2000 op Noborder demo Kopenhagen
All included - 15.12.2009 13:10
Maandag was er de noborder-demo met als eindpunt het ministerie van defensie. De legale demonstratie zou overgaan in een directe actie tegen het ministerie. De politie zag weinig in dit plan dus daarvoor in de plaats ging de meute met de gigantische opblaas-globe aan de haal voor het parlementsgebouw. Zie press-release en link hieronder.
Monday 14th December 2009
THOUSANDS IGNORE POLICE INTIMIDATION TO DEMAND JUSTICE FOR CLIMATE REFUGEES
Over 2,000 activists from ‘No Borders’ [1] marched today in Copenhagen
from Israel Plads to the Danish Ministry of Defense to highlight the
increasing links between militarization, climate change and displacement
of peoples searching for safe and secure living conditions across the
world, particularly in the Global South.
During the march, the news broke out regarding the G77 delegates
resistance to accepting insufficient agreement from the Copenhagen
negotiations, to a cheer from the crowd.
The colourful protest started at 12:00 and finished at 14:00. The
demonstration was surrounded by riot police for the entire march even
though the No Borders Network had received legal permission for the march.
By the end of the demonstration street medics reported one broken hand
from a baton strike and two dog bites, one of which was sustained by a
journalist.
Dan Glass, for Climate No Borders said, “Today we stood in solidarity with
those who are already displaced by the current effects of climate change,
wars for resources, and those who will experience the negative effects of
the false market based solutions being proposed at the COP15. This has
been an ecitigstep in thethe run up to the Reclaim the Power action on
Wednesday”
He added, ‘All the activists were determined to not let the police
intimidation [2] stop their cries for justice and loudly chanted “no
borders, no nations, stop deportations!” from beginning to end.’
At the end of the demonstration activists decided to untie and deflate the
orange globe sponsored by the Ministry of Climate Change in Parliament
Square, in order to highlight the Danish attempt at creating a real and
just solution to climate change as simply hot air. The recent Danish Prime
Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen is now the leader of NATO, which has been
pushing for ‘security crackdowns’ and reinforcement of barriers to prevent
migration from places more immediately effected by elite-caused climate
change.
Amy Jacobs from Climate No Borders said, “Instead of dealing with the root
causes of this migration for survival, governments around the world are
instead employing increasing levels of border control and militarization.
We reject this inhumane racist repression, and demand complete social
change to a borderless world where all people can survive climate change
and war, and not just the rich, those born in Europe, or the documented.”
END
[1] No-borders is an international network fighting for the principal of
freedom of movement of all. The network works throughout the world
fighting deportation, heightened border surveillance and control, as well
as specific solidarity projects in Calais and Lesvos, Greece, where
migrant treatment is particularly extreme.
[2] In addition to today’s exaggerated police presence, the police have
been trying to deter activists from taking to the streets by using a
tactic of indiscriminate mass arrest and imprisonment that is now legal
under new laws passed in Denmark specially for the COP15 summit.
The activist legal team – RUSK – can confirm that over 1,000 demonstrators
have been placed in jail, most of which were arrested without a cause.
Activists have been tied up in the street without access to medical or
basic toilet facilities. While in prison there have been reports of the
police using pepper spray.
videos & photos:  http://indymedia.dk/articles/1685
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