#lutzerath coal mine

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Greta Thunberg rilasciata dalla polizia tedesca

L’attivista per il clima svedese Greta Thunberg è stata brevemente arrestata martedì durante una protesta contro l’espansione controversa di una miniera di carbone in Germania occidentale che è diventata un punto di riferimento per il dibattito sui cambiamenti climatici del paese. Le proteste a Lützerath, un piccolo villaggio destinato a essere ripulito e demolito per fare spazio alla vicina…

[crimethinc]

The Defense of Lützerath: A Photoessay https://crimethinc.com/Lutzerath Over the past week, police have taken brutal steps to suppress ecological movements in Europe and the United States. In Germany, police evicted and destroyed the long-occupied village of #Lutzerath in a massive operation in order to expand an ecologically devastating open pit coal mine. Today, in Atlanta, Georgia, police murdered a person in the course of their efforts to evict and destroy the #Weelaunee Forest. In this extensive photoessay, a witness of the events in Lützerath documents the clashes that unfolded between police and climate activists.

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Greta Thunberg joins protests at German village under threat of destruction over coal mine | World News

Greta Thunberg joins protests at German village under threat of destruction over coal mine | World News

Greta Thunberg has condemned the forced removal of protesters from a small village in western Germany that is due to be demolished to accommodate the expansion of an open coal mine. Speaking in Lutzerath in North Rhine-Westphalia, the climate activist said: “Germany is really embarrassing itself right now. “The science is clear: we need to keep the carbon in the ground.” She went on to claim that…

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Voices In Struggle: Remembering Tortuguita + Resistance in Lützerath and Against Tren Maya

This week on The Final Straw, we feature three segments: words from a friend of Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran, the forest defender killed by law enforcement on January 18th outside of Atlanta, Georgia; A-Radio Berlin’s conversation with an activist at Lutzerath encampment in western Germany attempting to block a lignite coal extraction operation by RWE; a discussion of the Tren Maya megaproject by the AMLO administration in Mexico.

Remembering Tortuguita

First up, we caught up with Eric Champaign of Tallahassee, FL, about his friend Manny, aka Tortuguita or little turtle. Manuel Teran was shot and killed by law enforcement during an early morning raid of the forest encampment to defend the Welaunee aka Atlanta Forest and to stop CopCity on Wednesday, January 18th, 2023. Law enforcement claimed in the media that they responded to shots fired and the wounding of an officer by killing the shooter, but at the time of this release the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has not yet produced a weapon or bodycam footage of the clash. [Update, Georgia Bureau of Investigation claims they found Tort's gun and ballistics match the bullet in the pelvis of the cop] The killing of Tortuguita has sparked outrage, calls for independent investigations, vigils and calls for renewed and dispersed activity. Word is that another 6 people were arrested and charged with domestic terrorism during the raid. Check out our chat with a member of Atlanta Anti-Repression Committee for some context and links to group fighting back in the courts. There’s a fundraiser for Tortuguita’s family at GoFundMe

Eric also speaks about his friend, Dan Baker, who is nearing his release date. You can hear our past chat with Eric about Dan’s case at our website alongside links about the case and how to support him. There’s now a paypal for donations for Dan’s post-release, which can be found at DanielBakerDonations@gmail.com

Then, we feature two segments are selections from the January, 2023 episode of B(A)D News from the A-Radio Network. You can find this ep, #64, alongside many others at A-Radio-Network.Org

Updates from Lützerath

This second segment is a recording by A-Radio Berlin of a conversation with a radio activist from Aalpunk from Lützerath giving some context of the struggle there in the west of Germany. Since this recording, the encampments have been evicted but resistance continues against the ginormous lignite mine that the corporation RWE is attempting to expand there. You can also hear or read our September 25th, 2022 episode for some background. More info at https://luetzerathlebt.info/en

Opposing Project Tren Maya

Finally, we’re sharing a segment by Frequenz-A about Proyecto Tren Maya in the Yucatán peninsula of so-called Mexico. The conversation with a member of Recherche-Ag about a report they published in Solidarity with the Zapatista movement, on the German state and corporate participation in this mega-project and the dangers posed by the Maya Train, which includes huge expansion of electric, travel and other corporate and state infrastructure through sensitive ecosystems and sovereign indigenous lands, being overseen by the Mexican military. You can find this report and more at ya-basta-netz.org.

To hear a past interview of ours talking about Tren Maya & AMLO's infrastructure projects, you can find our February 2nd, 2020 interview.

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Mud wizard livecam!

Oh, the mudwizard and his acolytes are defending this village near the infamous Garzweiler II open-cast lignite coal mine near Düsseldorf.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/14/europe/lutzerath-germany-coal-protests-climate-intl/index.html

The coal mine is the second largest coal polluter in Europe and one of the few mines Germany is holding on to dear life. Despite the Paris agreement, it has been allowed to grow and they’ve even taken down a wind farm to instead mine lignite.

Is it bad? This is what the mine looks like

This is the area they want to expand it to

(image of the open-cast mining plan expansion is from here: https://coaltransitions.org/news/coal-phase-out-2030-implications-for-the-garzweiler-ii-opencast-mine-and-the-rescue-of-lutzerath/ )

The mine, if you look at a Google aerial of it, is about 1/3 of the size of the entire Düsseldorf

Here’s another good article on what’s going on there (with some flourishes in setting the mood): https://news.sky.com/story/the-villages-killed-for-coal-12341492

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LUTZERATH coal mine 2023

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Over 70 German Police Officers Injured In Lutzerath During Crackdown On Demonstrators

Over 70 German Police Officers Injured In Lutzerath During Crackdown On Demonstrators

BERLIN (UrduPoint News / Sputnik – 16th January, 2023) More than 70 law enforcement officers were injured during the police crackdown on anti-coal mine protesters in the western German village of Lutzerath, police inform. On Saturday, thousands of climate activists, including Greta Thunberg, gathered near Lutzerath to protest against the expansion of a local coal mine at the expense of the…

[strkid]

Lmao obviously short lived things like that can look terrible. And I could equally find some beautiful photo of Lutzerath the community built in the trees to stop the coal mine where comrades lived for years and years and everyone was welcomed but to you

All of our infoshops, our libraries, our people’s food kitchens, our mutual aid centers, our trans aid centers, our squats, our migrant shelters, our underground migrant healthcare clinics where doctors work in secret because they could lose their license for providing care to refugees, whatever it is, we grow through the cracks and we will always be here. We exist. We are everywhere. If you come to Sweden or Germany sometime I’ll show you around and you could live a life where you don’t have to work and get to live for free while in a community and contributing back to it just by caring for it and growing it

I’m a commie too, for me a thing that made me more anarchist was actually just going and meeting them

so weird how despite the fact that Every Single Ideology that isn't work abolitionism also agrees that there should be incentives around labor, the antiwork crowd only ever seems to pull this "oh so you support forced labor????" routine on marxists. almost as if this whole thing is just a flimsy cover for bog-standard right-wing anticommunist fearmongering.

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Thunberg joins march on German village in protest against coal mine expansion By Reuters

Thunberg joins march on German village in protest against coal mine expansion By Reuters

5/5 © Reuters. Climate activist Greta Thunberg joins the activists protesting against the expansion of the Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine of Germany’s utility RWE to Luetzerath, in Keyenberg, Germany, January 14, 2023. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen 2/5 LUTZERATH (Reuters) – Around 6,000 protesters – including climate activist Greta Thunberg – marched through mud and rain to the German village of…

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SHTFPreparedness might be compensated with a portion of the sales made through the links on this site. German wind farms are being demolished in order to make way for new coal mine expansions. German energy giant RWE will demolish wind turbines in order to expand a nearby coal mine to address the country's energy crisis. The region of the wind farm located near Lutzerath will be used for the expansion of the Garzweiler open-pit mine in North Rhine-Westphalia. Eight wind turbines are featured in the wind farm. One wind turbine was removed last week. Two more were scheduled to be dismantled next year. The final five will be down by 2023. Officials at RWE admit that the move seems "paradoxical." "We are aware that this seems paradoxical, however, that is how things stand," Guido Steffen , spokesperson for RWE, stated in a statement. The Ministry of Economy of North Rhine-Westphalia stated that "If Lutzerath was to be preserved, the production volumes required to ensure security of supply for the next eight years could be not achieved, stability of the opencast mining could not been guaranteed, and the necessary recultivation couldn't be performed." RWE will also reactivate three units of lignite-fired coke that were on standby. The three lignite units have a combined capacity of 300 megawatts (MW). Their deployment will contribute to the strengthening of Germany's supply during times of energy crisis as well as to the saving of natural gas in electricity generation," RWE stated in September. It was originally planned that the three affected reserve power plant units would be permanently closed on September 30, 2022 and September 30, 20,23. Germany's cabinet approved the decision of reviving the coal units that were left unutilized after energy prices rose due to sanctions imposed by Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. RWE and North Rhine-Westphalia had declared that they would cease using fossil fuels by 2030. Climate Change activists are outraged at the switch from wind power to fossil Fuels. Last week, there were thousands protestors who took part in demonstrations against high energy costs in six German cities: Berlin (Dusseldorf), Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Hanover. In September 2021, 60% German gas was imported from Russia. However, it dropped to zero last month. Reuters reported that Germany imported 37.6% gas from Norway in September, compared to 19.2% in the same period last year. Meanwhile, Dutch imports rose to 29.6% from 13.7%, according data from BDEW, a utility industry group. BASF, the largest chemical group in the world by revenue, announced last week that it will "permanently” reduce its European operations due to high energy costs making the region less competitive. "The European chemical market has grown only slowly for approximately a decade," Martin Brudermuller , chief executive of BASF, stated Wednesday. Bonus: Root Cellar that Can be Used as a Bunker Do you still remember the old root basements your great-grandparents had? They probably built it in their backyard. Easy Cellar is the best way to learn how to build your own backyard bunker, just like your grandparents did. Easy Cellar will help you: How to select the perfect site Building methods that are cost-effective How to protect your bunker against nuclear fallout and blasts How to hide your bunker Basic life support available at an affordable price Easy Cellar also reveals how a veteran built a small nuclear bunker right in his backyard with just $421 Also included: