#HambiBleibt stays accessible as a virtual Panorama by @Muellers_Kabinett.
On https://virtual-hambi.de/ you can walk through virtual panoramas and get an impression of how Camp and tree houses in Hambach Forest looked in 2016 - 2018.
Of course without people and action, but with mud :-)
The green forest in the pictures likely died in the meantime because #RWE pumped out the ground water.
#LuetziBleibt #ClimateChange #Lignite #RWE #HambacherForst #HambachForest

Lützerath: Final activists forced from protest camp

https://www.dw.com/en/lützerath-final-activists-forced-from-protest-camp/a-64409317?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#Lützerath #coal #climatecrisis #climatechange #Germany #HambachForest #Garzweiler

@LuetziBleibt During the 2018 eviction of #HambachForest, police and press speculated about the #tunnel system there, claiming its purpose was to smuggle weapons and "violent" protesters into the forest. This became a running joke amongst protesters.

Of course, the police could have known better, having themselves already evicted one tunnel in the Hambach Forest back in 2012 during the first eviction. But weapons stash sounded more dramatic and fit well into the strategy of labelling the forest occupiers as dangerous, "violent" terrorists.

In reality, tunnels are actually a very passive resistance form. Their value lies in the logistical difficulties of safely removing people from the tunnel which as mentioned can take weeks depending on the complexity of the tunnel system. The police must take every care and really they should employ professional tunnel rescue teams to do the work.

However, in 2018 in Hambach they ignored warnings and continued to drive heavy machinery over the tunnel. In 2012 due to carelessness they also collapsed part of the tunnel.

That is why we need to be sure that the information is well spread so they have no excuse to pretend they don't know.

#Luetzerath #Lutzerath

A village to be evicted for coal – the defense of Luetzerath in Germany
Freedom provides a transcript of an interview on A-Radio Berlin with an activist of Radio Aalpunk from Luetzerath on January 7, 2023. The interview has been edited for clarity.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/01/09/a-village-to-be-evicted-for-coal-the-defense-of-luetzerath-in-germany/
#Activism #Anarchism #climatebreakdown #DirectAction #Germany #HambachForest #lignitemining #Luetzerath #Protest #RWE #Solidarity

Germany: Activists make plans to save village from miners

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-activists-make-plans-to-save-village-from-miners/a-64318338?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#Lützerath #HambachForest #climatechange #ParisAgreement

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexander-dunlap-the-direction-of-ecological-insurrections

Introduction

Whether you turn inward or outward, whatever you encounter, kill it! If you meet a Buddha, kill the Buddha; if you meet a Patriarch, kill the Patriarch; if you meet an enlightened being, kill the enlightened being; if you meet your parents, kill your parents; if you meet your relatives, kill your relatives. Only then will you find emancipation, and by not clinging to anything, you will be free wherever you go. — Linji, Chan Buddhist (d. 867)

Hurry up, comrade, shoot at once on the policeman, the judge, the wealthy, before a new police will hinder you. Hurry up and say no, before a new repression convinces you that to say no is nonsensical and crazy and that you should accept the hospitality of an asylum. Hurry up and attack the capital, before a new ideology makes it sacred for you. Hurry up and refuse work, before a new sophist tells you: Work makes you free. Hurry up and play. Hurry up and arm yourself. — Alfredo Bonanno, Armed joy (1977)

Trying to separate humans from “nature” is as misguided as attempting to separate theory from action. Reconciling these two separations, while altering our socio-political values towards sharing, actively respecting nature and each other[1] is the central individual and collective challenge that humans are currently facing, as the planet plummets towards ecological, climate and pandemic catastrophe. According to the United Nations (UNSDG 2018): “degradation of dry lands has led to the desertification of 3.6 billion hectares”, as “[n]ature across most of the globe has now been significantly altered by multiple human drivers, with the majority of indicators of ecosystems and biodiversity showing rapid decline” (IPBES 2019: 3). The cause, however, is less abstract than climate modeling, statistical data and academic reports would ever acknowledge: it is the values, organization and operation of techno-industrial society itself.[2] It is the production, reproduction and habitual patterns of capitalist development to which many of us have grown so dependent and accustomed.

Stopping this one-way ticket to oblivion is the true challenge. Apathy, disinterest and political conformity proliferate, while social media has blossomed as central to (mainstream) oppositional politics within industrial society. This is because, as Seaweed (2013: 19) rightly points out, the “world’s population consists of defeated peoples in this war”, which is “more than just defeated. We are kept: kept in fear, kept in awe, kept out of touch with each other and the earth that gives us life.” Over centuries, people have “internalized much of the values and ideas of the conquerors and have thus been assimilated into the ways of the obedient and the domesticated” (Seaweed 2013: 19; see Gelderloos 2017). The “war” that Seaweed refers to is both an ancient conventional war, but also the ever-present social war designed to disrupt social fabrics, manage subjectivities and assimilate populations into statist and market structures (Gardenyes 2011, 2012; Dunlap 2019a). The “military’s [physical and cultural] infiltration into the movements of daily life”, Paul Virilio (1990 [1978]) explains, “reproduce[s] the metamorphoses of the hunter: from direct confrontation of the wild animal; to progressive control over the movements of certain species; then, with the help of the dog, to guarding semi-wild flocks; and finally to preproduction, breeding” (see also Bædan 2014). To be clear, this is an alienated hunter separated from ecosystem immersion, enacting practices of domination imbued with a logic of the market, or accumulation, which bleeds insecurity, enacting control strategies and systems. Techno-capitalist society has domesticated a civil population, circumscribing self-determination, mediating agency and redirecting initiative through institutional, social and (bio)political arrangements to propel technological and capitalist development. Riots breaks out and (autonomous) space is captured for moments or months, yet the struggle to maintain and transform this space remains a challenge. How does the burned down Wendy’s[3] transform into a community garden? By dispensing new qualities of food and social relationships, as opposed to fast food.

While speaking indirectly to this question of socio-ecological transformation, this article proposes an open-ended and experimental proposal, conceiving a political ecology theory of resistance. I develop the concept of insurrectionary political ecology, demonstrating the complementary practices of “no-till natural farming” and insurrectionary anarchism. The article seeks to argue for their compatibility, by describing how these ecological and political practices should serve as directional ideals for an anti-authoritarian political ecology of resistance. This includes opening up the question of organizational strategies for further reflection and experimentation. Political ecology, more than most disciplines and frameworks, is already related, intertwined and contributing to environmental, indigenous and other “societies in movement” (Zibechi 2012: 208). This direction, or compass, overlaps with, complements and should serve to strengthen the existing critical schools of thought that are heavily influenced by political ecology, such as (decolonial) degrowth (D’Alisa et al. 2014; Nirmal and Rocheleau 2019) and post-development practices (Rahnema and Bawtree 1997; Kothari et al. 2018; Klein and Morreo 2019). Insurrectionary political ecology seeks to deepen connections with scholarly rebels in political and ecological struggles outside the university system, even rejecting that system. The purpose here is twofold: to offer a theoretical ethos for a political ecology of resistance, and to invigorate a political organizational praxis aiming to subvert socio-ecological catastrophe.

The next sections situate a political ecology of resistance. Following this, the concepts of “do nothing” natural farming and insurrectionary anarchism are explored, through an analysis of Masanobu Fukuoka’s (2010 [1978]) The One Straw Revolution and various insurrectionary anarchists texts, such as the Anonymous (2001 [1998]) booklet: At Daggers Drawn: with the existent, its defenders, and its false critics. The two concepts come into dialogue with each other in the subsequent section, discussing their philosophical commonalities and differences. Considering the sensitive, difficult and—for many— “impossible” relational direction advocated by natural farming and insurrectionary anarchism, the conversation focuses on the challenges faced by insurrectionary political ecology within the current institutional and political context. The article concludes by reviewing insurrectionary political ecology and by offering ways to move forward as a discipline. The graffiti sprayed on the walls of Paris during the May 1968 insurrection: Be realistic – demand the impossible (!), should not only guide the reading of this text, but also the ways we imagine and work towards an alternative present and future. As Ward Churchill (2003: 272) reminded us: “you must never allow your oppressor to define what’s “realistic” for you. Imaginations, capabilities and ideas should not be constrained by “practicalities” or “realism”, even if their confrontation is inevitable.

Figure 1. Banner from the inhabited #HambachForest / #Hambi Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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RT @RiotTurtle65@twitter.com

Gathering to commemorate #SteffenMeyn, #Waka, #AnnaCampbell, #Elf, #Miko & #Mogli in #HambacherForst. Image is a memorial for Waka elsewhere in #HambachForest. #RestInPower #RIP #hambibleibt #antireport #HambacherWald

Video: Lorenzo Serna (host of Unicorn Riot) in #HambachForest (Germany): #Climateprotection movements in the USA, #FridaysForFuture, #ExtinctionRebellion

https://youtu.be/8mwREfczH6Y

#HambacherForst #HambiBleibt #EndeGelaende

Do you know #Autodesk?

They are "currently providing software to the largest coal mine of Europe, emitting 270.000 tons of CO2 per day", and describe it as a success story.
It is the same mine that threatens to destroy #hambachforest, it is the same mine that has displaced many humans and non-human animals, the same mine that kills through toxic dust and radioactivity...and well, a major contributer to the #climatecrisis.

here a presentation done by @Joanie
sry, link to google docs:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nZat2hA3nLByr5YzKSjBpPnqk7SjsmatBGglQ2FaQQI/edit#slide=id.g5f2f577323_0_173
(better don't use #google, they are even more evil then autodesk. follow @FuckOffGoogle for some more infos on the later)

There's going to be a skillshare event in #hambachforest happening from 15. - 25. September.

We're looking for a kitchen crew. If you knew or are a kitchecollective and have time/interest in helping out, please reach out to skillsharing.hambacherforst[at]riseup.net, or just reply.
Same counts if you're an artists, someone interested in offering a workshop...
https://hambachforest.org/blog/2019/08/05/skillsharing-camp-in-hambach-forest-sept-15th-25th/

Skillsharing camp in #HambachForest, Sept 15th -25th - #HambiBleibt #HambacherForst #ClimateJustice #antireport - Read here: https://enoughisenough14.org/2019/08/05/skillsharing-camp-in-hambachforest-sept-15th-25th/

RT de Emily Angelopoulos ★ :

Quintessence of #Greenwashing
Once again, the machine of persuasion of #Capitalism, shows us how unscrupulously it recovers & embraces the environmental cause.
#McDonalds is explicitly staging the struggle of the #HambachForest to promote its vegan burger.
https://youtu.be/o8ulVdyHlO4

Hambacher Forst is now (unofficial) in the fediverse. Please follow @hambibleibt@newsbots.eu (update every 10 min.).

#HambacherForst #hambachForest #hambach

Drone footage of today's massive mobilisation around #Hambach, #Germany.

#EndeGelände #HambachForest #HambacherForst

David Rovics: *Death in Hambach Forest*

https://m.soundcloud.com/davidrovics/death-in-hambach-forest

#hambachForest #hambacherForst

🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 :blackbloc: :anarchoheart2: 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳 🌳

DW: *Hambach Forest: Police arrest tunnel and treehouse activists*

"Police detained 34 environmental activists hidden in trees and tunnels on Sunday #HambachForest protesters raise treehouse dwellers' spirits in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Authorities have faced stiff resistance from protesters occupying the Hambach Forest since last week, when the first forced evictions began. …"

https://www.dw.com/en/hambach-forest-police-arrest-tunnel-and-treehouse-activists/a-45510700

#HambacherForst

Solidarity with #HambachForest!
Solidariteit met #HambachForst! Stop #klimaatverandering!
Stop Climate change!

From 25th until 29th of October, Ende Gelände organizes mass action against the fossil fuel industry in the Rhineland. We will shut down the Hambach mine and fight for the survival of the forest and our planet!

#Lutkemeerpolder #Groningen #hambibleibt #EndeGelände

https://www.indymedia.nl/node/44318

Enough is Enough: **#Hambacher Forest ALERT: Eviction of the treehouses ordered starting this morning Thursday 13th – Keep informed, Come to the Woods**

"According to information from German public TV and radio station WDR, eviction of #HambachForest treehouses…"

https://enoughisenough14.org/2018/09/13/hambacher-forest-alert-eviction-of-the-treehouses-ordered-starting-this-morning-thursday-13th-keep-informed-come-to-the-woods/

#anarchism #bot