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Thousands march for tough climate action

■ AFP, Copenhagen
• Tens of thousands of activists ; demanding a planet-saving • climate deal blazed a path to ; the door of the UN talks on • Saturday in a raucous, festive * rally that was also marked by • sporadic violence and more ; than 960 arrests.
In a four-hour march to the ’ Bella Centre, where the con-■ ference was underway, a crowd estimated by police to • number more than 30,000 pounded out calls for carbon • cuts, social justice and a tam-. ing of global capitalism.
One protestor dressed as Santa Claus held up a banner ; saying global warming was . occurring twice as fast in the ; Arctic as the rest of the world.
"My Rudolf cannot take it ; anymore,” he said, referring to • the red-nosed reindeer of the ; famous Christmas song.
Other demonstrators ; sported banners that read: ■ "There is no planet B," ; "Change the politics not the • climate," and "Nature does
not compromise".
"Each year 300,000 people are dying because of climate change," Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International, told the marchers. "This is not about adaptation, it is about survival."
"We cannot allow carbon traders to damage the world," added Nigeria's Nnimmo Bassey, chair of Friends of the Earth International.
"There is no such thing as clean coal or clean crude. Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole," he said, leading a chant.
Police estimated the turnout at more than 30,000, while Danish television put the estimate at up to 100,000.
Climate Justice Action, a group involved in organising Saturday's demonstration, accused police of "violating human rights by detaining people in bitter cold, cuffed and forced into seated positions on the ground".
Rally organisers had repeatedly urged the crowd to
remain nonviolent.
But within minutes of the start, a disciplined band of hundreds of masked youths dressed head-to-toe in black threw bricks and firecrackers, smashing windows in the city centre.
Police moved in quickly, arrested a handful of the agitators, later identified as members of militant groups from northern Europe known as Black Blocs.
"Black Blocs members were seen at 1:41 pm picking up cobblestones that they later hurled near the former Stock Exchange, at several foreign ministry windows" and a bank, a police statement said. ■
Over Ute course of the day a total of 968 protesters were taken into custody, police said.
Four hundred were Black Blocs militants and most of these were foreigners, "showing that there was a hard core of activists who came to Copenhagen to sow disorder," a police spokesman told AFP.