Earth:Ende Gelände 2017
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Short description: Civil disobedience action in Germany
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Ende Gelände 2017 was a large civil disobedience protest movement in Germany to limit global warming through fossil fuel phase-out.[1][2]
3000-6000 environmental activists from several countries blocked two German open-pit coal mines:
- From 24 to 29 August 2017, about 6000 persons blocked a mine owned by RWE in the Rhineland coalfields.[3][1]
- On 5 November 2017 (for the 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference), around 3000 persons blocked the Hambach lignite mine.[4][2]
Context
On 15 August 2015, in the first year of Ende Gelände, 1500 activists blocked the Garzweiler surface mine owned by RWE (Ende Gelände 2015).[5][6]
On 13 to 15 May 2016, with Ende Gelände 2016, 4000 activists blocked the Welzow-Süd open-pit coal mine and the coal-fired Schwarze Pumpe power station, then owned by Vattenfall (Spremberg).[7]
Gallery
First action in August 2017
Banner with the message: "System change not climate change"
Policemen in front on the giant coal excavator
Demonstrators in the mine
See also
- Climate disobedience
- Climate justice
- Energy transition (in Germany)
- Ende Gelände
- Ende Gelände 2016
- Ende Gelände 2018
- Fossil fuel divestment
- Hambach Forest
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Molly Flening, "Thousands of climate activists face police brutality in Germany", The Independent, 31 August 2017 (page visited on 12 January 2018).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jonathan Watts, "Germany's dirty coalmines become the focus for a new wave of direct action", The Guardian , 8 November 2017 (page visited on 12 January 2018).
- ↑ "Action days in the Rhineland coalfields come to a close + 6000 people in diverse and powerful protest against lignite mining", press release of Ende Gelände, 30 August 2017 (page visited on 12 January 2018).
- ↑ "On Sunday Ende Gelände successfully blocked the Hambach lignite mine", press release of Ende Gelände, 7 November 2017 (page visited on 12 January 2018).
- ↑ John Jordan, "The day we stopped Europe's biggest polluter in its tracks", The Guardian , Thursday 27 August 2015 (page visited in 28 September 2016).
- ↑ Ende Gelände 2015, 350.org (page visited in 28 September 2016).
- ↑ Mass action blocking German lignite mining finishes after 48 hours, press release of Ende Gelände, 15 May 2016 (page visited in 28 September 2016).
