COP17 protesters to lay charges after march attack

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"They were us: 'How much money must I pay for your bitches?' Both the marshals and the fellows in green were saying this. We were angry, very angry'," said Mercia Andrews of the Rural Women's Assembly (RWA).

Andrews was recounting her experience and that of her fellow RWA activists after they had been moved behind a group of COP17 volunteers during yesterday's civil society march on COP17 in Durban who had abused and intimidated them.

The organisation had been moved forward to act as a "buffer zone" between the Democratic Left Front (DLF) and what appeared to be agent provocateurs who, the Civil Society Committee for COP17 is alleging, were ANC members planted at the march by the local eThekwini Municipality so as to disrupt it. The green-suited group of about 300 people engaged in skirmishes and threw projectiles at members of civil society before the march had begun.

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-12-04-cop17-protesters-to-lay-charges-after-march-attack