Wald Statt Asphalt Danni Bleibt

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More and more „Nikolaus“- packages arrived at the Protestcamp
Dannenröder Wald in the last days.
We see that this was supposed to be a kind and lovely action, but even
due the fact it was nice to read the letters, we are not completely
happy about it.

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Disclaimer: This article represents an opinion of one person/some people and not of the whole occupation. There is no authorised group and no official body that could decide upon an ‘official’ group statement for the occupation. The people in the occupation and in their immediate environment have diverse and controversial opinions. This diversity of different stances is therefore not censored here, but differing opinions can be equally valid and have an equal right to be seen and heard. No text will speak for the whole occupation or is necessarily approved by everyone participating in the occupation.

Last weeks in the times of cutting and destruction of our home I am often remembering how was the life here over one year I had spent here, how much it changed and how much we lost. From my perception there were two etaps of the occupation. In the first one we have been very few people and we were thinking a lot about how we live and what are impacts of our actions. Then the second period which started in summer with lot of people ariving in short time without enough time to discuss all parts of the daily forest life and get used to live diferent life than in city and criticaly think about impacts of our actions.
As one part of this change was that the occupation abondoned its anticonsumerist aproach. When the occupation was smaller we used to dumpster dive most of our food and have been critical about food which was donated to us and tried to communicate to people to at least not buy for us colonial products and idealy to simply not buy things for us maybe with exception of oil which was usualy missing in dumpsters. With exception of one or two treehouses with stupid gas cookers we cooked just with wood. As well we tried to recycle lot of building material we needed. For example instead of using new nails we usually rather used reycled unstraight rusty nails, straighten them and used them again. Oh I hated straightening these nails so much in beginning but after some built treehouses it just became normal and I wouldn’t get an idea to take new nails when there were buckets of old ones standing around.
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FRENCH VERSION OF THE TEXT  (For the english version, scroll down)

Un manteau blanc sur les arbres mort. Il a neigé ici à danni. Et il devrait neiger encore ce week-end. 

La lutte ne fonctionne pas pour protéger la forêt. Nous avons perdu 90% des arbres sur le tracet de l’autoroute. Il ne reste plus qu’un seul lieu de vie et une centaine de mètre encore boisé. Malgré les blocages plutôt efficace de Ende Gelände chaque dimanche, les autres jours de la semaine les arbres tombent. Nous échouons. Et nous avons eu le temps d’analyser cela, mais les mêmes stratégies sont utilisées. Un rituel qui amène l’énergie de révolte vers le sentiment d’impuissance puis la dépression. Pleins d’activistes partent, burnouts. Les tactiques des cabanes et de grimper dans les arbres ne fonctionnent pas complétement. Elles permettent de gagner du temps, pas de tenir hors de la forêt les machines et la police. Ou alors il faut réaliser des structure de 60 mètres de hauteur pour être hors d’accès des machines élèvatrices (une structure à 40 mètres s’est faites finalement expulser par une machine pouvant atteindre 51 mètres). Un exemple de lutte victorieuse pour sauver les arbres est celui de Julia Hill aux USA qui est resté 2 ans en haut d’un sequoia à 55 mètres de hauteur („De sève et de sang“ – Julia Hill, ed. Libre). Mais il n’y a malheureusement pas de séquoia à Danni. Un problème majeur que j’ai rencontré ici est le manque de perspective. Lorsque je demande à plusieurs personnes si c’est possible de gagner. On me dit souvent : „gagner quoi ?“ ou „ça veut dire quoi gagner ?“ Je précise : „Que les arbres restent“. On me dit alors dans 80% des cas que cela n’est pas possible, que l’on va perdre et que l’on peut simplement gagner du temps ou leur faire perdre beaucoup d’argent. Il est difficile de trouver des personnes qui ont l’objectif d’arrêter la découpe des arbres, de tendre vers ce but. 
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„I beg you: Please refrain from any travel that is not really absolutely necessary […] Please stay at home, at your place of residence, whenever possible„, said Angela Merkel¹ on 17 October in her podcast². That day I got on a train, crossed a state border and joined the activists who, like me, came from several cities, states and countries in Europe to protect the Danni forest from destruction.

To come here to fight against a new motorway, isn’t it an absolutely necessary thing? Is it not urgent to intervene to prevent forests from being cut down so that even more cars can drive even faster? Weiterlesen →