13 Decem­ber 2009

For lat­est reports see: Indy­media Time­line
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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.

CJA press release:
Copen­hagen Police Accused of Vio­lat­ing Human Rights at UN Sum­mit

Sat 12 Dec

Dan­ish police have indis­crim­i­nate­ly arrest­ed hun­dreds of cli­mate jus­tice activists dur­ing a cli­mate change protest made up of 100,000 peo­ple that took place today in Copen­hagen. Ques­tions have been raised about the fact that the arrests occurred in a dif­fer­ent time and place to where some trou­ble had momen­tar­i­ly flared ear­li­er in the day. Jour­nal­ists have been restrict­ed from report­ing at the site of the arrests since 1800hrs.

It’s esti­mat­ed that 100 peo­ple are still being held on the road in extreme­ly cold weath­er, cuffed and forced into seat­ed posi­tions in lines (1). They have expressed severe phys­i­cal dis­com­fort and have no access to water, med­ical atten­tion or toi­let facil­i­ties since 1530hrs. Many activists are report­ed to have uri­nat­ed them­selves while detained on the ground.

An esti­mat­ed 200 have been removed from the site and tak­en away in coach­es. Sev­er­al peo­ple are report­ed to have faint­ed around 1945hrs.

Hel­ga Matthi­assen, who was detained for an hour before being released due to an injury she had recent­ly sus­tained, said, “Of course we’re angry — peo­ple all over the world are angry about being lied to by gov­ern­ments who are mak­ing a cor­po­rate deal at the cli­mate talks, and now when we try to protest against this on the streets we are ran­dom­ly held by police.

“Not only have we been denied the right to protest, but our basic human rights have also been ignored in this ludi­crous, staged police exer­cise. It seems Dan­ish Police have a new mot­to: why just crim­i­nalise pro­test­ers, when you can dehu­man­ise them too?” (2)

ENDS

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NOTES TO EDITORS
(1) http://twitpic.com/t7dts
(2) See Hel­ga inter­viewed on TV2 News, 2015 broad­cast http://news.tv2.dk/?channel

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Video

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At the demo in Copen­hagen on the 12.12.09, some demon­stra­tors smashed in the win­dows of the Stock Mar­ket, also the min­istry of for­eign affairs had its win­dows bro­ken.

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Time­line

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COP15 EASIER access to Den­mark and COPENHAGEN

The Dan­ish and Ger­man police forces and the intel­li­gence ser­vices (PET, FE, BND) of both coun­tries, and prob­a­bly also some oth­er coun­tries, “vio­lence ser­vices” has made it more dif­fi­cult to enter Den­mark in order to avoid polit­i­cal activist to enter the coun­try and join the demos at COP15 etc.

BUT, there are more, per­haps, less con­trolled bor­ders to Den­mark, they fol­low below, and also warn­ings against the more con­trolled bor­der cross­ings.

DONT TRAVEL THROUGH:

Copen­hagen Air­port or Bil­lund Air­port

and;

The land bor­der cross­ing at PADBORG, KRUSÅ, in oth­er words AVOID any land bor­der cross­ings in Jyl­land!

TRAVEL BETTER THROUGH THESE CROSSINGS
(so far):

RED ROUTE ONE;
Trav­el to Ros­tock in Ger­many (old DDR), best by train/bus/car, then jump on the fer­ry (SCANDLINES) to GEDSER port in Den­mark, less heavy con­trolled, at the moment.

Then jump on the train/bus to Copen­hagen, takes two hours.

RED ROUTE TWO;
Trav­el to Hels­ing­borg in Swe­den, best by train/bus/car, then jump on the fer­ry (SCANDLINES or HH-fer­ries) to HELSINGØR port in Den­mark, less heavy con­trolled, at the moment.

Then jump on the train to Copen­hagen, takes one hour.

Or take the local train to Hillerød (half an hour) and then the S‑train to Copen­hagen, 40 mint. trav­el time.

RED ROUTE THREE;
Trav­el to Oslo in Nor­way, take the fer­ry direct to Copen­hagen (DFDS).

RED ROUTE FOUR;
Trav­el to Born­holm, then by fer­ry to Køge, then S‑train to Copen­hagen (half hour).

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Cli­mate Radio is fil­ing dai­ly audio bul­letins from inside the Bel­la Cen­tre where the most impor­tant talks in human his­to­ry are hap­pen­ing. Dur­ing the sec­ond week we’ll also have reports from the street actions and par­al­lel People’s Sum­mit aka Kli­mafo­rum. Copen­hagen Dai­ly has a run­ning time of 60 min­utes

Earth First! Rome press:

All’alba di saba­to 12 dicem­bre un grup­po di attivisti di Earth First! Roma han­no scel­to l’Ara Pacis Augus­tae come cor­nice per il pro­prio appel­lo ai leader pre­sen­ti al ver­tice Copen­hagen. Abbi­amo infat­ti col­orato la fontana del­l’Ara Pacis di verde e aff­is­so uno striscione sul muro di fronte a via Toma­cel­li che recita­va “Earth First! Act Now”. Rite­ni­amo non più dero­ga­bile un vero impeg­no sul fronte ambi­en­tale che evi­den­te­mente non può lim­i­tar­si alla tas­sazione delle emis­sioni di co2 ma che deve risol­vere tut­ti i nodi del­la crisi ambi­en­tale mon­di­ale e nazionale: rifiu­ti, con­sumo del ter­ri­to­rio, OGM, via­bil­ità.
“Pri­ma la Ter­ra, Agis­ci ora!”

At sun­set of Sat­ur­day 12th Decem­ber a group of Earth First! Rome’s activists had choosen the Ara Pacis Augus­tae as the right place for their call to the lead­ers at G20 of Copen­hagen. We had coloured the Ara Pacis’s foun­tain with green and put a ban­ner on the wall in front of Via Toma­cel­li where it was writ­ten “Earth First! Act Now”. We believe that a tru­ly engage­ment on the ambi­ent front can’t be dero­gat­ed much longer and can’t con­cern only on the tax­a­tion of co2 emis­sion but also has to resolve the prob­le­ma of glob­al and nation­al cri­sis of ambi­ent: garbage, the waste of ter­ri­to­ry, OGM, road net­work.
“Earth First! Act Now!”

AGENZIE RIPORTATE DAI GIORNALI/NEWS FROM ALL NATIONAL NEWSPAPER: (ITA)

CLIMA: ROMA, ECOLOGISTI TINGONO DI VERDE ACQUA FONTANA ARA PACIS

Roma, 12 dic. (Adnkro­nos) — Dopo il Colosseo anche l’Ara Pacis e’ sta­ta fat­ta ogget­to di un’azione dimostra­ti­va da parte di una non meglio pre­cisa­ta orga­niz­zazione ecol­o­gista. Intorno alle 6.00 del mat­ti­no, infat­ti, ignoti han­no incol­la­to un man­i­festo di cir­ca 2 metri di lunghez­za al muro ester­no del­l’ed­i­fi­cio Meier, sot­to la scrit­ta ”Ara Pacis Augus­tae”, e tin­to di verde l’ac­qua del­la fontana anti­s­tante il piaz­za­le.

Il man­i­festo reca­va in inglese la scrit­ta ”La Ter­ra pri­ma di tut­to. Agis­ci ora” (”Earth first. Action now”), che las­cia pochi dub­bi sul­la matrice e lo scopo del gesto, che cade in coin­ci­den­za con il ver­tice mon­di­ale di Copen­hagen sul cli­ma. I fun­zionari e gli addet­ti al Museo, imme­di­ata­mente inter­venu­ti, han­no rimosso in pochi minu­ti la scrit­ta e svuo­ta­to la fontana, per evitare dan­ni per­ma­nen­ti alla strut­tura.

In relazione a quan­to accadu­to, il Sovrain­ten­dente ai Beni Cul­tur­ali del Comune di Roma, Umber­to Broc­coli, ”invi­ta chi man­i­fes­ta in questo modo le pro­prie, pure con­di­vis­i­bili, pre­oc­cu­pazioni per le sor­ti del cli­ma del piane­ta a far­lo con mag­giore sen­so civi­co e nel rispet­to dei mon­u­men­ti di Roma e di quan­ti lavo­ra­no per la loro tutela e val­oriz­zazione”. Ulte­ri­ori indagi­ni, gra­zie all’e­same delle reg­is­trazioni fil­mate del cir­cuito di videosorveg­lian­za, potran­no dare mag­giori infor­mazioni sug­li autori e le modal­ità del gesto.

ARA PACIS, COMUNE: BLITZ ECOLOGISTI, TINTA VERDE ACQUA FONTANA
“Dopo il Colosseo anche l’Ara Pacis è sta­ta fat­ta ogget­to di un’azione dimostra­ti­va da parte di una non meglio pre­cisa­ta orga­niz­zazione ecol­o­gista. Intorno alle 6 del mat­ti­no di saba­to 12 dicem­bre, infat­ti, ignoti han­no incol­la­to un man­i­festo di cir­ca 2 metri di lunghez­za al muro ester­no del­l’ed­i­fi­cio Meier, sot­to la scrit­ta ‘Ara Pacis Augus­tae’, e tin­ta di verde l’ac­qua del­la fontana anti­s­tante il piaz­za­le”. Lo rende noto il Campi­doglio. (omniroma.it)
(12 dicem­bre 2009 ore 16:11)

IL MATTINO, 12/12/09:
Man­i­fes­tazione all’Ara Pacis. Un man­i­festo di cir­ca 2 metri con la scrit­ta in lin­gua inglese «La Ter­ra pri­ma di tut­to. Agis­ci ora» è sta­to incol­la­to sta­mani al muro ester­no del­l’Ara Pacis, e l’ac­qua del­la fontana del mon­u­men­to augus­teo è sta­ta col­orata di verde. I man­i­fes­tanti fan­no parte del movi­men­to eco­logi­co ‘Earth First’. I fun­zionari e gli addet­ti al museo han­no rimosso in pochi minu­ti — spie­ga una nota del Campi­doglio — la scrit­ta e svuo­ta­to la fontana, per evitare dan­ni per­ma­nen­ti alla strut­tura.

10 Decem­ber 2009

11th Dec: For lat­est news cov­er­age of events see Time­line Reports | Live Video from Cop15live | Modkraft.dk Time­line (dk)

From “the inside”:
The cli­mate actions start­ed last night with fifty Amer­i­can activists tak­ing over a con­ser­v­a­tive host­ed cli­mate denier con­fer­ence. Today activists cre­at­ed a “cli­mate storm” inside the Bel­la Cen­tre and spoke against “sui­cide pacts” for low-lying nations, that would be destroyed by unchecked cli­mate change. Yes­ter­day the cli­mate sum­mit halt­ed, when one of these threat­ened nations, Tuvalu, demand­ed com­mit­ment to a legal­ly-bind­ing agree­ment.

At the bor­ders:
The police has been more active con­trol­ling the bor­ders around Den­mark, for instance near the Ger­man city of Flens­burg, but it’s still pos­si­ble to enter Den­mark. There are also reports of peo­ple have been reject­ed through to Den­mark from Swe­den.

In the streets:
The cops in Copen­hagen are gen­er­al­ly quite active patrolling and stop­ping and search­ing peo­ple at sev­er­al cli­mate active points, when they aren’t just harass­ing peo­ple with paint.

While being a qui­et day, the police has­n’t been on the slow side with break­ing leg­is­la­tion by mak­ing deals with Dan­ish offices regard­ing sur­veil­lance data of pub­lic roads.

Yes­ter­day’s fea­ture

For more cov­er­age see: Cli­mate Jus­tice Chron­i­cle News­pa­per Issue #2 | Democ­ra­cy Now! Broad­cast­ing Dai­ly | OneCli­mate

10.12.09

The Trade and Cli­mate Car­a­van [more] will final­ly arrive tonight to Copen­hagen [report], mean­while hun­dreds of activists are already in town putting the final touch­es to dif­fer­ent aspects of the mobil­i­sa­tions [2]. Police also seem to have stepped up their activ­i­ty, and in a move appar­ent­ly designed to harass pro­tes­tors they raid­ed the Ragn­hildgade acco­mo­da­tion space in the ear­ly hours of 9th Decem­ber [Fea­ture | Press Release], a few days after a raid at activist hous­ing in Tegl­hol­men.

Mean­while protests have already start­ed in Copen­hagen. On the open­ing day of Cop15 there was a Die-in protest at the Bel­la Cen­ter along with many inter­ven­tions from dif­fer­ent goups demand­ing Cli­mate Jus­tice. Nao­mi Klein spoke at the open­ing event of the Kli­mafo­rum, say­ing “Let’s not restrict our­selves to polite march­es and for­mu­la­ic pan­el dis­cus­sions” [report + video]. The sec­ond day of Cop15 saw protests by African groups and oth­ers fol­low­ing the leek­ing of the so-called ‘Dan­ish text’[2].

On wednes­day, the Sum­mit nego­ti­a­tions were sus­pend­ed after inter­ven­tions by Tivalu and oth­er small Island states and their sup­port­ers, while youth activists took over a live web­cast of cli­mate change denial.

Infor­ma­tion about the intend­ed polic­ing of the Dan­ish bor­ders is also becom­ing clear­er. Borderwatchcop15 reports about police con­trols on the motor­way near Flens­burg, as well as reports of coach­es get­ting into Copen­hagen being stopped and searched. But this is not dis­cour­ag­ing peo­ple from trav­el­ling to Copen­hagen, nor is it stop­ping activists from set­ting up infra­struc­ture in the city itself: the Be The Media / Indy­media Media Cen­tre has now been set up and it is open for busi­ness, a First Aid Cop15 group has been set up, as well as Street Medics, a Trau­ma Sup­port Group [more], info­points and acco­mo­da­tion [see google map 1,2].

For more cov­er­age see: Cli­mate Jus­tice Chron­i­cle News­pa­per | Democ­ra­cy Now! Broad­cast­ing Dai­ly | OneCli­mate

See also:

• Cli­mate Bot­tom Meet­ing
• Peo­ples’ Move­ment on Cli­mate Change Bangladesh
• Nao­mi Klein speak­ing at Kil­mafo­rum