If you feel helpless against the fossil fuel destruction, join us in Lützerath from January 12th.

Thousands of people are joining forces: we will block this machine and defeat the coal mafia.

#LuetziBleibt
Lützerath is under attack.

The coal industry wants to destroy the village of Lützerath: they are trying to evacuate the brave, pacifists activists who are holding grounds to protect our future.

Follow @DanniPilger for live reporting.

The "coal mafia" has arrived.

Annihilation of nature and life has started at @LuetziBleibt

This is not a dystopia.
This is Germany, in 2023.

Today is #TagX

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This is not a dystopian movie.

This is the "coal mafia" destroying our future in #Luetzerath. 🇩🇪

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Thousands of people are joining the Resistance against the destruction of #Luetzerath by a coal company!

#LūtziBleibt

Today in #Lützerath hundreds of people came to oppose the coal mining industry.

The crowd managed to get a bagger to stop.

Thousands more people will join in the coming days ✊

The "agents of coal" are attacking peaceful protectors of the climate.

It is, indeed, a blunt phrasing, but it reflects, according to the locals, how the "coal mafia" has control over the entire region, from politicians to local authorities.

Peaceful protesters are trying to prevent the emissions of 280.000.000 Tons of CO2 in Lützerath.

German authorities respond with torture.

#LuetziBleibt
🎥 @DanniPilger
In 2018, German authorities wasted Millions of euros of public money to evict the forest of Hambach, on behalf of a coal company.

It failed.

The police operation was later ruled illegal in court.

The exact same thing is happening, again, in #Lützerath

<< Coal company RWE controls the entire region, we call them "the coal mafia" >> once told me a local elderly.

The city of Essen has received 17,200,000 euros from RWE, in 2021 alone.

📷 @Ti_Wag Image
The coal industry needs Police brutality, in order to increase their CO2 emissions.

Video: Climate activists are being loaded in a truck provided by the fossil fuel giant RWE.

Violent repression is *required* by the coal industry to keep expanding coal mines.

📹 Climate activists are being loaded in a truck provided by the fossil fuel giant RWE.

The Nazi regime made coal mining "a national priority", back in 1937.

Today, the law from the Third Reich era still allows coal companies to seize land and expropriate people of #Luetzerath.

niederlausitz-aktuell.de/brandenburg/18…

insideclimatenews.org/news/01102013/… ImageImageImage
Anti-corruption laws seem inefficient in Germany:

The city of Essen received 17,200,000 euros from coal company RWE in 2021.

The Mayor @TKufen himself works for RWE.

Believe it or not, this is legal.💰🤯 ImageImage
Greta Thunberg will join the big demonstration this Saturday.

Join us ! ✊

Brave activists are still resisting the police eviction around the clock.

They use monopods, tunnels, ziplines and treehouses to slow down the destruction. ✊💛

The 280,000,000 Tons of coal under #Lutzerath must stay in the ground.

Join us on Saturday for the big action ! ImageImageImage
Join us in #Lützerath tomorrow with @GretaThunberg to protest and oppose coal mining.

The largest coal mine of Europe is only:

40 minutes from Köln
2h from Amsterdam
2h from Brussels
5h from Paris

How far are you ? 👉 goo.gl/maps/kB4gf7HZe…

Live updates from #Lutzerath

These scenes of destruction are not from Ukraine.

This is happening in Germany.
For coal mining.
In 2023.

#Lützerath. ImageImageImage
Approaching #Lützerath
The first protesters approaching #Lutzerath. Image
Later, 35.000 joined the protest to defend #Luetzerathbleibt

You could see people coming, all the way to the horizon. ImageImage
The amount of public money wasted to serve the interests of the coal industry is colossal.
This is how our taxes are spent.

To protect coal mining.

Welcome to 2023.

Spoiler: The mage wins at the end.

👮x🧙‍♂️

This couldn't be more symbolic.

#Luetzerath Image
#Luetzerath photo dump

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#Luetzerath photo dump ImageImage
#Luetzerath photo dump ImageImageImage
Several times, the police attacked the crowd, for no apparent reason.
The police charged randomly, creating panic and fear amongst families.

#Luetzerath
This peaceful protester was assaulted and run over.

#Luetzerathbleibt
Climate protester: "We want a livable planet"

Police: Punches in the face. 👊

#LUETZERATH
280.000.000 Tons of coal
are planned to be extracted
under #Lützerath ImageImage

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