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COP15 Fails -- Capitalism is Ecocide

IMC UK Features | 20.12.2009 21:59 | COP15 Climate Summit 2009 | Climate Chaos | World

As the politicians and protesters disperse from Copenhagen , the COP15 climate talks were judged to have ended in a failure to produce any binding commitment to tackle climate change. On Saturday 12th, an estimated 100 000 joined a demo, to be met with repressive policing and mass arrests. The same style of policing continued for the duration of the summit, with hundreds of protestors detained for hours in degrading and inhumane conditions. Whilst the police demonstrated the limits of freedom and democracy on the streets, inside the convention centre western powers and corporations dominated the proceedings, imposing unfair conditions and watering down the already inadequate proposals that were on the table.

In London, the Climate Camp which was set up after the 'wave' demo on December 5th, remained in situ in Trafalgar Square throughout the summit, mounting a number of actions, including an action against Tar Sands at Canada House on Monday 14th, and a protest against the Danish police on Thursday 17th.

Links:
Time Line | Climate IMC | IMC Denmark | iCOP15 aggregated site.



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  1. live stream protests — anon
  2. Was it? — True believer
  3. Copenhagen is a sham — samuel s
  4. Don quixote — Polar bear
  5. Climate Camp in Trafalgar Square, climate protests in Copenhagen - was it worth — protester
  6. Need MORE — MDN
  7. Pentagon's Role in Global Catastrophe: Add Climate Havoc to War Crimes — George B
  8. Seconded — C
  9. Protests and alternatives — a.m.
  10. Solutions — core luminous
  11. protester (21.12.2009 13:20) +1 — Well Said
  12. George B: (21.12.2009 22:18) +1 — Well Said
  13. A letter from a skeptic to a leader — G.Bruno
  14. the role of intentionality — zagovor
  15. to g bruno — zagovor
  16. zagovor - get over yourself! — G Bruno