DN! Greenpeace: Chamber of Commerce a Corporate Crime Scene
1Greenpeace: Chamber of Commerce a Corporate Crime Scene
Climate justice actions meanwhile continue in the United States. On Thursday, the environmental group Greenpeace gathered at the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington. Unfurling a banner resembling yellow police tape, Greenpeace activists declared the Chambers headquarters a climate crimes scene.
Activist: This is the Greenpeace Climate Crimes Unit! We are declaring the US Chamber of Commerce a climate crimes scene. The US Chamber of Commerce and other dirty industry lobbyists have taken the future of our planet hostage. They are undercutting Americas efforts to stop runaway climate change, and as a result, world leaders are not reaching a deal in Copenhagen. We demand that the industry lobbyists cease and desist.
Also in Washington, over a dozen youth activists held a sit-in at the State Department. Organizers say they held the action in solidarity with Thursdays youth sit-in inside the Bella Center protesting the exclusion of civil society delegates and calling for a fair, binding deal.