[imc-presse] [Cja-press] CHAOS INSIDE THE UN SUMMIT, RANDOM ARRESTS AND RAIDS OUTSIDE

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CLIMATE JUSTICE ACTION
15th December 2009
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CHAOS INSIDE THE UN SUMMIT, RANDOM ARRESTS AND RAIDS OUTSIDE

The Danish police have escalated their attempts to criminalise and harass
activists from the group Climate Justice Action in tactics described as
"desperate and self-interested."

The group is an international coalition of grass-roots organisations,
representing the voices of those marginalised from the UN process from the
start of these negotiations, including indigenous rights activists, farmers
movements and environmentalists. (1)

Dr. Tadzio Mueller (2) was arrested by three undercover policemen at around
15.10 just a few minutes after leaving the Bella Centre where he had helped
in a press conference presenting Climate Justice Action's protests for
Wednesday.

At 16.45 Danish police raided a bicycle workshop being used by demonstrators
to prepare bicycle constructions to be used as part of working alternatives
to fossil fuel culture in Wednesday's demonstrations.

At 18.00 a further 36 people were arrested at the Klimaforum, the
alternative summit taking place in central Copenhagen, while protesting
against the seizure by police of the vegetable oil they planning to use for
their zero-carbon vehicles.

Simultaneously, about 15,000 delegates, journalists and civil society
representatives have effectively been locked out of the summit by being
refused accreditation, and delays in applications of up to 8 hours.

Many of these delegates will be joining the demonstrations against the COP
process tomorrow, alongside Climate Justice Action (3).

Kamille Hjuler from Climate Justice Action commented: "These are yet more
attempts by the UN to silence any criticisms of the COP process, whether
from inside or outside."

She continues:
"There is less and less hope in the COP process, and more and more
willingness to trample over people's civil liberties in order to stop the
mass civil disobedience that will take place at the summit on Wednesday."

ENDS
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NOTES

(1) Organisations include Climate Camp UK, Terra de Direitos (Brazil) and
Focus on the Global South, Via Campesina, Climate Justice Now and the Indian
Social Action Forum.

(2) Dr Tadzio Mueller, resident of Berlin, is an accredited NGO observer,
academic, author and climate justice activist, who recently edited the book
'Contours of Climate Justice' and is also a co-editor of 'Turbulence'
magazine.

(3) The Push for Climate Justice, which will begin from 10am on Wednesday
16th, will create an alternative space for a radically different agenda from
that of the COP. It will involve 5-10,000 activists approaching the Bella
Centre from the outside, and simultaneous disruptions of the summit from
accredited delegates within.

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