Where: Baumhaus Planning HQ VH 3.OG , ring for ‘Bolden und Wohlert’
When: Thursday 3rd March 19:30-22:00
So we’re all active saving the world in Berlin – but what is happening just outside our city? Lignite coal mining, as it turns out, which is not just starting to pollute our own drinking water, but is also one of the worst things we can do to the climate.
Come join us at the Baumhaus this Thursday March 3rd to learn how to help put a stop to coal in Brandenburg and beyond. Activists from “Ende Gelände” (“Here and No Further”) present their anti-coal coalition and the international action in May.
7:30 Arrival, Meet and Greet
8:00 Presentation by “Ende Gelände”
9:00 Discussion, Ideas and Collaborations
Bring a friend, bring drinks, bring snacks. Bring your belief in the power of collective action and ideas.
::: About Coal in Brandenburg, Lusatia and Germany :::
In Brandenburg, in the lignite mining region Lusatia (an area about 90 minutes southeast of Berlin, located within the states of Saxony and Brandenburg) the coal industry is at a crucial juncture. Vattenfall, a large energy corporation in Germany, seeks to sell their coal mines and power plants in Lusatia to another company instead of shutting them down. But these lignite coal mines are incredibly destructive on both a local and global scale. Not only have over 30,000 residents in Lusatia been forced to relocate to make way for lignite mines, but also every ton of lignite burned produces one ton of Carbon Dioxide, making lignite coal the dirtiest of any other type of fuel. Germany is the world’s biggest lignite producer.
::: About “Ende Gelände 2016” – Here and no further for coal in Lusatia :::
“Ende Gelände” organises the international protests and actions of civil disobiedience that will be held from 13th to 16th of May (pentecoast) in Lusatia – to send a strong signal against coal and to overthrow the sale of the coal mines. At “Ende Gelände 2015”, 1500 people occupied the pit of a lignite coal mine in Rhineland. In order to stop climate change, we have to phase out coal immediately. And we have to do this ourselves. It is this idea that drives the coalition Ende Gelände, working for an anti-coal-movement in Germany.