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I agree with Klein – By banning protest at COP21, France is silencing those facing the worst impacts of climate change.
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.
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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The Most Revolutionary Act 
I fear this will start happening a lot under the guise of security!
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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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