In Paris, Activists Challenge COP Inaction and Propose Solutions

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My second dispatch from Paris at COP21 has been published on The Americas Program.

“The Juarés Plaza in Montreuil, a small city to the east of Paris, is thronged with people, dancing, chanting and carrying bulky chairs above their heads. The procession winds out of the square to the applause of the audience. If I’d had time to count, it would have been 196 chair—all ‘requisitioned’ from area banks—to represent the 196 countries at the COP21 negotiations.”

Read on to learn what requisitioned chairs, colonial legcies and the citizens summit got to do about it.

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