Optimism at Ahaus anti-nuclear training camp
Various, Diet Simon translating - 13.03.2004 22:16
German source stories at  http://de.indymedia.org/2004/03/76908.shtml and http://de.indymedia.org/2004/03/76873.shtml
Activists running an anti-nuclear transporting and storing camp at Ahaus report �it�s already a full success � we�re thriving!� Elvis at  nixfaehrtmehr@gmx.de writes: �Already last night saw very active hours and since this morning more and more men and women activists have been arriving. There�s tinkering, digging, screwing, painting going on and one even hears rumours about tunnel building. And the soup tastes great!�
Cross-border nuclear concentration
What�s being billed as an �Anti-Castor Training Camp� is on a paddock controlled by the local resistance group directly in front of the Ahaus �interim repository�, a thin-walled shed meant to safely hold highly radioactive waste.
After several years of no waste transports to Ahaus, close to the Dutch border, it�s been announced that 18 Castor caskets of highly active waste are to be trucked to there in nine consignments, more than 600 km across Germany from Dresden in the east.
�Because the bla bla by Greens, Reds (Social Democrats) and other jolly colours about the planned Castor trucking from Dresden-Rossendorf to Ahaus is getting seriously on our nerves, we�re making clear already that the Castor has to get past us first,� writes Elvis in his post to IndyMedia.
�That�s why we�re now training non-violent actions the entire weekend so that we can out-trick and here and there trip up the little men in green [German police wear green uniforms] on Day X.�
�We�re doing up the huts on the paddock, making action materials, cooking, flying kites over the repository or just sitting around the campfire. And all of that we�re doing under constant observation by the repository-brainless, who�ve got their gate camera aimed directly at us � are they allowed to do that? Never mind, it�s going to be taken down, anyhow��
WDR television took some pretty footage, Elvis goes on, which was to be shown at 7 p.m. Saturday evening in �Aktuelle Stunde�, a popular regional show.
�Our friends and helpers [police] are also holding back and only occasionally sending a patrol car round. So, come spontaneously to Ahaus with tent and sleeping bag.
"Information work and lots of other creative things are planned.�
For infos about the camp and directions, or if you want to be picked up at the railway station, ring 0162-7752056.
�The bigger our number now, the less likely the Castor trucking will become!�
Parallel Sunday strolls will take place Sunday week (21st) in Ahaus und Dresden-Rossendorf. In the Wendland (Gorleben) they will do a railtrack stroll.
�The anti-atomic initiatives expect the biggest demo in three years in the M�nsterland region [the area around Ahaus]. Nothing will move! Stop the Castor before it starts moving!�
e-Mail:: nixfaehrtmehr@gmx.de � Homepage: http://www.nixfaehrtmehr.de � Address: Wiese gegen�ber vom Zwischenlager in Ahaus � Telephone: #49-0162-7752056
Media reported on Friday that no Castor transport now appears to be expected before May, though March was thought likely up to now. The North-Rhine Westphalian premier even demanded that fellow Social Democrat, Chancellor Gerhard Schr�der, take charge and stop the trucking plan.
The �Neue Ruhr/Neue Rhein-Zeitung� newspaper has reported that in case the North-Rhine Westphalian government can�t stop the trucking, it�s making contingency plans to rail the waste because that would be easier for police to control. The state expects costs of 50 million euros.
�That makes for good headlines,� writes Camper of http://www.wigatom.de, �but we know that unless we mount actions on the streets, the Castors will roll anyway.�
Other activists, writing from uranix@gmx.net, urge that the new protest movement also target Germany�s only uranium enrichment plant in Gronau, 18 km north of Ahaus and even closer to the Dutch border.
�The idea being discussed,� writes Camper at http://de.indymedia.org/2004/03/76873.shtml, �is directly after the next Castor transport, i.e. after the Castors have been [stopped and] sent back to the south German nuclear power stations, to head for Gronau to deconstruct the uranium enrichment plant there.
�We think that�s an outstanding idea. Within one and the same mobilisation reference would be made to the start and end of the nuclear fuel cycle.
�A link would be made to the global pig system, ie. to the globally happening exploitation and oppression. Great if that could be pulled off.
�To that end we must still massively demand that this idea doesn�t just become an appendage of the No-Castor-to-Ahaus campaign, but from the outset a part of the mobilisation involving the entire movement.
�As far as the practical side is concerned, we can well imagine a big, colourful convoy with everything but the kitchen sink, shovels, spanners and people�s kitchen from Ahaus to a blockade in Gronau.
�And those who know the vast compound there with its pretty mesh fence know that the most varied things are possible there�games without limits.�
�So much for now on ideas spinning around. If the spin hits you, give us a call. Keep moving!�
�Immediate shutdown of all atomic installations worldwide! Anything else is nonsense and the uranium stays in the ground!! Freedom and cake for all!!�
e-Mail:: uranix@gmx.net Homepage:: http://squat.net/aap-berlin/
And Autonome Campistas posting from Cologne say �Let there be rock! We will publicise your actions here. Greeting from Cologne. see.you.on.the.barricades.�
Mainstream media coverage in German: http://news.google.de/news?hl=de&edition=de&q=Ahaus&btnG=News-Suche
Earlier IndyMedia reports:
Castor alarm in Ahaus! http://de.indymedia.org//2004/02/73745.shtml
Dresden Castors to Ahaus: a Dutch view http://de.indymedia.org//2004/02/73731.shtml
Autobahn actions against Castor transport http://de.indymedia.org//2004/01/72885.shtml
More Castors rolling soon, this time to Ahaus http://de.indymedia.org//2003/12/69056.shtml
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