Ende Gelände sets up protest camp in Stepprath for 4,000 activists after the first camp was evicted last night. Public action training on Friday, October 26, 11.30am.

Originally published by Ende Gelaende.

Stepprath, 25 October 2018. The climate justice alliance Ende Gelände has started to build a protest camp in Stepprath, Stockheimer Landstrasse 171 in the Rhineland, Germany. Several thousand activists are expected to arrive today and tomorrow for what might become the biggest action of civil disobedience against coal the Rhineland has ever seen. The camp offers space for around 4,000 people and is located on private ground.

+++ BREAKING: Good news! #endegelaende has a new camp site. Camp construction has begun in Stepprath, Stockheimer Landstraße 171, Neuer Hof. We are able to host 4000 people. Together we can start from here to block #RWE infrastructure and #EndCoal! +++ pic.twitter.com/zcaVFUoswn

— Ende Gelände (@Ende__Gelaende) 25. Oktober 2018

“We have negotiated for weeks to find a suitable place for our camp . The police protects RWE so they can continue destroying land and our climate, and at the same time they out obstacles in the way of our legitimate protest for climate justice. We are now building up a camp to offer activists a safe starting point for the Ende Gelände action”, says Karoline Drzewo, spokesperson of Ende Gelände.

A camp which Ende Gelände had constructed yesterday on a former sports ground in Manheim was cleared last night by the police and RWE employees. The police confiscated a big circus tent and other large tents. Meanwhile, RWE started digging trenches across all flat surfaces in Manheim to prevent activists from pitching their tents. Manheim is a small village near Cologne which is scheduled to be demolished for the extension of the open-cast coal mine.

“This evacuation in the middle of the night is a massive escalation on behalf of the police. RWE’s attempt to destroys entire Manheim in an absurd undertaking. We, in contrast, are building a beautiful and meaningful place – a place for climate justice”, states Karolina Drzewo.

00:13am #Livestream by @HambiBleibt from ongoing eviction of @Ende__Gelaende protest camp in #Manheim near #HambacherForst #HambiBleibt #EndeGelaende #climatejustice #EndCoal #antireport https://t.co/qGLi0bTIEx

— Enough is Enough! (@enough14) 24. Oktober 2018

Ende Gelände will block coal infrastructure around the open-pit mine Hambach, Rhineland, to protest for global climate justice and the immediate coal phase-out. On Friday, 26 October at 11.30am we offer you a public action training at the camp in Stepprath, where you can take pictures and film. Afterwards, at 12.15 pm, we invite you to an action briefing which is especially important for those journalists who accompany activists into the action.

+++ This is how you get to the #endegelaende-Camp:

By train:

+ take a train to Düren
+ change to SB 98 direction Euskirchen
+ get off in: Düren-Schneiders

Or walk from Düren (approx. 1.5 hours) +++ pic.twitter.com/694tgwWjBy

— Ende Gelände (@Ende__Gelaende) 25. Oktober 2018

Source: https://enoughisenough14.org/2018/10/25/hambacherforest-endegelaende-sets-up-protest-camp-in-stepprath-for-4000-activists-after-cops-evicted-camp-in-manheim-last-night/