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Re:After Five Years of Living in Trees, a Protest Community ... by icc97 on Friday September 21, 2018 @06:28PM (#18043143)
Some of the photos of the camp [0], a blog post about the death of the activists [1]. From what I understand there was a very heavy police presence for the eviction [2]:

> In Chemnitz, 560 police officers were used to contain 2500 Neo-Nazis. In HambacherForst, 3500 police officers were used to contain 250 environmentalist

[0]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/127928013@N04/albums/with/7215...

[1]: https://hambachforest.org/blog/2018/09/20/press-release-09-2...

[2]: https://twitter.com/samim/status/1040537458922999808

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Re:After Five Years of Living in Trees, a Protest Community ... by zuttton on Friday September 21, 2018 @07:28PM (#18043424)
The environmentalist are destroying the potential profit of the company that can extract a fossil fuel to make a quick buck. Company profits > Environment, because it is the law. I mean look at this [https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/59315/image.j...] beauty. Who's going to stop them?
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Re:After Five Years of Living in Trees, a Protest Community ... by kwhitefoot on Saturday September 22, 2018 @02:50AM (#18044857)
> look at this [https://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/59315/image.j...] beauty.

Bloody hell! That's, well I can't think of any suitably damning words.

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Re:After Five Years of Living in Trees, a Protest Community ... by rurban on Sunday September 23, 2018 @06:53PM (#18053775)
In Wackersdorf also 3 people died at the fence. Ten thousands of people protested. But in the end it was pure luck to win against the energy companies - Tchernobyl.

There's not enough support from the press against the dirty power lobby. It should make easy headlines for them. Dirty and deadly coal power needs to be phased out anyway according to the worlds climate goals. The dirty industries are still ruling the country, and not the middle class and civil society. It didn't went well in the thirties.

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