Video: blockade in Brussels by climate activists halts European Business Conference

October 28the around 9:00am dozens of costumed activists have blocked
all access to the Charlemagne Building in Brussels, next to the
Commission’s HQ, where Business Europe, the EU lobby of bosses and
industrialists, is supposed to hold their conference on Copenhagen and
climate change and hear Barroso self-congratulate himself on green
capitalism. Belgian activists retort: Our Climate Ain’t None of Your
Business! (more:
http://www.climate-justice-action.org/news/2009/10/28/breaking-news-from-european-quarter-in-brussels-our-climate-not-your-business/).

So here is the action video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFJ0vQ1nynA

or over one and a half hours, hundreds of corporate lobbyists
wishing to attend the annual BusinessEurope conference were prevented
from entering the Charlemagne building this morning.

The Climate action group Climate Alarm!, consisting of activists
from Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Germany, blocked the main
entrance to the conference.

Eight activists physically blocked revolving doors and shut side
doors with chains. Another group attached loud alarms to balloons which
then floated to the ceiling. The group then disrupted the lobby area
for over an hour and a half, playing music and shouting slogans: ALERT!
OUR CLIMATE NOT YOUR BUSINESS! CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW!

The blockade only fell after one of the chains was cut, but even
then it took a long time for the police to make the entrance area open
for participants. There was a lot of media, photo journalists and
television cameras.

The police first arrested a man who had nothing to do with the
action. In the end, another 25 activists were arrested. One of the
detained individuals later escaped police custody.

BusinessEurope is the biggest industry lobby group in Brussels and
unites many of the most polluting sectors. Corporate sponsors include
Shell, Arcelor Mittal, BASF and Daimler, who are all known for their
anti-climate lobbying.

The police used excessive violence by spraying pepper spray into the
closed cubicles of the revolving doors in which people had voluntarily
trapped themselves. The police did this after they had already cut the
chains of one door.

More climate action will follow!

Climate Alarm!