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German anti-nuclear activists to cripple railway
Diet Simon - 16.10.2010 09:31
German anti-nuclear activists will try to sabotage a railway line to stop nuclear waste being transported from the Normandy coast of France to a village of 600 people between Hamburg and Hanover in central-north Germany.
A consignment of about a dozen caskets for the transportation and storage of nuclear waste, CASTOR for short, is expected in Gorleben between 5 and 7 November, although the schedule is officially secret.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators from all over Germany are again expected in the forest and farmland area to which tens of thousands of police, usually the size of the entire Queensland police force, are sent to ensure the consignment reaches a prefabricated hall outside the village.
The protesters are resigned to the fact that the consignments, which happen about every two years, ultimately always reach the destination, but they delay them as best they can to draw attention to the lack of a permanent repository for nuclear waste anywhere in the world.
Each transport costs about 50 million euros of taxpayers’ money to police. Opinion polls consistently find about two out of three Germans opposed to nuclear energy, produced by 17 power stations in the country.
This year the protesters intend to hit the last leg of the railway track from the town of Lüneburg (53° 15' 0" North, 10° 24' 0" East) to Dannenberg (53° 6' 0" North, 11° 6' 0" East).
They plan to remove the crushed stone ballast from the trackbed on which the sleepers are laid, to make the track impassable for the very heavy waste train.
A call is travelling through the anti-nuclear movement to take part in what in German is being called “schottern”, a new verb creation from “Schotter”, the German noun for the railbed rocks.
Videos showing how it’s meant to happen are circulating on the Internet and getting thousands of hits. See two typical ones at  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pq_NQGuzW4 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ReyyTHKGs.
The ballast is packed between, below, and around the sleepers to facilitate drainage of water, to distribute the load from the sleepers and to keep down vegetation that might interfere with the track structure. This also serves to hold the track in place as the trains roll by.
The local state attorney’s office has started almost 500 investigations into supporters of the "Castor schottern" campaign.
“Lay your ear on the rails of history,” says an activist site, “history is going to be made in the Wendland (the name of the area) in November 2010. This time we’ll stop the CASTOR and put the power question out there!”
The authorities have closed down one protester Internet site in southern Germany, the posting says.
Chief prosecutor Roland Kazimierski is quoted as saying the investigations are also meant as a “deterrent”.
Various groups have stated that “schottern” does not rate as a criminal offence but is a legitimate means of political altercation.
They point out that police and judiciary have tried for years to criminalise legitimate resistance.
“If elections, demonstrations, requests and begging change nothing, people have to make the changes themselves. Then abandoning nuclear power is literally a hands-on task.”
Some more relevant sites:
http://www.castor-schottern.org/videos http://kanalb.org/topic.php?play_id=2158&modul=Clip&clipId=289 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3fIzguCDjs http://www.greenpeace-jugend.de/node/2688
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmffWu8XL2E
https://www.x-tausendmalquer.de/index.php?id=36#c143
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oB6NO5hHt4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnoTcBCNGDE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzz1HTlbiSc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vbxk3qwUsk
http://wendland-net.de/index.php/artikel/20101010/bi-ratschlag-10243
http://www.cinerebelde.org/prozessauftakt-castorgleisblockade-p-100.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/BiLuechowDannenberg#p/u/1/bcpWJwTA5tg
http://atomkraftwegbassen.blogsport.de/videos/
http://castorstop.blogsport.de/2010/09/28/mobi-jingle-online/
http://www.graswurzel.tv/v125.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1NSD-RpD3c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgeZd4hM_tI
http://nix-da.6x.to/
http://nix-da.6x.to/ http://www.castor-schottern.org/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Castor-Schottern/157481940931227
http://twitter.com/castorschottern
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3ReyyTHKGs
http://streetart137.blogsport.de/
http://hartbackbord.tk/
http://www.constitution.org/jjr/socon.htm
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