Yesterday was “Reclaim Power” day, a collaborative adventure with activists from Climate Justice Now and Climate Justice Action that had been many months (years?) in the making.   There were demonstrators from the outside — the thousands of activists who have no accreditation to get into the Bella Centre where the talks are being held, and those who had been working the process inside — lobbying, analyzing, holding press conferences and such. The point was to hold a people’s assembly on climate change when talks failed to deliver.   And they are failing to deliver big time.

So much has happened in the past three days it is has been impossible to blog. We have been trying to lobby, trying to inform the press, attending side events, organizing our own workshops, meeting old and new friends and allies and basically working from early morning until late at night, like virtually everyone else here.

It is the mad dash for Copenhagen.

I am leaving Montreal for the international summit tomorrow although the conference actually got underway yesterday. In between urgent emails over the weekend I found the time to take my 10-year-old daughter and two of her friends to see A Christmas Carol, a Geordie Theatre production of the Dickens classic. The play was great but it was hard to keep my mind off what was going on in Copenhagen -- plus Scrooge kept reminding me of Stephen Harper.