<p>Created by: manos.</p> <p>JimDog - fixed some minor spelling and grammar errors</p> true true <p>The Reclaim Power! day started early both for activists and the police. By 6:50am six police vans were already searching people leaving the Voldeparken school accommodation. Police were also searching people at the Tarnby station, arresting three others at Norreport station, stopping and searching vehicles and public transport on the bridges of Copenhagen, near the meeting points for the start of the action.</p> <p>The meeting point for the blue bloc of the action was Tarnby station, and by about 9am about 500 activists had gathered there, accompanied by a Samba band. Plain clothes police arrested a spokesperson from CJA. The meeting point of the ill-fated Green bloc was Orestad Station, where the 50-100 people gathered there were surrounded by police and some were arrested, using baton charges and pepper spray. Some stayed free and made their way to join other blocs, but the police also forced people into public transport towards the centre of town, and away from the Bella centre.</p> <p>By about 10am the Blue bloc started marching towards the Bella Centre where the COP15 was held, with the intention to get inside and hold a people's assembly for a day. The march of 1000 to 3000 proceeded under heavy police presence, though initially without trouble. Half an hour later they formed chains around the bloc and successfully resisted a police attempt to split the bloc, though the police did manage to arrest some people outside the main group. At the same time, groups of 50-100 from the Green bloc were on their way to Bella Centre, and strangely took refuge within the Fields shopping centre where they were arrested en masse. A further 30 - 60 arrests took place outside. About 5 medics were also arrested while helping Green bloc people at the Orestad station.</p> <p>Meanwhile the bike bloc, which had been the subject of a raid the day before, witnessed 17 arrests. From then on it was surrounded by police vans and ferried around town, and towards the city centre away from the action. 8 cyclists blocked the highway later in the day, and some more were arrested. At around 11am the Blue bloc was within sight of the Bella Centre, and members of excluded NGOs (Friends of the Earth, and Via Campesina amongst others) that were staging a sit-in there, could see it in the distance. A group of 200 accredited COP15 attendees from the greater south attempted to join them, only to be beaten back to the Bella Centre by police. The Blue bloc crossed onto the Bella Centre lawn, and when it went past the police line, officers put on their helmets and used batons and pepper spray to keep it out. At about 11:45am, the police charged towards the blue bloc truck, and eventually took it away, while arresting a further 2 activists from CJA. The blue bloc was thus prevented from joining people from inside COP15.</p> <p>At about noon, a few cunning activists managed to build an inflatable bridge and got into the Bella Centre, only to be arrested shortly after. After noon, given their inability to get inside COP15 or even meet delegates from inside trying to get outside, the Blue bloc set up a people's climate assembly outside [<a href="http://indymedia.dk/articles/1956">audio</a>]. By that time mainstream media reported more than 200 arrests, but this did not prevent more than 2000 people taking part in the assembly.</p> 2009-12-16T20:27:02+00:00 1894 featured manos from imc features false

<p>Early in the morning, multiple marches tried to <a href="/system/tumble/2009/12/16/1834/bluee2.jpg?1260958600">make their way to the Bella Centre</a> where the COP15 is held. The group meeting at Orestad station (Green) was surrounded by police and some were arrested [<a href="http://nocop.italy.indymedia.org/node/1350">pic</a>], but others <a href="http://www.icop15.org/content/copenhagen-161209-reclaim-power-demonstration-arrives-front-bella-centercop-15">managed to move towards COP15</a>. A second bloc (Blue), of more than 1000 people, made their way to the Bella Centre whilst resisting attempts from the police to break it. The bike bloc was blocked by police and redirected away.&nbsp;</p> <p>Police have been repeatedly <a href="http://indymedia.dk/tumbles/1842">attacking the crowds</a> with <a href="http://multimedia.ekstrabladet.dk/eb/archive/00501/Ubehandlet_webpix_501236f.jpg">baton charges</a> and <a href="http://a.icop15.org/content/copenhagen-161209-reclaim-power-violence-pepper-spray">pepper spray</a>, as well as arresting protesters throughout the morning, and arresting medics [<a href="http://indymedia.dk/articles/1877">pics</a>]. Corporate media report 200 to 250 arrests. At the same time a group of protestors managed to get into the area of the COP15-Summit with a raft [<a href="http://indymedia.dk/articles/1880">pics</a> | <a href="http://indymedia.dk/other_medias/1919">video</a>]</p> <p>[Pics <a href="http://indymedia.dk/articles/1864">1</a> | <a href="http://indymedia.dk/articles/1867">2</a> | <a href="http://indymedia.dk/articles/1876">3</a> | Video <a href="http://indymedia.dk/tumbles/1832">1</a> | <a href="http://bambuser.com/channel/DRNyheder/broadcast/386303">2</a> | <a href="http://indymedia.dk/other_medias/1851">3</a> | <a href="http://indymedia.dk/articles/1877">4</a> | <a href="http://icop15.org/content/video-reclaim-power">5</a> | <a href="http://indymedia.dk/videos/1882">6</a> | <a href="http://publish.indymedia.dk/videos/1916">7</a>]</p>

2009-12-18T19:49:16+00:00 141