Story:
"The police tried to disperse the chanting, drum-beating protesters who had marched from a train station about a mile away to try to make their way to the Bella Center, where representatives from nearly 200 countries are meeting to try to reach an accord on climate change. A group of 50 to 100 delegates emerged from the convention center, seeking to meet with the protesters, but they, too, were driven back by the police."
Editorial by Naomi Klein:
"The Copenhagen cops used a little shattered glass as the pretext for detaining almost a thousand people, picking up another hundred the next day. Hundreds of those arrested were corralled together, forced to sit on the freezing pavement for hours, with wrists cuffed (and some ankles too). According to organizer Tadzio Müller, these were not the people who threw rocks but 'the treatment was humiliating,' with some of the detainees urinating on themselves because they were not allowed to move."
Hugo Chavez on America's commitment to meaningful action on climate change: "If the climate was a bank they would already have saved it."
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