Newsletter #2 – 2016
The climate conference in Paris is over. In the media it was celebrated as a success. We are more sceptical. The fine objective to limit the global warming to 1,5 degress will not be attained with the decisions taken in Paris. There is a danger of the average temperature rising by over 3 degrees. Emissions are supposed to fall only in the future. Instead of acting now the problem will be postponed to tomorrow. The necessary abandonment of fossile resources does not appear in the text.
That is no accident: many governments want to secure the profits of the fossile industry rather than decommission coal-mines. If we are serious about our future we need to get active ourselves. In Germany that means stopping lignite mining. For that reason we will go to the Lausitz at Whitsun 2016 and stop the diggers.
1. THE CLIMATE IS NEGOCIATED HERE: DIGGER OCCUPATION
2. REPRESSION: SOLIDARY GREETINGS PARIS
3. INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN: WEBSITE ONLINE
4. OUR PLAN: WHITSUN 2016 IN THE LAUSITZ
5. DATES
1. THE CLIMATE IS NEGOCIATED HERE: DIGGER OCCUPATION
During the negotiations in Paris Ende Gelände- activists blocked the infrastructure in all 3 big lignite mining areas in Germany. In the middle German area near Leipzig they stopped a digger, in the Rhineland they obstructed the entry to the power station Niederaußem and in the Lausitz area they occupied 3 diggers.
More informations: Ende Gelände blog (german)
Video from the Lausitz: Digger hier ist Ende Gelände
2. REPRESSION: SOLIDARY GREETINGS PARIS
If governments celebrate, protesters need to be silenced. In the whole of France climate activists were massively repressed. Demonstrations were forbidden, houses searched, arrests and detentions made on a big scale. We show our solidarity with our friends in France: Statement of solidarity
3. INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN: WEBSITE ONLINE
When we’ll go to the Lausitz area we will not be alone. From 7th – 15th May thousands will blockade the fossile industry worldwide. We are the ones for whom we’ve waited.
The homepage of the international campaign is now online:
http://de.breakfree2016.org/
4. OUR PLAN: WHITSUN 2016 IN THE LAUSITZ
You can find our planning for 2016 and 2017 in the Newsletter #1
5. DATES
3.1.2016 Demonstration in the Lausitz area
The local initatives in the Lausitz area have called for a demonstration in the threatened villages. We’ll protest against the planned open-cast mines in Jänschwalde-Nord or Gubin in Poland. We find that super.
Website: kein-tagebau.de
9.1.2016 ENDE GELÄNDE Campaign meeting
9th January the next campaign meeting will take place in Hannover. It starts at 10 am and will finish at 6 pm. All are welcome.
Applications and information: info@ende-gelaende.org
13.01.2016 ENDE GELÄNDE alliance in Berlin
The next local alliance meeting in Berlin will be 13th January at 7pm in K9, Kinzigstr. 9 (U5 Samariterstr.). You are welcome to drop in.
12. – 14.2.2016 INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN MEETING IN BERLIN
Please Save the Date. It will be mainly about preparing the action on an international level, more informations will follow soon.
That weekend a post-COP21-meeting will take place in Berlin as well. We will organize a combined timeslot.
Auf geht’s, ab geht’s – Ende Gelände!
Best regards, the Ende Gelände Newsletter-editors