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Ende Gelände 2017
Civil disobedience action in Germany From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ende Gelände 2017 was a large civil disobedience protest movement in Germany to limit global warming through fossil fuel phase-out.[1][2]
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3000-6000 environmental activists from several countries blocked two German open-pit coal mines:
- From 24 to 29 August 2017, about 6000 persons blocked a mine owned by RWE in the Rhineland coalfields.[3][1]
- On 5 November 2017 (for the 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference), around 3000 persons blocked the Hambach lignite mine.[4][2]
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On 15 August 2015, in the first year of Ende Gelände, 1500 activists blocked the Garzweiler surface mine owned by RWE (Ende Gelände 2015).[5][6]
On 13 to 15 May 2016, with Ende Gelände 2016, 4000 activists blocked the Welzow-Süd open-pit coal mine and the coal-fired Schwarze Pumpe power station, then owned by Vattenfall (Spremberg).[7]
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- First action in August 2017
- Banner with the message: "System change not climate change"
- Policemen in front on the giant coal excavator
- Demonstrators in the mine
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