Anyone following the television or paper press news about the knife edge negotiations at Copenhagen might be slightly surprised to see how the Danish Police have behaved, since none of this has featured in for example the nightly news on the BBC. Orgreave 1984, anybody?
To follow in real time what’s happening, many climate chaos activists have been using the hashtag #cop09 on Twitter. You could also follow @EmilyAppleand/or @piombofor more. Fit Watch reports that as many as 900 protesters were arrested and caged in large metal pens. Preventative arrests, they’re apparently called. So you can arrest people, en masse, before they do something. News to me.
“On Saturday thousands amassed for a mass march to the COP15 centre, but the police had already decided that sections of the march would never reach their destination. Police vehicles hurtled though the crowd, supported by riot police to break up the demonstration into smaller, more controllable sections. Initially they detained everyone who would sit still on the streets for several hours. They then transferred people to specially set up cages, where people were held for up to 12 hours.”
Keep on taking those photographs, filming, audio recording, people. If you can’t do any of those, write a diary, blog, send it to the newspapers. We’re listening. We’re watching.
Peter Kennard & Cat Phillips are offering this poster as a download from their website. You can make a poster using your own words, your own campaign, your own meeting: click through to get one. More on the recent Kennard-Phillips‘ talk at the Mining Institute in a future post, including a few words with John Kippin, who spoke up about his confusion from the ranks.
James Cook, Birmingham based stand-up comedian, promoter and radio presenter wrote this on his Facebook page the other day:
“I live in the post-industrialised west. I am part of a two car family, in our centrally heated house we own a TV, a Sky Box, a DVD player, a number of stereos and radios, a washing machine, tumble dryer, microwave and dishwasher, two laptop computers and some ghd hair straighteners.
All this ‘evidence’ that my day-to-day, convenient life of luxury is contributing, in whatever small part, to a change in the global climate that will ultimately lead to the, in some cases, slow and painful deaths of the 2 billion poorest on the planet makes me feel bad.
I don’t want to hear that by leaving my stand-by light on all night, or driving to the shops instead of walking, entire communities will be wiped out. I want to hear that everything’s fine and that it’s OK to carry on like I am. The last thing I want, like most people who share my fortuitous living conditions, is to know that there are consequences to my actions.
That is why I will continue to stick my fingers in my ears and go ‘ALALALALALA’ whenever any of these ’scientists’ point out that too much ‘Carbon so-called Dioxide’ in the atmosphere is bad and just say something stupid and arrogant like ‘yeah, well there’s loads of evidence that it’s not man made ACTUALLY’ – despite not having done any actual reading on the subject myself, but instead copying whatever tabloid headline I saw last. Then I won’t have to think about the deaths and the suffering and the pain and the guilt, I’ll just go and buy another appliance that I don’t need.”
You can follow James on Facebook, on twitter as @jamesecookand listen to him on BRMB radio on the net if you’re not in the Midlands.
Season’s greetings, people. Do your bit, and keep on rockin’.
Bad Cop at Cop09
Anyone following the television or paper press news about the knife edge negotiations at Copenhagen might be slightly surprised to see how the Danish Police have behaved, since none of this has featured in for example the nightly news on the BBC. Orgreave 1984, anybody?
To follow in real time what’s happening, many climate chaos activists have been using the hashtag #cop09 on Twitter. You could also follow @EmilyAppleand/or @piombofor more. Fit Watch reports that as many as 900 protesters were arrested and caged in large metal pens. Preventative arrests, they’re apparently called. So you can arrest people, en masse, before they do something. News to me.
More here.
Keep on taking those photographs, filming, audio recording, people. If you can’t do any of those, write a diary, blog, send it to the newspapers. We’re listening. We’re watching.
Peter Kennard & Cat Phillips are offering this poster as a download from their website. You can make a poster using your own words, your own campaign, your own meeting: click through to get one. More on the recent Kennard-Phillips‘ talk at the Mining Institute in a future post, including a few words with John Kippin, who spoke up about his confusion from the ranks.
James Cook, Birmingham based stand-up comedian, promoter and radio presenter wrote this on his Facebook page the other day:
You can follow James on Facebook, on twitter as @jamesecookand listen to him on BRMB radio on the net if you’re not in the Midlands.
Season’s greetings, people. Do your bit, and keep on rockin’.
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