Germany’s Hambach Forest Occupation Calls for Solidarity and Support

Greet­ings and Salu­ta­tions from the Ham­bach­er For­est Occu­pa­tion!

We are present­ly block­ing the expan­sion of the largest open­cast lig­nite mine in West­ern Europe with tree sits and bar­ri­cades through out the Ham­bach­er For­est. After the last evic­tion on March 27th 2014 we re-occu­pied the for­est, this time, build­ing up two tree sits with mul­ti­ple plat­forms, tree-hous­es, walk ways in between and bar­ri­cades .

At present we are fac­ing reg­u­lar intru­sion of repres­sive law enforce­ment destroy­ing our struc­tures on the ground and have already faced two largescale evic­tions using tac­ti­cal teams cost­ing mil­lions of euros while at the same time, the Ger­man gov­ern­ment, is cut­ting sus­tain­able ener­gy sub­si­dies. Instead choos­ing to com­pen­sate for the shut down of nuclear pow­er plants with sup­port to the extreme­ly pol­lut­ing and eco­log­i­cal­ly cat­a­stroph­ic coal indus­try (in our case RWE pow­er com­pa­ny which is engag­ing in mas­sive green wash­ing PR cam­paigns).

We would like to send you updates and inform you of the upcom­ing Cli­mate Camp and Skill-shares Gath­er­ing (July 26th to August 3rd 2014) hap­pen­ing in our vicin­i­ty which we are also help­ing to orga­nize. We also have a sup­port camp with legal sta­tus at the edge of the for­est func­tion­ing as a de fac­to activist eco vil­lage with a veg­an kitchen, guest
car­a­vans, straw bail struc­tures, gar­dens and many oth­er on-going sus­tain­able projects, to which we would like to invite all of you who may find your­selves in our neck of the woods.

As of recent­ly, we have also built an info-shop/li­brary for which we would like to appeal for any extra lit­er­a­ture that you would be will­ing to share with us. We could cov­er the costs of ship­ment and if pos­si­ble dis­count rates of lit­er­a­ture itself not to men­tion we would be extreme­ly inter­est­ed and grate­full if you would be will­ing to share any back issues or extra lit­er­a­ture. If this is a pos­si­bil­i­ty please also respond with your prefer­able snail-mail address, as we would like to share some of our mate­r­i­al with you as well.

We have a sup­port cen­tre in Duren, which is unfor­tu­nate­ly under­go­ing a bit of tran­si­tion at the moment. For the time being the lit­er­a­ture for our Mead­ow Base Camp info-shop and the Cli­mate Camp could be sent, care of one of our sup­port­ers:

Frau Anni­ka Lind­berg
Rohrbach­str. 37
60389 Frank­furt am Main
Ger­many

If you would be inter­est­ed in updates from the for­est please include your PGP key in the cor­re­spon­dence.

There is a sense of urgency as even though the for­est has been occu­pied for two years now there is a new auto­bahn ready for open­ing in Sep­tem­ber bypass­ing the one sep­a­rat­ing the last rem­nant of the for­est from the mine allow­ing the mine to expand and log­ging and strip min­ing to com­mence on the last rem­nant of the for­est. We expect that to be the time of mass police actions. For that rea­son it is mega impor­tant to both get the word out and keep peo­ple involved, inspired and on track of the impor­tance and the con­text of the strug­gle.