sleep­ing. Mean­while more peo­ple are trav­el­ling to Copen­hagen ahead of the oth­er protests and events sched­uled for the next week.

[See Indy­media Full Time­line #1] [Pho­to Reports 1 | 2] [Video] [KanalB Video] [Graswurzel.tv Video] See also [Mod­kraft time­line | en] [icop15 Aggre­ga­tion]

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