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DESCRIPTION:*EMERGENCY PROTEST & VIGIL\n*SOLIDARITY WITH ACTIVISTS IN COPENHAGEN\n* 
 CLIMATE TALKS UNDEMOCRATIC & ON VERGE OF FAILURE\n* US/RICH COUNTRIES 
 REFUSE SERIOUS REDUCTIONS & CLIMATE DEBT\n* MASSIVE POLICE REPRESSION 
 AGAINST NONVIOLENT CIVIL SOCIETY\n\nWHEN: Friday December 19th 
 4:30-6:00PM\nWHERE: Danish Consulate, 1 California St, at Market St. 
 (Embarcadero BART), San Francisco\n\nBring candles and friends.\n\n"First 
 they shut the public out of the climate negotiations, then they shut out 
 80% of NGOs who have been accredited to attend, and now they are jailing 
 people who challenge the undemocratic nature of the climate negotiations, 
 while the future of life on earth literally hangs in the 
 balance."\n\n-Dorothy Guerro, Focus on the Global South, Climate Justice 
 Now Network.\n\nWHY?\n\n* UN CLIMATE TALKS ON VERGE OF FAILURE:\nBecause 
 the US and other wealth climate polluting nations refuse to significantly 
 reduce climate pollution and to pay our ecological debt to climate-impacted 
 developing world and because of the lack of democracy in the UN climate 
 talks. On Tuesday, US climate negotiator Todd Stern said he foresees no 
 change in President Obama's offer to cut emissions by 17 percent of 2005 
 levels by2020. The proposal has been widely criticized because it amounts 
 to just a four percent cut when adopting the 1990 emission standard used by 
 the rest of the world. Scientists call for a 40% cut by 2020in order to 
 prevent an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe. Meanwhile, 
 developing countries including the US, UK and Denmark drafted and 
 circulated a document to completely circumvent the UN from all further 
 future negotiations.\n\n* CIVIL SOCIETY NGO'S BANNED FROM UN:\nAccredited 
 civil society groups including Friends of the Earth, Avaaz, Tck Tck Tck, 
 Via Campesina have been banned from the UN Climate Conference. "The 
 surgical removal of non governmental organizations underscores the lack of 
 democracy inherent in these negotiations. The only way to avoid 
 catastrophic climate change is fully supporting and including peoples 
 movements like the very ones illegitimately removed from this process.," 
 said Professor Micheal Dorsey, a member of the Climate Justice Now! 
 Network.\n\n* DENMARK VIOLATES DEMOCRATIC & HUMAN RIGHTS, ATTACKS 
 NONVIOLENT ACTIVISTS\nDanish police have engaged in mass preemptive 
 arrests, detentions, clubbed and pepper spayed nonviolent activists, raided 
 organizing centers and suspended basic civil liberties and democratic 
 rights. Dr. Tadzio Mueller of Berlin, an accredited NGO observer at the COP 
 15 and the spokesperson for Climate Justice Action, was arrested without 
 provocation by plain clothed police shortly after a press conference 
 announcing nonviolent demonstrations plans. He remains in jail awaiting 
 trial.\n\nSING A PETITION TO THE DANISH GOVERNMENT 
 HERE:\nhttp://www.petitiononline.com/Tadzio/petition.html\n\nWHO: 
 Mobilization for Climate Justice West: A coalition of thirty climate 
 justice, environmental justice, community, peace and human rights 
 organizations.\n\nhttp://west.actforclimatejustice.org/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/16/18632787.php
SUMMARY:Vigil in Response to Copenhagen Police Violence at Climate Protests
LOCATION:Danish Consulate; 1 California St, at Market St. (Embarcadero BART), San 
 Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/12/16/18632787.php
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