[imc-presse] [cja-presse-d] Soli-Demonstration für die Kopenhagener Klimagefangenen in Berlin - Kampagne zur Freilassung von Tadzio Müller und den anderen 18 Klima-Gefangegen geht weiter

[climate justice action]

Pressemitteilung
Climate Justice Action (deutschsprachiges Team)
Kopenhagen, 18.12.2009


* Soli-Demonstration für die Kopenhagener Klimagefangenen in Berlin
* Kampagne zur Freilassung von Tadzio Müller und den anderen 18
Klima-Gefangegen geht weiter


Organisiert von der Berliner Gruppe FelS - Für eine linke Strömung
findet unter dem Motto „Etwas ist faul im Staate Dänemark! Freiheit für
Tadzio Müller und alle festgenommenen Klima-AktivistInnen!“ eine
Solidaritätsdemonstration in Berlin statt. Es wird dazu aufgerufen
LEGO-Steine mitzubringen.

Zeit: 19.12., 11:30 Uhr

Ort: Wittenbergplatz, Ziel: Dänische Botschaft


Seit dem vergangenen Samstag hat die dänische Polizei über 1.700
Menschen festgenommen, Demonstrationen mit Schlagstock und Tränengas
aufgelöst und sogar auf dem Konferenzgelände auf Konferenz-Delegierte
eingeprügelt. PressesprecherInnen der Proteste wie Tadzio Müller, Stine
Gry Jonassen und Tanni Nyboe wurden von der Straße weg verhaftet und
sind immer noch in Haft.

Für Fragen:
Hannah Schuster, FelS: 0157-84101195; www.fels-berlin.de


Untenstehend dokumentieren wir eine PM des Journals Turbulence
(http://turbulence.org.uk), welches eine internationale Petition
koordiniert. Delegationen in Berlin, London und San Francisco haben
bereits dänische Botschaften aufgesucht.

Turbulence
Press Release
Copenhagen, December 18 2009


Campaign for the Release of Tadzio Mueller and Other Climate Prisoners
in Copenhagen Continues: 4,000 Signatories to Petition; Delegations to
Danish Embassies in Berlin, London and San Francisco

This morning, delegations visited the Danish embassies in Berlin and
London to demand the release of Tadzio Mueller and other climate
prisoners in Copenhagen. A similar delegation visited the Danish Embassy
in San Francisco yesterday. The Berlin and London delegations handed
over the almost 4,000 signatures so far collected on an online petition.
Tadzio Mueller is a spokesperson for Climate Justice Action. At least
two other spokespeople belonging to the same network have also been
arrested.

The Berlin delegation consisted of Mona Bricke (climate activist with
Gegenstrom
Berlin and UN Climate Conference delegate), Katja Kipping (Member of the
German
Bundestag and Deputy Leader of the Left Party, Germany), Corinna
Genschel (Committee for Basic Rights and Democracy), and Ben Trott
(editor, Turbulence: Ideas for Movement). The delegation met with a
representative of the Embassy, expressed their concerns, and hand
delivered the petition.

The climate activist Mona Bricke said, “Tadzio and I were both
accredited for the UN Climate Conference, through the organisation A
SEED. Tadzio was arrested after a press conference inside the Bella
Centre, and A SEED’s entire accreditation was revoked, similarly to that
of the complete delegation of Friends of the Earth. When on Wednesday
300 UNFCCC delegates attempted to leave the Conference Centre to join
the People’s Assembly outside, they were forcefully prevented from doing
so by both Danish police and UN guards. I was shocked by the degree of
violence that was used against these people, whom the UNFCCC had
accredited to take part in their conference.”

The London delegation were met by the London Metropolitan Police and a
security
guard. They were denied entry to the building and Embassy officials
refused to meet with them, despite prior notice having been given. The
petition was read out in full and left with the security guard. David
Harvie, also of Turbulence and who was part of the London delegation,
said, “The refusal of any member of diplomatic staff to meet us or even
allow us across their threshold was disrespectful. In a small way it
mirrors the attempts of the Danish government to suppress free
expression in Copenhagen and of the United Nations to silence those
demanding climate justice inside the COP process.”

Katja Kipping of the German Left Party said, “I demand the immediate
release of
Tadzio Mueller and all those still in custody. I am especially worried
about the use of preventive arrest. This allows the police to act
arbitrarily. 1,700 preventive arrests show that people’s right to public
assembly is being effectively contested, and, in Tadzio’s case, that the
organisation of legitimate protest is being criminalised.”

Ben Trott, who edits the magazine Turbulence: Ideas for Movement with
Tadzio Mueller said, “Tadzio has been arrested for advocating civil
disobedience. Yet it is obvious that civil disobedience has an important
role to play to in the kinds of far-reaching change needed to properly
and justly respond to the climate crisis. Al Gore and NASA’s James
Hansen have pretty much said the same thing. Either release Tadzio and
the others, or arrest Al Gore.”


Für Nachfragen bei Climate Justice Action (in Kopenhagen):
* Alexis Passadakis,0045-41682808
* Philip Pauls, 0045-50112038








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