Ende Gelände 2017

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Environmental activist blocking the coal mine during Ende Gelände 2017.

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]

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[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Molly Flening, "Thousands of climate activists face police brutality in Germany", The Independent, 31 August 2017 (page visited on 12 January 2018).
  2. ^ a b 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).
  3. ^ "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).
  4. ^ "On Sunday Ende Gelände successfully blocked the Hambach lignite mine", press release of Ende Gelände, 7 November 2017 (page visited on 12 January 2018).
  5. ^ 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).
  6. ^ Ende Gelände 2015, 350.org (page visited in 28 September 2016).
  7. ^ Mass action blocking German lignite mining finishes after 48 hours, press release of Ende Gelände, 15 May 2016 (page visited in 28 September 2016).

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