Ende Gelände 2017
# Ende Gelände 2017

Ende Gelände 2017 was a large civil disobedience protest movement in Germany to limit global warming through fossil fuel phase-out.

3000-6000 environmental activists from several countries blocked two German open-pit coal mines:

## Context

On 15 August 2015, in the first year of Ende Gelände, 1500 activists blocked the Garzweiler surface mine owned by RWE (Ende Gelände 2015).

On 13 to 15 May 2016, with Ende Gelände 2016, 4000 activists blocked the Welzow-Süd open-pit coal mine and the coal-fired Schwarze Pumpe power station, then owned by Vattenfall (Spremberg).

## Gallery

* First action in August 2017
* Banner with the message: "System change not climate change"
* Policemen in front on the giant coal excavator
* Demonstrators in the mine
