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The other week hundreds of Heads of State had dinner with the Danish queen. That’s not really what they went to Copenhagen for, whose climate summit originally was more geared towards saving islands from drowning than towards munching scallops.

Nora, Juan and Christian's stance for climate refugees

Indeed, no binding and effective treaty was anywhere near sight when the politicians arrived in Christenberg castle on December 17th (and no such treaty actually never materialised afterwards).

Thousands of people go hungry because of climate change and our so-called leaders sit down to chat and eat. Christian, Nora and Juan just could not stomach that. So they invited themselves to the party, held up a banner and announced: „Politicians talk, leaders act.“

Thank you Christian, Nora, Juan and Joris, for your corageous, nonviolent action.

Thanks to you, a large public now knows that the Danish police can put anyone into prison for 21 days without a court judgement – and they did so with you.

Thanks to you, we now know that although our politicians are supposed to serve the citizens and to represent our interests, they put a lot of security in place to prevent their citizens getting anywhere near them.

Thanks to you, we now know that a lot of laws have been set into place to punish those who dare to defy the security measures and try to talk to the people they have elected.

Christian, Nora, Juan and Joris will spend Christmas and the New Year in their cells in Copenhagen, will be judged on January 7th and face several months in prison.

It’s interesting, isn’t it, how nonviolent action manages to uncover how our states work.

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Climate heroes pay with their freedom