What’s Really at Stake at the Paris Climate Conference Now Marches Are Banned

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I agree with Klein – By banning protest at COP21, France is silencing those facing the worst impacts of climate change.

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Whose security gets protected by any means necessary? Whose security is casually sacrificed, despite the means to do so much better? Those are the questions at the heart of the climate crisis, and the answers are the reason climate summits so often end in acrimony and tears.

Source: What’s Really at Stake at the Paris Climate Conference Now Marches Are Banned | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community

Nov 23, 2015

By banning protest at COP21, Hollande is silencing those facing the worst impacts of climate change and its monstrous violence

People hold placards at last year’s climate march in Paris. (Photograph: Tom Craig/Demotix/Corbis)

Whose security gets protected by any means necessary? Whose security is casually sacrificed, despite the means to do so much better? Those are the questions at the heart of the climate crisis, and the…

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2 thoughts on “What’s Really at Stake at the Paris Climate Conference Now Marches Are Banned

  1. Good point. I have always believed that the “war on terror” and the Patriot Act (curtailing civil liberties) were deliberately launched in response to the growing antiglobalization movement that shut down Seattle during the 1999 anti-WTO protests.

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