#Lützerath

[kropotkindersurprise]

January 10/11/12, 2023 - Tens of thousands of activists have gathered in the town of Lützerath, Germany, to stop a gigantic open pit coal mine from destroying the town and the environment around it.

They came there in support of a much smaller dedicated group of environmentalists who have occupied and blockaded the doomed town and the surrounding forest since 2020 and were starting to be removed by police. Activists clashed with thousands of riot cops who violently attacked the blockades and protesters. [video]/[video]

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[koenvlecken]

These Dystopian Days No, not a film set – a bucket-wheel coal excavator, with German police in front defending it from climate protesters (photo by Marius Michusch)

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[conceptualromance]

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[remindmetocheck]

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[avo-kat]

climate activists are currently occupying the city Lüzerath in germany, because the company RWE (who now owns the city) wants to demolish it for further coal mining.

you can see one protestors on a rope connected to two buildings.

police are currently carrying the protestors away.

RWE agreed to stop coal mining in 2030, but received the rights to excavate Lützerath in return until then.

the red location icon is where Lützerath is, right next to the current mining hole.

on the south the big spot is another one, next to the big metropolitian city of cologne.

#just wanted to share #lützerath

[rebelandrichgirl]

Lützerath

I thought about not writing this to save my nerves but in this corner of the internet we ramble on about THE REBELLION 24 hours a day and German police in full riot gear wear white helmets that makes them look scaringly like stormtroopers, so I feel like this belongs here.

The village of Lützerath in Germany close to the German/Dutch/Belgian border is supposed to make way for brown coal open cast mining.

It’s the company RWE (Rheinisch-Westfälisches-Elektrizitätswerk) who wants to do this. The legal basis for this is that you get the permit to resettle whole towns and villages if it’s necessary to reach natural resources and brown coal is considered to be that.

The RWE needs the brown coal to burn it in their power plants, however it’s a long standing decision that Germany wants to fade out the use of coal for electricity anyway since there are alternatives and using coal (especially brown coal) actually needs to be highly subsidised to be cost-effective. Aside from the obvious CO2-problem.

The RWE just wants to use the last years where they are even allowed to do this to make as much money as possible before they have to close down anyway.

The original inhabitants of Lützerath have already been resettled. The village is currently occupied by climate activists. Their eviction seems to be starting soon.

I grew up kind of in the region and was there during Christmas. I have actually thought about going there, but I have obligatory stuff at uni, missing that would basically lead to me losing a year… So well… Reality check of my finances… I went back to my university… (Yes, I do feel the need to justify why I’m not there…)

I don’t think there is a realistic chance that they actually will succeed against the massive police forces that will get there. It’s just a question of how long it takes, how violent it gets and how much PUBLICITY it will create…

There is a lot you can do even if you don’t want to freeze your ass off and get dragged away by the police in the end.

Take a look at https://www.alle-doerfer-bleiben.de/ and at Instagram https://www.instagram.com/luetzibleibt/

When I looked for English information about this, I discovered that there is hardly anything. Except for the English language sections on the links above.

The only thing in foreign press I found was the “Photos of the week” of CNN, which actually has one picture from Lützrath and a two sentence caption.

If you happen to have an uncle or something who’s working for a newspaper or news channel somewhere… Wouldn’t this be a cool story…?

If you happen to live in North-Rhine-Westphalia ask your friends and family which company they get their electricity from. Many people in the region actually do have contracts with RWE. Make them change their electricity provider.

And no, they are not cheaper than other companies! Coal is fucking ineffective these days! Even money isn’t a reason anymore to stick to that company!

And yes, I know, compared to the struggle in Iran and a lot of other stuff going on on this world, this might seem like a joke, but this just hits close to home for me.

And in the end it's part of the fight against climate change which will decide whether or not we will be able to still live on this planet on the long run, so maybe it's not a joke after all...

Thanks for reading!

#lützerath #climate activism #rwe #braunkohle

[averycanadianfilm]

Greta Thunberg among activists at the Garzweiler 2 mine near Lützerath. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

#Greta Thunberg #Lützerath #climate justice #climate action #climate crisis #social justice #racial justice

[lennart-laberenz]

Lignite Coal Pit, 2022

©lennart laberenz

#Lützerath #Garzweiler #Lignite Coal #Braunkohle

[fatboyschl1mm]

Dieses ganze Lützerath-Ding könnte der Plot eines Teenie-Action-Filmes sein, wenn man nicht schon im Vorraus wüsste, dass es kein Happy End gibt

#german stuff #Lützerath

[kropotkindersurprise]

January 20, 2021 - An environmentalist activist climbs an excavator that is in the middle of destroying the town of Lützerath, Germany, to make way for a giant open pit coal mine, halting work for several hours. [video]

#lützerath #luetzerath #germany #deutschland #environmentalism #direct action #gif #coal mine #mining #2021 #activism #acab #police #riot police

[madphantom]

To the person who ran into the Garzweiler mine in Lützerath with a sword hello hello I am in love with you

#personal post #garzweiler #lützerath #germany

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

Eine Liste mit benötigten Gegenständen ist hier zu finden: https://luetzerathlebt.info/wunschliste/index.html

#lützerath

[smartfox]

LÜTZI BLEIBT!

#lützerath #lützi bleibt #demo #baumhaus #hambi

[avo-kat]

#lützerath

[unfug-bilder]

(C) Klaus Stuttmann

#Klaus Stuttmann #lützerath

[johanna-swann]

The Lützerath side of tumblr has brought us mud wizard and "Wissen macht huh?" in 2023 and I must applaud thee. You're really making the police, government and former children's tv stars turned haters look stupid. God bless.

#lützerath #german politics #coal mining #shary reeves #mud wizard