There is a beautiful treehouse, specifically designed by and for FLIT people (Frauen, Lesben, Inter- und Trans-Menschen = women, lesbians, inter and trans people). Attentive observers, of course, immediately notice that there is still a stove missing. donations are welcome!
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The Struggle against the Trans Adriatic Pipeline which is scheduled to deliver gas from Trans-Caucasus through Turkey to a Southern Italy has been facing a wave of militarized repression begining this Monday. Massive police actions took place in Solente and the town of Meledugno, where the terminal of the pipeline is scheduled, has been declared a militariewd “Red Zone” and put under lockdown with roadblocks and barricades and activists detained for hours. In response a day of actions in solidarity with the NoTAP! Struggle has been called for today with numerous actions taking place across the world including a disruption of the beginning of Corporate World Climate Summit at COP in Bonn with over 20 activists standing up on chairs and in unison expressing solidarity and calling for no new gas and no new fossil fuels. The disruptors were later kettled at a U-Bahn Station controlled and their banners taken away as well as informed not to post any photos of the cops involved. This is an extension of image control at COP where all are welcomed to engage in climate relate business opportunities and where repression and militarization is not talked about as the Climate Conference Areas are for the first time closed off to the public, preventing dissent, debate and participation……as the Planet burns and countless communities like those in Solente are under constant attack
In Solidarity with all resisting Dirty Energy and Disaster Capitalism!
#NODAPL
Dear people from outside the forest,
The trial on November 21 is getting closer and we are facing an organizational challenge. Of course, as more and more people gather in the forest to defend it, we also have to invest more and more supplies if we should besieged. In addition, we are happy about ready-packed backpacks for spontaneous actions (see below).
See also Donations in kind
Sleeping bag, headlamp, vegan energetic food for 2-3 days (muesli bars, chocolate, dried fruit), first aid bag, rescue blanket, tarpaulin, sleeping pad, two thermoses, heat pack (hand warmer)
Possibly: hammock, pastime material (books, magazines etc.)
Furthermore, sometimes we are looking for someone who can bring with a car about 700 kilos of food from Freiburg im Breisgau to the forest. Please call +49178/1637325). That’s the number of the forest phone, because most things are for the tree houses.
If you can still get some stuff foro us, we would be happy to get them until 11/19.
To all those, who support us with donations and food during this clear-cutting season: Thank you so very much.
By the way, you can give money too:
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| Reference | Winter 2018 |
Or virtuel money to our Bitcoin account:
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Rights of Nature is more than legalistic extension of human “rights”, unto ecosystems and non-human species, its more than granting legal status and personhood to rivers and ecosystem(as was the case with Ganges river in India and a protected area in New Zeland). It is granting full equality and respect for indigenous communities and all their treaties and agreements, it is also a perception of Earth itsel as a living female entity that deserves full protection from exploitation and violence.
Those were the underlying principles behind Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) International Rights of Nature Tribunal in Bonn, taking place in the LVR Landesmuseum on the 7th and 8th of November 2017 attempting to recognize the rights of ecosystems to exist and the duty of humanity to respect the integrity of their life cycles.
For the two days the testimonies and presentation included representatives of indigenous, grass roots and radical resistance groups on the front lines of ecological destruction. Those were:
Amazon Threats
The tribunal is legally non-binding, paradoxically offering a relatively free space from special interest group interference and disinformation at the same time reminding those present the importance of diversity of tactics, local forms of resistance and necessity to support indigenous communities under attack.
In closing the importance of maintaining biodiversity thresholds was discussed, thresholds below which continuing extinction will remove the functionality of the ecosystem as the whole causing its complete collapse as is presently the case with the largest ecosystem on the planet the Earth’s oceans.