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      'Shooting the Messenger': German Police Target Climate Group Last Generation in Nationwide Raid

      "When will they raid the lobby structures and seize the government’s fossil fuel money?" the group wrote in response to the raids.

      Olivia Rosane
      May 24, 2023

      German police on Wednesday raided the climate activist group Letzte Generation, or Last Generation, seized accounts, and shut down its website.

      Last Generation is an Extinction Rebellion-style group that uses direct-action tactics such as blocking traffic, shutting off oil pipelines, or dousing a Monet in mashed potatoes to call for more ambitious climate policies. The raids were part of an investigation into seven members of the group for "forming or supporting a criminal organization," the Prosecutor General's Office in Munich said in a statement reported by CNN.

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      Greta Thunberg at Clearance of Lützerath, Germany

      Thousands Rally in the Rain to Protest Destruction of German Village for Coal Mine

      Greta Thunberg criticized Germany’s Green Party on Saturday for supporting the demolition of the village of Lützerath

      Common Dreams Staff
      Jan 14, 2023

      Thousands of people demonstrated in a pouring rain on Saturday protesting the clearance and demolition of a village in western Germany that is due to make way for the expansion of the coal mine Garzweiler.

      Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg joined the demonstrators as they protested the clearance of Luetzerath, walking through the nearby village of Keyenberg. Protesters chanted “Every village stays” and “You are not alone.”

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