Police attempt to enter Climate Camp
gstar | 30.08.2006 15:10 | Climate Camp 2006 | Climate Chaos | Ecology
At around 2:40 today there was a request by the police to re-enter the camp.
Context:
The previous day (29th)at 11:15 three police entered the camp in the morning via a negotiated walk about the camp agreeing not to enter peoples tents, workshop etc, with no camerars, escorted by legal observers and alt. media monitoring. After this walk-on, their were two other unschedled visits on the camp by the police. The police had not negotiated these visits. These unscheduled visits made many participants feel that the camp needed a reponse/s to address these police visits, particularly as the last one was upped to four police on site.
The visit today by the police at 2:40 was met with a peaceful but strong reaction by camp participants, banners were brought out and the police ignored, people instead choosing to listen to the more lyrical sounds of the samba band that came to the front gate. Very soon after more police gathered in the form of police video and photo crew.
At around 3:45 climate camp activists raised a giant rainbow banner across the main gates to prevent the police watching and filming activists and participants of workshops on site.
Context:
The previous day (29th)at 11:15 three police entered the camp in the morning via a negotiated walk about the camp agreeing not to enter peoples tents, workshop etc, with no camerars, escorted by legal observers and alt. media monitoring. After this walk-on, their were two other unschedled visits on the camp by the police. The police had not negotiated these visits. These unscheduled visits made many participants feel that the camp needed a reponse/s to address these police visits, particularly as the last one was upped to four police on site.
The visit today by the police at 2:40 was met with a peaceful but strong reaction by camp participants, banners were brought out and the police ignored, people instead choosing to listen to the more lyrical sounds of the samba band that came to the front gate. Very soon after more police gathered in the form of police video and photo crew.
At around 3:45 climate camp activists raised a giant rainbow banner across the main gates to prevent the police watching and filming activists and participants of workshops on site.
gstar