Human Chain Against Brown Coal Mining, Germany and Poland - News Access

About 7500 people from more than 20 countries stand hand in hand, demonstrating against further brown coal open-pit mining and for a real energy transition. They form a cross-border human chain, spanning eight kilometers between the communities of Kerkwitz in Germany and Grabice in Poland. Both places, as well as others, are in danger of falling victim to plans for open-pit mines in the region of Lusatia. The border is crossed at Groß Gastrose, where protestors wade into the Neisse River, thus creating an uninterrupted human chain. The Human Chain Protest was initiated by the local alliance of Klinger Runde, Greenpeace, BUND, Campact, Naturfreunden Deutschlands, Klima-Allianz, Berliner Energietisch, Anti-Atom Berlin, Arbeitskreis Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Agenda 21 of the community of Schenkendöbern and the Polish citizens' initiative Stowarzyszenie Nie Kopalniodkrywkowej.