I've spent the past week in the open-pit coal mines of Germany.

All you see here is destruction.

#endegelände
I was following the actions of young activist from @Ende__Gelaende

Here they took over and blocked a "coal bunker".
The green finger was stopped just a few hundred meters before reaching the pit.
3000 activists, 16 action groups resisting against the fossil fuel industry !
400.000 people die from air pollution every year in Europe.

7 of the 10 most polluting coal power plants are here in Germany.
A local elderly explains:

<< Coal company RWE controls the entire region. People here call them "the coal mafia" >>
Laser projection, Neurath.

This single coal power plant emits 30.000.000+ Tons of CO2 each year.
Activists are non violent and use civil disobedience.

They oppose environmental destruction, but also colonialism, racism, gender inequality, social injustice..

#endegelände #endegelaende
Here's how the police responded:

A journalist explains:

<< This is not the local Police: those were brought from a different region, so they don't have to beat their own children. >>
Police brutality to protect the fossil fuel industry.

#DefundThePolice
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