Reoccupation of the Hambach Forest in Germany

Since April 2012, activists in Ger­many have occu­pied the Ham­bach for­est to pre­vent the expan­sion of Europe’s largest open-cast coal mine. The mine expan­sion project would mean the clearcut­ting of the for­est and the evic­tion of thou­sands of local res­i­dents. On March 27, 2014, the for­est occu­pa­tion was evict­ed by police and today, on April 26, 2014 a new occu­pa­tion arose. There are plat­forms and walk­ways up in the trees and a big demon­stra­tion is tak­ing place close by. After a cou­ple of days of strong repres­sions and the con­stant attempt by the „author­i­ties“ to crim­i­nal­ize the srug­gle the reoc­cu­pa­tion is suc­cess­ful. For more infor­ma­tion and a cur­rent tick­er vis­it our Eng­lish blog (hambachforest.blogsport.de).

A recent inter­view with an activist can be found via the fol­low­ing link

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