Ende Gelände 2018

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Ende Gelände 2018 - Blockade of the  [de] on 27 October 2018.

Ende Gelände 2018 were a series of events of a mass movement for climate justice in the  [de] in Germany. The non-violent direct action civil disobedience events were targeted against coal-based power generation through RWE Power AG and demanded the "immediate fossil fuel phase-out" based on climate justice and climate change mitigation.^[1]

Some smaller activities happened on the 6 October 2018 in the Hambach Forest, whereas the main activities were concentrated around the 25-29 October 2018.

On the 27 October 2018, a bucket-wheel excavator near the village of  [de] as well as the rails of the  [de] belonging to the Hambach surface mine were occupied by several thousand activists for 22 hours in order to symbolically block the transfer of lignite to the power plants.^[2] More than 5000 people took part in the protests.^[3]

In the aftermath to the activities, the public prosecutor's office Aachen investigates for breach of the peace against some 400 participants of the protests, who also tried to enter the  [de].^[4]

Panorama of Hambach open-pit lignite mine in the neighbourhood of the Hambach Forest showing a transparent and a bucket-wheel excavator on 6 October 2018.

See also[]

• Ende Gelände
• Ende Gelände 2017
• Ende Gelände 2019
• Extinction Rebellion (XR)
• School strike for climate / Fridays for Future (FFF)
• Earth Strike
• Commission on Growth, Structural Change and Employment
• Energy transition (in Germany)
• Fossil fuel divestment
• Climate disobedience

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• "So viele wie nie" - Video of "graswurzel.tv"
• "So lange wie noch nie" - Video of "graswurzel.tv"