The first day of the climate negotiations in Durban then been brought very interesting positions on the table. The chief negotiator of the U.S., Jonathan Pershing is not surprising, noting that the U.S. is regulated like the reduction targets after 2020. What arrogance of a country that has historically polluted the atmosphere with the most oil and coal emissions! This man has lost touch with reality completely.

Emerging markets, which are here called BASIC, have signaled that they would join a legally binding climate agreement under certain conditions. This is new, this concession is very much more constructive than the hard and hopeless line of the United States. Our great action has even made it to Chinese newspapers. Evil is the development in Canada, which shows the entanglement of politics to enter into the EU. The Canadian Environment Minister holds the disastrous exploitation of tar sands for oil to be ethically justified. Canada has the award for “fossil of the day” more than deserved. The politics degenerates into increasingly becoming a puppet of the oil industry. My British colleagues have revealed how this felt the British government has worked.

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Federal Environment Minister Röttgen at the weekend, but also contributed to today's statements to utter confusion. Germany had been most of the locomotive air process, the German minister is only through insubstantial statements, some of in complete contradiction to the EU position. The EU presidency has made clear at the press conference today its readiness to extend the Kyoto Protocol – even as China, Brazil and India engage in the negotiation of a legally binding instrument. Röttgen contrary, set the Kyoto Protocol, which had negotiated his chief Angela Merkel at the time as environment minister, for disposition. From his own press statement was read to “simultaneously, the Kyoto countries discuss how they can continue with the rules and mechanisms of the protocol de facto, without taking a second commitment period, which would be without the participation of Russia and Japan worth nothing.”

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an attack of the Klingons: thumping techno bass from huge speakers and the cheering of the BI-chairmen heat from the mobile music chariot up the mood. The water cannon have to whisper a few watts, police announcements. Now police horses into the crowd. Clods of earth flying. Pullen liter of tear gas from the horse. Do not spray, but fluid, directly into the faces. Demosanis are right there. Then relax.

For an hour the driver sitting in the front of the tractor Castor low-loaders. It should start only after the 19.3 km route is completely cleared. The demonstrators included members of the 60 initiatives, they follow the scene in disbelief, loud bass music was not there before the demo. But somehow, the relaxed rhythm of the demonstrators.

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have already two days longer on the clock, because the use of protesters Applicable countries and other routine recharging of the tank to sleep and not to go to a rally at 5:30 on clock. That was registered by the local citizens' initiative. Only: their representatives were so smart to turn off the mobile phone by the bed. Someone rang an hour after we had just come back from the builder of the great pyramid and sit-in Hitzacker. “Can you speak there once? Of the BI is not accessible. “In any case, I have spoken to the smallest opposition rally in the history of Gorleben. That's already something.

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good breakfast, because the Volxküche truck was there. Too late we realize that the tractors that roll over, are directed by police. Apparently confiscated. The farmers have put their political characters skillfully crafted. The pyramid structure made by “wendland engineering division” to keep the transportation 14 hours. The 13 hours from the beer truck is broken. Heiko, Hannah, George and Fritz had their arms in the 600-pound construction consisting of an outer and an inner pyramid. “You are the champions” and numerous other adaptations of famous songs to modified football chant – “The look of heroes, schalala-lala!” – Sounds from hundreds of throats of supporters from the in glaring spotlights forest submerged next to the farmer blockade on the rail.

If George raises his free arm and stretched his fist in victory salute, the crowd begins to rave with excitement. Mick Jagger would be tonight an ugly, insignificant and impotent wretch against these four in the pyramid. The police does not adhere to the warnings of the farmers and starts scratching away dirt under the pyramid. Hilti drill bits and associated vibrations will do the rest. When the police admits defeat technically, the inner pyramid has been lowered a bit. If it continues like this, would the arms of the activists. Crushed

Castor goes up to two kilometers closer to the body and stops at Harlingen. After 14 hours, give the peasants their blockade on voluntary, because they no longer see their physical integrity through the reckless actions of the police technician assured. Never before has a single action the Castor took you so long. Previously there had been hours of negotiations over a joint statement with the police leadership that wanted to come out of the action without losing face. Once again, the officials found to be unsportsmanlike. No sooner is the blockade resolved, say police spokesman, the farmers themselves had brought into great danger. The look of losers, the losers and still nachtreten.

But the train can not just continue. About 1,000 people are sitting on the rails ahead of the pyramid. “Respect and appreciation for the resistance. Today the police were only second best! “Resounds from loudspeakers. Huh? What is it? “I am the moderator of the police clearance. My colleague reads the legal standards, then I take back the presentation and tell you the measures “. My God, 15 years ago was still called, “Good morning, here speaks your Berlin police!” And two hours later were not enough hospital beds for the injured protesters in Dannenberg present. So times change. Here, every painful grip is previously explained. Seriously, is then cleared prudent. So, Go yet, love Uniform

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Voltage weeks since I've been waiting for this moment and worked towards. At first, it is especially huge and confusing: 20,000 people from around the world come together here – a small town! Also, the whole conference professionals have to rely for now.

It affects me a little lifted. Yesterday was the start of the conference threw a cocktail party. It was exciting to see the times, all the important people in their expensive suits on the red carpet. On the other hand, I also came doubt that these people still relate to the normal “little people” have to have to ultimately pay for climate change.

A balmy evening is when I'm sitting at my long day at base camp, in the background or people Frisby play Hotel California on guitar. The conference has just begun. Just feel the whole thing to still incredibly high. Too big to really be able to understand how many lives and destinies of the final decisions that are made here depend. Tonight is another meeting in which we discuss our strategy again.

Most are pessimistic in this climate summit. Determined not without reason. But I believe that this thing is too important to resign. And there are always also beautiful impressions: Each / r participating in the conference needs a kind of passport he / she wears around her neck. More and more people wear on a ribbon that says: “It always seems impossible until it's done!”

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In 2011, it has

of Castor again managed to Gorleben – have exceeded the levels of radiation at the intermediate storage and final disposal of well-known impracticality of the salt dome. Opponents and despite the many different actions, and on the track, despite the courage and resolve of many thousands of Castor opponents who have come back to Wendland, to protest. Despite pyramids, tree houses, bent rails, missing stones, despite chains and concrete, despite the cross asked vans, tractors and tractors.
2014 The next time it could be ready the next Castor transport to come here from Sellafield. Until then flows down a bit the same water. After a new record is delayed, however, again the question that had been just as frustrating as last year asked: How can after all, another transport all political seriousness to justify yet

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Left and right of the transporters are Wendland-farms, where many people are gathered over a fence and watch the action. The police have the van has become a bit more closed off and the view for the people behind the fence with a tarp blocking the vehicle is like a patient on an operating table in front of the kidney surgery, in which the messy part of the work remains observers spared.

I can on these blinds really only make a rhyme: it is to increase the psychological pressure on activists in the van, by weakening the morale of the activists, and vice versa, the bargaining power of the police is strengthened

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Not quite as different as last year, but still very refreshing: Greenpeace activists have actually managed it again! With or vans in a crafted, they have moored on the transport route. Hats off! Let's see if they reclaim their record!

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Right next to the tracks we have been waiting for the eleven uninvited guests, the three hundred feet uncoupled from the transfer station and went on little by little the place with the crane to be – in our neutron and gamma ray instruments. Castor per the loading is so last approximately one hour. The Castor containers do not look dangerous, but the tapping of the instruments and staplers reminds you that the danger is invisible in this case.

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The last stage of the interim storage will lead the Castor containers with pine trees. Previously, he must, however, has yet passed the spot, to make the now four brave activists of the Emergency Association of Peasant and a concrete pyramid on the tracks further travel impossible – for an incredible 12 hours! So although the Castor for a while to be out here on the circumstances, will have the right to the Gorleben interim storage facility in around 1,000 people gathered. Their sleeping bags, tarpaulins and camping mats suggest that they intend to stay here first. On the way here we were perceived by police officers inspected 36 times – sometimes every 500 meters. So that those who are already here, hold on, again, the soup kitchen on the ground and made into soup and somehow it also has a car with boxes and DJ booth managed by the controls.

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The pyramid grows from the next big sit-in. Next to the tracks an absolutely gifted drummer group causes legs warmer. The activists have chained despite their uncomfortable position still stretched fist and a smile for our camera man left. The unmooring actions they can with stoic composure go through, eight hours they keep extremely uncomfortable compared with radiating nuclear waste for thousands of years probably for the much lesser evil.

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Very early in the morning, we want to set with the setting up of a windmill in the rising sun a symbol of hope for the climate negotiations in Durban. Hope for a very deadlocked political situation. I talk with my colleagues from around the world, it turns out that the negotiating strategy of the largest states to move only slightly when others do it too, has led to a halt. This strategy has failed! Now those countries it is a common way to take that active interest in climate change and the associated restructuring of the economies.

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told me that the energy policy of their country firmly dictated by the company Escom. This represents the power almost exclusively from the combustion of coal available. And she sits in the official government delegation from South Africa. That is precisely what prevents a global climate treaty: the winners of the air disaster control our politicians, as we have clearly shown in a report this week

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Greenpeace has opened a tent meeting and discussion on the north beach. Here we want to be accessible to many people here in Durban. Communicate what is happening behind closed doors of the negotiations. It is time that we people are demanding more transparency from the hanky-panky behind closed doors of the Convention on Climate Change! The German and European governments are trying to further displacement of decisions to cover up with tiny steps in technical forestry issues. But we look closely and we will unmask the trickery. Tomorrow opens the COP17. Then there will be two exciting weeks, if we can again find hope for our planet!

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Our fairy godmother Ruth came on Wednesday with bag and baggage into the office. Loaded with mattress, sleeping bag, clothing, noodles, cheese, bread, spreads, biscuits, nuts and good mood, they proclaim preparing to leave the office does not stop until the Castor was there. And since it takes – with the help of some volunteers – Information about the location of Castor and receive all news concerning the transport. The most common sentence after a phone call from Ruth in the last few days was probably: “Have you noticed that, Sara? Twitter can “Usually I type with even while they still phone -. So that we all Castor enemies as quickly as possible via all media

Only three rooms are now lit up at the weekend here at the office. The kitchen, our office and the editorial team in the post also available around the clock Anja, Beate, Sigrid, Victoria or Malte on Facebook Tweet, upload pictures and videos, write articles. Or, if it is quieter times, laugh at the action with the beer truck from the last nuclear waste transport.

In some moments, when blog entries or videos received by us, in which the good mood is captured on the demo, it's really a shame that we can not be there. If the delicious food of Volxküche is praised as the colleagues I live on the spot on television, or get messages like this: “You should be here: lewd electric field Mucke auf'm raven, against Castor”

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Then again, if by water cannons and tear gas used by the speech, when I see pictures of the riots, I'm glad not to be there. In addition, we have the privilege of directly reflected back to get, how many people are out there on our side and be happy about our involvement with these illegal waste transport. Especially when the action yesterday by Greenpeace activists were known who had chained themselves to railroad tracks, there were so many enthusiastic comments on Facebook that we were behind in reading barely. Here's an excerpt:

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We know that in Wendland for years: None of the hundreds can use vehicles to suddenly start driving more, to bring people to judge. The senior from Hanover claimed that it had indeed only eleven people from the boiler, the demonstration made before the judge. The routine of protest leads to lawyer Martin Lemke, even before the very head of operations, hundreds of written requests from the bag moves, which were placed in the boiler. The senior officer had simply lied away. The ZDF holds live on it with the camera.

Brass boiler, a chapel. Suddenly formed behind the chapel Marschzug to music. Then cries of “We want out!”. Attempt to escape. Tear gas. Hunting on some demonstrators. It even follows the judicial confirmation that the detention is unlawful. Even the fights at the head of operations for hours not. Now, fifteen minutes before the agreement: Everyone can get out if the particulars are given, then sent off

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schottert now two concrete blocks in the track bed itself, to clear the rail. Four farmers have been chained to a concrete pyramid in Hitzacker on the rail. Meanwhile, there has also formed a new Sitzbloackade. Also in Vastorf quick Lüneburg unknown activists are chained to a concrete block in the track bed. And Castor is still in stitches.

The farmers would like to thank, on his morning press conference with the visiting supporters. Claudia Sültemeyer: “Thank you for let alone” The thanks are returned by the action groups. Demonstrators had probably found hardly so many gaps in the police lines, if unknown in the night not lost so many things on the streets and they therefore made impassable to the columns of the emergency vehicles would have: sand, rocks, plows, harrows, hay, rear weights, Rubber car. The imagination had no limits.

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Castor complains hard gravel police operations but less injuries than last year. This would for example of glasses with tear gas and sleeves with batons. The strongpoint was Metzingen with 1300 people “in the ground” – during the rally. In the Sitzblockierern cons of setting the police are taken when carrying away, according to information provided by Jens Magerl “prudent”. They have the sympathy of many officials for “our political concern” felt literally.

The seven Greenpeace activists who have the Castor stayed with her last night shortly after Ankettaktion Lüneburg over six hours, have been released unharmed. Even my colleague Tobias Riedl speaks of “prudent conduct of public officials,” but also assumes that you touch Greenpeace, probably for fear of loss of reputation is not so hard, and refers to excessive police action against unnamed Demonstrate in recent days in the woods.

Greenpeace has made an appeal against the rejection of our lawsuit against Lower Saxony Environment Minister Sander and Riedl confirms that the transport is illegal. The prosecutor had dismissed the complaint by Greenpeace on the grounds that they had done their own calculations and radiation was daruf come, that the limit would not be achieved of 0.3 millisievert / year around the Castor Hall. They had come to 0.295 mSv.

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We are exactly on the spot as last year: the miracle of Harlingen is repeated. Madness! Drum music. Announcement that there is a 20 clock food. As with nuts. Actually fight again mobile soup kitchens through the pitch-dark forest to the blockade. The resistance is in Wendland. That's only here. And Greenpeace is proud to be part of it. The hooting is great, as I pass the message: it is 19.20 clock. Eight Greenpeace activists chained to pipes in the track bed at Evern German city of Lüneburg, 40 km in front of the sit-in Harlingen. 50 km from the Castor, who is in stitches.

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This is dangerous and illegal. We have every right to stop him. Today begins the phasing out of Gorleben.
Police now draws on the sides, but the atmosphere is relaxed. A clown the clown army officers missing with a ruler. They have humor and play with the game. Can be as simple and effective protest.

Fits well on you, who are already in the blockades. And her other fans on TV: is the Wendland! It lasts a long time! And with you even longer! Gorleben is everywhere!

Addendum: over 400 tractors and over 20,000 people at the demonstration in Dannenberg. Moving speech Greenpeace our guests from Fukushima. Also, as a children's choir from the Wendland sings the Castor home, comes to creeps. The people all look somewhat thicker than last year attracted more and have backpacks and camping mats here. This time more people stay after the demonstration in the blockades. As I'm sure. And it's warmer outside. Best conditions for us to participate in the warning but the federal government repositories debate. On our way!

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Tractors farmers hit by Gusborn out in a never-ending snake ending in the rally: After 300 pieces I've lost count. Here again, not all are. Hansi Zachow of the Emergency Association of Peasants of the demo at the press conference preparatory group: “Last year there were 570 tractor on the road, the police have counted 600th Let's assume that the officials can count better “And with a wink he adds:”. The tractors, which are now not on the demo that come from elsewhere for use !”.

Occurs at all the sports coverage, more and more to the fore: What is where, what happens to how many people? Why we protest seems to have become secondary. Therefore the press conference begins with the incident last night in Metzingen. A water cannon had tried to penetrate into the camp on the farm of Peter Metzingen. Peter has 1,000 campers. And many agricultural trailers. Which were then to cross the driveway. What may seem here to have fun, but it was not funny.

What may have ridden areas of the building, came down with a giant water cannon trucks and some hundreds of feet into this dead end and to the private yard area to want? Or did you see the television footage that followed from it? The water cannons into the crowd at any rate held in the courtyard, and in the small access road until the tanks were empty. Flying objects from the crowd, a single cry from many hundreds of throats. On all the parked cars broken mirror, front gardens devastated, people on the run. Then had water cannon and police back out again from the road, 1.5 km backwards, the last police officer to walk hand in hand running backwards, so that none is lost, followed by angry camp guests, residents of Metzingen, but also by farmers from Lüchow- .

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firecrackers, “cops out” roared the crowd. Was this provocation needed? Until now there is no reason for this escalation can use the police find it next to the physical safety of the villagers and the security of their own officers risked totally unnecessary! What is this? The Castor is hundreds of miles away! The demonstration tested many wonder Wendland! And behind closed doors, many demonstration tested policemen who did not want as an escalation.
No question: When crimes are committed, the police must follow them, will need to secure evidence and personal details and bring them to the police. Except that corporal punishment has been abolished since the Middle Ages. The seat blocker and the Scots have the right to physical integrity, as well as any police officer. We thought all police officers were slow in the 16 years Castor transport into the Wendland learned times with de-escalation …

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political content, it was this morning at the “closing of ranks”. So call the elected local government representatives and representatives from the initiative Luechow-Dannenberg, call the one object of the repository in the Gorleben salt dome plans. Do with us all the way, including the FDP politician. Only the CDU is missing. Many in the CDU would like to attend trust, but does not. Was invited this morning in the large meeting room of City Hall in Dannenberg. Elke has Mundhenk the house right here, she is the mayor of Dannenberg and at her house the Greenpeace guests live from the Japanese Fukushima disaster area.

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