Police Arrest Climate Protesters in Brussels

by David Sassoon, from Solve Climate

Photographers Phillipe Reynaers and Eric de Mildt shot these pictures today of a protest in Belgium which was organized by Greenpeace to pressure EU finance Ministers to help developing nations tackle climate change. It was yet another example of the growing frequency of civil disobedience in support of climate action.

 

Last week in the Washington, D.C., thousands of protesters risked arrest to surround the coal-burning power plant that supplies Congress with electricity in the largest act of civil disobedience in support of climate action on US soil. The capital’s police force declined to make any arrests.

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Nonviolence Trainings for March 2

The momentum continues to build for the March 2 action at the coal-fired Capitol Power Plant. 75 organizations have now endorsed, and it is clear that thousands of people will be taking part in this action from around the country, including 150-200 or more people connected to CCAN!

Do you want to find out more about the plans and legal issues for this action? Do you want to learn, or be reminded, about the basic nonviolence principles and tactics that are guiding this mobilization? Do you want to be as prepared as possible for this historic day? We hope the answer is yes, and we hope that, accordingly, you will plan to be part of one of the pre-event nonviolence trainings. You have several options.

The first option is to join Kolya Braun-Greiner, Deepa Isac from Greenpeace and myself this Saturday, February 21, at an in-person training from 10 am to 1 pm in Takoma Park. If you can do this please be in touch. Please email me to RSVP.
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