Baltic Sea Info Tour/Copenhagen

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Tour Stop in Copenhagen

Denmark is a nuclear free country and has never had nuclear power plants (except one research reactor, Risö, which is closed now). There was an active anti-nuclear movement around the Organisationen til Oplysning om Atomkraft (OOA). In 2000, OOA dissolved itself (prematurely) after the Swedish government promised to close Barsebäck NPP. Unfortunately it seems that the formerly strong anti-nuclear movement of Denmark disappeared mostly, while the threat of nuclear power has not disappeared. The Danish population is actually the one mostly affected by the radioactively pollution from the Baltic Sea and by the emissions and dangers connected to the nuclear facilities in the neighbour countries.

Our stop in Copenhagen will focus on the issues of the radioactive contamination of the Baltic Sea (officially the most radioactive sea in the world!), the threats caused by nuclear facilities in our region and particularly the insane Swedish (and Finnish) plans to bury their most radioactive waste in tunnels below our ocean! Renewable energies as well as energy saving is the alternative to nuclear and fossile electricity generation.

The Baltic Sea Info Tour will be in Copenhagen 3 days, from July 30 - August 1. We will provide a public information event, a public street action and a regional network gathering here.

Local contact

Per Hegelund, Baltic Sea Region Radioactivity Watch (See: http://www.bsrrw.org for lots of relevant documentation!)

• phone: +45 53331466
• email: copenhagen.baltic-tour AT nuclear-heritage.net^[1]

Travel Schedule of the Copenhagen Stop

• Thursday (Jul 29): travelling from the previous stop in Greifswald to Copenhagen
• Friday - Sunday (Jul 30 - Aug 1): STOP in Copenhagen
• Monday (Aug 2): travelling to the next stop in Malmö

How to find us in Copenhagen

It's safe to say we'll be meeting in Christiania (if not before) on thursday the 29th in the afternoon/evening in the street in front of "the Cinema" (“Byens Lys”) in Fabrikken and in front of "Indköberen", the local groceryshop (both are within eyesight of each other) people usually hang there out and talk ... Fabrikken, first floor upstairs is where we'll be staying the following three days. A good active house...

About finding Christiania (CA from now on) - everybody knows where it is! If you walk out the main entrance from the Central train Station (towards Tivoli) - on your right hand, closest to the big street, busses from the Central Station will get you all the way there: bus 66 drives to CA - or just jump on bus 2A and get off after you pass the parlament and the big bridge, at Christianshavns metrostation - and walk the last 150 meters, down to Christiania. You pass a nice tall church with a spiralled tower..! (If you’re on bus 66 get off first stop after this church). You’ll see a big building plastered with posters, and then a wooden fence plastered with graffity – that’s where you enter Christiania, autonomous free town of the world!

If you have any problems – call me: (+45 for Denmark) 53 33 14 66 - I’m the problem cruncher and coordinator for the stop in Copenhagen. Per (PS. If you ask for me in Christiania, use my nickname: "Valiant")

Other Information about the Copenhagen Stop

• DO NOT start taking photos inside Christiania! Not before meeting the coordinator and getting advise about when and where and how to go about it - or your film, your camera and even you yourself may be immidiately destroyed by the people in the street!!!