The RECLAIM POWER Peoples Assembly

3 audio files from a truly momentous day. The Peoples Assembly was streamed live thanks to the IMC-Radio crew, which was a great thing. Due to cop violence we missed the initial opening of the assembly (there was much chaos and running about)

1 - THE PEOPLES ASSEMBLY
2 - POST HORIZONTAL PROCESS FEEDBACK SESSION (20 mins) + Joyfull insights (12 mins)
3 - RECLAIM POWER SOUNDSCAPE, many of the chants, an interview with a member of Via Campesina after the assembly and the closing talk in Copenhagen city centre after 8 long, cold hours.

The “Reclaim Power” action on Wednesday December 16th involved thousands of activists simultaneously approaching the Conference centre from different starting points, and a mass of people walking out of the climate talks, to hold a ‘People’s Assembly’ a participatory platform for marginalized voices and real solutions to climate change. Despite significant violence from the police against non-violent protesters the groups did manage to meet and hold the assembly before marching triumphantly back to the city center to continue the work of building a broad based global climate justice movement.

“The solidarity we experienced today, in the face of police intimidation and repression, shows that people across the world are standing together to expose the failure of the COP to address the real causes of the climate crisis, and our determination to work together to bring about the changes needed to tackle climate change. The people feel strong together and we will go back home to build the movement for climate justice and for real solutions, ” said Kingkorn Narintarakul of the Thai Working Group for Climate Justice who, together with a delegation of Thai community activists, marched in today’s protest.

Reclaim Power! Pushing for Climate Justice
On the 16th of December, at the start of the high-level “ministerial” phase of the two-week summit, we, the movements for global justice, will take over the conference for one day and transform it into a Peoples Assembly.

Our goal is to disrupt the sessions and open a space inside the UN area to hold the Assembly. The assembly will give a voice to those who are not being heard, it will be an opportunity to change the agenda, to discuss the real solutions, to send a clear message to the world calling for climate justice.
http://www.climate-justice-action.org/mobilization/reclaim-power-pushin…

Mass Nonviolent Protest by North-South Climate Justice Alliances at COP 15 Marks Defining Moment for Emerging Global Climate Justice Movement
http://www.climate-justice-action.org/news/2009/12/16/mass-nonviolent-p…

Reclaim Power!'s long way to the Bella Centre
https://publish.indymedia.dk/articles/1894

democracy now RECLAIM POWER feature:
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/12/16/police_tear_gas_beat_back_protes…

Reclaim Power climate protest march in Copenhagen (Guardian UK In pictures)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2009/dec/16/reclaim-power…

Copenhagen police tackle 4,000-strong climate protest (Guardian UK VIDEO)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/dec/17/copenhagen-clim…

climate caravan
web - http://www.climatecaravan.org/
blog - http://climatecaravan.wordpress.com/