Arrests and confiscation of a minibus on 08/22

On 8/22 two humans and a dog tried to leave the meadow camp with a van to bring food to the external emergency kitchen (for the time of the evacuation and grubbing of the Hambach Forest). For one of the people around here, this equipped minibus is the only living space he has got. It is also used as a mobile KüFA (Kitchen For All) under the name “Alf Partout”. From the camp on the bus was followed by various police vehicles. Shortly before the petrol station in Buir, the police requested the bus by loudspeaker to stop. This request was fulfilled. Subsequently, the occupants were searched under firearms use and their personal data were checked. (Of course, also threatening with a weapon is a use of it, even if the police prefers more harmless terms.) The bus was inspected from the outside. Under the initial pretext of a general traffic control, four to six police officers aimed their service weapons directly at the faces. Despite the heat, the police temporarily forbade the arrested persons to drink.

Another car was stopped and the occupants threatened with firearms.

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Columbian Post-Colonialist Coal: – RWE #1 Importer

500 years of Resistance in Colombia
Columbian Coal Extractionism: Historical perspective

Inhabited by at least 80 indigenous groups which conquerers attempted to enslave and exterminate, Colombia was subjected to large wave of importation of African slaves, which have rebelled and continued their uprising against colonizers, then land owners and now corporate interests with resistance continuing to this day. Both indigenous and afro-americans do not equate to this day an economic but emotional, and spiritual connection to the land. While the power to this day remains in hands of limited number of rulling families descending from the colonizers. While discrimination and inequality economic and otherwise has led to guerrilla warfare. Together with the struggle grew paramilitary groups compromising private armies protecting landowners and reinforcing the european development perspective, enforced by deeply ingrained racism.

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Concert: Tortenschlacht and Sissi 30.8, 20:00

Tortenschlacht and Sissi in Hambi
August 30th, 2018, 8 pm

Folk Punkish Acoustic Poetry. Bringing the violin and the guitar, new and old songs, we come and visit the forest! Sissi plays some of his beautiful songs, too! Come to listen, sing and dance with us – stay to support the resistance.

Mit Geige und Gitarre, alten und neuen Liedern im Gepaeck kommen wir zu Besuch in den Forst.
Wir backen Melodien und streuen darauf Worte, bitter, salzig, suess und noch so manch andere Sorte. Sissi spielt auch und traellert vorher seine schoenen Lieder. Kommt und lauscht , singt, und tanzt mit uns. Bleibt fuer den Widerstand, auf dass wir uns reiben und in bitterkalten Zeiten ordentlich Waerme erzeugen.

Eure Torte

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