Peaceable assembly be damned -- or so it would seem: This morning, around 260 people were arrested for attempting to protest what they see as "false solutions and elitism of the U.N. climate talks," in the words of a spokesperson for the group that organized the march. This just a few days after the last round of mass arrests last Saturday, when more than 900 protesters were detained by Danish police.

Early this morning, 3,000 people convened at two railway stations in Copenhagen to begin their march towards the Bella Center, which was organized by Climate Justice Action, an environmentalist outfit that refers to its subversive contribution to the COP15 summit as the "Reclaim Power Press Conference."

Converging on the Bella Center, where negotiations among world leaders were scheduled as part of the COP15 summit, the protesters were trying to establish a "People's Assembly" to counter and potentially overtake the organized conference inside. Police made sure that didn't happen, though around 300 people inside the Center staged a walkout in protest of the summit.

"Reclaim Power!" became the mantra of the protesters in and around the Bella Center, according to sources at the summit, but the police seem to be unfazed. There may be power in numbers, but sadly, there's even more in tear gas and pepper spray.

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