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UK COP15 Climate Summit 2009 Newswire Archive

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Climate protestors scale Canadian embassy and deface flag

15-12-2009 11:06

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15/12/09
Photo and video opportunity from 8am: The Canadian High Commission, 1Grosvenor Square CLIMATE PROTESTORS SCALE CANADIAN EMBASSY AND DEFACE FLAG

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Report from Cop-enhagen

15-12-2009 09:37

The signs up all over the airport and various places elsewhere in town are calling it Hopenhagen, but everybody I know is calling it Cop-enhagen, which seems far more appropriate. The international media has been giving this lots of coverage, and rightly so. Of course much of the media is unable to walk and chew gum at the same time, so other things, such as the reason the protests are happening in the first place, can get lost.

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COP15 prisoners riot in makeshift jail

14-12-2009 23:55

For the second day in a row, the police have used pepperspray against the inmates in the climate prison in Valby. Climate activists smashed the cages and used benches to break cell doors open. The police are sending out daily press-releases with the latest news about the many arrests in connection with the protests against the COP15 summit, but some stories never go further than the police’s leadership and are left out of the official accounts.

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Call Out For International Solidarity In Support Of Climate Justice

14-12-2009 22:26

CALL OUT FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
TAKE ACTION IN SUPPORT OF THE ACTIVISTS IN COPENHAGEN FACING A POLICE STATE ON WEDNESDAY!

Free all the climate justice Prisoners in Copenhagen!
Stop police states and repressive capitalist summits!
For our autonomy on the streets!

Take simultaneous actions everywhere on WEDNESDAY 16th December.

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Pepper Spray Used on Activists in Copenhagen Whilst Detained!

14-12-2009 20:36

Defiance in Copenhagen During COP-15
Shocking reports coming from copenhagen of YET MORE police brutality against those that seek justice for the planet and its inhabitants, human and non-human, as people are sprayed with pepper spray in their holding cells for apparently making noise!!

below is the actual text on indymedia denmark:

solidarity to those suffering police abuse.

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Climate Activists Tell Canada: Don’t Cop Out On COP 15!

14-12-2009 18:08

On Monday 14th of December, campaigners from the UK Tar Sands Network and Camp for Climate Action protested outside Canada House in London and shut down Pall Mall Street in Trafalgar Square to protest against Canada’s attempts to derail the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen.

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Never trust a cop Demo

14-12-2009 13:08

Call out for demo outside Danish embassy on Thursday 17th., sloane street @ 16.00

In solidarity with Ntac and all arrested in Cph.

Dresscode : BLACK !!!!

Mood : PISSED OFF ( what else )

Spread the word.

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Telephone solidarity with detained activists in Copenhagen

14-12-2009 13:05

Do you know anyone taking part in COP 15 protests in Copenhagen who may have been subject to mass arrest? 968 arrested Saturday, 250+ Sunday ??? today...

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Yorkshire and Humber Plans to Worsen Climate Change.

14-12-2009 09:58

The Graph
Yorkshire and Humbers unelected assembly wants to hasten the day when Leeds is a port on an inland sea. They must be stopped!

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Carbon Traders Speak Out On The Streets

14-12-2009 02:08

Devlish May out and about on the streets of Copenhagen n the 12th of December obtained audio of Carbon traders who were actually out on the streets evangelising that climate catastrophe is great for trade and were very excited that every crisis is a profit!
Devlish May also bumped into Queens of Denmark who esposed love for the global family.

 http://indymedia.dk/videos/1678

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COP15 - more mass arrests

13-12-2009 20:22

The second day at COP15 saw another mass arrest of hundreds of activists, as the Danish state continues to show a complete disregard for the right to protest. A 'Hit The Production' march to the Harbour called to highlight the way in which capitalist organisation of production in our societies is the root cause of climate change set off at 12:40 towards the harbour. Within an hour police moved in, took the sound system and began arresting hundreds. Arrestees were loaded onto coaches and taken to a detention centre, where conditions were detained in oppressive conditions

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The green US president?

13-12-2009 12:25

Many had hoped when Barack Obama had become US president that he would be a true difference to the former president: George W. Bush, especially with regard to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other imperialist US engagements etc.

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The Copenhagen Connection: Sheffield Live!

13-12-2009 12:16

Tuesday 15th December 5 - 6pm

"The Copenhagen Connection" on Sheffield Live! 93.2 FM

Tune in for a special radio show featuring LIVE interviews with Sheffield activists in Copenhagen - Jenny, Heather & Ronin, plus chat, music and more...

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Arrests Copenhagen

12-12-2009 22:25

People taken away by the Police on Bus 51
Images show people at COP15 protest whom after being kettled and then arrested by being dragged from the crowd, had their hands restrained with cable ties and were put on buses. This is the first bus which has a sign, bus 51.

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Copenhagen Police Accused of Violating Human Rights at UN Summit

12-12-2009 22:04

aerial view of lines of people arrested
Danish police have indiscriminately arrested hundreds of climate justice activists during a climate change protest made up of 100,000 people that took place today in Copenhagen. Questions have been raised about the fact that the arrests occurred in a different time and place to where some trouble had momentarily flared earlier in the day. Journalists have been restricted from reporting at the site of the arrests since 1800hrs.

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Mass Arrest On Climate Demo in Copenhagen

12-12-2009 20:06

Around 700 - 900 people were arrested on a mass climate demo this afternoon in Copenhagen

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COP15 EASIER access to Denmark and COPENHAGEN

12-12-2009 11:05

The Danish and German police forces and the intelligence services (PET, FE, BND) of both countries, and probably also some other countries, “violence services” has made it more difficult to enter Denmark in order to avoid political activist to enter the country and join the demos at COP15 etc.

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Lighting up Cornmarket in Protest

11-12-2009 20:43

A candlelit vigil at St Michael's in Cornmarket helped bring home the message that climate change affects everyone, and everyone can do something about it.

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If you need help… in Copenhagen!

11-12-2009 17:00

If you need help at the climate summit, there are different places in Copenhagen where you can go:

Important practical information!