When we arrived at 8 am this morning we heard that the whole of the Friends of the Earth International delegation were forbidden entrance to the conference centre. There's dismay and it's a very bad sign for the rest of the day.

Once the Reclaim Power Action put in place, it starts and the tension rises rapidly.

José Bové, wanting to plead Friends of the Earth's cause beside their President Nimmo Bassey, is taken away by the conference Centre security and stays locked up for a while. Many NGOs observers stay stuck outside, even though they have the “must-have” 1 and 2 level badges.

We had to wait for two hours in the morning cold to get our accreditation for COP15, the other name of the Copenhagen Climate Summit, for which Attac France has been preparing for two months.

An impressive number of representatives from an equally impressive number of countries has arrived in the Danish capital over the last few days either to attend COP15, or to take part in the Klima Forum (the alternative forum held by social movements and citizens) or to participate in the many rallies, actions and events that are going to take place over the next ten days.

A small Attac team is already operational: Geneviève (Azam), Fanny (Simon), Nico (Haeringer) and Ronack (Monabay, the Attac/Aitec volunteer who has been in Copenhagen for two months supporting the local preparation teams). Some are here listen and write, others to film, others to speak or organise.