Hambach Forest

Hambach forest is an old growth forest in the west of germany. Everything what has evolved here over thousands of years is now being destroyed to make space for a continually expanding lignite coal mine. For decades people have been resisting this profit driven destruction and for five years the forest is occupied with treehouses.

Climate change

There are three coal pits and five powerplants in the rhineland. Together they produce one third of the german carbon dioxide emission. These greenhouse gases change the climate worldwide, lead to more weather extremes and the destruction of habitats of humans and other animals. The humans who suffer first from global warming are not those, who are causing the harm, but those in the global south.

Together we can stop the destruction!

The future of our planet is in our hands. It is time, that we come together for a sustainable and just world beyond the deadly logic of capitalism. Together we can save the forest and the climate and create a world, in which no living being is exploited.

endangered

The unique oak and hornbeam forest grew over the last 12.000 years – and it being destroyed for nearly 40 years now. 550 meters below it are lignite deposits and if everything goes according to schedule the remaing forest will be gone in the next three years...

occupied

Not only is the forest being destroyed, thousands of people are displaced, their villages razed. The carbon dioxide emission are degrading the climate world wide. To prevent that our future on this planet goes up the smoke chimneys we occpuied this forest five years ago.

a liberated zone

We live in tree houses and an occupied meadow. In our struggle we don't solely try to fight lignite coal and extractionism, but to create a positive alternative. In Hambach Forest we try to live a life, in which the relations between people are not solely governed by greed and competion, but by solidarity, community and sustainability.

depending on you!

Starting in October RWE is permitted to cut more forest. This could mean the destrcution of the oldest remaining parts of the forest and many tree house occupations. But our resistance will be at least as big! Now is the time to act – climate change is not waiting for us.

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Another Forest Walk Show of Support – Another Police Action this week?

By hambachforest 04/16/2018 04/16/2018 Forest Walks, Photos, Repression, Solidarity

This Sunday walk was another symbolic show of support of general public to Hambacher Forest Occupation, to Coal Exit and another chance to see, unfortunately one of the last, the forest in full bloom, coming alive after the winter. Over 200 people showed up with the oldest being 76 and the most distant visitor coming from South Africa(country also intensely cursed by coal extractionism and the enviromenta and social breakdown… more…

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Reportback today at 7pm(Gallien) ZAD: Thousands of Cops held back by thousand Zadists

By hambachforest 04/15/2018 04/15/2018 Actions, Mobilization, Solidarity

WE AT HAMBACHER FOREST WOULD ALSO LIKE TO EXTEND THE INTERGALACTIC CALL FOR SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY!!! : JOIN THE STRUGGLE FOR THE ZAD, ORGANIZE SOLIDARITY EVENTS AND ACTIONS AT YOU LOCATIONS. ZAD TODAY US TOMORROW!!! Report-back from the ultra-liberal warfare zone of the Macron regime, today at 7PM in the Hambacher Forest, in Gallien Forest Occupation. We will show photos, videos and discuss the situation in the Zone. The… more…

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Sunday Forest Walk, Hambacher Forest Tradition

By hambachforest 04/15/2018 04/15/2018 Actions, Forest Walks

Good day everybody, It’s that time again next Sunday. Forest walk in the Hambacher Forst. Again, hundreds of people will be out and about in the springtime forest and get an idea of why this diminishing forest is still absolutely worthy of protection and why the destruction of this habitat must be stopped immediately. Just two weeks before the RWE Annual General Meeting, we of course also invite the press… more…

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Support for Hambi 2, UP III and UP4

By hambachforest 04/11/2018 04/11/2018 Repression, Solidarity, Standard

Two Hambi comrades are still being detained from the March 19 eviction. As the number of forest prisoners becomes higher and higher and more and more regular there is a risk that single prisoners or those below 3 might not atract as much support or attentions. Their imprisonment is still an act of political repression and one is too many. Their addresses are below please also write a letter, postcard… more…

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Second Day of ZAD under Police Attack

By hambachforest 04/11/2018 04/15/2018 Mobilization, Occupations, Repression, Solidarity

For the second day ZAD NDDL came under police attack this Tuesday. Beginning at 5am over 2000 of cops with at least two tanks started trying to breach the barricades on the West End of the Zad. Yet with the whole day of massive amounts of tear gas and flash bangs being used the day was mostly stellmate as cops stood in one place holding people back as the equipment… more…

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RWE Clears out lumber from last Fall 2 day cutting season

By hambachforest 04/11/2018 04/15/2018 Deforestation

Today at the end of the secu road and along the old A4 RWE has been loading the cut trees that have been there since the end of last year’s stopped 2 day cutting season. That stoppage has been one of the celebrated points of Hambi Forest occupation. Since then the District Government of Arnsberg has declared that the forest will not be preserved and cutting of the last portion… more…

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Call for Action in Response to ZAD Expulsions

By hambachforest 04/09/2018 04/09/2018 Actions, Solidarity

Last night at 3:00 am at night The French Military Police entered the ZAD de Notre Dam and begun a violent eviction of the Zone. Barricades were lit on fire and resistance put up, slowing up the destruction of many spaces that started early in the morning and continues as this is being written. The response has been swift in France and around the world spontaneous demonstrations took place all… more…

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Reflection and Call for Action Following Skill-Shares Camp

By hambachforest 04/09/2018 04/09/2018 Art/Culture, Mobilization, Photos, Skillshare, Standard

This weekend on Saturday and Sunday another successful Skill-share Camp concluded with full days of workshops and on a lighter note concerts on Saturday and Sunday. Both of the last 2 days also were full of political discourse, DiY, Media workshops and numerous activities such a piercing and tatoo workshops. The Meadow and the Forest filled with circles of groups sitting on the ground, walking through out the forest occupation,… more…

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Warm Solidaric Welcome to UP2 and others recently released.

By hambachforest 04/01/2018 04/04/2018 Hambi9, Photos, Solidarity

After over two months of being fucked with by the cops UP2 has been released this week. Your letters and humor was a weapon and response to injustice and force that has inspired many on the outside. THANKS AND WELCOME on the outside. The list of activists who have been imprisoned under all types of bogus and trumped up charges reflects the State’s frustration at the ongoing campaign of ecotaging,… more…

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District Government Arnsberg approves deforestation from October on

By hambacherforst 04/01/2018 04/11/2018 Deforestation, Mobilization

Not surprising and yet deeply distressing? The district government of Arnsberg approves the main operating plan 2018-2020 and thus the further deforestation of the Hambach Forest from October 2018 on. Here you can read the press release of the he district government in German: https://www.bezreg-arnsberg.nrw.de/presse/2018/03/063_18_03_29/index.php What does this mean for us? It’s just another proof that jurisdiction has nothing to do with justice. That profit interests prevail over environmental and… more…