Eight arrested after #climate activists breach German airport
"Climate group #LastGeneration said six individuals had seated themselves on airport asphalt at 4:45 a.m. local time (0245 GMT) to block planes, and it criticised Berlin for subsidising #airlines at the expense of #rail.
Germany's transport minister, Volker Wissing, said new laws were needed to punish such actions as criminal, with up to two years in prison. Current laws classify them as minor offences."
Climate activists glue themselves at #Munich airport to protest pollution caused by flying
"The activists from the group Last Generation were protesting flying, the most polluting form of transportation.
#LastGeneration [accused] the German government of “downplaying” the negative effects of flying on the environment instead of “finally acting sincerely.”"
@Grootinside
Das ist Unsinn. Der #ÖRR berichtet täglich davon. Ganze Sendereihen in #ARD & #ZDF haben sich schon damit befasst. Dazu kommen auch die Wetterfrösche in den Nachrichten. Siehe auch #Lesch und andere. Ich selbst kenne die Begrifflichkeiten z.B. aus den Medien. Lange vor #LastGeneration, #FridaysForFuture und Co.
Die Behauptung, dass der #ÖRR den Klimawandel ignoriert und leugnet, ist faktisch falsch!
Oder sie haben bei sich ein anderes #ARD & #ZDF...
By Euronews Green with Reuters
Published on August 10, 2023
"#SimonLachner had plans to glue himself to a German city thoroughfare in June to call public attention to #ClimateChange. Instead, he ended up in police custody before he'd even left his home.
"Lachner, 28, is one of thousands of #activists caught up in a European crackdown on direct action protests which gathered pace last year. #Protesters are demanding urgent government action against climate change.
"#Roadblocks on major motorways in #Britain have caused traffic chaos, protests at #oil installations in #Germany have disrupted supplies, and in #France, thousands of activists and police clashed over #water usage, leaving dozens injured.
"Determined to prevent such protests from strengthening further, states in Germany and national authorities in France are invoking legal powers often used against organised crime and extremist groups to wiretap and track activists, Reuters found, based on conversations with four prosecutors, #police in both countries and more than a dozen protesters.
"In #Berlin alone, police have spent hundreds of thousands of hours working on more than 4,500 incidents registered against the 'The #LastGeneration' and '#ExtinctionRebellion' groups, according to previously unreported data from police.
"State authorities in Germany are widely using preventative #detention to stop people from protesting, including holding at least one person for as long as 30 days without charge.
"This is permissible under Bavarian law, the prosecutors consulted by Reuters said.
"Lawmakers passed new surveillance and detention laws in France in July and in Britain in May. Britain is making it illegal to lock, or glue, yourself to property.
"France has used an anti-terrorism unit to question some #ClimateActivists, the police confirmed to Reuters.
"The governments in Germany and Britain said the response to the protests was aimed at preventing damaging criminal actions. The French government declined to comment but has previously said the state must be able to combat what it calls 'radicalisation'.
"Activists say they turned to direct action after the failure of other protest strategies. #CivilDisobedience has a long history in #SocialMovements, including in the fight for the vote for women and the US #CivilRghts movement."
The #UK is following in other #European countries footsteps with new powers to break up the #climate group's slow marches.
By Euronews Green
Published on 31/10/2023
"More than 60 #CimateActivists have been arrested in #London under the UK’s 'repressive' new anti-protest laws.
"Just Stop Oil protesters were taking part in a ‘slow march’ around Parliament Square yesterday morning (30 October), demanding an end to new #oil and #gas licenses.
"Within 10 minutes, Metropolitan police arrived - blocking their path and forcing activists off the road. When this proved unsuccessful, videos and photos show police kneeling on and handcuffing protesters, before carrying them into vans.
"This is the first time that the Met have made arrests under section 7 of the #PublicOrderAct 2023, which bans any activity that 'interferes with the use or operation of any key national infrastructure in #England and #Wales.'
Ich bin absoluter #FFF-Sympathisant und habe anfangs auch Sympathien für die #lastgeneration gehabt. Inzwischen wird es langweilig: Großereignis ... zack ... Aktion von @AufstandLastGen.
Die Auseinandersetzung erschöpft sich in der Empörung über die Protestformen statt über das Politikversagen in Klimaschutz-Angelegenheiten.
Meine Skepsis ggü. der Letzten Generation wird von Tag zu Tag größer 😐.
Wenn Jugendliche aufhören Fossilisten wie #FDP, #CDU, #CSU und #SPD zu wählen, dann ändert sich was.
A long weekend of climate change protest began on Friday with a march in Vienna and a road blockade in The Hague.
Organisers say 20,000 people marched in the Austrian capital, while in its Dutch counterpart police used water cannons to disperse a road blockade by protestors from Extinction Rebellion.
A weekend of climate protests is planned in 54 countries around the world.
We really need to stop buying into the argument that #ClimateActivists are "radical" or "destructive". The opposite is true: the nature of the protests have been peaceful and, on the whole, pretty tame.
The idea that, say, sitting on a road is "radical", "extreme" and "criminal" came from a bunch of #FossilFuel aligned think tanks, parroted by the media.
Reject them.
The framing needs to be: Fossil fuel companies are radical, extreme, criminal.
"An assortment of conservative and far-right politicians started using words like "criminal" and "terrorist" to describe the activists, seeking to spark a debate about the line between activism and extremism."
It's effective:
"It was just so smartly all put together that (the crackdown) just slowly suffocated us and didn't punch us off the street.
So we kind of reached a maximum amount of people that are ready to take that risk upon themselves."
@rahmstorf "In other words, we cannot put a dollar figure on how much damage climate disruption will cause at the levels of warming towards which we are now heading." - For some, this might be the bigger threat: no longer being able to put a dollar figure (or Euro) on what ever is left of life on earth. #climatecrises#LastGeneration
Schwere Unwetter in Nürnberg: "Hier geht es drunter und drüber"
Extreme Gewitter und starke Regenfälle haben in Nürnberg für erhebliche Einschränkungen gesorgt. In vielen Stadtteilen fiel der Strom aus. Straßenbahnen kamen nicht weiter. Zum Teil spielten sich dramatische Szenen ab.
Werden entwässerte Moore wieder renaturiert, bindet das wachsende Torfmoos Kohlendioxid aus der Luft.
Die Wiedervernässung trockengelegter Moore ist deshalb eine wichtige Klimaaufgabe, der sich der Experte Janis Ahrens von der Stiftung Naturschutz Schleswig-Holstein angenommen hat.
Comparing #LastGeneration and #XR in Europe with the actions of #climate activists in the US one to one omits an important difference. Repression by state and police is a lot worse in the US. There are more activists for EcoAnarchism and #AnimalRights behind bars or have to live illegaly than in Europe. The Green Scare can imply harsh penalties even for taking a foto of an animal factory, and trigger happy men often hate environmentalists. #LG
Wenn ich das richtig sehe haben meine Enkelinnen überhaupt keine Lust auf Weltuntergang.
Insofern spreche ich unserer jetzt existierenden Gesellschaft das Recht auf einen kollektiven Untergang rundheraus ab.
Denn wir haben nicht das Recht über zukünftige Generationen zu entscheiden (!)
Wer Selbstmord begehen will - das steht jedem frei. Aber erweiterter Selbstmord ist Mord.
Facebook-User, die es 2016 nach Breitscheidplatz-Anschlag noch falsch fanden, Menschen mit einem Lkw zu überfahren, haben ihre Meinung offenbar geändert https://www.der-postillon.com/2023/07/lkw.html
The Act:
"#Climate activists caused major disruption at two #airports in #Germany on Thursday morning after breaching fences around the sites and blocking access to the runways on the first day of the school holidays."
The Gaslighting:
“The #LastGeneration isn’t protecting the climate, they’re engaged in criminal activity,” said Transport Minister Volker #Wissing, who has blocked several proposals for cutting #emissions from road and air travel in recent years."