Video: cold sit-in-night on the castorrailway

Schienenblockade Widersetzen

Harlingen, Wendland.
The controversy about the extending the times nuclear plants are allowed to run has been taken to the tracks. More and more activists reach the railway tracks the transport has to pass. As we go along a couple of thousand people sit on the tracks blocking the way to Dannenberg. With blankets, warm soup and music they prepare for a long night.

 

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Narrator: Harlingen, Wendland.
The controversy about the extending the times nuclear plants are allowed to run has been taken to the tracks. More and more activists reach the railway tracks the transport has to pass. As we go along a couple of thousand people sit on the tracks blocking the way to Dannenberg. With blankets, warm soup and music they prepare for a long night.

Activist I: We are here near Hitzacker with 5.000 people on the tracks and the police is clueless about how to remove us with sensible means because this is a peaceful sit-in. Especially since their lines of supply are cut off by tractors. The mood is great. Just great. We were here with Widersetzen two years ago, with 400 people and today we are 5.000 or so. I don't know. It's awesome. We started at Camp Hitzacker this morning with 1.000 people  and still more arriving at the scene later.

activist II: Packed everything we needed: warm clothes, chocolate, rainwear and we brought along good friends.

activist III: I think it's great how the local people supply us: with blankets, warm clothing, food and warm soup and everything. It's amazing. And the farmers are impressively well organised with the tractors. They succeed in stopping the police and install roadblocks everywhere. Awesome.

activist IV: We - the Bäuerliche Notgemeinschaft (local farmers solidarity) - started this morning or at noon in little groups to block the roundabouts and to disturb the supplies of the police. We as farmers live here, harvest our fruits. In case something happens with the Castor we can not leave. Everybody can move, but we can't take our soil with us.

activist V: I'm here as a pastor. We are about 50 in different teams. The Castor is now in Dahlenburg protected by barbwire and can not, and will not continue today. So they don't plan to remove us soon. And the sit-in is not removable as far as I can see. Unless with many wounded. And that can not be it.

Cops: Your blockade is not legal. You are asked to leave the entire area of the tracks.

choir: SHUT DOWN! SHUT DOWN! SHUT DOWN! ...

Cop: Do you leave voluntarily?

Narrator: Although the police is reaching their limits the operational command decides to remove the blockade during the night. Activists were carried away until dawn and kept under arrest in outside. Rarely before so many people had been able to stop the Castor on the tracks for such a long time.

Cop: Get up! That's your alternative. Get up! Ok, than throw him into the bushes, until he has enough.