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> "It's heavy to see how your home just gets destroyed," says Omo. "The treehouse that you built and where you lived and where you spent so much time. And then
by golergka 7y ago
> "It's heavy to see how your home just gets destroyed," says Omo. "The treehouse that you built and where you lived and where you spent so much time. And then you see hundreds and hundreds of cops running through your home. It's a heavy thing to see."
I'm astonished by this hypocrisy. Not only have they squatted on someone else's property, they did it not just to live in a forest, they did it as activists: with the exact purpose of creating the image of police brutality to create public backlash and affect the parties involved.
Even if their cause was completely just and good (which is a different conversation that I'm not prepared to have), they're getting at it by manipulating the media and purposefully creating the coverage they planned. This exact destruction was the main purpose of them building these houses, in this spot, to begin with.
- perfunctory 7y agoJust curious, what would be your preferred method to attract media attention or fight climate crisis in general?
- blablabla123 7y agoActually squatting is legal within its limit. One might also bring the counterargument that RWE legally squatted other people's properties and evicted them - while creating immense cost for the tax payers. [1] Not everybody was so comfortable with moving away. 'The old Immerath is ... demolished for the Garzweiler II opencast mine. Since 2006, the former residents have been partially relocated to the newly formed village. ... "When I was at the construction site, everything was in ruins. That was a shock. A man from outside approached me and said why we gave up the village without a fight. We resisted for years. People should not think wrong. "' [2] [1] https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Frp-online.de%2Fwirtschaft%2Frwe-und-vattenfall-braunkohle-kostet-15-milliarden_aid-19710147 https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u... [2] https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Ftaz.de%2FDorf-Umsiedlung-fuer-Braunkohletagebau%2F%215494693%2F https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...
- adrianN 7y agoI think the main purpose of building those houses was making it impossible to fell the trees around them.