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#JusticePourSteve: French authorities ban demo to commemorate #SteveCaniço

Steve Maia Caniço, 24 years old, has been missing since 21 June 2019. On the 21st of June many young people celebrated the Fête de la Musique on a peninsula near Nantes, on the banks of the river Loire. Steve was one of them. Until the cops came… The cops attacked the party with loads of tear gasand many people fled, panic broke out, many fell several meters down an embankment into the Loire. Fourteen people were pulled out of the river by the fire brigade. Steve’s body was found in the Loire on July 29.

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#EndeGelaende blocked #Hambach and #Garzweiler coal tracks and shut down open pit mine

Garzweiler (German territory): The north-south coal track of RWE’s Garzweiler open pit mine is blocked since two days now, the open pit mine itself was also shut down. Yesterday thousands of activists also blocked the coal tracks of the Hambach open pit mine (near Hambacher Forest).

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German police spreaded #Fakenews in an Attempt to divide #FridaysForFuture and #EndeGelaende movements

Aachen, German territory: Aachen police started another campaign to criminalize climate activists, after the series of fairy tales in Hambacher forest in the past years, Aachen police is now fantasizing about “violent-prone” Ende Gelaende groups in an attempt to divide climate justice activists in so-called Germany by sending a letter to many schools.

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#MilkshakesAgainstFascism disrupting election campaign of Nigel Farrage

UK: After activists threw milkshakes over several far right politicians in the past weeks, Nigel Farrage (Brexit Party) was stuck on his election campaign bus earlier today because people turned up with milkshake. The Milkshake actions have also spread to Sweden.

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German territory: Police authorities are attacking the #FusionFestival

German mainstream media reported today that internal documents of police authorities show cops are preparing a massive police operation against the Fusion Festival in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Police authorities even asked for assistance from the German army. Police also gave sensitive documents non-blackened to a violent far right offender at a police academy. The authoritarian state is marching: A free space of the political left is being attacked. Fusion is not only a place of celebration, but also of networking, a place of lived utopia beyond capitalist and repressive normality. Tens of thousands of people attend at the yearly festival.

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#Hamburg: Two occupations during #MietenMove demo against gentrification and high rents – A reportback

On Saturday more than 6000 people took the streets against high rentsd and gentrification on a rainy day in Hamburg (German territory). During and after the demo there were two occupations. A reportback.

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Riot Turtle in the Enough 14 Info-Café: What was that tree from #HambacherForest doing in a meeting of the Coal Commission?

On december 22, the Enough 14 Info-Café opened in Wuppertal on the German territory. A lot has happened in the past month and we have a lot more plans for the coming year. But what was that tree from Hambacher forest doing in a meeting of the Coal commission? And why was the name of this blog and the Info-Café changed in Enough 14?

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#RefugeesGR: Cars of Hope Collective to support refugee squats in #Athens again

Last year the Cars of Hope collective from Wuppertal (German territory)supported self organized mutual aid projects on Lesvos, in Athens and in Bosnia. Next month activists of the Cars of Hope collective will be in Athens to support the Notara 26 refugee squat, which they also visited and supported in January 2018 and the Azadi refugee squat. They will also support the food distribution for homeless people in Athens.

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#FridaysForFuture: “We have come here to let you know that change is coming, whether you like it or not”

More and more cities across the globe are joining the Frifays for Future school strikes. On the German territory alone students will go on strike in more than 50 cities on Friday January 18. The school strikes for climate justice were started by 16 year old Greta Thunberg last year.

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Info Event Enough is Enough Info-Café: Climate and Capitalism

We are on the verge of a climate disaster, but instead of a united effort to get rid of the cause of the problem, nationalism and fascism are growing across the planet. At the same time financial markets and multinational corporations are cheering and parliamentary democracy is running in a dead end street. Climate change and capitalism are two sides of the same coin and green capitalism will not bring a solution.

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