Action at the Summit Yesterday

May 25th, 2009

Yesterday we took on the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Denmark’s’ first public action against the UN SCAM Climate Summit, the COP 15! We approached the meeting attempted to get inside to disrupt the discussions around what business will lobby for in the UN Scam meetings in Copenhagen in December. Several of us were badly injured by police who were brutal in their efforts to keep business leaders ’safe’ from any opposing opinion.

Civil cops said they were from the press at the Demonstration. At the same time other cops came to our convergence space and attacked the cooking crew and people eating.

Over 50 of us were arrested. One Swedish protester was arrested attempting to deliver Vattenfalls CEO their companies climate greenwash award - for being the company in 2009 with the greatest gap between their business practices and their propaganda. People waiting outside the police station for the release of their friends were brutally disbanded by the police while 5 of our friends were still inside. Police also used pressure points and throat closing pressure techniques to ‘question’ two of those arrested. Business leaders inside the forum continue to push for false solutions for climate change- but we say that police violence will not deter us.

The world is at stake. These businesses with their false solutions are just as bad as those that deny the existence of climate change. They are trying desperately to keep on with their business as usual. But people around the world are waking up! We will not allow reckless profiteering from business to continue- we will shut them down- one climate criminal at a time. We will continue this struggle until the profits of a tine elite are no longer put before the survival of millions or ordinary people around the world!

CEO report

May 23rd, 2009

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Dialouge meeting with WBSCC - real solutions

May 23rd, 2009

Well, what are the real solutions then?

  • Huge, centralised industrialised agriculture >> small, locally oriented organic farming communities (as proposed by Frie Bønder – Levende Hav: Dalbyplanen 2019)

    • more jobs, both skilled and unskilled

    • better community and a richer local life

    • sharing of resources

    • organic/holistic farming

    • fewer or no pesticides

    • tiny or no dependance on fossil fuels

    • better taxrevenue which could be spent on more agricultural conversion, installation of renewables etc.

    • Ensuring water supplies or working to minimize the damage already done

  • Localisation of food production and consumption

    • fewer food miles

    • community organisation around food consumption

    • better knowledge of food and food effects

    • urban food production

    • food sharing and distribution locally based

  • Community-based and controlled wind/solar/hydro power

    • sponsored by public funds and controlled locally

    • smaller scale would mean less environmental damage

    • no social force or damage through relocation etc.

    • better community would mean more local life and community organisation

    • social responsibility for using renewables

    • better incentive for energy efficiency

  • Transportation

    • Massive, free or very cheap public transport

    • urban transport based on public transport, bikes and collective commodity transport

    • better biking facilities and free city bikes

    • car-free cities would mean better public health, new urban space etc.

    • community organisation of “freed” urban spaces

    • train and bike based commodity transportation

  • Less consumption, less work and thus more free time

    • less ecologically harmful production

    • fewer food and commodity miles

    • enabling and strengthening communities

    • less stress and better public health