They announced to stay there until it is safe that the village will survive. Furthermore they demand an immediate coal exit. Since then Lützerath became a place of resistance, but also a place of collective living and learning.

We in Lützerath are fighting hand in hand with the local population, such as farmer Eckhard Heukamp, who resisted for a long time through several instances until the Münster Higher Administrative Court (OVG) ruled that RWE was allowed to excavate the land and finally had to hand over his key to RWE at the beginning of October 2022. Or the alliance Alle Dörfer bleiben (All Villages Remain), which has been opposing the destruction of the villages around the open-cast mines for decades, the Lützerath Vigil and RWE & Co. Enteignen.

Lützerath Lebt sees itself above all as a symbol for the struggle for global climate justice and therefore attaches importance to allying itself with the struggles of MAPA activists (most affected people and areas), mostly from the global south, where people are already suffering massive losses and damage at the current global warming of 1.2 degrees, although they have contributed least to the climate crisis.

The federal coalition and also the green state government of NRW are not taking the necessary measures to comply with the 1.5 degree target of the Paris Agreement.  Instead, they are siding with the greed for profit of large corporations like RWE. The activists on the ground in Lützerath and the many supporters are therefore taking climate protection into their own hands, resolutely opposing the destruction of Lützerath and thus standing up for a world that offers an intact basis of life for all.

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