Today: Youth "Sit-In" @ US State Dept Building in DC

Taken from this blog post on It's Getting Hot In Here:

11:52am:
A dozen youth have entered the State Department Lobby located in Washington, DC.

Yesterday, the youth climate movement stood up. Or sat down, as it were. 19 international youth delegates staged a sit-in at the Bella Centre in Copenhagen, refusing to move until negotiators and world leaders arrived at a fair, ambitious, and binding climate treaty.

As we speak, a dozen youth climate activists in DC are sitting-in in the lobby of the State Department in solidarity with their counterparts in Copenhagen. Help us amplify the efforts of those calling for climate justice by telling President Obama and the US delegation that the time has passed for political cow-towing and empty promises. Our movement is strong and our voices will not be shut out.


photo: youth activists read off names of 11 million+ global citizens calling for real climate action

No Time Listed on Blog, but likely sometime in the mid-afternoon:
The sit-in has concluded. The protesters were ‘detained’ and removed from the hall, and made to sit in a small holding room. Then they were given the option to leave, or stay and get arrested. Since no press was on hand, and no one was there to witness the arrests, they left the building.


During the sit-in today It's Getting Hot In Here asked supporters to call the US State Department with this message:

I stand in solidarity with the youth sit-in in the State Department lobby, and at the Bella Centre in Copenhagen for a fair, ambitious, and binding climate treaty. Fair is $200 billion in climate financing for poorer countries; ambitious is a 2015 peak year for carbon emissions and a safe carbon level of 350 ppm, and binding is a legally enforceable treaty. We will not accept your return from Copenhagen without these demands met.