Landmark backdrop for climate protest
Banner calls for Merkel to 'save the climate'
Updated: Friday, 16 Oct 2009, 9:13 AM MDT
Published : Friday, 16 Oct 2009, 9:12 AM MDT
BERLIN (AP) - Environmental activists have hung a giant banner from a prominent Berlin landmark, the Victory Column, urging Germany's leader to take the lead in combatting climate change.
A group of Greenpeace activists descended on ropes from the landmark's viewing platform to put in place the nearly 50-foot (15-meter) banner Friday. It urged Chancellor Angela Merkel to "make history — save the climate" at talks on a new global climate accord in Copenhagen in December.
The 226-foot (69-meter) column was built to commemorate Prussian victories and inaugurated in 1873. It has been the backdrop to events such as the Love Parade techno party and a speech last year by Barack Obama, a U.S. presidential candidate at the time.
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