Climate Activists Scale Colosseum

As the sun rose over the Colosseum in Rome this morning, something else was going up: Greenpeace activists climbed the first two tiers of the ancient building in a demonstration urging a climate change deal at Copenhagen. Protesters dressed in orange jumpsuits held up a banner reading, "Copenhagen: Make History Now," while 50 other protesters lay down on the ground to form the words "act now" with their bodies, AP reports.
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