"Lützerath is the latest of dozens of villages that have been evicted, inhabitants dispossessed under old Nazi legislation, to facilitate the expansion of lignite coal mines, the dirtiest and most carbon intensive form of electricity generation. This eviction takes place three years after the eviction of the neighbouring Hambacher Forest in 2018, which lasted over four weeks and led to the death of a young film maker. The eviction was stopped by the courts in October 2018, and later declared illegal.

The fight against coal is not over. It’s 11pm, dozens are people have been hospitalised, one person still unconscious. A medic recounts: “What I experienced today was beyond my imagination. I’ve seen every bone in the human body broken today”.

But thousands of people are still there, blockading and occupying space. Tomorrow, more people will once again make their way to the mining area. Lützerath has shown the ecocidal determination of fossil capital and the state, but it has also been a powerful symbol of resistance. Using a diversity of tactics, people from different backgrounds have come to together to show how their determination to fight back is even greater. People will keep resisting in whatever way they can. Join them."

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Via @earthfirst

https://earthfirstjournal.news/2023/01/15/reportback-from-lutzerath/