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okay uh we
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glob you can't evct the movement
concern Co extraction liite extraction
in the area of lad is going to continue
this Village is going to
disappear and the struggle for climate
Justice goes
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on
lerat is a village that is going to
be taken off hello hello
yeah cool that you're
here we are a group of
people who have spent time in
lutat and of course this is not the
whole
group we only represent a small part of
the
movement and from that perspective we
would like to tell you a bit about
climate Justice and the struggle for it
in
lutad and we on the stage here we are
nun
Tima C
and I am
Fran and hand
over okay on okay I will
start and the interpreters is going to
repeat the names it is Lua franka Timber
Nuna and
castroa um capitalism capitalism
prioritizes economic growth and profit
over environmental and social
concerns uh on on the screen you'll see
a chart about the anthropos scene the
the the role of humanity in our planet
which is nothing but
it's more plastic more temperature more
climate change more climate
disasters uh lack of human
rights back to capitalism cap capitalism
leads to overc consumption use of fossil
fuels waste of essential resources
destruction of natural habitats
exploration of Flora and
FAA next thank you um despite any un Le
resolutions whether it's um the unfccc
the ipcc or the Kyoto Protocol the Paris
talks Santiago Network you name it
nothing that the UN does has led to any
kind of concern by the state and the
corporation authorities nothing has held
them accountable on the screen you will
see how much megatons of carbon
emissions Germany produces based on the
renewable and non-renewable resources
next
slide yeah uh on the scene to give you a
b bit background about larat the
underneath larat there was the worst
type of coal that you can burn worst
type of fossil fuel that can be burned
and Germany prefers to burn that over uh
let's say it's transitioning to more
renewable sources of
energy next
slide this is the amount of coal that
was burned just in Germany sorry the
slide is in German uh just in Germany uh
Brown coal which is l night 131 million
tons next
SL this is probably everybody's Newsfeed
right now this is what's happening all
over the world whether it's thousands
strapped at Burning Man I'm sure
everybody laughed about that whether
it's the billionaires who got submerged
in a submarine whether it's EOP whether
it's the particular particle matters
whether it's the genocide happening with
the chapas or the others that others
will mention later on in the slides next
slide uh the these are some of the
successful International movements
against coal mining right up the top
you'll see turkey where the NG's
investment ironically inj was the
highest in had the highest investment in
cop 21 cop being the conference of
parties that the UN does every year it's
nothing but a sham I'm sure everybody
has heard about that followed by team 29
which is a human rights uh NGO based in
Russia Greece client Earth they had
beautiful successes everywhere besides
of Germany which likes to to say that
they are the best in human rights France
they're supposed to be the highest in
human rights but that doesn't get to be
seen when it comes to actual rights
Justice
systems uh yeah there are other examples
and on the bottom you will find sources
which are of course if you are a
computer if you're if you if you're a
computer geek if you can do data
analysis they're always looking for
people who can get into this next slide
these are just some examples of um uh
Forest occupations in Germany I won't
read them all out to you but there out
of all the forest occupation the last 2
years there actually this 3 years 3 and
a half years there's only been a few uh
successful litigation cases the one
being the Hoten do in Gan uh which won a
quot case in 2018 and then the Haka
Forest which after getting evicted had
to take the government the state
authorities to court and be like no what
you did was
illegal next slide uh just to finish up
uh what but I had to say phasing out
fossil fuels is not only a technical
issue and a climate necessity it also
requires a cultural rethink whether it's
dman fion singing the stiger lead coal
miner song or whether it's uh holding
the Germans with the card Fe card fetish
accountable thank
you uh
okay
um so I plan to continue in English
actually but I'm not sure yeah I will
just continue in
English but I can also still okay
um so I will talk
about the um like how L started a bit
and how it came to to be what it was and
what it is still at some at another
places
um it um in the summer of
2020 the awe wanted to expand the coal
mine
GSA and um started to destroy a Road
between literat and
kinberg and after this there was a lot
of demonstration around um this
destruction of the
road and um on the
left side you see like the manak the
vigil lerat just a few days after it
started um
because there were demonstrations after
the street was demolished and then
people just sat there and said okay we
want to we will just sit here and
demonstrate against this and they never
stopped or never stopped by themselves
they were stopped at some point um the
the other picture it's uh yeah just
later 2020 um and
uh yeah next
SL and um also in Germany there's a
cutting season um always from October to
February so in this cutting season there
trees can be cut down and forests can be
cut
down and on the first picture you can
see
um yeah trees cut down inat and
um we
anticipated the cuttings um they started
in
November and on in in the beginning we
were not enough people
uh and uh after some time we locked down
literat with like The Hammocks and
traverses over these and
barricades at every entrance to the
Village SL
um but then in the new year year of
2021
um these in the middle you can see some
houses inside of fence and you can see
them being demolished U at the
bottom so we tried to to stop these
demolitions um by sitting on the roofs
of the houses and also like um
stopping these tanker trucks that um
provided the fuel for the diggers and
also if you look really carefully you
can see a person on the blue Digger
there uh one person managed to climb
over the fences and get on on
top um and there's one slide missing
from paa s actually so ah there it is um
so
after after these destructions in uh
January of 2021 there were a lot of
um like music festivals cultural stuff U
mobilization to get more people to
literat and
um when in October the cutting season
started again um the zat reinland the
zone to defend was proclaimed and in
November there were another festival and
some anander
actions and
um uh more we started to occupy occupy
more houses in lerat so the house of the
unknown and the um for sea were occupied
to other houses um not the power um but
in January on the 8th of January 2022
the POA was
occupied um and if few days a few days
later um the whole of literat all of
literat was awe and security free or
secq free so it was all ours we freed
every house that was still
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there um yeah and this is a map of of um
the tar gser of of the open pit
mine um and you can see actually it was
planned a lot bigger like um also
these uh villages to the left were
planned to be demolished um but later
this full
line was a small reduction and then this
um pointed line is how it is is now so
lutad and imarat are gone um but Holzer
and K bear kukum are and the
other
W now about the structures in lerat ear
there was lots of power infrastructure
that was benefited because we had houses
and they had power
um rather the power was changed so it
couldn't be turned off in the
houses exactly so we had a lot
of power for a lot of time but also we
had solar infrastructure
especially which could be used when
ourwe cut off our power which was in
December of
2022 when they just um took the power
cord to lerat out of the ground so there
was a kind of replacement structure of
power mod solar power modules and
batteries which were charged on the
outside and brought back
in that for example um mobile phones
were charged um
and Wi-Fi and communication media on the
left side you can see one of our old
trees where the First treehouse was
constructed one of our first treeh
houses and at the very top there was a
Wi-Fi
router that Wi-Fi router had to be
destroyed in the end and the SIM
card uh was burned and the router itself
was dumped into
um was
uh what's also funny is that we could
use the street lights actually
theoretically they shouldn't be turned
on then but uh people with electrical
abilities were able to put in switches
to turn them on and off because we
wanted to turn them off when people were
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sleeping also we were able to use water
there was a water supply that houses
were
supplied and there was hot water in
places at one part of the PO farm so
that was a kind of comfortable
occupation I should
say and sometimes we could actually
reactivate water uh lines water pipes
that had been
cut some in some places that they had
dug into the ground to disconnect the
pipe
and people from lad then just went back
down there and reconnected them it
didn't work one in one instance uh and
one person actually had to dive into the
mud pool that was
created uh a few structures that were
built at the time and that could be used
lad uh in general was a lot of shared
use you see uh the village of Huts that
we put up
a row of tree
houses next to a road and you see the
paror farm uh at the bottom center and
to the right you see a self-built circus
tent and there was an actual one as
well so there were lots of shared spaces
and much more and there's a monument at
the top left we built a large Tower as
well which maybe had four floors on it
four
stories and you could spend time there
sadly the tower was only finished about
three times before the site was cleared
and it was back on the ground quite
quickly but it was in use for quite a
while and uh plenaries were held in
there under this tpine that you see now
sleeping
Arrangements sleeping opportunities were
shared so you had this info space and
see where there was a space so guests or
people that had just arrived could find
a place to sleep this way they would
take a card they wouldn't and uh then go
to that place but of course there were
also rooms where people were living on a
more permanent
basis
right
hi I'm a bit
nervous
on the
left you have an image a program of
talks and workshops on the other
side you have things like toilets meal
times um things that we had to get
organized
together and you could actually enter
your names for shifts we had certain
monuments
um
to people that were murdered by shell in
the
1960s various groups all over the
world that we
remembered
kchen so there was a kitchen for
everyone and
um and this was the best occupation
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really um
so we had our
unemployment
office there were tasks that
people didn't want to do or couldn't do
because of lack of
skills so we had this pin board where
tasks were
redistributed people with capacity would
come and and and pick a to
on the
right the way that uh the space was
divided okay thank you so you had these
various quarters or what I don't know
barrial
perhaps neighborhoods
whatever I'm so
nervous
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okay
keep
yeah um yeah now the the
so the Carr work we already talked about
things that always need to be
done so that we can exist in this area
for example the
toilets
were uh toilets where we separated the
fluids from the other things using two
containers uh that way it wouldn't smell
that
bad and we also had the problem that we
had canisters and they were full quite
quickly and sometimes they even spill
over so then we actually built
a a pissing hole which was connected
directly to
the um okay canals so nobody had to
empty
anything on the left side you see the
bike repair
shop we had communal bikes that you
could use to go to the train
station sometimes they were damaged
while they were parked the train station
so we had to take them back and repair
them
here
and we also had a workshop where you
could be an inventor and uh create
things and when we asked for Tool
donations we were literally overrun with
offers for
donations we also had three Halls one of
which we turned into a nightclub
one of them into a skate ring skate
rink and yeah so this was definitely a
nice way to spend evenings of free
time this is the second Hall the wooden
one and there we had a
communal eating
space and on the left side Art
Collective had exhibitions and we
celebrated in that space a lot in the
evenings and we also created a
playground for us where we had lots of
fun I mean it it might not look like it
but we had a lot of
fun like
climbing the roofs
building um connections between the
trees
okay I'll tell you some things about the
defense structure and how we handled
Security on the left side you see the
action
point where we coordinated actions and
night shifts and everything that was
relevant for our
defense and the entire time um we were
in litz we had night shifts and we had a
socalled knitting shift that was
coordinating everyone and then we had
two other
shifts the bus stop shift where people
also spent the
night and then one shift in the communal
space in the Town
Center that way we could make sure that
for example drunk people from
nearby Villages uh came over we could
stop them or fascists also sometimes
came and we
could uh scare them away
and we also had an alarm system so there
was a small alarm using walkie-talkies
and there was also the large uh alarm
which would actually trigger Sirens
across the entire Village and it would
wake up everyone and this actually was
used when
the cops came into
LZ and we wanted to make it as difficult
and as expensive as possible possible to
get rid of us and ideally even stop it
and we had various structures for this
for example these traversing lines
between the trees which we set up but
also between houses and
trees and these are really cool because
if as long as one person is in one of
these
connections um the trees cannot be cut
down so essentially we're using our life
as a protection for the
forest and if you're above a certain
height um normal cops can go to us
because of legal reasons so they needed
special trained cops which are not as
common and had to specifically be
requested
and since we were also able to move from
structure to structure with these
connections we could make it even more
difficult but they weren't only houses
that we could
connect um but we also built our own
structures which we added to this
network so-call mono uh pods or tripods
which are one or two or
three um pieces of wood um that we
connect
together um and a person will be on top
and the people are actually held in
place by a rope which are used
for um connecting the structure so they
couldn't cut these ropes otherwise
humans would fall
down and monopods for example were
especially difficult um for the police
to uh get us out of because they would
need special Hardware equipment to uh
get up there and uh take us out of the
structure similarly tripods work um it's
just that it's three logs connected to
each other and on the right there is a
so-called hyper pod so it's a tripod and
two monopods
connected together which was
particularly
high and in the end it was only
successfully uh cleared by the police
because they convinced the person on top
that it wouldn't be safe for them
anymore due to wins and now we come
to the next part of our
structures another very effective
structure was a tunnel here with a deck
telephone the tunnel was died secretly
below the little Forest so called and
during the clearing a video was
published of the people in these
um people in these caves so it was said
that um the was very unstable because um
and that would cause people to be
injured in case of a clearing so the
clearing was stopped and well actually
it um moved the clearing by 7
days because of security
concerns and also there the Cs didn't
have any idea of how to clear it so in
the end they had some special experts
organized um which were
trained to convince
activists with um to get out of the
tunnel and of course people didn't have
lots of Jo is sitting in the tunnel
after a week but still the cops didn't
have any idea of how to clear
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us
but activists have also tried to be in
solidarity with climate Justice fights
on the whole world because the climate
crisis
is a consequence of capitalism
colonialism and Century long um
exploitation and we tried to stand with
lots of different powers together for
example with the
sstas with the Uka in columia
but also with lots of other
International activists especially out
of the global
South which also
visited like
pabloz who visited in 2021 for the first
time and multiple consecutive times from
the Uka and who always supported and
solidarity and we can say that
especially now because
but in
colia um in the Border region of
Venezuela and columia which are also
dangered by um Stone call by by an Ex
side which is 16 times as large as in
God and lot people die
there and it's one of the most dangerous
places for activists in the world one
papa for
example also had to um Tred Mur attacks
which she
survived that was the cult which we
tried to live in
lat now Pablo lives in Paris in
Exile we didn't want to let you leave
without ways of
acting still lives and continue and
multitude of fights for example we ride
together maybe you can
join and also as a climate Movement we
wanted to connect more with the refugee
movement and there are people of lat
also there and when we continue like
that uh we might
have uh the alternative for Germany and
power
and the left might be
left uh might not be left to um contct
that and we wanted to give you these
ways of action and now you can ask us
questions if you're
interested
oh yeah yeah we saw a
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we hope that the non-german speakers
were able to get the content from the
subtitles and uh maybe that the chance
to hear the original audio was uh
another way of experiencing this way
video onto the
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Q&A well just briefly this video
uh there's a lot of police violence that
is in the video this can be of course uh
not easy to Bear you can talk to people
about this we encourage you to do that
don't just take bear this yourselves if
this is a burden on
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you at quter 9 we'll have an extended
Q&A for people that have more questions
but I think we have few minutes left
here
now
right
so people in the Hall you can queue up
behind the microphones and we have
signal angels and there is a question
from the internet via the signal Angel
and that's what we will start
with so from the internet we have the
comment that it was so nice to be in
luty lerat and that is linked to the
question how you supplied provided for
the activists on the traverses and
and well all the people that were in the
action had some some water and some
basic food and sleeping bags and we had
a lot of food actually
available so the people that were up
there um were able to be supplied and
there were some people on the
ground uh who were parliamentary
observers for example um and they were
able to bring food to these
people they have a question from the
hall hi thank you for giving this talk
my question is how bad was the weather
the wind the rain for the tree houses
and the structures was it a lot of
repairs that you had to do um did you
have to evacuate any
buildings
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in the first autumn and winter in 2020
there was a strong storm
and we had only held vigil before that
and
uh we didn't feel safe we thought people
they thought trees might fall down on
people and so we
asked there was this uh there was this
empty house which then later turned into
the Villa with the workshop and
everything and EAD said okay you can
spend this one night this stormy night
in the Villa but please look after my w
my my
cupboards my cabins and then we said
well we have such a lot to repair
couldn't we stay on for a second
night and uh of course it was almost
Winter by then and we were then allowed
to spend the whole winter there as
well and I would like to add
that we were looking at the weather
reports forecasts and we soon as winds
were above a certain strength we would
actually move to the occupied houses
people were making space for more people
to be in the houses so that people
didn't have to sleep in the tree houses
in those nights and we of course chose
more sturdy stable trees for that and uh
there was pop popular trees that uh we
chose not to equip with tree houses we
had a question from the microphone
to I would like to ask how you
managed especially at the
beginning when activism was fairly new
how you organized yourselves is there a
documentation about the
findings that you
made so that in 2020
21 well thank you for your activism and
for the
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talk well in the beginning was a lot of
network that we did with locals that
were still
there and those in the surrounding
Villages and on site then we had daily
plenaries where responsibilities were
shared and assigned and
uh then one person was responsive for
responsible for one week say for the uh
clearing the waste or emptying litter
bins or cleaning toilets and
stuff just it doesn't mean that they had
to do that all that themselves but they
had to make sure that it had it was done
and we could say that lerat of course
wasn't the first large occupation that
was done many people were involved that
had already been at hamba fost and other
places
and
that had been networking with the places
around and the people that were still
living there it wasn't a complete
novelty completely Uncharted Territory
but to build a community that likes to
stay for a long time that is quite a
different
issue and uh I think that would go
beyond what we can say and of course I I
guess we would give very different
answers to that as well we have a
question from the
internet B
assembly the internet asks
if there should have been
more tunnels
tunnels no
com we have some more time for the
question for microphone
3 thank you very very much for
everything you did I've find it
so it's so
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important for me a big question was do I
have hope or do I
not always somewhere in
between hoping that the people will come
around or sometimes I'm afraid they
won't and I'm wondering where are you
getting your strength from from the hope
that change will come from the people
or uh from the fatalism well it's
probably different for everyone I can
only speak for
myself we from lat lives
we regularly meet and we bring together
our struggles that we aren't fighting
together anymore
and knowing that in the global
the humans
are struggling much more fighting even
harder and they're hit by classism
and somehow we all think that
we're on the left but we still don't
come together and something that we
learned in lat was actually bringing our
struggles
together
and that's also what I wish for us that
everyone
who who would say they feel like they're
on the left to come together and fight
for one
struggle I find this question so
interesting and I wish there was an easy
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answer cannot stop we we can't allow
ourselves
stop and we can detach ourselves
from the Injustice that we
create through the Privileges we have in
this
country and what I learned to was that
Community can give you so much strength
and humans people you can really trust
where you feel the
togetherness that really gives me a lot
of
strength
still a struggle and cost energy to keep
these communities
alive but in the end I think it's really
beautiful and it's really worth
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it
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the