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Photo Essay: Global Day of Action Against UN Conference of Polluters (COP) in Durban

3 December 2011–Thousands of people from around the world hit the streets of Durban, South Africa to protest the UN Climate Conference of Polluters.

Photo Essay by Orin Langelle/Global Justice Ecology Project and Anne Petermann/Global Justice Ecology Project-Global Forest Coalition.

Overview of the March. Photo: Petermann/GJEP-GFC

Photo: Petermann/GJEP-GFC

Photo: Langelle/GJEP

Photo: Petermann/GJEP-GFC

Photo: Langelle/GJEP

Photo: Langelle/GJEP

Photo: Langelle/GJEP

Photo: Petermann/GJEP-GFC

La Via Campesina Photo: Langelle/GJEP

Radical clowns. Photo: Petermann/GJEP-GFC

Nnimmo Bassey speaks to the crowd. Photo: Petermann/GJEP-GFC

Christina Figueres, Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, speaks. Photo: Langelle/GJEP

South African activist Virginia Setshedi. Photo: Langelle/GJEP

Interview. Photo: Petermann/GJEP-GFC

Photo: Petermann/GJEP-GFC

Photo: Langelle/GJEP

South African Waste Pickers. Photo: Langelle/GJEP

Nudes Against Nukes. Photo: Petermann/GJEP-GFC

Photo: Langelle/GJEP

Photo: Langelle/GJEP

Photo: Langelle/GJEP

Never trust a COPoration. Photo: Petermann/GJEP-GFC

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USSF Opening March Photo Essay

Global Justice Ecology Project is attending and presenting at the US Social Forum in Detroit, Michigan this week.

What follows is a photo essay by GJEP Co-Director/Strategist Orin Langelle documenting the opening march of the Social Forum which took to the streets of Detroit earlier today.  The final photo in the series is of the USSF opening ceremony that took place at the Cobo Hall this evening.

All of the photos are by Orin Langelle unless otherwise noted.

Stay tuned to this blog for more updates, photos and reports daily from the US Social Forum throughout the week.

On Saturday, we will have another photo essay from the direct action at the Detroit incinerator, which is the largest in the United States.

USSF Opening Ceremony – photo: Petermann/GJEP

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