Ende Gelände 2017

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

References

^ ^a ^b Molly Flening, "Thousands of climate activists face police brutality in Germany", The Independent, 31 August 2017 (page visited on 12 January 2018).
^ ^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).
^ "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).