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]

Environmental activist blocking the coal mine during Ende Gelände 2017.

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]

  • 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. Molly Flening, "Thousands of climate activists face police brutality in Germany", The Independent, 31 August 2017 (page visited on 12 January 2018).
  2. 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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