Hambacher Forest: 6,500 activists block mining operations in the Rhineland coalfield, Largest action of civil disobedience of the German climate movement.
Originally published by Ende Gelaende. Image above by Ende Gelaende.
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08:22 October 27: #EndeGelaende activists are getting ready for todays mass action of civil disobedience. #HambiBleibt #HambacherForest #HambacherForst #EndCoal #ClimateJustice Video by @infozentrale pic.twitter.com/lBGP6WYFry
— Enough is Enough! (@enough14) 27. Oktober 2018
27/10/2018, Düren-Stepprath/Germany. Since 1.30 pm, 4,000 people are occupying the tracks that supply RWE’s power plants with coal from the open-cast mine Hambach. A group of 40 people has been occupying a digger in the Hambach mine since the early morning. A few hundred people tried to enter the open-cast coal mine Inden but they were stopped by the police. Altogether, about 6,500 activists followed Ende Gelände’s call to block lignite mining operations in the Rhineland near Cologne. Their action expresses the urgency of an immediate coal-phase out.
8:47 Ten minutes ago Goldfinger started marching towards #RWE‘s open pit mine Video by @infozentrale #EndeGelaende #HambiBleibt #HambacherForst #HambacherForest #HambacherWald pic.twitter.com/oizIVhrofn
— Enough is Enough! (@enough14) 27. Oktober 2018
In the last days, climate activists from all over Europe have been gathering in a camp near Düren. Thousand people arrived in a special train from Prague and Berlin.
08:52 Red finger of #EndeGelaende activists getting ready. Banner: “Burn borders not coal” #HambiBleibt #HambacherForest #HambacherWald #HambacherForst Image by @le0nenrique pic.twitter.com/wwpz3Ri4xt
— Enough is Enough! (@enough14) 27. Oktober 2018
„This is the largest action of civil disobedience for climate justice that Germany has ever seen“, says Karolina Drzewo, press spokesperson of Ende Gelände. In the Rhineland coalfield near Cologne, the utility RWE operates three open-cast lignite mines and four coal-fired power plants. Germany is the world’s largest producer of lignite, an especially polluting type of coal. The government tasked a commission to come up with a road-map to a socially-viable coal-phase out. Their negotiations have been accompanied by strong protests to protect the Hambach forest, an old-growth forest scheduled to be cleared for the expansion of the lignite mine.
09:00 In the early morning hours about 40 autonomous activists suprised cops and #RWE security by occupying a digger in RWE’s open pit mine hours before todays #EndeGelaende action “officially” started. #HambiBleibt #HambacherForest #HambacherForst Image by @Lorien49307479 pic.twitter.com/WcfmvKxewS
— Enough is Enough! (@enough14) 27. Oktober 2018
10:16 At the front of the golden #EndeGelaende finger people are dancing on music of the sound truck. Not much police vans around them. #HambiBleibt #HambacherWald #HambacherForest #HambacherForst Video by @infozentrale pic.twitter.com/Ft1pn3BIzU
— Enough is Enough! (@enough14) 27. Oktober 2018
„The special report of the IPCC has just warned us to take immediate climate action and phase out fossil fuels. However, the eternal negotiations of the coal committee does not reflect this urgency. The government fails to use this last chance to avoid the worst impacts of global warming. That’s why we take coal phase-out into our own hands.“
22:39 #EndeGelaende blockade of #Hambach coal tracks is ongoing. About 1000 people on the tracks. Cops relaxed at the moment. #hambibleibt #HambacherForest #HambacherWald #hambacherforst pic.twitter.com/6dOkZfuYgK
— Enough is Enough! (@enough14) 27. Oktober 2018
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