Last generation
Climate protection group wants to forgo sticking campaigns
An activist’s handprint is stuck on the street. photo
© Andreas Stroh/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
The Last Generation road blockades began about two years ago, causing much discontent among the population. Now the “chapter of gluing” should be over. But not the protest.
In addition, they want to “confront those responsible for climate destruction more directly in the future” and to “confront politicians and other decision-makers publicly and in front of cameras,” it said. “On the other hand, we will increasingly visit places of fossil destruction for our protest, as was the case in the past with protests at oil pipelines, airports or the RWE company premises.”
On January 24, 2022, the group began its road blockades for a radical climate change. There were also protests in museums, stadiums and ministries. The Berlin police alone counted 550 actions last year, and the capital’s public prosecutor’s office has now conducted 3,700 cases.
Many of those affected were outraged by the activists, and even Green Party politicians considered their actions counterproductive. But things have been noticeably quieter around the last generation for some time now. It is in the shadow of the loud farmers’ protests and now also the large demonstrations against right-wing extremism. She canceled her next planned “mass blockade” on February 3rd in favor of an action against the right.