Élodie, a member of the climate change action group ANV-COP21, is upbeat as she speaks into the megaphone. “Despite the repression, despite the ban on protesting, we've kept going, and organised this press conference in the most protected zone in the French state!” As she delivers these words in the shadows of the Saint-André church in Bayonne, south-west France, up to a thousand activists from ANV-COP21, Alternatiba and Bizi and other militants, who have come from the G7 'counter summit' around 20 miles away, break into loud applause.
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