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Paris riot police clash with activists at climate demo near attacks site
2015-11-29 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Paris riot police fired teargas Sunday in clashes with far-left activists in Paris during a climate change demonstration ahead of key UN talks after several thousand protesters had formed a human chain in the city. Riot police moved in after a small group of protesters pelted officers with bottles and candles from one of the tributes to the victims of the November 13 attacks on the French capital. Around 100 people were arrested. Around 4,500 activists had earlier linked hands in a peaceful...
Police use tear gas after climate activists throw objects in Paris demonstration
2015-11-29 15:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Police fired tear gas at protesters who hurled projectiles at them in Paris as a largely peaceful human chain of several thousand formed nearby to urge action on global warming ahead of the global environment summit. A small group, some masked, took part in the violence, with some of them chanting: "State of emergency, police state, you will not deprive us of our right to demonstrate." One young man who gave his name as Ricard shouted "shame on the Republic" at police in the square. He told...
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Paris climate activists plan human chain on global day of action
2015-11-29 01:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Activists plan to join arms and form a "human chain" in Paris on Sunday to urge action on global warming, in a muted rally after attacks on the city by Islamic State, at the heart of worldwide protests on the eve of a U.N. climate summit in France. More than 2,000 climate events are planned in cities including Sydney, Jakarta, Berlin, London, Sao Paulo and New York, making it one of the biggest days of action on climate change in history, organizers say. Activists in France scaled back their...
Ahead of climate summit, French use emergency laws to put activists under house arrest
2015-11-28 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: France has put 24 green activists under house arrest ahead of the United Nations climate talks, using emergency laws put in place following the Paris shootings, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Saturday. Cazeneuve said the activists were suspected of planning violent protests at the talks which kick off on Sunday, a day ahead of the opening ceremony, and run until Dec. 11. The conference, also dubbed COP21, is seeking to agree a deal that signals a break with a rising reliance on...
Climate change activists stage tattoo protest against BP at Tate Britain
2015-11-28 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Climate change activists have occupied part of Tate Britain, where they have started to tattoo each other in protest at BPs sponsorship of the gallery. Tate has closed the 1840s gallery where 35 activists have set themselves up and started to tattoo each other with the numbers of the CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere in the year they were born. They estimate it will take all day to complete the tattoos. Alice Bell, a spokesperson for Liberate Tate, the group that is leading the protest,...
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