tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4459352356656088020.post7475502583979207839..comments2023-11-05T20:11:12.847+11:00Comments on Labor View from Bayside: Friends of the Earth & Avaaz Excluded from COP15Kevin Renniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01873737997935813248noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4459352356656088020.post-15817407357210602512009-12-17T06:30:19.808+11:002009-12-17T06:30:19.808+11:00COMMUNITY LEADERS ACROSS COUNTRIES PROTEST EXCLUSI...COMMUNITY LEADERS ACROSS COUNTRIES PROTEST EXCLUSION FROM CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS<br />12 Dec, Copenhagen<br /><br />Community leaders from across Asia, Africa and Latin America launched their protest in the early hours of the morning outside the Bella Center at Copenhagen to protest arbitrary move by the UN and Conference organizers to restrict the participation of accredited civil society delegates in a UN Conference.<br /><br />Mobilizing crowds of supporters with their chants of "No Legitimacy Without Communities" and "We Don't Need a Badge to Be Heard", over 30 grassroots leaders burnt their badges in a symbolic action of 'Satyagraha' or civil disobedience.<br /><br />"We want to register our strongest protest against the shutting out of our voices from the Climate Convention you are holding here in Copenhagen," says a statement released by Coalition of Climate Communities on the same day. "Unlike you, it is the community leaders of the world who have shown real courage and vision by organizing people across their own countries to come out together to share, talk and engage with the global climate debate."<br /><br />The full statement is available on www.whiteband.orgCuriousCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10753935716864152337noreply@blogger.com