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The climate talks - ALBA gets the final word?
There is so much excitement in Copehagen! All day on Friday the 18th there was expectation of a conclusion and an agreement, if only a vapid political agreement.
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Copenhadgen Climate Talks
On the ground updates from the Copenhagen Climate Change conference — Thursday December 17th 2009.
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Reclaim Power at the climate talks in Copenhagen
Since 7am we have been engaged in the peoples´ struggle to reclaim power from the lobbyists and do-nothing government delegates inside the formal climate talks at the Bella Center in Copenhagen
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Reclaim Power March and the People´s Assembly
It was 12pm when we finally arrived at the front gates of the Bella Centre, still linking arms and declaring´climate justice now´and ´this is what democracy looks like´ in our loudest voices.
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Copenhagen day eight and nine: police repression intensifies
We began our morning of the 15th with a trip to the world famous Christiania—a 41 hectare self-governed community that began as an occupation of a military base in Christianshavn in 1971.
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Tar Sands Shut Down - Listen up Harper!
Today was very exciting, beginning with a rousing demonstration outside the classic old building in central Copenhagen where the Canadian Embassy has some space. It ended with the word, passed around mouth to mouth, at the Klimaforum alternative climate negotiations, that the African government representatives walked out of the formal talks at the Bella Centre. Exactly why I do not yet know. Of course we heard all day that there were endless deadlocks.
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Copenhagen Day Seven
Sunday was the day of taking over the docks at Copenhagen´s internationally important port. However, the demonstrators who gathered at 10 am were confronted as they approached the dock area by flanks of police who charged, arresting about 200 protestors and scattering the rest. Meanwhile, the formal meetings at the Bella Centre were closed for Sunday while many delegates attended a day´long conference on forests and climate change. This conference focused on how to conflate the concepts of plantation and natural forest, refusing a definition of each.
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Copenhagen Day Six: Walk the Talk
The big event of the day was the popular demonstration with over 100,000 people representing all the world´s people, hundreds of countries and a wide range of organizations. The Guardian (UK) misreported the numbers at 30,000 despite the police count, announced at the rally that launched the six km march, of over 100,000. The Guardian blocked all comments on its story which gave almost exclusive coverage and the only photo to alleged violence on the part of some demonstrators. In fact the march was full of art, humor and diversity. It was family-friendly with all ages represented.
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Copenhagen Day Five
I spoke about the imperative of unity between waged and unwaged workers in the fight for system change, not climate change. I outlined the pattern of production and consumption strikes in the oil and fossil fuels sector. The more these kinds of refusals to allow corporations to produce fossil fuels, and refusals to consume them coincide, the more the corporations are denied their source of profit and will be disempowered.
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