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Ende Gelände 2017 was a large
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movement in Germany to
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s from several countries blocked two German
open-pit Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique of extracting rock (geology), rock or minerals from the earth from an open-air pit, sometimes known as a Borrow pit, b ...
coal mine Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...
s: * From 24 to 29 August 2017, about persons blocked a mine owned by
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in the
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coalfields.Molly Flening
"Thousands of climate activists face police brutality in Germany"
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'', 31 August 2017 (page visited on 12 January 2018). * On 5 November 2017 (for the
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), around persons blocked the Hambach lignite mine.Jonathan Watts
"Germany's dirty coalmines become the focus for a new wave of direct action"
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'', 8 November 2017 (page visited on 12 January 2018).


Context

On 15 August 2015, in the first year of Ende Gelände, activists blocked the
Garzweiler surface mine The Tagebau Garzweiler is a surface mine (german: Tagebau) in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is operated by RWE and used for mining lignite. The mine currently has a size of 48 km² and got its name from the village of whi ...
owned by
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(Ende Gelände 2015).Ende Gelände 2015
350.org (page visited in 28 September 2016). On 13 to 15 May 2016, with Ende Gelände 2016, activists blocked the Welzow-Süd
open-pit Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique of extracting rock (geology), rock or minerals from the earth from an open-air pit, sometimes known as a Borrow pit, b ...
coal mine Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...
and the coal-fired
Schwarze Pumpe power station Schwarze Pumpe power station (german: Kraftwerk Schwarze Pumpe translated: ''Black Pump Power Station'') is a modern lignite (brown coal)–fired power station in the "Schwarze Pumpe" (Black Pump) district in Spremberg, Germany consisting of 2& ...
, then owned by
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).Mass action blocking German lignite mining finishes after 48 hours
press release of Ende Gelände, 15 May 2016 (page visited in 28 September 2016).


Gallery

File:Eg17 1.jpg, First action in August 2017 File:Ende Gelände November 2017 - Front banner of demonstration.jpg, Banner with the message: "System change not climate change" File:Ende Gelände November 2017 - Police in front of a bucket-wheel excavator.jpg, Policemen in front on the giant coal excavator File:Ende Gelände November 2017 - Activists at brim.jpg, Demonstrators in the mine


See also

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Climate disobedience Individual action on climate change can include personal choices in many areas, such as diet, travel, household energy use, consumption of goods and services, and family size. Individuals can also engage in local and political advocacy around issu ...
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Climate justice Climate justice is a concept that addresses the just division, fair sharing, and equitable distribution of the burdens of climate change and its mitigation and responsibilities to deal with climate change. "Justice", "fairness", and "equity" ar ...
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Energy transition The energy transition is the process of downshifting fossil fuels and re-developing whole systems to operate on low carbon energy sources. More generally, an energy transition is a significant structural change in an energy system regarding ...
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Ende Gelände (EG) (German saying for "here and no further"; literally "end terrain" or "end of terrain") is a civil disobedience movement occupying coal mines in Germany to raise awareness for climate justice. Ende Gelände has been organizing mass civil d ...
* Ende Gelände 2016 * Ende Gelände 2018 *
Fossil fuel divestment Fossil fuel divestment or fossil fuel divestment and investment in climate solutions is an attempt to reduce climate change by exerting social, political, and economic pressure for the institutional divestment of assets including stocks, bonds ...
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Hambach Forest Hambach Forest (german: Hambacher Wald, Hambacher Forst (), Bürgewald, Die Bürge) is an ancient forest located near in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany, between Cologne and Aachen. It was planned to be cleared as part of the Hambach s ...


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