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"The climate struggle has entered a new phase. It is marked by a search for
different tactics: something that cannot be so easily ignored, a mode of action
that disrupts business-as-usual for real, some way to pull the emergency brake.
This search has only just begun, but the signs are there.
In Berlin, half a dozen young climate activists calling themselves ‘The Last
Generation’ recently went on a hunger strike, eventually refusing liquids and
becoming quite frail before calling the action off. But there are other things
than our own bodies that can be shut down. In conjunction with this summer’s
Ende Gelände camp against fossil gas, a group calling itself ‘Fridays for
sabotage’ claimed responsibility for rupturing a piece of gas infrastructure
and urged the movement to embrace this tactic: ‘There are many places of
destruction, but just as many places of possible resistance.’ This followed the
development of a veritable archipelago of forest occupations in Germany, some
of which have damaged equipment for coal extraction.
To stay in the global north, the long and bitter struggles of Indigenous
peoples against never-ending new pipeline projects in Canada and the US have
spawned some desperate militancy: trains carrying crude oil have been derailed
by activists mimicking the signal of emergency brakes.
Fossil capital should take notice. New forms of resistance are coming."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
