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full article - Reclaim Power!'s long way to the Bella Centre (IMC-DENMARK)
http://indymedia.dk/articles/1894
Reclaim Power climate protest march in Copenhagen (Guardian In pictures)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/dec/16/reclaim-power…
Social & Climate Justice Caravan
blog - http://climatecaravan.wordpress.com/
web - http://www.climatecaravan.org/
This press conference was scheduled to start at 6pm yesterday evening after yesterdays RECLAIM POWER day of action. It had to be moved 3 times to a full hall to allow for the 300 people that wished to come and listen to what went down yesterday.
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POWER TO THE PEOPLE
AND CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW
ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE
AND WE KNOW HOW
RECLAIM POWER was the culmination of the weeks meetings, assemblys, actions.... To attempt to create a truly open participative space for a PEOPLES ASSEMBLY to happen outside the Bella centre for people outside and inside to meet, talk, plan, denounce false solutions and bullying by the north and outlawing of dissent, propose alternative solutions, agree on strategies to further build the movement that we believe is the only way to truly bring about climate justice.
1000´s of people marched along the legal route, many many more were not permitted to get there due to more of the police repression we have seen all week as they are used to stop our movement from building spaces, understanding and resistance.
Up to 300 people marched from within the Bella centre to leave to connect with those outside for the PEOPLES ASSEMBLY, but they were prevented from doing so by a police line. They bravely tried to go through but were again forced back by police violence. Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuala, and Evo Morales, the president of Bolivia, also wished to leave the official COP15 but were also denied the right to leave and freely assemble with the PEOPLES ASSEMBLY, "security reasons" were the excuse for this. We hope and expect today they will make statements and continue to add to the multi ended bridge we are building.
Around 10 people spoke at the press conference, including 2 people who managed to hijack the stage of the final plenary to denounce the false solutions and tell the people inside that the PEOPLES ASSEMBLY was happening outside despite having to hold off very aggressive lines of police violence, dogs, spray and beatings. These 2 activists were not arrested but merely thrown out of the Bella centre and its COP OUT of a Cop15.
Location
Cristianiania