Ende Gelände
Ende Gelände has been organizing mass civil disobedience actions against coal mines in Rhineland, Lusatia and Leipzig since 2015.[3] Big organizations like Fridays For Future, Greenpeace and Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland have expressed solidarity with the movement.In 2020, it has 50 local groups in Germany and nine more throughout Europe (Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic)."[12] In the tradition of peaceful civil disobedience, it defies the law of trespassing by walking into coal mines and ignoring calls to cease issued by authorities."[12] EG sees itself in the tradition of civil disobedience in environmental protests like the first climate camps in the United Kingdom or the anti-nuclear movement in Germany.[15] The far-right AfD regularly decries EG to be extremist and calls for repression by legal means or by the national secret service "Verfassungsschutz".[18] As a reaction most environmental NGO, numbering 97 in total, including 350.org, Friends of the Earth Germany, Oxfam and many local groups of Extinction Rebellion signed a letter of solidarity, rejecting the attempted "criminalization" of EG.[19][20][21] The resulting scandal led to a call for the dissolution of Berlin's Verfassungsschutz supported by the Green and Left party, both presently forming a government in the city with social democrats, who opposed the move.It calls for an immediate end to coal power generation and a social and ecological transition that overcomes "fossil capitalism".[36] EG has participated in or organized various smaller events, like adbusting against the greenwashing of Germany's national railway company,[37] or against Chancellor Merkel's climate politics.
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