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ArmyOfOne wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by 256 in A village to be evicted for coal – the defense of Luetzerath in Germany by monday

For the posterity, in the wildcat strikes I got involved into some people managed to have heavy concrete road stops to block machinery, like those big cubes. In the absence of machinery for doing this, with the help of a few people you can as well dig up trenches deep enough that no heavy machinery can pass through. But since trenches are a lot of work to dig they can only be done at strategic places.

The means most effective the state uses to evict occupations are actually by infiltration and disruption of the groups involved. And this is pretty hard to block.

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256 wrote

https://taz.de/picture/6032839/948/Luetzerath-1-2.jpeg

https://berliner-zeitung.imgix.net/2023/01/05/d543efb8-b056-4c20-a448-7d4e78b58bd8.jpeg

https://aisrtl-a.akamaihd.net/vms/63bfdce67218453ee30554a3/964x0/image.jpg

The police/RWE was creeping on with their infrastructure for years, this operation began in early December. I don't know how deep trenches need to be to stop machinery that literally is building one giant trench.

Disruption, Infiltration

See militancy debate.

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ArmyOfOne wrote (edited )

I mean, you're right that such a setting is pretty hard to barricade effectively, especially when anyone without a uniform could go in/out as "supporter" and "visitor".

Like the other commenter said, they could have built up a high palisade all around, tho not sure most occupiers were into this type of stuff...

The goal with occupying the place was for stopping the diggers nonviolently. Which could have worked if the occupation would have lasted longer. So unless there's a re-occupation of sorts, or the German government suddenly backpedals, the outcome of this battle is sadly yet another activist failure.

With a level of awareness having been raised. But...

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