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During the conference, the CYD<br />
was one of the most proactive<br />
Canadian groups. I’m pretty<br />
sure the Canadian negotiating<br />
team considered us their worst<br />
nightmare.<br />
janice grey<br />
in Copenhagen and the surrounding cities was occupied. Thousands of<br />
people had come for this conference.<br />
During the conference, the CYD was one of the most proactive<br />
Canadian groups. I’m pretty sure the Canadian negotiating team considered<br />
us their worst nightmare. Since our group was so big and so<br />
diverse, we were able to tackle issues and situations<br />
from all different angles. Some of the<br />
group focused their energies on following the<br />
policies, some spent time on the “actions”, and<br />
some of us did more media stuff and just general<br />
Canadian representation. I was one of the northern<br />
contacts—if something came up where Inuit<br />
or the Arctic was concerned, I was the one to<br />
talk to. I also did a lot of throat singing and performing;<br />
I even got the chance to perform with<br />
ARTCIRQ, the Inuit circus from Igloolik.<br />
“Actions” is an activist term that refers to<br />
the things that people do to demonstrate, protest<br />
or educate other people on social issues.<br />
For example, the CYD did an action where we<br />
all wore our CYD T-shirts and stood in a line near the Canadian government<br />
office with signs that said things like, “I am a Canadian Inuk. I value<br />
the sea ice. I feel unrepresented by the Canadian Delegation”. That’s what<br />
my sign would have looked like. The point is to get as much media as<br />
possible and to let people know what’s actually going<br />
on. The actions we did had many purposes, mostly<br />
to show the Canadian government that we were not<br />
happy with their behaviour, that we are watching them<br />
closely and that we intended to relay everything they<br />
said and did to the Canadian people.<br />
There was one high profile action we did at the<br />
end of the conference. We realized that no solid agreement<br />
was going to be reached, so a group of youth<br />
from all over the world came together as individuals<br />
to stage a “sit-in” at the conference centre. It was our<br />
last ditch attempt to get into the heads of the negotiators.<br />
The last few days of the conference, civil society<br />
(non government people) were restricted access to the<br />
centre, so on the last day before we were barred from<br />
entering, a bunch of us printed signs that said things<br />
like “Fair, Ambitious and Legally Binding” and we all<br />
sat in the middle of the hall near the plenary room with our signs. We<br />
all took turns reading the names from a petition that 11-million people<br />
had signed calling for a legally binding deal.<br />
After a certain point, we were asked to move. One of our security<br />
liaisons approached me (I don’t know why me) and told me that they<br />
said we’re a security threat, we need to move. I said, “Climate change is<br />
a security threat. We will not move.” The next thing I knew, security personnel<br />
were dragging everyone from our spot to the side of the hall.<br />
We had been trained already on how to act in that kind of situation so I<br />
was not that worried, but then I was the last person sitting at our original<br />
spot. The head of security came to my left and said ,“You’re the last<br />
one; all your friends are gone. Are you going to move yourself or will<br />
we have to drag you too?”<br />
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