The day of action will begin at 11 am on the Marcel-Proust promenade with a climate festival and from 3 pm on the traintracks in the Municipal Forest of Cologne.
Shortly after last week’s clearing of barricades and info-board, new signs and info were put up illustrating the species which are being defended in the Hambacher Forest.
The Red Line action on Sunday 19. of February brought 1300 people to the Hambacher Forest with buses coming from Netherlands, Belgium and Cologne.
“We carried out coordinated arson attacks against the German energy multinational RWE in the vicinity of the Hambach opencast lignite mine.”
Over 50 riot cops and several pieces of equipment from RWE entered the forest to clear barricades and remove the compost toilet. This action was blocked for many hours by activists…
The ongoing repression, physical violence and forced Orwellian DNA mining continues as illustrated by this account.
After several years of all time temperature record-breaking years it looks like this time the snow cover might stick around for more than 2-4 hours, helping all involved to stay out of the mud.
This new years night while everybody was celebrating, we had a special party of our own, visiting the hambach opencast mine and putting on a nice fireworks display for RWE and breaking some glass for a lucky new fear.
On the night before Christmas Day the RWE Tower in Essen was beautified with color by activists.