Activist demonstration to put Climate Summit to the test

The decisive test for the organisation of the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen will be the "Reclaim Power" demonstration planned for tomorrow, Wednesday, writes activist and author Naomi Wolf in her blog for the left-liberal daily The Guardian: "In the morning demonstrators are going to march to the Bella Conference Centre to demand real solutions to the climate crisis, not the fuzzy maths and carbon trading on offer inside. The delegates on the inside who feel the same way - and there are thousands - are being invited to join the demonstrators. ... The organisers of 'Reclaim Power' have stated clearly that they are committed to non-violent civil disobedience. Even if attacked by police, they will not respond with violence. Still, the spectre of unscripted dissent upstaging the official conference on Wednesday no doubt has our Danish hosts deeply freaked out. ... This action - more than anything that has happened so far - has the potential to send a clear and much-needed message to the world: only a deal that is dictated by both science and justice will do."

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