Amy Goodman
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Canadian Activists Barred From Durban Summit for Protesting Environment Minister
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December 7, 2011
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1:18Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - Canada's Minister of Environment Peter Kent addressed the United Nations Climate Change Conference today and defended his country's environmental record despite Canada's support of continued tar sands oil extraction and its threat to pull out of the Kyoto Protocol. Soon after Kent began speaking, six members of the Canadian Youth Delegation stood up and turned their backs on the minister. They were taken out of the room and later stripped of their credentials to the climate change conference. "Today, six of us stood up and turned our backs on the government of Canada in the same way the government of Canada has turned its back on us," says activist Karen Rooney to Democracy Now! who filmed the action. "We are calling on the government of Canada to start putting the interest of people over the interest of polluters."
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