Blog From The Huge Copenhagen Climate March

A fan tas tic day of civil soci EEC tak ing action on the streets.

I'm too tired to do any thing more than just paste in here a report I have just sent to the BBC's Radio 5 Live show who want to inter-view we are tonight ...

I came over to Cope Hagen on the ferry from Har Which is Thurs day, and head back to the UK tomor row night by a 24 hour coach ride. I am part of the State Transi Town move ment in the UK (www.transtionculture.org).

I came, like thou sands from the UK, because we do not believe the politi cians understand the seri ous ness of what is hap pen ing. So today, 100.000 of us from all over the world marched the 6km from Par lia ment Square to the Bella Cen tre where Min is ters are work ing out what they will let the world do To limit the dam age from climate chaos.

99.500 peo ple were on the march and cheer ful color ful (the other few hundred kids were young of the Black Bloc who - after two of them broke some win dows - seemed des tined to end up being the play things of the Dan ish police and their new 'Ras cal law' giv ing pow ers them they needed to prove they deserved). The rest of us danced Thurs samba bands, brass bands, Walked alongside Floats, under flags and ban ners, as guins pen, as the Polar Bears (Well, you know, they have to find somewhere). The color ful tens of thou sands car Ried Plac ARDS, say ing "Politi cians only talk, Lead Lead ers', 'There is No Planet B' and 'Sys tem Change not Cli mate Change'. At the end an indige nous leader from the Amer i cas said - to roars of agree ment - that the real tion of cells is not the cli mate in November ket, the real tion of cells is sim ply to leave the coal and oil and gas in the ground, and not to try and make a quick fix with poi so nous nuc Lear. "Before, on the march, they and all the indige nous peo Ples had been singing 'The Cli mate ket in November is a Big Lie."