Copenhagen Mass action against Coal Plant today
MR | 26.09.2009 16:19 | Climate Chaos | Repression | Social Struggles | World
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Big photo gallery and Danish police favourite arrest game!
26.09.2009 21:52
Danish police play at trains
http://politiken.dk/fotografier/article797160.ece As is now usual when the Danish cops make a mass 'preventative' arrest of loads of protestors, they kettle them, take them individuallly, and handcuff them with their arms behind their back. Then they put each person one by one behind the other with the legs alongside the one in front. Sitting in the fashion for a while becomes painful as you wait for the wagons to eventually arrive and cart you off from the protest site.
They've been using this mass arrest thing for a number of years now. It doesn't matter who you are, if you're in the place they want to arrest people then its tough!
It's like the UK kettle with an added twist!
MR
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http://politiken.dk/fotografier/article797160.ece
this is what happened next....
27.09.2009 11:56
The demo underway...
Cop15 or bust...
somebody got a fetish for yellow wirecutters...
Danish riot police beat protesters
a standoff...
on the move again but cross country
Destination reached and mission acheived...
The action plan was openly announced several months ago and Danish police have been gearing up for
massive use of force and to trial new anti-protest laws. Around 100 of the protesters managed to get inside the power plant which should have been shut down due to safety regulations at that point- but was kept
running. However, as this was the goal for the action protesters have declared the action a success. Around 100 people have been arrested.
One person so far has been charged. The action was widely and positively covered in Danish news and protesters regard it as a very positive trial run for actions around the COP 15.
For a regular news and badly google translated versions of the inspiring civil disobedience 'shut it down' action in copenhagen today targeting a coal fire power plant read:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fmodkraft.dk%2F http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=da&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpolitiken.dk%2Findland%2Farticle797115.ece For the original in Danish go to:
http://modkraft.dk/ http://politiken.dk/indland/article797115.ece For some pics:
http://modkraft.dk/spip.php?article11552
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Vestas HQ
27.09.2009 00:32
George Hill
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Lessons for Ratcliffe action in October
27.09.2009 13:23
Lessons to be learned are, at least, to have many blocks and many routes to the power station and to focus on entering the station instead of confronting the police as a side show. Activists in Copenhagen say that won't fight the police but will be confrontational to achieve their aim. This means keeping the point of the action in focus but using self-defence if the cops attack.
The blocks try to use different means to achieve entry to the power station. This means some people bring ladders, others ropes, other wire cutters etc. Other people who do not want to enter the plant, can waste the police's time and divert cops through decoy blocks etc
It's worth reading about this action (and others before such as the mass public squatting G13 action and the Shut Down The Camp action) to get a sense of why these group of protestors often secures some sort of victory.
is a progressive site that has an archive of all the recent mobilisations. Worth checking it out. Google does a fairly reasonably translation from Danish to English.
G13 stuff:
Shut Down the Camp stuff:
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30.09.2009 15:11
Keith