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		<title>A Tar Sands Pledge of Resistance</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engagement à la Résistance contre les Sables Bitumineux [En français ici]
At a recent climate camp in North America, activists began collecting signatures for a tar sands pledge of resistance.  We invite you to sign on to commit to action against a fossil fuel pipeline and pumping project (&#8221;Trailbreaker&#8221;) that may bring tar sands bitumen through infrastructure across several [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; ">At a recent <a href="http://www.climateconvergence.org/">climate camp</a> in North America, activists began collecting signatures for a tar sands pledge of resistance.  We invite you to sign on to commit to action against a <a href="http://www.mediacoop.ca/story/climate-justice-montreal-releases-breaking-trailbreaker-report/4082">fossil fuel pipeline and pumping project</a> (&#8221;Trailbreaker&#8221;) that may bring tar sands bitumen through infrastructure across several American states and Canadian provinces.  If we cannot overturn these industry plans, tar sands bitumen will be sent through Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ontario, Quebec, Vermont, and Maine &#8212; before tankers bring this sludge to the Gulf Coast of Texas!</span></p>
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<p>These and other <a href="http://oilsandstruth.org/">tar sands</a> operations amount to the single-most destructive and unsustainable project on earth.  (See <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOk0Fyov_2A">this brief H2oil segment</a> for an excellent introduction.)</p>
<p>Just north of Vermont, over 200 people recently joined the resistance as they passed through the Quebec Climate Action Camp in Dunham. The camp was erected to strengthen growing resistance toward the construction of a pumping station, which would be part of the Enbridge Trailbreaker project, cutting across the community. At the end of the climate camp, activists and community members launched the next step in the campaign against dirty oil’s eastward expansion: a Pledge of Resistance. Activists in the region around the climate camp will continue creating a broad network of community members and supporters to educate about the dangers of the Trailbreaker project, and take action to stop it.</p>
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<h2><strong>The Quebec Climate Camp Pledge of Resistance</strong></h2>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Enbridge and the Portland Montreal Pipeline’s proposed pumping station threatens the health, water, environment and lands of the people of Dunham and the region.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The pumping station, part of Enbridge’s Trailbreaker pipeline project, is intended to carry dirty oil from the most environmentally destructive enterprise in human history, the Alberta tar sands.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The companies and government-backers behind this proposed pumping station are ignoring community wishes and concerns, including demands for an independent environmental assessment.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The community has never consented to the project. All along the trail of the pipeline, opposition is growing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Between August 7 and 23, 2010, community members joined forces with supporters from across Quebec, Canada, and North America to hold a Climate Action Camp. to strengthen the campaign against the Trailbreaker. We gathered to educate, create new ties, and mobilize a diverse movement to stop oil companies from polluting our communities and contributing to climate catastrophe.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">Because of the grave threat the Trailbreaker project poses to the climate, the community and all others in its path, we pledge to engage in non-violent direct action to stop the pumping station should they ever attempt to follow through with its construction without community consent.</p>
<h1><a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&amp;formkey=dFJFWm9HNzVLbHZLYWRvdkhXZERsM0E6MQ#gid=0">Sign now!</a></p>
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<p>While this trail breaking pledge is local, the context and needed responses are global, with connections to your home.  There are many points of intervention against tar sands infrastructure, but we also must form a united front!</h1>
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		<title>CALL FOR SUPPORT: Donations Needed for N30 Legal Expenses!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, Supporters, Comrades and Community,
As you may recall, a lively protest took place on the streets of Chicago&#8217;s financial district last November 30, on the 10th anniversary of the &#8220;Battle of Seattle&#8221; and a week ahead of the big UN climate summit in Copenhagen.  Several groups from across the city had come together to [...]]]></description>
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<p>As you may recall, a lively protest took place on the streets of Chicago&#8217;s financial district last November 30, on the 10th anniversary of the &#8220;Battle of Seattle&#8221; and a week ahead of the big UN climate summit in Copenhagen.  Several groups from across the city had come together to demand just, equitable, and effective solutions to the climate crisis, starting with the shut-down of the Crawford and Fisk coal plants in Chicago&#8217;s Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods.  The November 30th (N30) event also targeted “false solutions” to climate change like carbon trading, nukes and agrofuels, and was part of a national day of action for climate justice.</p>
<p>Now, the city has decided to charge these folks $8,340, with a deadline of mid-August to pay the fines.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.networkforgood.org/donation/ExpressDonation.aspx?ORGID2=030280149"><img class="alignright" style="border: 0px initial initial;" title="Donate via ClimateSOS" src="http://www.climatesos.org/images/donate-NFG.png" alt="Donate via ClimateSOS" width="140" height="53" /></a><strong>Please help us raise the funds we need by donating what you can!</strong></p>
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<p><span id="more-389"></span>Following visits to several local “climate criminals,” including JP Morgan Chase (one of the leading funders of mountain top removal coal mining), Midwest Generation (the owner of Chicago’s two coal-fired power plants), and the Board of Trade (which trades in palm oil, one of the leading drivers of rainforest destruction), the N30 march arrived at the main target, the Chicago Climate Exchange.</p>
<p>The Chicago Climate Exchange is the first and largest carbon trading institution in North America.  Carbon Trading is a system of trading in carbon that intensifies social injustice, does not reduce emissions in a meaningful way, results in more pollution and more displacement for communities on the ground, and acts as a dangerous distraction from the real climate solutions we urgently need.  (It does succeed in making a bunch of money for big polluters and their cohorts.)  Unfortunately, participation in this fraudulent market has become the primary way that governments, corporations, and mainstream environmental groups have attempted to &#8220;solve&#8221; the climate crisis.</p>
<p>To draw attention to carbon trading as a false solution, 12 people locked their arms together in lockboxes, formed a large circle, and took over the intersection of Adams and LaSalle, outside the offices of the Chicago Climate Exchange, for several hours, encircling a banner that read, &#8220;Chicago Climate Exchange &#8211; the Air is Not for Sale!&#8221;  (Check out photos and video from the action at <a href="http://howgreenischicago.org">http://howgreenischicago.org</a>.)</p>
<p>Now, the city has decided to charge these folks $8,340, with a deadline of mid-August to pay the fines.  We need your support!!  Please consider donating whatever you can to support the N30 defendants.  Throw a benefit party, pass a hat, sell some cupcakes &#8212; it all adds up!</p>
<p>You can donate online below,  or send a check payable to LVEJO with &#8220;N30 Legal Defense&#8221; in the memo line to:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 90px;"><strong>LVEJO &#8211; Little Village Environmental Justice Organization</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 90px;"><strong></strong><strong>2856 S. Millard Ave.</strong></p>
<p style="padding-left: 90px;"><strong>Chicago, IL 60623</strong></p>
<p>Thank you!  All donations are much appreciated!!!</p>
<p>Love,</p>
<p>The Climate Exchange 12</p>
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		<title>Five Citizens Arrested at Valmont Power Plant</title>
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Boulder Activists Unfurl Banner and Erect Wind Turbines on Top of Giant Coal Pile

Boulder, CO – At approximately 12:45 today, four activists climbed onto the massive coal pile in front of the Valmont Power Plant.  An enormous banner was deployed down the front of the coal pile reading “RENEWABLES NOW” and two large mock [...]]]></description>
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<pre>Boulder Activists Unfurl Banner and Erect Wind Turbines on Top of Giant Coal Pile

Boulder, CO – At approximately 12:45 today, four activists climbed onto the massive coal pile in front of the Valmont Power Plant.  An enormous banner was deployed down the front of the coal pile reading “RENEWABLES NOW” and two large mock wind turbines were erected on top of the coal pile.  The activists reclaimed the coal pile to display their message for approximately 1.5 hours, before they were taken into custody.

Meanwhile a rally took place on outside of the Valmont Power Plant.  Bill McKibben, a leading climate change activist and founder of 350.org, who happened to be in Boulder for a speaking event, came out to the rally and expressed his support for those on the coal pile.
“Our leaders have been listening to the coal industry instead of the science and now people need to take the lead and that is what they are doing.  The action today is great and what is so great about it is that the same thing is happening all around the world. Everywhere people are showing the same kind of courage,” said Mr. McKibben.

The protest, which occurred less than one week after the 40thAnniversary of Earth Day, comes as Boulder is considering whether to renew a 20 year franchise agreement with Xcel.  Recently, the Boulder City Council and City Manager suggested that Boulder should delay signing a new franchise agreement to allow more time to negotiate with Xcel about implementing a stronger renewable energy plan.
Approximately 90% of Boulder’s electricity is generated from fossil fuels, with only 10% coming from renewable sources.  Many local environmentalists and community leaders are calling for electricity generated from renewable sources to increase by 10% each year, reaching 30% renewable by 2012 and 100% renewable by 2020.</pre>
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<pre>“Boulder is ready to move forward with 100% renewable electricity. If Xcel is not willing to partner with the city to make this happen, then Boulder officials and citizens needs to take our energy future into our own hands,” said Tom Weis, a Boulder resident that communicated from atop the coal pile.
While the recent ‘Clean Air-Clean Jobs Act’ will require that Xcel modify three Front Range coal plants by 2017, Xcel is simultaneously planning to open the Comanche 3 coal-fired power plant in Pueblo, which will be the largest coal plant in the state.

Beyond that, three Front Range coal plants are likely to be replaced by natural gas, instead of renewable energy sources.  In fact, the legislation may allow Xcel to sign 20 year contracts on natural gas, effectively locking Coloradans to the high cost and environmentally destructive fuel, at a time when renewable energy technology is rapidly advancing.

“There couldn’t be a more important place for these kinds of protests. Boulder has provided more information about the deteriorating climate than any other town and yet there is a mountain of coal behind me. It is pathetic,” said Mr. McKibben.

At the same time, Mr. McKibben believes that Boulder is the right place to change directions:
“There is no better place for 100% renewable electricity. Boulder’s combination of wind, sun and brain power makes it uniquely suited for just that kind of progress.”

Photos available at: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/49717025@N06/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/49717025@N06/</a>

Initial media reports:
Video and Article: <a href="http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_14968436#axzz0mLAxuWwK">http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_14968436#axzz0mLAxuWwK</a>
Article: <a href="http://cbs4denver.com/wireapbusinessco/5.arrested.at.2.1660009.html">http://cbs4denver.com/wireapbusinessco/5.arrested.at.2.1660009.html</a></pre>
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		<title>Fossil Fools Day 2010 pulls pranks, packs punches!</title>
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Spoofs, hoaxes, Insurgent clown armies, impersonations, media hijacking, theatrics, and even Bigfoot formed just part of the arsenal that climate activists used in calling out the worst climate criminals commenced worldwide on Fossil Fools Day yesterday.
Yesterday, here in North America alone, more than 30 cities organized demonstrations against the fossil fuel industry, corporate banks and [...]]]></description>
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<p>Spoofs, hoaxes, Insurgent clown armies, impersonations, media hijacking, theatrics, and even Bigfoot formed just part of the arsenal that climate activists used in calling out the worst climate criminals commenced worldwide on<strong> <a href="http://www.fossilfoolsday.org/">Fossil Fools Day</a></strong> yesterday.</p>
<p>Yesterday, here in North America alone, more than 30 cities organized demonstrations against the fossil fuel industry, corporate banks and big environmental organizations for the festivities. Demonstrations were coordinated in part by Rising Tide North America, which has also launched an online campaign targeting “Big Green” groups that have taken money from the worst corporate polluters. Key targets of the campaign include Conservation International, National Wildlife Federation and Environmental Defense.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a just a few highlights from actions today but be sure to check out <a href="http://www.fossilfoolsday.org/">www.fossilfoolsday.org</a> for a full review!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/newspaper-prank-targets-%3Ffossil-fools%3F-oregon/"><span>Cascadia region &#8211; Oregon, U.S.</span></a></p>
<p><span><a href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/newspaper-prank-targets-%3Ffossil-fools%3F-oregon/#more-89"><img src="http://www.risingtidenorthamerica.org/images/crt_FF_coversmall.jpg" alt="Cascadia FFD Action" width="169" height="179" align="left" /></a></span>Late last night volunteerswith Portland Rising Tide blasted the city with over 3,000 fake newspaper covers wrapping the Willamette Weekly.</p>
<p>With content including an interview with Bigfoot about pipeline plans through Mt. Hood and a chart explaining the Columbia River Crossing project as understood by Glen Beck. The action was part of Fossil Fools Day, a national day-of-action with the tag-line, “Pull a prank that packs a punch” meant to inspire playful actions targeting the fossil fuel industry. <a href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/newspaper-prank-targets-%3Ffossil-fools%3F-oregon/#more-89">(read more…)</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/climate-camp-pranks-the-carbon-traders-at-omfinancial/"><span>Carbon Traders pranked in Auckland, NZ</span></a></p>
<p>Camp for Climate Action Auckland has visited the offices o<strong><a title="Climate Camp pranks carbon traitors!" rel="lightbox[99]" href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/wp-http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/climate-camp-pranks-the-carbon-traders-at-omfinancial/#more-99"><img title="Climate Camp pranks carbon traitors!" src="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/2iueu5x-300x200.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="239" height="146" align="right" /></a></strong>f OMFinancial to present them with this year’s Fossil Fools day award for helping New Zealand’s biggest polluters cheat their way out of dealing with climate change. <strong><a title="Climate Camp pranks carbon traitors!" rel="lightbox[99]" href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/2iueu5x.jpg"><br />
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“Last December in Copenhagen, <strong>the politicians sold us out to the fossil fools and corporate lobbyists like the International Emissions Trading Association</strong>. Instead of 350 parts per million (ppm) of carbon in the atmosphere as ‘required by science’, the Copenhagen Accord signatories’ promised 15% emissions cuts from 1990 levels to 2020 could in reality translate into a 10% increase once carbon trading and offset loopholes are factored in. We’ve been left with nothing but carbon market shenanigans designed to distract us from the truth. <em>Stopping runaway climate change means leaving fossil fuels in the ground</em>.” <a href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/climate-camp-pranks-the-carbon-traders-at-omfinancial/#more-99">(more…)</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/newspaper-prank-targets-%3Ffossil-fools%3F-oregon/"><span>Green Energy Gift in UK as Eon halts expansion</span></a><span><a href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/newspaper-prank-targets-%3Ffossil-fools%3F-oregon/#more-89"></p>
<p></a></span> <a href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/newspaper-prank-targets-%3Ffossil-fools%3F-oregon/#more-89"><img title="medway4" src="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/medway41-225x300.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="201" height="263" align="right" /></a>German energy giant EON have announced that they are shelving controversial plans for a massive expansion of coal and gas electricity generation in the Medway region. The surprising news emerged today as Eon contractors broke ground at the offices of Medway Council on Dock Road, Chatham, and started installing wind turbines  and solar panels.</p>
<p>Eon media relations officer, Joe King announced, “We realise that continued investment in fossil fuels is a dangerous distraction from the urgent need to develop truly sustainable technologies so we’ve  abandoned our dated plans to continue burning gas and coal. This wind  farm for Medway council is just the beginning, we’re also offering all  our customers heavily discounted shares in future community wind farm  schemes, so they’ll actually co-own the systems that provide their  power”. <a href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/newspaper-prank-targets-%3Ffossil-fools%3F-oregon/">(more&#8230;)</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/pepco-pranked-in-dc-company-announces-shift-to-green-energy/"><span>Pepco pranked in DC, announces green shift</span></a><a href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/newspaper-prank-targets-%3Ffossil-fools%3F-oregon/#more-89"><br />
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<strong><a title="pepco_sign" rel="lightbox[114]" href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/wp-http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/pepco-pranked-in-dc-company-announces-shift-to-green-energy/"><img title="pepco_sign" src="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/pepco_sign1-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="207" height="154" align="left" /></a></strong> <strong>Pepco announces plan to shift all power facilities to wind and solar energy, may cancel planned rate hikes</strong> <strong><em>Pepco notifies its customers that it wishes “to serve the energy needs of our customers for generations to come.”</em></strong></p>
<p>Washington DC – In an unprecedented move this morning, <a href="http://www.pepco-green.com/">Pepco Holdings Inc.</a> executives announced plans to shift all of their energy facilities to wind and solar energy by the year 2020. The DC-area power giant has already delivered the news of its green energy transition to thousands of its customers in the DC area through door-to-door flyers distributed this morning. Pepco is an innovative power company serving 1.9 million customers in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, and New Jersey.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/activists-pull-elaborate-%3Ffossil-fools-day%3F-prank-on-xcel-energy/"><span>Website prank spoofs Xcel in Denver, CO</span></a><a href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/newspaper-prank-targets-%3Ffossil-fools%3F-oregon/#more-89"><br />
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<strong>Denver, CO</strong> – On April Fools’ Day – as part of the international ‘Fossil Fools Day’ – Colorado activists pulled an elaborate prank on Xcel Energy, the largest utility company in the state.  With a farce website(<a href="http://www.xcelresponsiblebynature.com/" target="_blank">www.xcelresponsiblebynature.com</a>), a satirical press release, and a letter to Colorado ratepayers, activists helped Xcel Energy become a renewable energy leader.  The announcement said that Xcel Energy would switch to 100% renewable electricity in Colorado by phasing out all coal plants and abandoning plans to convert existing coal plants to natural gas.<strong><a title="xcellogo" rel="lightbox[124]" href="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/wp-http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/activists-pull-elaborate-%3Ffossil-fools-day%3F-prank-on-xcel-energy/"><img title="xcellogo" src="http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org/2010/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/xcellogo.gif" alt="" width="267" height="70" align="right" /></a></strong></p>
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<p><span>Visit <a href="http://www.fossilfoolsday.org/">www.fossilfoolsday.org</a> for a full review, more photos, more information, and to join in on the fun, because Fossil Fools don&#8217;t stop being Climate Criminals when the sun sets&#8230;</span></div>
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		<title>Climate Change Activists: Join the Vancouver Convergence</title>
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A coalition of environmental activists led by  GatewaySucks.org is calling on climate change activists to join the convergence at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.

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<p style="text-align: justify; ">A coalition of environmental activists led by  GatewaySucks.org is calling on climate change activists to join the convergence at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">When the 2010 Winter Olympics start a couple of weeks  from now in Vancouver, BC the athletes and spectators will be joined by organizations with some of the worst records on climate change.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">General Motors is a national partner for the games, and one of the leading corporate opponents of effective action on climate change. Only two years ago, a vice-chairman of GM called global warming a &#8220;total crock of shit.&#8221; GM is supplying a large fleet of vehicles for the games, almost all of which are gas-guzzling SUVs.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">Petro-Canada, another National Olympic Partner, is the retail arm of the largest extractor of Oil Sands bitumen. The Oil Sands are Canada&#8217;s biggest ghg emissions point source.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">RBC (the Royal Bank of Canada) in addition to being a prominent Olympic sponsor is the largest commercial bank funder of the Oil Sands,. TransCanada pipelines, whose pipelines connect to the Oil Sands, is also an official supplier.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The government of British Columbia is the main funder and promoter of the games. They kicked off a massive plan to add over 1,000 km of new highway lanes (an increase of over 2,000,000 annual tonnes of CO2e emissions ) with the Sea-to-Sky Highway expansion for the Olympics. These plans include the controversial Gateway Program. It continues to heavily subsidize the oil and gas industry which resulted in it being the only Canadian province to see ghg emissions from industrial sources increase in 2008.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">The Federal government of Canada which consistently earned &#8220;Fossil Awards&#8221; at the most recent international climate talks also is a major funder for the Olympics.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">These corporations and governments want to fool the world with their claim that these are the &#8220;Greenest Games Ever&#8221; despite the links to climate change deniers, highway expansion and the Oil Sands.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">If you would like to endorse this call-out and the welcoming committee event please contact <a href="mailto:info@gatewaysucks.org">info@gatewaysucks.org.</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: center; ">MORE INFORMATION:</p>
<p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 90px;">Convergence Info: <a href="http://olympicresistance.net/">http://olympicresistance.net/</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 90px;"><a href="http://olympicresistance.net/"></a> Welcoming Committee: <a href="http://2010welcoming.wordpress.com/">http://2010welcoming.wordpress.com/</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 90px;"><a href="http://2010welcoming.wordpress.com/"></a> Green Olympic Watch: <a href="http://2010greenwatch.org/">http://2010greenwatch.org/</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 90px;"><a href="http://2010greenwatch.org/"></a> GatewaySucks.org: <a href="http://www.gatewaysucks.org/">http://www.gatewaysucks.org/</a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 90px;"><a href="http://www.gatewaysucks.org/"></a> 2010 Climate Crime Scene: <a href="http://2010climatecrime.org">http://2010climatecrime.org</a></p>
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		<title>Nine-Day Tree Sit Ends, Sitters Vow Not Over Until Blasting Stops</title>
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PETTUS, WVa—After blocking Massey Energy’s operations on the Bee Tree Permit for nine days, Amber Nitchman, 19, and Eric Blevins, 28 descended from their respective trees. They had occupied the two oak trees—originally accompanied by a third [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify; ">PETTUS, WVa—After blocking Massey Energy’s operations on the Bee Tree Permit for nine days, Amber Nitchman, 19, and Eric Blevins, 28 descended from their respective trees. They had occupied the two oak trees—originally accompanied by a third tree sitter, David Aaron Smith, 23—to protest mountaintop removal and the blasting of <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #bb6b02;" href="http://www.coalriverwind.org">Coal River Mountain</a>. Upon descent, they were immediately arrested by West Virginia State Troopers. The sitters’ decision to leave the trees was made in light of the recent drop in temperature.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">After a week of Massey security <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #bb6b02;" href="http://climategroundzero.net/2010/01/treesit/">harassing the sitters</a> with deafening sirens and air horns, a <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #bb6b02;" href="http://climategroundzero.net/2010/01/manchin_save_mountain_stop_harassment/">call-in pressure campaign</a> was launched by Climate Ground Zero, Mountain Justice and other anti-mountaintop removal groups. The receipt of hundreds of calls from around the country led to an <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #bb6b02;" href="http://climategroundzero.net/2010/01/climate-ground-zero-meets-with-governor-manchin/">emergency meeting with Climate Ground Zero</a> volunteers, the Raleigh County prosecutor and Governor Manchin. The meeting resulted in the moratorium and a call for an <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #bb6b02;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUk6mW09R9Q">investigation of the abuse</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify; ">The tree sit represents Climate Ground Zero’s most sustained intervention in mountaintop removal mining operations since its <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #bb6b02;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWeDrMfhsE">campaign of nonviolent direct action</a> began last February. Volunteers know that the fight is far from over and expect work to commence on the Bee Tree site immediately. However, they see this tree sit as a victory. “It halted blasting for nine days. I think they’ve wildly succeeded with their goals,” said Climate Ground Zero volunteer Mike Bowersox. In a final communication <a style="text-decoration: none; color: #bb6b02;" href="http://www.picasaweb.google.com/climategroundzero">from her perch</a>, Nitchman captured the group’s resolve. “Its not over until the blasting is stopped,” she said.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global UN Climate negotiations (COP15) are proceeding in Copenhagen with over 100 heads of state expected to attend in the next week. With 2009 the 5th hottest year on record, Scientists are saying a Climate Treaty is more urgent with Global carbon emissions still increasing and acidification threatening marine biodiversity.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.beyondtalk.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/smaller-massdemo1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-339" title="smaller-massdemo" src="http://www.beyondtalk.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/smaller-massdemo1-300x225.jpg" alt="smaller-massdemo" width="300" height="225" /></a>Global <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://en.cop15.dk/">UN Climate negotiations</a> (COP15) are proceeding in Copenhagen with over 100 heads of state expected to attend in the next week. With <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://www.climateimc.org/en/original-news/2009/12/08/2009-set-become-fifth-hottest-year-record-hottest-decade">2009 the 5th hottest year on record</a>, Scientists are saying a Climate Treaty is more urgent with <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://www.climateimc.org/en/original-news/2009/11/18/scientists-climate-treaty-more-urgent-global-carbon-emissions-still">Global carbon emissions still increasing</a> and <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://indymedia.org.au/2009/12/10/scientist-extinction-threatens-coral-reefs-unless-co2-limited-to-350ppm">acidification threatening marine biodiversity</a>.</p>
<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 12px;">There are major differences between the industrialised nations, the large developing nations of India and China, and the poorest and most vulnerable countries as typified by <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://indymedia.dk/articles/1460">Tuvalu which proposed to fortify the Kyoto agreement</a>, and <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://www.climateimc.org/en/original-news/2009/12/11/bolivia-responds-us-climate-debt-if-you-break-it-you-buy-it">Bolivia</a>. Summary of Negotiations by Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne (<a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/ebraham/videos/christine_milne.mp4/view">video</a>)</p>
<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 12px;">In <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://indymedia.dk/articles/1526">Copenhagen 100,000 people marched</a>, however after 3pm police charged into the march and made arbitrary mass arrests estimated to be about 1,000. Further protests are occurring the next week inside the conference center and on the streets, check <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://indymedia.dk/">Denmark Indymedia</a> for details and reports.</p>
<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 12px;">Many thousands of people attended a global weekend of vigils organised by <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://www.350.org/">350.org</a> and other protests with <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://indymedia.org.au/2009/12/12/australians-send-a-climate-message-to-prime-minister-kevin-rudd">Walk Against Warming In Australia</a> attracting 90,000 people, with 40,000 attending a Melbourne rally. (<a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://www.engagemedia.org/Members/takver/videos/Melbourne_walk_against_warming_2009.mpg/view">Video</a>)</p>
<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 12px;"><strong>Aggregation and Video:</strong> <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://icop15.org/">icop15 aggregation</a> | <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://cop15live.com/">cop15live video</a><br />
<strong>Radio:</strong> <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://climateradio.org/">Climate Radio</a> | <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://www.radiomundoreal.fm/COP-15?lang=en">Radio Mundo</a> | Radio Indymedia &#8211; <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://radio.indymedia.org/en/node/18016">Urban War in Copenhagen?</a>, <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://radio.indymedia.org/en/node/18018">9 hour detention for Japanese man for nothing</a><br />
<strong>Background on Tuvalu:</strong> <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://www.climateimc.org/en/breaking-news/2005/12/19/tuvalu-climate-adaptation-issues">Climate Adaption Issues</a> | <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://www.climateimc.org/en/original-news/2009/12/13/woman-tuvalu-addresses-melbourne-climate-rally">Speech at Melbourne Climate Rally</a></p>
<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 12px;">In Copenhagen Saturday 12th began with the <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://www.copenhagenflood.org/">NOAH Flood for Climate Justice Demonstration</a> which started at 10am and marched, danced and waved to Højbro Plads [<a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://indymedia.dk/articles/1529">photo report</a>]. The <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://12dec09.dk/content/english">12dec Demo</a> started at Christiansborg Slotsplads / Parliament Square [<a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://tinyurl.com/yjfogju">google route map</a>], including a <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://www.climate-justice-action.org/">CJA group</a>, and it was soon clear that it was massive, with estimates quickly reaching 100,000 protesters. This was also part of a <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/">Global Day of Action</a> on climate change.  People were also meeting at Hojbro Plads in the same area for <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://nevertrustacop.org/">another action in the city</a>.</p>
<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 12px;"><strong>Police Make Indiscriminate Mass Arrests</strong></p>
<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 12px;">At around 3.15pm the police charged into the march near to where the CJA System Change not Climate Change group had joined the march, as well as people from the Ntac called demonstration. They cut off hundreds of people including many who were marching as part of <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://indymedia.dk/1513">Libertarian Socialist bloc</a> [Pics <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://indymedia.dk/articles/1543">1</a> &gt; <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://indymedia.dk/articles/1545">2</a> &gt; <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://indymedia.dk/articles/1546">3</a> | <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/12/443278.html">report</a> | <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://ekstrabladet.dk/112/article1268915.ece">video</a>]. By 5pm several hundred had been handcuffed and made to sit on the floor, where they remain in the cold for hours. The police&#8217;s press office reports that those arrested today are between 700-900 people, later revised to close to one thousand. &#8211; See <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://twitpic.com/t7dts">AerialTwitpic</a>. See <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://indymedia.dk/articles/1554">CJA Press Release</a>, of these only three were eventually charged with anything.</p>
<p style="font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 12px;">Following the enormous mass arrests of climate protesters, <a style="color: #16345c; border: initial none initial;" href="http://indymedia.dk/articles/1588">accounts are emerging</a> of the poor conditions within the specially set up detention facilities, with people handcuffed for up to eight hours following their lengthy detention upon the streets. Despite this obvious repression climate campaigners remain determined to push the message that we need System Change not climate change.</p>
<p>[the below is from Indymedia Denmark: http://indymedia.dk/ ]</p>
<p>Saturday 12th began with the <a style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: #006583;" href="http://www.copenhagenflood.org/">NOAH Flood for Climate Justice Demonstration</a> which started at 10am and marched, danced and waved to Højbro Plads [<a style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: #006583;" href="http://indymedia.dk/articles/1529">photo report</a>]. The <a style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: #006583;" href="http://12dec09.dk/content/english">12dec Demo</a> started at Christiansborg Slotsplads / Parliament Square [<a style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: #006583;" href="http://tinyurl.com/yjfogju">google route map</a>], including a <a style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: #006583;" href="http://www.climate-justice-action.org/">CJA group</a>, and it was soon clear that it was massive, with estimates quickly reaching 100,000 protestors. This was also part of a <a style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: #006583;" href="http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/">Global Day of Action</a> on climate change.  People were also meeting at Hojbro Plads in the same area for <a style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: #006583;" href="http://nevertrustacop.org/">another action in the city</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Police Make Indiscriminate Mass Arrests</strong></p>
<p>At around 3.15pm the police charged into the march near to where the CJA System Change not Climate Change group had joined the march, as well as people from the Ntac called demonstration. They cut off hundreds of people including many who were marching as part of <a style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: #006583;" href="http://indymedia.dk/1513">Libertarian Socialist bloc</a> [Pics <a style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: #006583;" href="http://indymedia.dk/1543">1</a>&gt; <a style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: #006583;" href="http://indymedia.dk/1545">2</a> | <a style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: #006583;" href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/12/443278.html">report</a> | <a style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: #006583;" href="http://ekstrabladet.dk/112/article1268915.ece">video</a>]. By 5pm several hundred had been handcuffed and made to sit on the floor, where they remain in the cold for hours. The police&#8217;s press office reports that those arrested today are between 700-900 people &#8211; See <a style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; color: #006583;" href="http://twitpic.com/t7dts">AerialTwitpic</a>.</p>
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		<title>Petition! Stop Danish Police Abuses Against Peaceful Climate Protesters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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To: Hans Gammeltoft-Hansen (Ombudsman), Per Larsen (Detective Commander of the Danish National Police) and Ritt Bjerregaard (Lord Mayor of Copenhagen)
Over the past two weeks, citizens of countries all over the world have come to Copenhagen for the UN COP-15 climate negotiations. Many have engaged in peaceful, nonviolent protest, trying to push world leaders to sign [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.18462; text-align: center; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.beyondtalk.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/copenhagen-mass-arrest.jpg.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-321" title="copenhagen mass arrest" src="http://www.beyondtalk.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/copenhagen-mass-arrest.jpg.jpg" alt="copenhagen mass arrest" width="468" height="312" /></a></strong></p>
<h3><strong><a href="http://www.beyondtalk.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/copenhagen-mass-arrest.jpg.jpg"></a>To:</strong> Hans Gammeltoft-Hansen (Ombudsman), Per Larsen (Detective Commander of the Danish National Police) and Ritt Bjerregaard (Lord Mayor of Copenhagen)</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.18462; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Over the past two weeks, citizens of countries all over the world have come to Copenhagen for the UN COP-15 climate negotiations. Many have engaged in peaceful, nonviolent protest, trying to push world leaders to sign a meaningful deal that will save our planet for future generations.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1.18462em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.18462; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Rather that giving them the space, the Danish police have used extremely heavy-handed and cruel mass arrest tactics, potentially violating European human rights laws. The Danish police are out of control, and they need to be held accountable.</p>
<h2 style="font-size: 1.5em; text-align: center;"><strong><a title="SIGN PETITION" href="http://criminaljustice.change.org/actions/view/stop_danish_police_abuses_against_peaceful_climate_protestors" target="_self">SIGN PETITION HERE</a></strong></h2>
<p style="margin-top: 1.18462em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.18462; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong>Please join us and take action!</strong> Sign this petition calling on the Danish government to immediately investigate the police actions of the past two weeks, and demand that they allow future peaceful protests to go forward without similar abuses.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1.18462em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.18462; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong>Danish Police: Going Too Far</strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 1.18462em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.18462; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">On Saturday, Dec. 12, 100,000 people in Copenhagen participated in an overwhelmingly peaceful protest &#8211; but this protest was marred by the overzealous Danish police, who blocked off streets surrounding large groups of protestors, and arrested almost 1,000 people, the vast majority of which were clearly doing nothing illegal. Arrestees were handcuffed and forced to sit in rows for hours, as the temperatures dipped below freezing; numerous people <a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #205375; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://www.climate-justice-action.org/news/2009/12/12/copenhagen-police-accused-of-violating-human-rights-at-un-climate-summit/">urinated on themselves after being denied use of toilets</a>. According to Maria Ludwig from Germany, &#8220;They kept me for two hours with plastic cuffs around our wrists and our hands behind our back, and then they put us on the bus. We had nothing to eat or drink, and one man asked the police to go to the toilet and they said: &#8216;No way are you going to put your trousers down, you&#8217;ll just have to piss into your trousers.&#8221;<span id="more-320"></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 1.18462em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.18462; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">And this is only one example of the harassment of environmental protestors by the Danish police in recent weeks. On Dec. 11, police arrested 68 people at a nonviolent protest in downtown Copenhagen, refusing to give reasons for making arrests. (You can see examples of police violence at the Dec. 11 protest on <a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #205375; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyaaQW4m4OQ">this video</a>.) On the night of Dec. 14, <a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #205375; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6956955.ece">police raided the district of Christiania</a>, where a protest group was holding a fundraiser party, arresting 200 people and using tear gas, police dogs, and water cannons on people that they claimed were protestors. Lily Kember, 22, from London, said: &#8220;There was no warning. We were dancing, having a great night and then suddenly the tent was full of tear gas. I saw an old man near me doubled up and coughing.&#8221;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1.18462em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.18462; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong>Possible Violations of EU Human Rights Laws?</strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 1.18462em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.18462; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Throughout these protests, police have cited a <a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #205375; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/26/denmark-police-powers-copenhagen">controversial law</a>, passed on Nov. 26, that gave them sweeping powers to make &#8220;pre-emptive arrests&#8221; and hold people for up to 12 hours without any actual wrongdoing having taken place. The new law was <a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #205375; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/04/copenhagen-climate-talks-protest-law">publicly denounced</a> as &#8220;draconian&#8221; by numerous environmental groups, trade unions, and other organizations.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1.18462em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.18462; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">In a <a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #205375; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/application/pdf/cph_police_note.pdf">press release from Aug. 10</a>, the Danish police stated that &#8220;all people are, without previous permission, at liberty to assemble unarmed&#8221; and that &#8220;the police arenít allowed to take action, unless attacked, until after the crowd has three times been called upon to disperse.&#8221; However, in these protests, these commitments have been blatantly disregarded.<a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #205375; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/13/copenhagen-protests-police-tactics">According to Claus Bonnez</a>, a lawyer working with Krim, a human rights organization, &#8220;according to the European Court of Human Rights process, the police will have to prove that it is necessary for democratic society to make such arrests. And I don&#8217;t think that the Danish police will be able to prove that.&#8221;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1.18462em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.18462; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">On Dec. 13, Amnesty International <a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #205375; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/13/copenhagen-protests-police-tactics">called for an investigation</a> into potential human rights abuses, stating that &#8220;when nearly 1,000 people are arrested and then all but 13 are released it means that many of those people were just innocent people in the wrong place at the wrong time.&#8221;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 1.18462em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 1.1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.18462; background-position: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><strong>Take action now! Please sign this petition, and help make Denmark a safe place for peaceful protest.</strong></p>
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		<title>UK: Activists occupy roof of Parliament, demand change in climate politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oct. 11th - Fifty-five Greenpeace volunteers have this afternoon scaled the walls of the Houses of Parliament and are now occupying the roof of the historic building. They are calling for a new style of politics in Britain, one capable of rising to meet the challenge of climate change.
Tomorrow MPs return from their summer break for the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.beyondtalk.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/greenpeace_parliamentroof.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-182" title="greenpeace_parliamentroof" src="http://www.beyondtalk.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/greenpeace_parliamentroof.jpg" alt="greenpeace_parliamentroof" width="500" height="333" /></a>Oct. 11th - Fifty-five <a style="color: #9f181d; text-decoration: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" href="http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/dozens-scale-parliament-remind-mps-about-importance-climate-change-20091011">Greenpeace</a> volunteers have this afternoon scaled the walls of the Houses of Parliament and are now occupying the roof of the historic building. They are calling for a new style of politics in Britain, one capable of rising to meet the challenge of climate change.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tomorrow MPs return from their summer break for the first parliamentary session since the expenses scandal dragged the reputation of British politics to new depths. With the Committee on Climate Change calling for a “step change” in UK action to cut emissions, and the vital Copenhagen climate summit in less than two months, the climbers say climate change should be right at the top of the political agenda.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">The activists are vowing to stay on the roof overnight so they can welcome politicians back to Westminster in the morning. They unfurling a huge banner on the roof of the Palace of Westminster’s Great Hall that says: “CHANGE THE POLITICS, SAVE THE CLIMATE.” They have also issued a manifesto listing twelve simple steps British politicians could agree to today to rapidly get the UK onto a low carbon path, and provide the help poorer countries need to develop clean energy, adapt to the impacts of climate change and protect their rainforests.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;">One of the activists, 28 year-old Anna Jones, said: “We’ve climbed onto the roof of the Houses of Parliament because too many of the politicians and parties who work in this building are failing us all on climate change. The clock’s ticking down to the big climate summit in Copenhagen, but politicians are still treating the most important issue of our time as a political plaything. We need a green economy that will create jobs and bring prosperity while helping us beat climate change. We need politicians to be fighting for the next generation, not just the next election.”</p>
<p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px;">The forty volunteers gained access to the roof by passing modified ladders through the railings. Before breaching security they told police officers exactly who they were and made it clear that they were about to embark on a peaceful protest. Five of the volunteers – all of them experienced rope access experts – then climbed up the building’s 15m lightning conductor and are now out of reach of security guards on the roof’s apex, where they plan to stay for the next 24 hours. The other 50 protesters are on a lower roof equipped with tents and enough food and water to maintain an overnight occupation</p>
<p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px;">In less than 60 days the world gathers for the key climate change conference in Copenhagen, but as things stand there is a very real risk of failure. At last week’s preliminary UN climate meeting in Bangkok, China and 130 other developing nations accused the richer countries, including the UK, of trying to sabotage the negotiations. There is widespread concern that the developed nations are not making the necessary commitments to seal the vital deal.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px;">26 year-old Christian Hunt, another of the people on the roof, said: “We’ve heard a lot of talk from politicians, lots of speeches and soaring rhetoric and new targets, but little real action. That needs to change. As MPs return from their summer break we need to see them come together, put their differences behind them and agree to simple steps that will slash emissions here in Britain, grow new green industries and set the kind of example that could build trust and break the deadlock before the Copenhagen conference.”</p>
<p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px;">The activists are asking all the party leaders, MPs and Lords to sign up to the new climate manifesto. Anna Jones said: “Our manifesto includes ruling out all emissions from new coal-fired power stations, ending airport expansion and delivering on the clean energy revolution that would see Britain harness the huge natural resources of our wind-swept island to build employment, develop new green industries and cut pollution. People say they get into politics to make a real difference. Well here’s their chance.”</p>
<p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px;">Greenpeace volunteers will be fanning out across Westminster tomorrow morning, asking newly-returning politicians to sign up to the manifesto commitments which could move the UK onto a safe, low carbon path, whilst helping poorer countries to develop clean energy and protect the forests we all depend on.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px;">None of the parties has a perfect record on climate change. The Government gave the green light to Heathrow expansion and has failed to rule out emissions from new coal plants. The Conservatives have ruled out a third runway at Heathrow, but are yet to agree to a commitment ensuring 15% of all Britain’s energy comes from renewables by 2020, while Tory local authorities consistently block wind power developments. George Osbourne did not even mention climate change in his conference speech. Meanwhile the Liberal Democrats have some far-sighted policies on a national level, but regionally and locally they have blocked wind farms, supported new road schemes and promoted regional airport expansion.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px;">Next week sees a meeting in London of environment ministers from the Major Economies Forum, where the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters will continue to discuss approaches to the Copenhagen meeting. After the failure of developed countries at the UN meeting in Bangkok last week to make the stronger commitments needed to break the deadlock and reassure poor countries of their resolve, renewed leadership is desperately needed within the EU, which Britain could provide.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: justify; padding: 0px;">Tomorrow the Committee on Climate Change will publish their progress report on emissions reductions for the UK. They will call for a “step change” in emissions cuts and make clear that the UK is not doing enough to meet its commitments. They will also call for a strengthening of coal policy and for a cap on aviation emissions.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite four activists from the UK being interrogated under terrorism legislation on their way to Copenhagen, the international network Climate Justice Action (CJA) (1) is meeting this weekend to prepare for mass actions during the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.beyondtalk.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Copenhagen_shutitdown.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-178" title="Copenhagen_shutitdown" src="http://www.beyondtalk.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Copenhagen_shutitdown.jpg" alt="Copenhagen_shutitdown" width="500" height="200" /></a>Despite four activists from the UK being <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/oct/14/climate-change-activist-held">interrogated</a> under terrorism legislation on their way to Copenhagen, the international network Climate Justice Action (CJA) (1) is meeting this weekend to prepare for mass actions during the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">After 14 years of ineffectual talks, activists from social movements across the globe are taking the struggle for climate justice to the streets. Planned is a series of events ranging from a mass action to shutdown the harbour of Copenhagen to an action aimed at bringing a people’s agenda for climate justice to the elite summit space for a day. “The UN climate talks will not solve the climate crisis. We are no closer to reducing greenhouse gas emissions than we were when international negotiations began fifteen years ago: emissions are rising faster than ever, while carbon trading allows climate criminals to pollute and profit”, says Tadzio Mueller, a press spokesperson for CJA.<img style="border-top-width: 1px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-top-style: dotted; border-top-color: #cccccc; display: block; width: 483px; height: 12px; margin-top: 15px; background-image: url(http://www.beyondtalk.net/wordpress/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/more_bug.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-position: 100% 0%;" title="More..." src="http://www.beyondtalk.net/wordpress/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In response to what they perceive as a political circus playing to the interests of corporations, Stine Gry, also from CJA, argues that “we cannot trust the market with our future, nor put our faith in unsafe, unproven and unsustainable technologies. Instead of trying to paint a destructive system green, we need to take mass action for climate justice.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">On the 13th of December Climate Justice Action will take direct action against the root causes of climate change by disrupting the toxic, fossil fuel-driven flows of global capitalism and overproduction for overconsumption by shutting down the harbour of Copenhagen.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">On the 16th of December, CJA will put climate justice and the voices of marginalized peoples from across the North and the South at the top of the agenda. Led by activists from the Global South we will challenge the corporate and governmental elites at the UN climate talks, overcoming police barriers with civil disobedience to hold a People’s Climate Justice Summit.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Against the “false solutions” adopted by the UNFCCC, the networks call for:<br />
-	leaving fossil fuels in the ground<br />
-	reasserting peoples’ and community control over production<br />
-	relocalising food production<br />
-	massively reducing overconsumption, particularly in the North<br />
-	respecting indigenous and forest peoples’ rights<br />
-	recognising the ecological and climate debt owed to the peoples of the South and making reparations</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Again Stine Gry: “Real solutions to the climate crisis are being built by women and men in both the South and the North who fight every day to defend their environment and living conditions. We need to globalise these solutions and work for a just transition towards a post-fossil fuel future.”</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">SOURCE:</p>
<p>Press conference in Copenhagen Sunday 18th October</p>
<p>Media team Climate Justice Action<br />
Copenhagen, 16 October 2009</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Notes to editors:<br />
(1)	Climate Justice Action is a network of a wide diversity of groups from both the global north, and the global south. Among them Terra de Direitos (Brazil) and Focus on the Global South, international Climate Camps, Rising Tide and Indian Social Action Forum. The complete list of groups can be found on the website.<br />
Climate Justice Action will hold a Press Conference on Sunday 18th October, 12.00-13.00 at Fabrikken in Christiania (Prinsessegade, 1422, KA, Benhavn, Copenhagen)</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Contact:<br />
Danish phone: +45 41294994 (Stine Gry)<br />
International phone: +49-176-77414303 (Tadzio Mueller)<br />
Website: <a href="http://www.climate-justice-action.org">www.climate-justice-action.org</a><br />
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