12/12 demonstration Copenhagen
anarcha | 02.12.2009 16:35 | COP15 Climate Summit 2009 | Ecology | Energy Crisis | Globalisation
Be part of the party!
Copenhagen – COP15 – World Climate Summit
December 12th 2009 a mass demonstration against the COP15 Climate Summit will take place in Copenhagen. A mixture of very different people, groups and organizations are going to participate.
Unfortunately the registered route of the demonstration will directly lead out of the city centre to a barren part of town around the conference building, where it is going to end. It will also not be possible for us to change our mind on the way and turn around in order to bring our protest to public places, as after 30 m the demo will cross a draw-bridge, which can ban us from the inner city in the blink of an eye. This is why we think it is important to make up our minds beforehand, which way we want to go.
Copenhagen – COP15 – World Climate Summit
December 12th 2009 a mass demonstration against the COP15 Climate Summit will take place in Copenhagen. A mixture of very different people, groups and organizations are going to participate.
Unfortunately the registered route of the demonstration will directly lead out of the city centre to a barren part of town around the conference building, where it is going to end. It will also not be possible for us to change our mind on the way and turn around in order to bring our protest to public places, as after 30 m the demo will cross a draw-bridge, which can ban us from the inner city in the blink of an eye. This is why we think it is important to make up our minds beforehand, which way we want to go.
Don’t get turned into a pawn
We have made our decision already. We will not act as pawns to be sacrificed, as a disgusted, but stranded demonstration, only for a few can chief negotiators, pointing to 50.000 bored demonstrators, could present half a percentage point more of carbon reduction. We want to get active ourselves.
As draughts we are unbeatable!
There are a lot of better options for this Saturday. The demonstration will meet in the city centre of Copenhagen. All around and in walking distance are the hotels of the delegates, the offices and shops of the climate profiteers and those, who sell themselves to be green, just because their cars now burn a liter less petrol than 30 years ago. And in the socalled Forum, an exhibition centre at the western edge of the city centre, large scale greenwash will be offered: On the fair »Bright Green«, openly organized by the »Confederation of Danish Industries«, the representatives of economy and politics, which poisoned the social as well as any other climate during the last 200 years, will present themselves as saviours at the 12th and 13th of December. Doing this, they will award prizes to each other, invite VIPs and delegates to join in. This would also be the right address for us to demonstrate our opinion.
So, the media-based as well as the real public, which an inner city both offers in contrast to a conference centre in the wastelands, are a twofold invitation to carry the protest to where it belongs. This is a call out to all theatre and samba groups, to the people carrying banners and the friends of civil disobediance. An invitation to those active in flood-for-climate-justice, to sitting blockaders and circles of friends – to all who want more and who are serious about creating pressure. An invitation to contribute to the fight for a better world with your own creative or non-creative actions in public places. »We can do it!« will become reality in the moment we are not running after someone, but determine what we ourselves and refuse to be used as chess pieces!
A king we do not need
Progressive changes have always been eked out through pressure from below. Organizations like big NGOs and hierarchical unions are embedded in power relations, and, regardless of individual exceptions, they are structually conservative – they will fight only, if we urge them to. And this is the time to act. We want to abandon hope that those who destroyed the world for decades will all of sudden save it!
Despite our otherwise perhaps different views, in Copenhagen we have a common goal:
To stop the madness!
Just do it.
We have made our decision already. We will not act as pawns to be sacrificed, as a disgusted, but stranded demonstration, only for a few can chief negotiators, pointing to 50.000 bored demonstrators, could present half a percentage point more of carbon reduction. We want to get active ourselves.
As draughts we are unbeatable!
There are a lot of better options for this Saturday. The demonstration will meet in the city centre of Copenhagen. All around and in walking distance are the hotels of the delegates, the offices and shops of the climate profiteers and those, who sell themselves to be green, just because their cars now burn a liter less petrol than 30 years ago. And in the socalled Forum, an exhibition centre at the western edge of the city centre, large scale greenwash will be offered: On the fair »Bright Green«, openly organized by the »Confederation of Danish Industries«, the representatives of economy and politics, which poisoned the social as well as any other climate during the last 200 years, will present themselves as saviours at the 12th and 13th of December. Doing this, they will award prizes to each other, invite VIPs and delegates to join in. This would also be the right address for us to demonstrate our opinion.
So, the media-based as well as the real public, which an inner city both offers in contrast to a conference centre in the wastelands, are a twofold invitation to carry the protest to where it belongs. This is a call out to all theatre and samba groups, to the people carrying banners and the friends of civil disobediance. An invitation to those active in flood-for-climate-justice, to sitting blockaders and circles of friends – to all who want more and who are serious about creating pressure. An invitation to contribute to the fight for a better world with your own creative or non-creative actions in public places. »We can do it!« will become reality in the moment we are not running after someone, but determine what we ourselves and refuse to be used as chess pieces!
A king we do not need
Progressive changes have always been eked out through pressure from below. Organizations like big NGOs and hierarchical unions are embedded in power relations, and, regardless of individual exceptions, they are structually conservative – they will fight only, if we urge them to. And this is the time to act. We want to abandon hope that those who destroyed the world for decades will all of sudden save it!
Despite our otherwise perhaps different views, in Copenhagen we have a common goal:
To stop the madness!
Just do it.
anarcha
Homepage:
http://nevertrustacop.org