2009-12-16
- Police raid of Bolsjefabrikken
- ACTIVISTS TEARGASSED AFTER CLIMATE DEBATE
- How will you defend democratic rights for climate activists during the rest of COP15?
- Repression COP15: Solidarity in hamburg
- A Danish Police State
- Report from Cop-enhagen
- Copenhagen: 194 arrested after protesters set fire to barricades
- A Copenhagen activist speaks: 'I was afraid I would go back to the cages'
- Pictures protest and police COP15 15 December 2009
- Pictures protest and police COP15 14 December 2009
- Pictures protest and police COP15 14 December 2009
- 150 arrested as police fire teargas at protesters
- Why co-operate with Copenhagen cops?
- German police call for demonstrator database
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Police raid of Bolsjefabrikken
A report from the police raid of Bolsjefabrikken (the Candy Factory).
The police came suddenly and unannounced at about 4:45 p.m. and invaded Bolsjefabrikken (the Candy Factory). Between 50 and 100 cops entered the place. First they took the activists down to the basement for about an hour, while the police roamed around the building. When the activists asked what the police was doing, they were told: “They aren’t doing anything, just looking around”. The police claimed that they had two different police groups. One group who was going to decide whether to arrest people or not and another group that would search the place afterwards. So for an hour there was officially no search and the activists weren’t allowed to watch what the police were doing.
More: http://indymedia.dk/articles/1814
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ACTIVISTS TEARGASSED AFTER CLIMATE DEBATE
CLIMATE JUSTICE ACTION
PRESS RELEASE: For immediate release
Tuesday December 15th 2009
Contact international media: +45 50669028
media@climate-justice-action.org
Danish police have teargassed climate activists in Copenhagen after a debate organized by Climate Justice Action, which included journalist Naomi Klein, and had a strongly critical approach to the UN talks. The police attacked protesters with tear gas, dogs, flash bombs and indiscriminate arrests. (1)
Oskar Dresling, who was attending the debate before the attack, said: "There was no reason for this attack. The police have raided Christiania before, but this was clearly an act designed to intimidate, harrass and terrorize the climate activists assembled in Copenhagen. They think that by attacking us while we party, we'll be afraid to come out on the streets this week.
More: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/Copenhagen_2009/8037.html
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How will you defend democratic rights for climate activists during the rest of COP15?
Press Release
All political parties in the Danish parliament and the police have been invited to a meeting open to the media with people from Africa, Asia and Latin America as well as Northern countries concerning democratic rights of climate demonstrators during the rest of COP15. See below.
More: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/Copenhagen_2009/8046.html
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Repression COP15: Solidarity in hamburg
Hello dear strugglers for the anticapitalist climate,
as you probably heard, in copenhagen the so called COP15 summit (Climate summit) is taking place these days. For protest against them several coalitions made call outs and mobilized, f.e. http://nevertrustacop.org
As it is usual for such events, the state (in this case denmark) is ready for struggle and they formed their concept of repression with several new laws.
More: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/Copenhagen_2009/8054.html
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A Danish Police State
By David Rovics
The signs up all over the airport and various places elsewhere in town are calling it Hopenhagen, but everybody I know is calling it Cop-enhagen, which seems far more appropriate. The international media has been giving this lots of coverage, and rightly so. Of course much of the media is unable to walk and chew gum at the same time, so other things, such as the reason the protests are happening in the first place, can get lost.
More: http://www.countercurrents.org/rovics151209.htm
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Report from Cop-enhagen
The signs up all over the airport and various places elsewhere in town are calling it Hopenhagen, but everybody I know is calling it Cop-enhagen, which seems far more appropriate. The international media has been giving this lots of coverage, and rightly so. Of course much of the media is unable to walk and chew gum at the same time, so other things, such as the reason the protests are happening in the first place, can get lost.
More: http://indymedia.dk/articles/1779
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Copenhagen: 194 arrested after protesters set fire to barricades
Tear gas thrown at demonstrators like ‘huge grey wave’ during raid, as concerns grow of police crackdown
Almost 200 people were arrested late last night after protesters set fire to street barricades in a central Copenhagen neighbourhood. Protesters hurled fire bombs at riot police who responded with tear gas, officers said.
But pressure is growing for Danish police to account for their tactics, after four days of demonstrations have seen the controversial “kettle” tactic used three times, and more than 1,500 arrests, with 200 official complaints already filed.
More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/15/copenhagen-194-arrests
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A Copenhagen activist speaks: 'I was afraid I would go back to the cages'
Tomas Lundström was held for over 11 hours without charge in the Vallby ‘prison’, where he says police used violent tactics
I came to Copenhagen to protest against the undemocratic and ineffective climate talks and to stand up for climate justice. On Saturday, I joined together with 100,000 other people to march to the Bella centre. I was in a section of the march calling for “System Change Not Climate Change”, together with people from all over the world who are sick of fake corporate solutions like carbon trading, and want to see real climate solutions that deliver justice to the global south.
Not long into the event, the police suddenly cut off a large section of the march – about 1,000 people – for no obvious reason.
More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/15/copenhagen-activist-speaks
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Pictures protest and police COP15 15 December 2009
More: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Repression/8056.html
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Pictures protest and police COP15 14 December 2009
More: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/Copenhagen_2009/8040.html
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Pictures protest and police COP15 14 December 2009
More: http://www.gipfelsoli.org/Home/Copenhagen_2009/COP15_2009_Pictures/8045.html
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150 arrested as police fire teargas at protesters
Danish police cordoned off an area of Copenhagen last night and used teargas for the first time during the climate change conference.
Officers arrested about 150 people after repeatedly firing teargas into a party organised by climate change protesters. Witnesses accused officers of a heavy-handed response.
At 1.20am police lifted the blockade of the Christiania area of the city and allowed about 2,000 people to leave.
One witness said that he had been dancing at the party, which had been addressed by the writer Naomi Klein, when riot police with dogs stormed in.
More: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6956955.ece
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Why co-operate with Copenhagen cops?
Few of us fought back against policing at the Copenhagen protests, but mass repression requires mass resistance
We’ve long had a problem with preventative policing in the UK – it is something I have been subject to, and have campaigned against. However, the level of repressive policing displayed in arresting more than 1,000 people at the weekend in Copenhagen far exceeded anything we have experienced in this country.
More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/dec/15/copenhagen-protests-resisting-compliant-urge
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German police call for demonstrator database
A German police union called for the creation of a Europe-wide database of violent demonstrators on Tuesday, following incidents on the fringes of the UN global warming talks.
Danish police have detained 1,500 people at protests around the climate change conference in Copenhagen since it began on December 7, most of whom have been released without charge.
More: http://www.spacedaily.com/2006/091215201549.0e90ewn5.html