PRESS RELEASE
CLIMATE JUSTICE ACTION
15th December 2009
Contact: +45 5066 9028
media@climate-justice-action.org
CHAOS INSIDE THE UN SUMMIT, RANDOM ARRESTS AND RAIDS OUTSIDE
The Danish police have escalated their attempts to criminalise and
harass activists from the group Climate Justice Action in tactics
described as "desperate and self-interested."
The group is an international coalition of grass-roots organisations,
representing the voices of those marginalised from the UN process from
the start of these negotiations, including indigenous rights
activists, farmers movements and environmentalists. (1)
Dr. Tadzio Mueller (2) was arrested by three undercover policemen at
around 15.10 just a few minutes after leaving the Bella Centre where
he had helped in a press conference presenting Climate Justice
Action's protests for Wednesday.
At 16.45 Danish police raided a bicycle workshop being used by
demonstrators to prepare bicycle constructions to be used as part of
working alternatives to fossil fuel culture in Wednesday's
demonstrations.
At 18.00 a further 36 people were arrested at the Klimaforum, the
alternative summit taking place in central Copenhagen, while
protesting against the seizure by police of the vegetable oil they
planning to use for their zero-carbon vehicles.
Simultaneously, about 15,000 delegates, journalists and civil society
representatives have effectively been locked out of the summit by
being refused accreditation, and delays in applications of up to 8
hours.
Many of these delegates will be joining the demonstrations against the
COP process tomorrow, alongside Climate Justice Action (3).
Kamille Hjuler from Climate Justice Action commented: "These are yet
more attempts by the UN to silence any criticisms of the COP process,
whether from inside or outside."
She continues:
"There is less and less hope in the COP process, and more and more
willingness to trample over people's civil liberties in order to stop
the mass civil disobedience that will take place at the summit on
Wednesday."
ENDS
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NOTES
(1) Organisations include Climate Camp UK, Terra de Direitos (Brazil)
and Focus on the Global South, Via Campesina, Climate Justice Now and
the Indian Social Action Forum.
(2) Dr Tadzio Mueller, resident of Berlin, is an accredited NGO
observer, academic, author and climate justice activist, who recently
edited the book 'Contours of Climate Justice' and is also a co-editor
of 'Turbulence' magazine.
(3) The Push for Climate Justice, which will begin from 10am on
Wednesday 16th, will create an alternative space for a radically
different agenda from that of the COP. It will involve 5-10,000
activists approaching the Bella Centre from the outside, and
simultaneous disruptions of the summit from accredited delegates
within.
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
¿Unnatural Disasters?
10 minute preview edit for Copenhagen 09
frictionfilms.blip.tv
Interviews and archive images explore the politics behind floods in Mozambique and look to social movement solutions linking locally and internationally. The appearances of natural disasters and global politics are questioned with powerful words that speak for themselves.
This is a preview edit for a long term film project. All feedback and queries welcome. Contact: frictionfilms@riseup.net
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
New: The Story of Cap & Trade (full length version)
The Story of Cap & Trade from Story of Stuff Project on Vimeo.
The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what’s really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you’ve heard about Cap & Trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.
Friday, 27 November 2009
10 years after Seattle! -> Memories -> Copenhagen
From the WTO in Geneva to the COP in Copenhagen...
www.climatecaravan.org
"TEN YEARS AFTER SEATTLE ! FIGHT THE NEOLIBERAL AGENDA !
INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE WTO AND ITS POLICIES
SATURDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2009, 2P.M., PLACE NEUVE, GENEVA"
http://www.anti-omc2009.org/?lang=en
30th November 1999
Action at Amsterdam Airport to claim free transport to Seattle
"The WTO is the millenium problem"
Stickers in Seattle
from WTO Watch
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Friday, 20 November 2009
Great video activism - Copenhagen Climate Talks coming up...!
Dr Ego vs The Elements
www.klimaforum09.org/The-Elements-vs-Dr-Ego
...
Disruption at Climate Talks pre-meeting for Copenhagen COP15
"END CO2 COLONIALISM"
http://elclimanoestaenvenda.wordpress.com
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Trailer: The Story of Cap & Trade
http://storyofstuff.com/capandtrade/
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Carbon Credits - the first edition
click here to download carbon credit graphics
"1 Carbon Credit.
The value of the credit will go up and down according to global market speculation and is at no time under any circumstances in anyway related to any known concept or estimate of the ecological cost of industrial and corporate behaviour."
May be exchanged for nuclear power station, genetically modified forest or other similarly destructive project.
This bill is solely for the purpose of increasing corporate profit and should not be considered as a viable solution to climate change.
To complete your carbon portfolio we recommend investments in the futures carbon exchange markets. This will allow you to manipulate future energy production and consumption worldwide and ensure that no independent democratic body can make decisions which could interfere with your macroeconomic preferences, projected profit path and reliance on exploitation of the environment and people.
The atmosphere is now for sale."
"The history of colonialism goes in parallel with the creation of new commodities...
...slavery ...sugar ...tea ...coffee ...oil ...carbon?"
Source: Autonomous actions, Den Haag 2000
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