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Some of the photos of the camp [0], a blog post about the death of the activists [1]. From what I understand there was a very heavy police presence for the evic

by icc97 8y ago

Some of the photos of the camp [0], a blog post about the death of the activists [1]. From what I understand there was a very heavy police presence for the eviction [2]: > In Chemnitz, 560 police officers were used to contain 2500 Neo-Nazis. In HambacherForst, 3500 police officers were used to contain 250 environmentalist [0]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127928013@N04/albums/with/72157663305061198 https://www.flickr.com/photos/127928013@N04/albums/with/7215... [1]: https://hambachforest.org/blog/2018/09/20/press-release-09-20-2018-tragic-death-in-hambach-forest/ https://hambachforest.org/blog/2018/09/20/press-release-09-2... [2]: https://twitter.com/samim/status/1040537458922999808 https://twitter.com/samim/status/1040537458922999808

zuttton 8y ago
The environmentalist are destroying the potential profit of the company that can extract a fossil fuel to make a quick buck. Company profits > Environment, because it is the law. I mean look at this [https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/59315/image.jpg https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/59315/image.j...] beauty. Who's going to stop them?
- kwhitefoot 8y ago
  > look at this [https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/59315/image.j... https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/59315/image.j...] beauty. Bloody hell! That's, well I can't think of any suitably damning words.
rurban 8y ago
In Wackersdorf also 3 people died at the fence. Ten thousands of people protested. But in the end it was pure luck to win against the energy companies - Tchernobyl. There's not enough support from the press against the dirty power lobby. It should make easy headlines for them. Dirty and deadly coal power needs to be phased out anyway according to the worlds climate goals. The dirty industries are still ruling the country, and not the middle class and civil society. It didn't went well in the thirties.

by icc97 8y ago

zuttton 8y ago

The environmentalist are destroying the potential profit of the company that can extract a fossil fuel to make a quick buck. Company profits > Environment, because it is the law. I mean look at this [https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/59315/image.jpg https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/59315/image.j...] beauty. Who's going to stop them?

kwhitefoot 8y ago
> look at this [https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/59315/image.j... https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/59315/image.j...] beauty. Bloody hell! That's, well I can't think of any suitably damning words.

rurban 8y ago

In Wackersdorf also 3 people died at the fence. Ten thousands of people protested. But in the end it was pure luck to win against the energy companies - Tchernobyl. There's not enough support from the press against the dirty power lobby. It should make easy headlines for them. Dirty and deadly coal power needs to be phased out anyway according to the worlds climate goals. The dirty industries are still ruling the country, and not the middle class and civil society. It didn't went well in the thirties.