Tuesday, December 15, 2009

News from campaigners in Copenhagen...

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From Catherine, Camp for Climate Action, Copenhagen: Thanks for reacting so promptly to our email earlier! Here's some of our best footage from the streets of Copenhagen for the past couple of days.

Tens of thousands marching for climate justice:
http://blip.tv/file/2967354 Contains an eyewitness account of the mass arrests of peaceful demonstrators that made headlines yesterday.

And some more raw from-the-street footage from a climate camper
http://qik.com/video/3906448

Here's a soundclip that traveled around Twitter today of climate camper Amelia Gregory escaping the mass arrests
http://ipad.io/DKQ

An interview with a spoof carbon trader
http://indymedia.dk/videos/1678

We are also pooling pictures from the protests at
http://www.flickr.com/groups/climatecampcopenhagen2009/ Feel free to get in touch if you're looking for a specific protest-related image.

A lot of people at the first big demo hoped for a global, fair and legally binding deal... but what now, after many third world countries have walked out on the negotiations after being excluded by the rich world? We will continue going out on the streets to expose the flaws in the talks and will be in touch again soon.


I could write a guest post before the Climate Justice Action march on the 16th