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At the weekend a networking conference for ecological and climate justice groups took place in Marburg. Activists of the ecology campaign Make Rojava Green Again were also present.
The climate strike movement Fridays For Future (FFF), the resistance in the Hambach Forest and the mass civil disobedience of the anti coal-fired power movement “Ende Gelände” have also given a boost to the fight against the destruction of nature in Germany. Above all, many young people are looking for answers to the question as to why the capitalist social order has such a destructive effect on our ecological livelihoods – and are asking the systemic question. It was also the focus of this weekend’s “Wurzeln Schlagen” conference in Marburg, where around 120 activists from various ecological movements met to discuss common perspectives and strategies.
In more than a dozen lectures, the connections between capitalism, oppression and the climate crisis were discussed. In the discussions, important questions crystallized out, which were posed not only by ecological movements but also by various other progressive movements: How can we build stronger communication between different left and democratic forces? How do we bring together class-struggle, feminist, ecological and anti-racist struggles? In any case, some occasions when practical answers can be given to these questions are already certain in the coming months: numerous ecological and social movements are calling for the end of the terrain blockades that are to shut down the coal excavators in the Rhineland in June. And the Earth Strike on 27 September will also become a crystallisation point at which various movements will bring the resistances together. For the day, the FFF, Extinction Rebellion, Demand Utopia and other actors call for joint action.
And on a content level, too, a growing together is currently taking place. In campaigns such as Gerechte 1,5, activists from various movements want to jointly start a grassroots democratic process in which a “climate plan from below” will be worked out. It should serve as a common guideline and make it clear that the ecological question and the social question belong together. Gerechte 1,5 also wants to make it clear that we must not allow those in power to pass the cost of the climate crisis on to our class.
