The Birth of a Global Climate Justice Movement
Stellan Vinthagen December 17th, 2009
During the UN Climate Conference COP15 in Copenhagen, Denmark, we have seen the birth a Global Climate Justice Movement. The conferences goes on, dissidence is articulated inside the conference and links with the protests on the streets. The Climate Justice Movement has activities both inside and outside the official UN process.
We have seen the biggest climate demonstration in the world history. About 100 000 people demonstrated on Dec 12 2009. We have also seen several smaller nonviolent actions, e.g. against the Coal Factory DONG in Copenhagen, against the closed EU borders against environmental refugees, for an ecological small scale agriculture and against a consumption lifestyle that destroys our planet. During Dec 16 some 1 000 activists took part in the mass-direct action in which the movement tried to create a “Peoples Assembly” inside the official conference area. Totally over 1 500 activists have been arrested during the last week. Many activists have been wounded and Copenhagen has been transformed into a police state. It is still too early to evaluate the results of the resistance. We will have reasons to come back to that.
In the meantime here are some links where you can find more information about the various resistance done in the new Global Climate Justice Movement:
http://www.climateroots.org/dru/
http://en.cop15.dk/
http://www.erantis.com/events/denmark/copenhagen/climate-conference-2009/index.htm
http://www.foei.org/en/what-we-do/un-climate-talks/global/2009/the-flood-is-coming
http://www.motkraft.net/nyheter/3557
http://www.climate-justice-action.org/
http://www.klimaforum09.org/?lang=da
http://12dec09.dk/
http://notyourbusiness.hacklab.dk/
http://www.global-n30-callout.org/
http://nevertrustacop.org/
- Civil Disobedience , Conferences , Nonviolent Action , Police , Protest , Refugees , Resistance
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