Day of Actions in Solidarity with NoTAP! Activists in Italy

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

Southern Gas Corridor

 

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Things we are still urgently searching for

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).

In larger quantities we still need:

  • Chocolate (vegan, and palm fat free)
  • Dried fruit
  • Nuts
  • Applesauce (vegan and palm fat free)
  • Oatmeal
  • Corn (canned)
  • Beans (canned)
  • Lentils
  • Canned instant meals (vegan and palm fat free)
  • Energy bars (vegan and palm fat free)
  • Vegan drinks
  • Juice
  • Gas cartridges
  • Water (5 liter packs)
  • Instant glue
  • Razor blades
  • Toilet paper
  • Tomato sauce
  • Lighter
  • Candles
  • Gas cooker
  • Sunflower oil

See also Donations in kind

Backpack packing list for spontaneous occupations:

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:

IBAN DE29 5139 0000 0092 8818 06
BIC VB­MH­DE5FXXX
Reference Winter 2018

Or virtuel money to our Bitcoin account:

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Call for Support and Solidarity for the Cutting Season and in case of Eviction

This cutting season as one of the large segments of the Hambach is about to be destroyed more people than ever are needed in the forest this winter. It does not matter for how long you can stop by as all force multipliers are welcome: bring warm sleeping bag, tent if possible and warm clothing and rain gear.

In case of the eviction please organize solidarity demos and actions in front of RWE locations and in front of German consulates and embassies. Prepare tools, supplies and materials that could be used to reocupy and if you are closer consider sharing your space for emergency overnight space for those that are evicted and coming out of jail, where soli demos and manwache would be necessary as well.  Large police presence might last for at least days so consider documenting and reportin state violence and doing legal support.

Most of all please remember that being able to save or not to save the Forest is a bullsh*t argument as the purposes of all resistance comprise of:(but is not limited to) Costing those destroying  the Planet  as much as possible; Creating a PR nightmare for them, creating a space where those who share some of the same goals and principles can come together and connecting to and supporting other movement in a larger global web of resistance, in the process aplifying the necessity of resistance.

The struggle in the Hambach Forest during the last 5 years has more than achieved those goals, continues to do so and will do so for a long time  after waves of repression wash over the Forest and many other global justice struggles.

Solidarity is our Weapon, taking care of each other so we can be dangerous together…..

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Hambi Preparation for Conference of Polluters 23, Ende Gelände, Climate Demos and Actions

As the corporate elites fronted by global fossil cartels coopt and monopolize the UN Climate Negotions bringing it into the largest lignite district in Germany this year and into Katowice Poland, the center of Silesian Coal Mining district for the next Climate Summit. It is only radical, direct-action and grass-roots responses that are becoming the last line of defense between present day disaster capitalism with its waves of repression and state-corporate propaganda and an unlivable planet of ecological and social collapse. As people from the frontlines of rising oceans, climate and ecological collapse come to Bonn this year a mobilization and hospitality invitations go out of the Millenarian Hambacher Forest that is shrinking every year under the encroching single largest CO2 emitter RWE’s open cast lignite mine, shrinking but not without resistance. So bring the story of your struggles to the Forest, Camp, Sing and Create another climate justice reality that is not just possible but is alive and well in the Hambacher Forest and has been for last 5 years.

Through-out the Climate-Justice Convergence, that will be the response to COP23, workshops, skillshares, safe spaces and info tables will be organized through out the forest. The food and shelter infrastructure can only acomodate a limited number of activist so if possible bring camping equipment and extra food with you. Be aware that it is possible that attempts will be made to distrupt organizing and actions so if possible try not to camp in large concentrations but see the ancient Hambacher forest by distributing your camp sites.

DELEGATES FROM PERU VISITING HAMBI TODAY

If you have the copacity please bring extra water,check the online wish list and if blocked and not able to make it to the forest document and disseminate the controls and repression info. This year over 20 treehouses of the forest occupation lay in the deforestation zone so contacts, solidarity actions and help reocuppying in the case of repression and evictions would be greatly appreciated.

For The Planet Worth living On!

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