Category: Climate Chaos

This is a newslet­ter on the logis­tics con­cern­ing COP15, regard­ing what we know so far and what we are plan­ning. Some things still haven’t been sort­ed out yet as bureau­cra­cy in Den­mark works very slow.
[For the fullest most cor­rect set of dates for protests dur­ing the con­fer­ence go to the Action dates & gath­er­ings link]

1) ACCOMMODATION
2) FOOD
3) INFO POINTS
4) CONVERGENCE CENTRES
5) LEGAL TEAM
6) BORDER CONTROL
7) VISAS

8) VOLUNTEERS
9) MEDICS & TRAUMA
10) KIDS

11) WHAT TO BRING
12) TRANSPORT
13) MAPS
14) PLEDGING AND DONATIONS
15) MORE INFO

This is the sec­ond edi­tion, we’ll be doing at least a third one just before the COP. Don’t pan­ic if you arrive in CPH dur­ing COP15 not know­ing how every­thing works. Just go to an info-point, all of which are cur­rent­ly being fig­ured out; some will be cen­tral­ly locat­ed around the Klimaforum09 and cen­tral sta­tion and some in Chris­tia­nia and in the con­ver­gence cen­ter in Nør­re­bro. See map below for details.

If you have any ques­tions con­cern­ing logis­tics, inputs, requests or any­thing else that we haven’t thought of, please don’t hes­i­tate to con­tact us at logistics.cop15@gmail.com

Best regards,
Logis­tic-group of Cli­mate Col­lec­tive, Den­mark
www.climatecollective.org // www.climate-justice-action.org

1) ACCOMMODATION:

To bet­ter orga­nize accom­mo­da­tion for all of you, we would love if you could let us know you are com­ing, if you need us to pro­vide you with a sleep­ing place. We are not ask­ing you to reg­is­ter! You just have to tell us how many peo­ple you are com­ing with, from when to when, and, only if you like to, you can leave us a name, a con­tact and your coun­try of ori­gin. Please fill the form in only if you need to be accom­mo­dat­ed by us! You can find the form here:
http://www.climate-justice-action.org/practical-info/let-us-know-youre-coming/

As it looks right now there are 3 dif­fer­ent pos­si­bil­i­ties con­cern­ing accom­mo­da­tion.

Com­mu­nal accom­mo­da­tion:
The sit­u­a­tion is that we are (still) nego­ti­at­ing with the local munic­i­pal­i­ty of Copen­hagen in order to get access to big sports halls and schools in the area of Copen­hagen to use for accom­mo­da­tion. We are doing it on a non-reg­is­tra­tion base. Accom­mo­da­tion will be free, but of course always hap­py about dona­tions, as there will be some expens­es for e.g. heat­ing and elec­tric­i­ty. The sites will fea­ture the basics; heat and prop­er san­i­tary con­di­tions. Not all sites may have access to show­ers, but in that case show­er loca­tions will be made avail­able else­where in the city, although this might include a small user pay­ment.

Cur­rent­ly, we have sev­er­al sites on our hands:

a. Two vacant schools, Fred­erikssundsve­jen and Vold­parken schools, both with show­ers, toi­lets and heat­ing and Fred­erikssundsve­jen will host a kitchen.
— At the moment it looks like there’ll be some addi­tion­al fund­ing, ear­marked for us, from the munic­i­pal­i­ty for rent­ing addi­tion­al sites.
— We’re map­ping and work­ing on vacant build­ings in Copen­hagen and estab­lish­ing con­tact with Copen­hagen Project House, already work­ing with this.

b. Rooms at unions, some with show­ers.
— Among oth­er, we have con­firmed space at the union of the chil­dren’s social work­ers.
— We’re still col­lect­ing sup­port and build­ing rela­tions with unions, so hope­ful­ly more to come.

c. Fly­dende By, Float­ing City, has final­ly been grant­ed a num­ber of large indus­tri­al halls and build­ings in Copen­hagen’s South Har­bour and we will be turn­ing these into accom­mo­da­tion and social sites.

d. Rooms in com­mu­ni­ty cen­ters, both in Nør­re­bro and the South Har­bor.

In the near­est future, we will com­pile the dif­fer­ent sites, get an overview and dis­trib­ute more spe­cif­ic infor­ma­tion.

Dur­ing the sum­mit, you can always just go to an info point (see below), when you arrive to Copen­hagen to know where accom­mo­da­tion is avail­able. The info points will also be reach­able by phone, again details will ome out in a lat­er update.

We expect the halls to open for accom­mo­da­tion from when the sum­mit starts, but we’ll also be able to accom­mo­date peo­ple in the run up – so you’re more the wel­come to come ear­ly and help out. Con­tact us by mail if you need accom­mo­da­tion before the COP starts.

“Ung­domshuset”
Dortheavej
a.k.a The Youth House. A social cen­ter which will fea­ture a kitchen, work­shops, meet­ing rooms and more.

Kapelve­jens med­borg­er­hus,
Kapelvej 44
Emer­gency sleep­ing place, show­ers etc

Pri­vate accom­mo­da­tion with (ran­dom) locals:
If you want to sleep pri­vate­ly, sent an email to: (the dead­line for sign up is the 8th of Novem­ber) contact@newlifecopenhagen.com

It’s an art project, in order to get peo­ple togeth­er. Every­one with­in an hour of trans­porta­tion from Copen­hagen can sign up as a host. The host and guest are put togeth­er ran­dom­ly, so you can’t choose your host. Go to the web­site www.newlifecopenhagen.com to check out details. This option involves some reg­is­tra­tion and cen­tral­ized, bureau­crat­ic dis­tri­b­u­tion.

Pri­vate accom­mo­da­tion with Dan­ish activists:
If you have par­tic­u­lar rea­sons for not want­i­ng to use the com­mu­nal accom­mo­da­tion, which we advise you to as much as pos­si­ble, you can stay with local Dan­ish activists and avoid to go through the gen­er­al pub­lic sign-up (New Life Copen­hagen, see above), you are asked to use the fol­low­ing email-address.

privateaccommodation.cop15@gmail.com

Please send us an e‑mail, con­tain­ing name, how many you will like to stay togeth­er (if you don’t mind stay­ing indi­vid­u­al­ly, please state so in the mail), if pos­si­ble the dura­tion of your stay and con­tact infor­ma­tion. You will then receive a mail with con­tact info of your host a few weeks before the COP15, so you can do the actu­al arrang­ing your­self. We can­not guar­an­tee peo­ple a spot though.

Please note, that the Dan­ish scene can only pro­vide sleep­ing oppor­tu­ni­ty for a lim­it­ed num­ber of guests.

2) FOOD:

People’s kitchens will be set up on cen­tral spots in Copen­hagen, such as info points, accom­mo­da­tion spaces, when pos­si­ble, and in areas of activist activ­i­ties. The biggest kitchen will be placed close to Kli­maFo­rum, and the Cen­tral sta­tion, at an info­point. Oth­er big kitchens will be at Folkets in Nør­re­bro and at Nemoland in Chris­tia­nia. All kitchens will need vol­un­teers dur­ing the hole peri­od. Food will be brought out to the larg­er demos and actions. We will have to ask for dona­tions, around 20 DKK (2–3 Euros) per meal.

Also we are send­ing a call out to all veg­e­tar­i­an restau­rants, cafe’s and walk by shops, to have spe­cial low cost offers.

If you’re part of a people’s kitchen plan­ning to come for the COP15 and have not been in con­tact with us yet, please con­tact the logis­tics-group at: logistics.cop15@gmail.com for coor­di­na­tion.

3) INFO POINTS:

Info points will be set up sev­er­al places in Copen­hagen and we are try­ing to mobi­lize Dan­ish orga­ni­za­tions and groups to help out, but inter­na­tion­al vol­un­teers will be need­ed, espe­cial­ly as groups tak­ing on orga­niz­ing the man­age­ment of a spe­cif­ic site.

Sites: (see map below for exact loca­tion)
— On the Cen­tral Sta­tion, pri­mar­i­ly as an infor­ma­tion and “redi­rec­tion” stand
— In Råhuset next to one of the com­mu­nal kitchens by KlimaForum09 near­by the Cen­tral Sta­tion
— In the con­ver­gence cen­ter Støberi­et on Nør­re­bro
— In Chris­tia­nia, near the com­mu­nal kitchen
— On the social cen­ter Bol­sje­fab­rikken, The Can­dy Fac­to­ry in Copen­hagen North-West area

So far we’re think­ing that the info points would be places with:
— Infor­ma­tion on var­i­ous prac­ti­cal mat­ters and con­tacts, fur­ther­more info on the fol­low­ing:
— Food and accom­mo­da­tion space
— Geog­ra­phy of Copen­hagen (maps)
— Legal rights, trau­ma and medics
— Free inter­net ser­vices, with some com­put­ers avail­able
— Hot drinks for freez­ing tem­per­a­tures
— Free shop (with warm clothes, etc.)

… Please send logistics.cop15@gmail.com any more fea­tures you would sug­gest.

4) CONVERGENCE CENTERS:
We are work­ing with a few con­ver­gence cen­ters spread around the cen­tral parts of Copen­hagen. To clar­i­fy, when speak­ing of a con­ver­gence cen­ter we talk of both a social space to relax, dis­cuss and research, a space for prac­ti­cal and oth­er prepa­ra­tions and con­tain­ing facil­i­ties like medics and trau­ma.

Folkets Hus, Sten­gade 50
Key point of activ­i­ties for activists dur­ing COP15 includ­ing a peo­ples kitchen. The non-com­er­cial cafe will be run­ning as nor­mal dur­ing the entire peri­od. Here you can get cheap cof­fee and oth­er nice organ­ic things.

Sites: (see map for exact loca­tions)

- The “main” con­ver­gence, Støberi­et on Blågårds Plads 3 on Nør­re­bro, which will fea­ture medics, trau­ma sup­port, legal aid, meet­ing and social spaces and info point.

- Bol­sje­fab­rikken, The Can­dy Fac­to­ry, Laekevej 11 which is a social cen­ter in Copen­hagen NW (next to Nør­re­bro). This will be a more prac­ti­cal cen­ter fea­tur­ing work­shop areas with tools and acces­sories, kitchen, social and meet­ing spaces and an info point.

- A small­er con­ver­gence, Råhuset by KlimaForum09 on Vester­bro. This will pri­mar­i­ly fea­ture a social space and info point, also some KlimaForum09 activ­i­ties and more. It is locat­ed next to the main com­mu­nal kitchen.

- The House of Sol­i­dar­i­ty — Sol­i­daritet­shuset, Grif­f­en­feldts­gade 41 — Activist media cen­ter on Nør­re­bro will fea­ture a be-the-media activist cen­tre open for every­one. It’s locat­ed very close to the “main” con­ver­gence, Støberi­et.

5) LEGAL TEAM
A legal team of law-stu­dents has been set up in Copen­hagen. They have worked out a paper on basic rights in Den­mark for Danes and for­eign­ers, see attached file. They are in con­tact with lawyers and will work from their office dur­ing the whole peri­od of the COP.

Mean­while we are set­ting up a prison sol­i­dar­i­ty sup­port group, that will do the over­all coor­di­na­tion of legal aid and prison sup­port. They will be based in Støberi­et, the main info­point at Nør­re­bro. So if you have any legal issue or ques­tion, go to Støberi­et. Then they can redi­rect you to the office of the legal team if it’s need­ed (which is very close to Støberi­et).

If you or your group wants to work on legal aid dur­ing the COP, please con­tact climate09legalaid@gmail.com, for coor­di­na­tion.

6) BORDER CONTROL
We strong­ly rec­om­mend you to bring your pass­port even though you are trav­el­ling from a coun­try mem­ber of Schen­gen. Peo­ple going to the G8-sum­mit in Ros­tock in 2008 were checked at the Danish/German bor­der and peo­ple not pos­sess­ing a pass­port were imme­di­ate­ly sent back. We expect the same to hap­pen dur­ing the COP15.

Bor­der sup­port teams are being set up at the German/Danish bor­der and the Swedish/Danish bor­der, togeth­er with lawyer sup­port from Copen­hagen. There will be orga­nized pick up spots for peo­ple being denied entrance. We will have more spe­cif­ic infor­ma­tion on this in the final newslet­ter, such as phone num­ber, etc.

If you’re a group work­ing with bor­der issues, please con­tact climate09legalaid@gmail.com, for coor­di­na­tion.

7) VISAS
From some coun­tries, includ­ing all Schen­gen coun­tries, you don ́t need a visa. See the list in the fol­low­ing link to see if you need one:

http://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/coming_to_dk/visa/who_needs_visa.htm

PLEASE BE AWARE: It can take up to 8 weeks to get a visa, and costs around 60 Euros. If you need a visa then you need to start the process imme­di­ate­ly.

How to apply, go to:
http://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/coming_to_dk/visa/how-to/how_to_app.htm

To get a visa you need a ref­er­ence in Den­mark. The eas­i­est and most direct way to get a visa is to go through Kli­maFo­rum, it doesn’t mat­ter if you don’t intend to par­tic­i­pate in the forum. You need to fill out the attached spread­sheet in this mail and send it to: klimaforum09@klimaforum09.org
It would ease the process a lot if you reg­is­ter in groups. The dead­line for reg­is­ter­ing is already the 6th of Novem­ber.

If you have any ques­tions or con­cerns, please write us at climatevisa@gmail.com
To get a more detailed guide on how to apply for a visa, please write the email address above.

8) VOLUNTEERS
We need your vol­un­teer help to make our con­ver­gence on Copen­hagen suc­cess­ful. Sign up both as an indi­vid­ual and even bet­ter as a group that is pre­pared to take on coor­di­nat­ing the logis­tics of a spe­cif­ic site for a spe­cif­ic peri­od of time:

- Keep­ing an eye on accom­mo­da­tion areas, media cen­ters, etc.: Look after an area, give out basic infos and make sure every­thing runs smooth­ly (both day and night shifts will be need­ed)

- Cook­ing food: chop veg­gies in one of the many com­mu­nal kitchens and save the starv­ing activists!

- Work­ing in an Info point: Give out info of all kinds about town and COP15. You will be giv­en all the info you might need, but it might help if you know Copen­hagen, COP15 or the alter­na­tive activ­i­ties a bit before­hand.

- Work­ing as IT and tech­ni­cal sup­port (media cen­ter): help solv­ing any kind of IT cri­sis we might face

- Coor­di­nat­ing vol­un­teers: You will be in charge of coor­di­nat­ing one group of vol­un­teers con­nect­ed to one spe­cif­ic place/role. Coor­di­nate and smoothen up shifts, time tables and so forth.

- Driving/being a run­ner: Dri­ve food around, go buy­ing stuff or mate­ri­als, etc

- Mak­ing Pro­pa­gan­da, hand out fly­ers, put up posters

- Trans­la­tion: help us trans­lat­ing from and to dif­fer­ent lan­guages, both spo­ken and writ­ten (press releas­es etc.)

You can sign up here: http://www.climate-justice-action.org/mobilization/volunteer/
If you have ques­tions write an email to climatevolunteers@gmail.com

9) MEDICS AND TRAUMA SUPPORT
For both the medics and trau­ma sup­port, there are Dan­ish groups coor­di­nat­ing affin­i­ty groups from a series of coun­tries. Both groups will have a cen­tral area in the con­ver­gence cen­ter Støberi­et, as well as oth­er loca­tions.

Are you an affin­i­ty group or indi­vid­ual doing medic work, please write streetmedics-d09@aktivix.org.

Are you an affin­i­ty group or indi­vid­ual doing trau­ma sup­port, please write efa-cop@activix.org.

10) KIDS
There will so far be one medi­um sized space for kids to hang out. This space will be orga­nized in col­lab­o­ra­tion with The Bot­tom meet­ing in Chris­ta­nia, and will need some par­ents to help out, take turns etc. We don’t real­ly have an overview of what is need­ed in rela­tion to kids, so if you’re inter­est­ed — send an email to logistics.cop15@gmail.com. We hope to make anoth­er space for kids if it’s need­ed.

We are plan­ning to reserve some accom­mo­da­tion places/room for fam­i­lies, see more on accom­mo­da­tion above.

11) WHAT TO BRING
— Warm clothes, aver­age tem­per­a­ture in DK in Decem­ber is between 5 and 0 degrees Cel­sius, and at night below zero.

- Rain clothes, as it can be rain­ing a lot, but usu­al­ly snow will not come until Jan­u­ary.

- Mon­ey for dona­tions for food and to cov­er oth­er needs.

- Sleep­ing bag and sleep­ing pad (if sleep­ing pri­vate­ly, ask your host what’s nec­es­sary)

12) TRANSPORT

Trans­port to Copen­hagen:

UK Realt­ed info (trav­el, what to bring, legal etc):
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/actions/copenhagen-2009/coaches
http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/actions/copenhagen-2009/logistics
http://www.blackcross.dk/bustcards/la_english.asp
http://www.climate-justice-action.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Your_legal_rights_in_Denmark.pdf

Peo­ple are com­ing from all direc­tions to the COP, try to hook up with some­one already plan­ning to come. The web­site is gath­er­ing all infor­ma­tion on how peo­ple come here if they have place for oth­ers. So if you have place for oth­ers, (for instance) with a bus, down­load the form here http://www.climate-justice-action.org/media/documents/ fill it out, and send it to convergence@climate-justice-action.org. Then peo­ple have the pos­si­bil­i­ty to find you.

If you want to hook up with oth­er to come, check out the prac­ti­cal info sec­tion in a few days or click on the “Con­verge on CPH” but­ton on the web­page. Infor­ma­tion will be updat­ed con­stant­ly, so keep your eyes open and let us know how you are com­ing as soon as you decide.

Trans­port with­in Den­mark:
Dan­ish Rail­ways: www.dsb.dk . Right cor­ner to switch to Eng­lish. It’s eas­i­est to use the “jour­ney plan­ner”.

In order to go to KlimaForum09, get off at “Hov­ed­banegår­den”, which is the main sta­tion.
In order to go to Nør­re­bro with con­ver­gence cen­ters, info points etc. get off at “Nør­re­port st.” (but be aware that all trains don’t stop there). See map for details.

13) MAPS
Go to this web­site to see overview of loca­tions of inter­ests dur­ing COP15. The map will be updat­ed con­tin­u­ous­ly.

http://tiny.cc/cop

14) PLEDGING AND DONATIONS
In order to set up this infra­struc­ture in Copen­hagen and plan the dif­fer­ent CJA actions it requires quite a lot of mon­ey. Con­tri­bu­tion is always need­ed, you can of course make a con­tri­bu­tion when com­ing to COP15, but it’s actu­al­ly a big­ger help for us if we have it before­hand.

Organizations/groups/network/individuals can trans­fer mon­ey using this infor­ma­tion:

IBAN: DK2484010001125014
SWIFT-code:
VEHODK22 for inter­na­tion­al cur­ren­cy except Euros
MEKUDK21 for Euros

As an indi­vid­ual it might be eas­i­er just using pay­pal, se more here:
http://www.climate-justice-action.org/donate/

If you’re hav­ing prob­lems trans­fer­ring mon­ey or so, please write to: climate09accountancy@gmail.com

15) WHERE TO FIND MORE INFORMATION

www.climatecollective.org
Cli­mate Col­lec­tive is a net­work of Dan­ish groups and indi­vid­u­als that coor­di­nate and orga­nize activ­i­ties and actions relat­ed to cli­mate change from an ant cap­i­tal­is­tic stance. Towards COP15, Cli­mate Col­lec­tive is mobi­liz­ing, par­tic­u­lar­ly in Den­mark, and is orga­niz­ing and coor­di­nat­ing logis­tics.

www.climate-justice-action.org
CJA is a broad inter­na­tion­al net­work, with mem­ber orga­ni­za­tions from all over the world. They are plan­ning actu­al actions in Copen­hagen dur­ing the COP and putting an effort to coor­di­nate mobi­liza­tion world­wide along with doing sol­i­dar­i­ty work with the Glob­al South.

www.klimaforum09.dk
Klimaforum09 is also referred to as “The alter­na­tive sum­mit”. It will take place dur­ing the same time as COP15. Klimaforum09 is orga­nized by a broad coali­tion of Dan­ish and inter­na­tion­al envi­ron­men­tal move­ments and civ­il soci­ety orga­ni­za­tions. Go to their web­site to learn more about the dec­la­ra­tion-process and the pro­gram.

http://nevertrustacop.org/
The Nev­er Trust A COP net­work was formed in April 2009 by indi­vid­u­als who want to link social strug­gles and cli­mate activism based on an anti-cap­i­tal­ist analy­sis to mobi­lize against the COP15 sum­mit.