Reposted from Greenpeace Blog
Hello!

We have some breaking news from Greenpeace – an action underway in Brussels today during the EU Finance Ministers meeting. Greenpeace activists are demanding that finance ministers ‘Bail out our planet!’ and blocking the entrances to the building where ministers are meeting today.

According to one our our activists twittering live from the action – ‘EU finance ministers need to bail out the planet before we are willing to let them out of the meeting!’

“Our finance ministers are giving billions of taxpayers’ money to failed banks and their managers. We are here to make sure they put money on the table to tackle climate change,” said Thomas Henningsen, climate campaigner for Greenpeace International. “If the planet were a bank they would bail it out.”

Here are the facts:

-more than 300 activists from 20 different countries are in Brussels this morning

-police vans, police in riot gear have already arrived and arrests are being made

-the decisions made at today’s finance meeting will directly influence Europe’s position at the UN climate summit in December 2009

-to encourage a good decision from the finance ministers the activists have sealed the entrances and are refusing to let the politicians leave until they committed to ‘Save the Climate’ and ‘Bail out the Planet’

-a ‘Free Tibet’ rally is also being held nearby, meaning that police are being kept extremely busy in Brussels today

-the reason security is so tight? Apparently Vice President Joe Biden is coming in to have lunch with the ministers (currently trapped inside their own finance meeting by our activisits) – we’ll see whether the Vice President gets his lunch or not

For updates:

-further updates as well as pictures will be made available here as we get them:

-live twittering straight from the action under #climateaction – search for #climateaction here to see the feed:

-the story has just begun to break in the press (Twitter had it on their homepage first!)

Help us get it out there!
Thanks!

Laura Kenyon
@ Greenpeace International

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