from Act for Free
The Megamachine spreads its devastating skewers in all directions:
towards the ocean floor, other planets, and the last remaining areas of wilderness on Earth. There are many places to take a stand against a suicidal culture which, if not thwarted, will not stop before all known lifeforms have been consumed by runaway technological expansion. Not least of all in the Rhineland, so-called Germany, a European heartland of industry and extractivism.
Situated between Aachen and Cologne, the Hambach coalmine is the largest in Europe – and it is getting bigger every day. Run by the
mega-corporation RWE, this toxic pit supplies nearby weapons factories with electricity, pumps out untold quantities of carbon dioxide, and swallows forests and villages whole. There could hardlyy be a more concise image of what the expansion of civilization looks like.
Blocking the growth of the mine is the “Sündi”, a small woodland
squatted in autumn 2024, since then a zone of resistance against
capitalism and the state. RWE devastated the Sündi last winter, cutting most of its trees – although the occupation itself remains unevicted.
The desert has been unable to expand as expected since then, but cannot afford to do so any longer. An eviction attempt of the Sündi therefore seems likely this autumn – the cutting season starts October 1.
Let it be known that our beacons have been lit. You are invited to come from far and wide to the Sündi in September and October, to join the resistance here. Or to the nearby Hambacher Forest, which was squatted in 2012, and remains an autonomous zone to this day. This region was once a hotbed of struggle against power in all its forms – let us make it so once again, and answer with fire and sedition those who would see these habitats obliterated.
No compromise with industrial expansion!
For anarchy and high treason!