Free the climate prisoners! Solidarity demo

Icon_article Star Published: March 15, 2010 11:24 by climateprisoner1986

Tagged as: repression solidarity
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Demo at the Danish Embassy on Sloane Street, Monday 15th March 2010, in solidarity with the COP15 climate prisoners.

This morning 15 climate activists protested outside the Danish Embassy, Sloane Street, West London, in solidarity with Tash and Noah, the first two protesters from the COP15 summit to go on trial. See video of the protest.

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During the Copenhagen summit, over 2000 people were detained without cause. 7 will be going on trial, and the first trials are on Tuuesday 16th and Thursday 18th. All those detained durng the summit were forced to sit in the 'herring-bone' lines, hands tied behind their backs, and denied toilet breaks, food and water.

The protest this morning lasted about an hour, and the police kept turning up, increasing from a couple of bobbies to as many as there were protesters by the end. They asked for a liason, but the protesters just chanted 'Drop the charges' in their faces. The protesters began by holding a banner reading 'Drop the Charges' in front of the Embassy entrance, and then sat down in the street in a 'herring-bone' line.

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the first? not so...

Comment Published: March 15, 2010 14:08 by no more heros

While Tash and Noah are facing serious charges, something like conspiracy to cause civil unrest, they are not the first activists to be on trial for Cop15. There have already been more than seven trials, luckily most of them ending in acquittal or minor convictions with only one three month prison sentence.

All the charged deserve our solidarity!

For updates from the anti-repression group check out: http://cop15antirep.blogsport.eu/

please!

Comment Published: March 16, 2010 17:12 by johnny machinegun

Some of us aren't in the elite anarco scene!

but we would of loved to attend. could you please put this stuff online a few days before and let more people know, as I'm sure my presence alone would of swayed the Embassador's opinion of us.

re: please

Comment Published: March 25, 2010 11:13 by no nuffink

Hey,

I wasn't there (nor was anything to do with it), and though it'd be lovely to be able to advertise all protests in advance, sometimes it's not possible, as the police will turn up and that means a different level of organising on our part, or not being able to do what we need to do...and sometimes it's about just not getting round to it. So it's no elite anarcho nonsense that you might feel it is. You'll also be supported in what you do if you get together a bunch of people and take action.

Nice one