Hit the Production — No to business as usual

13 Decem­ber 2009

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The main actions around the COP15 for the 13th Decem­ber are Hit the Pro­duc­tion at the Har­bour, and a Farm­ers action called by Via Campesina. The farm­ers actions starts at 12:30 with an atten­dance of about 300 peo­ple, doing street the­atre about Farm­ers and big busi­ness. At 12:40 hun­dreds of peo­ple march towards the har­bour, with ban­ners read­ing “Our plan­et not your busi­ness”, and giv­ing inter­views about the mass arrests yes­ter­day. Riot police walk along­side them and less than an hour lat­er the police blocks the demon­stra­tion by sur­round­ing it, tak­ing the music truck away [Pho­tos 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Videos 1 | 2] Mass arrests start, and at about 14:45 coach­es arrive to take peo­ple away. Read our eye­wit­ness report and report of first release. By the evening, DRL TV sta­tion reports a total of 257 pre-emp­tive arrests today.

At the same time the Via Campesina march has pro­gressed more peace­ful­ly, but demon­stra­tors found that police lines have their blocked access to the Kli­mafo­rum.  Live video feed of Via Campesina Farm­ers action. It arrived in its final des­ti­na­tion, near the Råhuset info­point, despite the police attempts to dis­rupt it. (Report and press release).

The CJA has issued a con­dem­na­tion of the unpro­voked police actions while oth­er groups are plan­ning on launch­ing an offi­cial com­plaint regard­ing the inhu­man treate­ment of pris­on­ers yes­ter­day (press con­fer­ence). First reports from those released point to sim­i­lar deten­tion con­di­tion: “They offered us no food and water. I am a dia­bet­ic and when I spoke to the police and recov­ered my stuff to take insulin I could not find it. After I was told by the doc­tor there that they did not keep insulin there, the released me.” At 17:00 a sol­i­dar­i­ty demo start­ed out­side the Vål­by deten­tion cen­tre, that has been ket­tled with­in an hour.

For lat­est reports see: Indy­media Time­line | Lis­ten to Cli­mate Radio show for Dec 13.

See Mod­kraft Time­line [eng] | Motkraft.net Time­line [eng] | Nocop Imc Italy | icop15 aggre­ga­tion

Yes­ter­day’s Fea­ture: 100,000 Protest at COP15, Police Make Mass Arrests

Mean­while the offi­cial Sum­mit seems to be falling into fur­ther dis­aray as the days go by. The Guardian news­pa­per reports today that “the Copen­hagen cli­mate talks hit trou­ble tonight as a num­ber of African coun­tries indi­cat­ed their lead­ers would refuse to take part in the final sum­mit unless sig­nif­i­cant progress was made in the next three days.” The main stick­ing points seem to still be about emis­sion cuts, long-term finance, and when poor coun­tries should start to reduce emis­sions. Read full arti­cle here.