Update from Hambach: Action Day Ticker!

from Hambach Forest

The Hambach is a forest in Germany proposed for lignite (brown coal) strip mining. There is currently a forest occupation underway, as well as an action camp, and action days at the end of every month.

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Today, the new part of the Au­to­bahn, which they built to help fur­ther the ex­pan­si­on of the mine, will be opened with an of­fi­ci­al ce­le­bra­ti­on. Ap­pa­r­ent­ly, the po­li­ce chose the same day to dis­turb our re­sis­tan­ce in the fo­rest and on the mea­dow. They ap­peared as early as 8:00h this morning and are gi­ving us trou­b­le since then. Fol­low us here today, we will re­gu­lar­ly pu­blish new up­dates, ti­cker-​style.

8:00 First ap­pearan­ce of cops in the fo­rest and on the mea­dow, buil­ding up to around 100 cops at 8:30
8:20 Per­son at­ta­cked by po­li­ce for now re­a­son, ex­cept as­king what they want
8:30 Re­mo­val of bar­ri­ca­des on the fo­rest paths, takes them about 2 hours
10:20 Po­li­ce are try­ing to evict beech town (tree oc­cupa­ti­on) de­s­troy­ing ever­y­thing on the ground – clim­bing units are pre­sent
10:30 Po­li­ce are amas­sing at plane han­gar close to mea­dow – we‘re no lon­ger re­acha­ble by car
11.​20 Po­li­ce van by the mea­dow oc­cupa­ti­on
11.​40 Po­li­ce and RWE on way to de­s­troy kit­chen near mea­dow
11.​50 Food packs for the po­li­ce (it locks that they want to work lon­ger)
12.​00 The ope­ning of the high­way A4 starts – 400 peop­le on of­fi­ci­al ope­ning (ho­no­red guests) The de­mons­tra­ti­on against it with 50 peop­le works, but not di­rect­ly by the ope­ning party, 50 po­li­ce are there – traf­fic mi­nis­ter tal­king shit
12.​10 the bar­ri­ca­des to düren are evic­ted and the po­li­ce are blo­cka­ding the way to beech town
12.​28 the po­li­ce start to come on the mea­dow oc­cupa­ti­on, hiding duty num­bers. Po­li­ce­block from Aa­chen: (Li­cen­se Plate NRW-​4-​4623, pic­tu­re of po­li­ce stan­ding on the mea­dow )
12.​50 the of­fi­ci­al ope­ning at the high­way is over.
13.​10 po­li­ce „re­tre­ats“ a bit, lea­ving oa­k­town, a tre­e­hou­se oc­cupa­ti­on, for now.
13:20 Po­li­ce no lon­ger vi­si­ble on the mea­dow
13:25 News from the fo­rest – one har­vester (ma­chi­ne for cut­ting trees) is da­ma­ged (fluids lea­king out)
13:30 Peop­le are doing a sit­ting blo­cka­de in the Fo­rest, on the way to beech town oc­cupa­ti­on
13:40 A small group of peop­le got con­trol­led by Po­li­ce, one per­son ar­rested for lack of I.D.
13:40 Har­vester is dri­ve­able again, but is lea­ving the Fo­rest, pro­tec­ted by RWE and Po­li­ce
15:00 No more po­li­ce or other en­emies in the Fo­rest – one se­cu­ri­ty car was pas­sing through the re­mo­ved bar­ri­ca­des, but left again quite quick­ly. The ti­cker will go on break for now, if there’s any more ac­tion we‘ll be up­dating again.

some pic­tu­res of today: 16.​09.​14