Resistance is Ripe

Icon_article Udgivet: Tuesday 15 December 2009 15:28 af Features

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This afternoon three undercover police arrested Dr. Tadzio Mueller just a few minutes after he left the Bella Centre where he had helped in a press conference presenting tomorrow's Climate Justice Action's Reclaim Power protests. The press conference featured speakers in support of the action - See Video (UNFCCC web site)

The press confernce featured Dorothy Guerrero (Focus on Global South), Beverley Keene, (Jubilee South), Stine Green Johannsen (CJA), Wahu Kaara (People's movement on Climate Change), Yvonne Llanos (Oilwatch South America), and Dionisio Cabrera (Bolivia Indigenous People's Movements).

The Resistance is Ripe Agriculture protest started at 12pm and marched through the centre of town under a banner reading "Food Climate Justice, not Climate Change" [pic][video][photos]. Hundreds of people stopped outside the Netto supermarket for speeches about the importance of food sovereignty and the links between climate change, agriculture and exploitation of people.

Earlier in the day activists protested at an exclusive meeting between business and government ministers organised by The Climate Group, an international lobby group who represent business interests - there were 17 arrests [see report and photos | video]

At around 4.45pm, police suddenly arrived unannounced at the Candy Factory (Boljsefabrikken) in the city's northwest district. In this space, activists from the 'Bike block' have been building bicycles for tomorrow's 'Reclaim Power' action. People inside the Candy Factory were told to leave the building while it was being searched, and then they were eventually brought back inside, into the library, and their details were taken. An activist who was in the building at the time describes the situation: "We all got placed in one room, after that the police started to search the place. People got registrated before they were allowed to leave the place. They got some kind of identification-forms, where they noted name and address, but also length, hair color and which clothes people where wearing". By 18.15 the search seemed to be over. The coach that police had brought left with one arrestee. Police then blocked off the building with red and white tape and set up spotlights onto the building. By 19.45 reports came in of police trucks taking away two bicycles as well as some computers [photos | report]. Due to this raid, an indymedia benefit party had to be cancelled.

See yesterday's features:
Police Raid Christiania: More Mass Arrests
Tar Sands & No Borders Protests

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Pre event press release

Comment Udgivet af: Tuesday 15 December 2009 15:56 af fyi

To farmers around the world the false solutions that are proposed in this climate summit are as much a threat as drought, tornadoes and new climate patterns.

At this moment the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is discussing how to include farmland into CO2 emission trading. To highlight that this is a false solution we will hit the street on the 15th of December.

Bente Hessellund of the Danish CJA: 'In spite of the urgency of the climate crisis the UNFCC process fails to question an economic model that is based on infinite growth on a finite planet. Governments have done nothing to move beyond setting up market mechanisms to combat the climate crisis. These mechanisms are not aimed at pushing back the use of fossil fuels or greenhouse gas emissions in the industrial countries. The possibility of including agricultural land into CO2 emission-trading is one of the false solutions to climate change. It can lead to farmers being forced into dependency of agro-industrial projects. Instead, agriculture needs to be removed from the profit-driven market in order to develop a radically ecological food system that cools down the planet.'

To make clear that large scale industrial agriculture aggravates climate change rather than solve the climate problem, Climate Justice Action (CJA) is organising a demonstration in Copenhagen on the 15th of December. Our motto is "Food System Change, not Climate Change". CJA is one of the networks that actively mobilises the critical voices around the Copenhagen climate summit.

The agriculture manifestation will be taken to the streets of Copenhagen, calling attention to the positive alternative that non-commercial, organic agriculture for human needs offers. In a creative manner, the attention will be drawn to companies that are responsible for the industrial food model. Will it be a blockade on the Monsanto premises or do the agriculture activist have something else in store? Let yourself be taken by surprise on one of the many stops on their way through town.

To farmers around the world the false solutions that are proposed in this climate summit are as much a threat as drought, tornadoes and new climate patterns.

In the South, forests are burnt or cut down and small farmers are cleared off their land to make way for large scale industrial mono-cultures as soy and maize to supply the European intensive livestock breeders. In factory farms, millions of animals are fattened as fast as possible, creating vast amounts of dung and methane and consuming a great deal of energy.

Stimulating agrofuels and bio-plastics to combat the crisis will only increase the pressure on the people currently living from the land. Already in the developing countries large areas of land are grabbed by multinationals, small farmers and indigenous people driving off their territories.

'Small scale, organic agriculture remains the best way to combat hunger, malnutrition and the food and climate crisis.' argues activist Flip Vonk of Climate Justice Action (CJA) and part time farm hand on an organic farm. 'Native seeds offer the best opportunity for adaptation to current and future changes in the climate. Sustainable local food production costs less energy, makes us independent from imported animal foods, captures CO2 in the soil and improves biodiversity.'

Resistance is Ripe

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