Resistance at the Climate Summit in Copenhagen Dec 2010
Stellan Vinthagen December 11th, 2009
During the coming days, from Saturday until the end of next week, there will be several demonstrations, civil disobedience actions and other forms of resistance in Copenhagen at the COP-15 Climate Summit. Major demonstrations are expected, a blockade of the harbor of Copenhagen is happening on Sunday and is organized by Climate Justice Action. On Wednesday next week there will be thousands who will do civil disobedience and try to break into the summit of the politicians and create a “Peoples’ Summit”. And, like other such summit protests against G8 or WTO there will for sure be riots.
On Sunday there will also be a uniqe “Academic Conference Blockade”. An academic conference in which researchers, lectureres and other academics will present research papers on climate issues while simultanously doing civil disobedience and blockade in the harbor, stoping climate destructive activity and thus, taking their responsibility for their academic analysises of the need to act and stop climate change. It is theory and practice combined, a form of “engaged academia”. At this conference blockade I will present a paper with the title: “A Proposal of a ‘Panel on Climate Justice’: 7 theses and the ‘Pope Model’”
The police are mobilized from all over Denmark and new legal measures are used creating virtually a state of emergency in Copenhagen, as well as special jails for protesters in what is called a “Climate Guantanamo”.
Reports will be given here on the blog as soon as we have interesting materials to reveal about the ongoing mobilization of a new global movement: the Climate Justice Movement.
- Academia , Civil Disobedience , Nonviolent Action , Police , Protest , Resistance , Violence
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