Barricades Cleared and Trees Cut today.


Announcement was made in the morning that trees north east of the old entry to the motorway would be cut. The police entered the forest with heavy machinery at around 12pm, starting to clear barricades.
This is the 25th time that barricades have been cleared and rebuild in the Hambacher Forest.

Ticker of Days events

9:29 A helicopter circles over the area.
12:23 Heavy machines drive from Deathtrap into the forest accompanied by large number of Police.
12:28 Police arrived at Jesuspoint
13:08 Cutting takes place north-east of the Security bridge. Crowns of trees are crushed, ramparts are piled up. Possibly also clearance of WWII unexploded munitions.
13: 28 Barricades are now being cleared south of Jesus’ point, on the road leading to the road connecting Buir and Morschenich.
14:03 The way between meadow and jesus point is reported to be cop free now.
14:27 RWE have started the cutting of the trees north east of the secu-bridge now. A chopper flew over the forest, left 10 minutes later.
15:05 Police left the forest west of the secu road.

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BURE IN SOLIDARITY WITH HAMBI READY FOR MASS ACTION 18.2.17

It has been over a year since on August 14,2016 the concrete walls of planned underground radiation storage facility CIGEO (runned by state-funded nuclear company Andra) have been breached and destroyed. Since then a hotbed of ecological antinuclear resistance has blossomed with the defended the Lejuc Forest filling with treehouses and many lines of barricade defenses with live in structures, with La maison de Resistance(The House of Resistance) functioning in the comune of Bure as a resource center housing hundreds of activists and functioning as a defacto cultural center of the movement.

The support and solidarity between the antinuclear and anticoal movement is a strong element of our struggle.

Especially, on the 18th February when a big mobilization against the CIGEO project will be held. It will include demonstration and actions in the direction of the Lejuc Wood, concerts in the evening, and call to an artistic insurrection calling Artists from all horizons, musicians of all kinds, come and make the liberated forest vibrate. Graffiti artists, acrobats, builders, theater people, puppeteers, fire breathers, dancers, pirate artists, painters or sculptors, and more, you are all invited to Bure to let your imagination run wild. Form is free, you can come few days before, with already prepared projects or to organize during the demonstration, performances in the trees, on the ground, in the air…

http://en.vmc.camp/

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Compost Toilet Eviction Trial 14.03.2017 10:30

Toiletteviction

Düren District Court has now set the trial date for the hearing concerning the actions that took place during the Compost Toilet Eviction over 2 years ago. The date of the process will be the 14th of March in Düren.

Background: During the Skill Sharing Camp of 2014 over 50 riot cops and several pieces of equipment from RWE entered the forest to clear barricades and remove the compost toilets. This action was blocked for many hours by activists locking themselves to the bulldozers, frontloaders and by climbing into the trees in front of advancing equipment.

This trial is reflection of the current trend in the Rhineland of pressing charges against activist who lock themselves to, or block the heavy equipment. It is an attempt to prevent them from engaging in future actions. For this reason lets not forget about those who are being prosecuted and express our solidarity in person and remotely.

Personal Controls have been announced for this trial, meaning that all persons and belonging will be searched and personal information taken in order to enter the courtroom. For those not willing to comply with this there will be the usual outside the courthouse support action with banners, food and info.

14.03.2017, 10:30
Amtsgericht Düren
1.Etage, boardroom 1.25
August-Klotz-Straße 14
52349 Düren

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