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Black Is Back on the UN Copenhagen Climate Meeting
Bill Quigley
27 Jan 2010
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by Ayesha Fleary

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At the January 2010 Black Is Back conference in Florida last week, Ayesha Fleary explains how the UN Copenhagen Climate meeting was hijacked by the elites of the US, China, Western Europe and the world's biggest polluters to ensure that less developed nations in African, Asia and Latin America will be the first to pay for their destruction of the planet's climate.

 

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