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From now on Lützerath is everywhere!


After the eviction of the village Lützerath despite fierce resistance of thousand activists and residents on 16 January 2023, we will continue electronic protests against RWE. The destruction of Lützerath and the burning of the coal is a further step towards aggravating the climate catastrophe and directly threatens people. Every tonne CO2 that is expelled means that even more people will suffer from heat waves, extreme weather, droughts, hunger and spreading diseases. Each additional tonne CO2 continues to destabilize the living conditions of the future. Therefore, the coal under Lützerath must remain in the ground.

Lützerath has created a great cohesion of everyone who fights for climate justice. We declare: Lützerath lives. From now on Lützerath is everywhere!

We expand the action zone around #ZADRheinland to the digital space. There are various ways to participate in the permanent online demonstration. With a Virtual Sitin Tool, you can find out by automatic calling the RWE websites why RWE sticks to dirty brown coal. With an iMacros script, RWE can be bombarded with emails using the contact form. Then we flood the headquarters of RWE with free product catalogs. There are also a few practical tips what everyone can do.

Join the online protest now:
http://odevenz.bravesites.com/
Action ended: 20 April 2023

Join Online Protest to save Lützerath


RWE is planning to extract around 900 million tons of brown coal. According to the German Institute for Economic Research Berlin (DIW), this is around four times as much as would be permitted under the Paris climate agreement. Economics Minister Habeck has announced an earlier phase-out of coal but that it is necessary for the energy giant RWE to mine a further 290 million tons of brown coal until 2030, including the coal under Lützerath. Habeck even sells this scandal as a success, since an agreement was reached to accelerate the coal phase-out from 2038 to 2030. It is certainly a success for RWE, since they can still make a lot of money until then, but by no means for the planet and the residents of the village.

RWE’s coal operations produce 90 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per year, so the energy giant is still the no. 1 polluter in Europe. Nearly 80% of the electricity RWE generates is from non-renewable sources. RWE also plans to ramp up on its fossil gas business, despite the clear need to reduce reliance on gas.

RWE shows persistence in digging up and burning brown coal despite its green PR shift and investment in renewables. RWE’s website continues to promote brown coal as a „valuable raw material“ which „will remain vital in the future, too – as a partner in the energy transition“.

In order to comply with the 1.5 degree limit agreed in the Paris climate protection agreement, only a residual budget of approx. 70 million tons of brown coal may be mined in the Garzweiler opencast mine. Excavating the coal under Lützerath is accelerating the climate crisis, which is already claiming countless lives. Anyone who touches Lützerath is a climate criminal!

Netzdemo Portal will launch an online protest in support of the fight for Lützerath and #ZADRheinland against RWE Power AG on
November 18th, 2022
Join the online protest: http://odevenz.bravesites.com/

Another end of the world is possible

The end of the world. It’s already here. After the coal commission disaster with its shameful concessions for a coal exit in 2038 and the bad deal to protect the Hambacher forest in return for the demolition of the villages at the Garzweiler opencast mine, the fight for the climate against the interests of RWE and an increasingly authoritarian state must be continued all the more resolutely. At the worldwide #FridaysForFuture demonstrations – and in the Hambacher forest.

On March 25, 2019 there was again a massive and very repressive police operation in Hambacher forest. This resulted in a massive attack on the „crow’s nest“ (Krähennest) occupation – against the tree house residents, who legitimately defended themselves against police repression. According to various sources, there are no plans for an immediate further eviction of the tree houses. However, this provocation should manifest the fact that the fight for the Hambacher forest has by no means been won by the climate movement.

The worldwide protests of the young generation who fight for their future every Friday,
initiated by the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, have given hope that another end of the world is possible. School children have begun to stand up for climate justice and for their future. The young generation has understood that their personal future will be impacted by climate change making Earth uninhabitable. They are not ready to accept this. Greta requests that people strike in front of their closest town hall, every Friday. With a sign, take a picture and post it with the hashtags
#FridaysForFuture
#Climatestrike

We from Netzdemo Portal are in solidarity with the striking school children and students. We suggest to extend the strike. Become a part of the Friday For Future movement. From everywhere – in the office, at home, on the train: every Friday join the online protest against RWE. By using ZDEMO ATTAC. You can download ZDEMO ATTAC here. Use ZDEMO every friday. Post it with hastag #Netzdemo.

Online Protest against RWE continues

RWE stop deforestation of Hambach Forest and Leave Coal in the Ground!

Join the Online Protest against RWE from here:

http://odevenz.bravesites.com

The online protest continues until the mass ralley „Save the forest! Stop coal!“ on 6th October 2018 starting at 12 noon at Buir train station, Hambach Forest. The environmental associations BUND, Campact, Greenpeace and NaturFreunde of Germany are calling for the demo to send RWE a clear stop signal before the possible start of deforestation from 15 October 2018. Ende Gelände joins the mass ralley on 6th October with their own action.

Action Update on 4 October 20:00

Until now 50 people have taken part in the Online Demonstration against RWE Power AG, an electronic civil disobedience action!Spread the word and continue the clicking automate – we need to be many!

Here you can see how to allow the pop-up windows in your browser:

Posted at de.indymedia.org:
Online Protest gegen RWE: Stopp Rohdung des Hambacher Forsts
https://de.indymedia.org/node/24854

Online Protest against RWE: Stop Clear-cutting Hambach Forest

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In 2017, the climate justice movement was able to stop the wood clearing of the Hambach Forest for the mining pit for an entire clearing season 2017/2018 (October to March) by protests and legal complaints. It looks like RWE became afraid that the occupation of the forest by climate activists would prevent the wood clearing a second time. At the same time the coal commission started negotiations in Berlin to phase out coal mining and burning in Germany.

RWE and the police have started the clearing in the Hambach Forest since September, 6th. The police continued the eviction of the forest residents and destroyed tree houses of the Hambach Forest occupation. Hundreds of people came to Aktion Unterholz on Sept. 15th and built up the destroyed infrastructure and tree houses. A young journalist, died on Sept. 19th in Hambach Forest. The accident happened in the threatening situation by the intervention of the police in the occupied forest.

RWE remains unpunished for mining coal and destroying the climate. With this action of electronic disobedience we target RWE’s websites and attempt to cause the temporary suspension of their service. RWE is not allowed to disturb the residents inside the Hambi any further. RWE must stop clear-cutting the Hambach Forest immediately and put an end to lignite extraction.

Netzdemo Portal will launch an online protest in support of the Hambach Forest occupation #HambiBleibt, Ende Gelände and UntenLassen – climate justice actions – on the RWE Power AG websites on October 4th, 2018, starting at 8 o’clock in the morning.

Join the online protest: http://odevenz.bravesites.com

Anonymous Germany blocks RWE website

We at Netzdemo mourn the death of the young journalist, who died on 19 September in the Hambach Forest. The accident happened in the threatening situation by
intervention of the police in the occupied forest. The journalist fell from a tree and died during a police operation. After a moratorium lasting several days, the police continue to clear the tree houses in the Hambach Forest.

Hackers paralyzed the website of RWE Power AG on Monday evening, 24 September 2018. The hacker attack happened on the same day that the police resumed clearing of tree houses in Hambach Forest.

A flood of controlled requests has significantly reduced server performance of the RWE company server. Before the attack, a video on YouTube with title Operation RWE switch off was uploaded. It is the first and so far only clip of a Youtube Channel called Anonymous German. „Hello world, hello RWE,“ reads in a computer voice: „If you do not immediately stop clearing the Hambacher Forst, we will attack your servers and shut down your pages, until your company bears any economic damage that you no longer recover from it.“ The Video can be viewed at BILD.de.

Please sign the BUND appeal for saving the Hambach Forest.

Take part in WWF’s Twitter Storm Stop The Madness. #StopptdenWahnsinn

Act before it’s too late

Aktion Unterholz calls for mass actions of civil disobedience

In 2017, the climate justice movement was able to stop the wood clearing of the Hambach forest for the mining pit for an entire clearing season 2017/2018 (October to March) by protests and legal complaints. It looks like RWE became afraid that the occupation of the forest by climate activists would prevent the wood clearing a second time. At the same time the coal commission started negotiations in Berlin to phase out coal mining and burning in Germany.

RWE together with the police started clearing works in the Hambach forest on 6 September. Police raids continued on 13 September and destroyed tree houses of the Hambach forest occupation. Aktion Unterholz (action underwood), supported by climate activists Ende Gelände, called for mass actions of civil disobedience on 15 September. Hundreds of people came for Aktion Underholz and rebuilt the destroyed structures and tree houses. On the same day, 20 activists of the action group „NiederAUSmachen“ started a blockade of the coal fired power plant Niederaussem operated by RWE. On Sunday, 16 September, 1300 people demonstrated with a forest walk for the preservation of the forest.

Only 10% of the Hambach forest remain. The remaining core of the forest still contains the diversity of the original Hambach forest that exists since the end of the ice age 12,000 years ago. The Hambach forest is an irreplaceable piece of nature, habitat of many endangered animals and trees. The preservation of the Hambach forest limits the open pit Hambach and the coal from this open pit plays a central role in the Rhenish lignite mining district. The rescue of the Hambach Wald is at the same time an important step towards phasing out coal and the closure of the entire area.

Every year new temperature records, more extreme weather events such as drought, heavy rain, flood and heat waves. The destruction hits people in the global south the hardest, but here in Europe, the consequences are becoming more and more noticeable. Everybody knows that the coal has to remain in the ground to avoid heating up the climate crisis. Its exploitation destroys the livelihood of nature and humans. The Rhenish lignite mining district is Europe’s largest carbon dioxide (CO2) source, with its three opencast mines and three coal fired power plants. Inhabitants of the region are resettled and agricultural areas are destroyed for the continued expansion of the mines.

Online-Protest at RWE continues

Post bei linksunten.indymedia.org:
Online-Demo: Ende für RWE Strom aus Kohle
https://linksunten.indymedia.org/de/node/217148

Ende Gelände issued an ultimatum to RWE on phasing out coal. RWE has until 23 August 2017 to close its open-cast mines, turn off its power stations and stop coal-based power generation.
To keep the pressure high on RWE, we from Netzdemo Portal will launch a series of online protests against the websites of RWE Power AG.

The first Online Demonstration takes place on 03 July + 04 July.

More information about the online actions for Coal Phase-Out here:

http://odevenz.bravesites.com

STOP deforestation of Hambach Forest and Leave Coal in the Ground!

Action Update on 03 July 21:00

Until now 150 people have taken part in the Online Demonstration against RWE Power AG, an electronic civil disobedience action! See the counter in the lower left corner in the screenshot below:

Here you can see how to allow the pop-up windows in your browser:

Online Protest at RWE for Coal Phase-out

RWE remains unpunished for mining coal and destroying the climate. At the same time, climate activists are being criminalized for minor infringements during legitimate protest in the mining area. RWE must stop clear-cutting the Hambach Forest and put an end to lignite extraction.

Ende Gelände issued an ultimatum to RWE on phasing out coal. RWE has until August 2017 to close its open-cast mines, turn off its power stations and stop coal-based power generation.

Netzdemo Portal will launch an online protest in support of Ende Gelände und UntenLassen climate justice actions on the RWE Power AG websites on July 1st, 2017.

Join the online protest at RWE now!