Back in 2020 the locals of Lutzerath, a small municipality of around 1,400 people in Western Germany, sprang to action alongside climate protectors and began to resist multinational energy firm RWE, which wanted to strip-mine much of the local area for coal. It would become an iconic multi-year battle for the soul of the region,
Tag: Community Activism
All of the legwork, none of the power
Mutual aid is essentially a straightforward idea, or at least, it’s straightforward enough as we apply it at Mutual Aid Alnwick. We run a Community Larder from a phone box and this is done in accordance with the basic principle of ‘take what you need, leave what you can’. We had aimed to expand our