Hambach forest defender Jus is still in jail and on the 25th day of his hunger strike. Jus is refusing food to bring attention to the catastrophic realities of extreme energy extraction like lignite from the RWE open cast mines, which constitutes the largest source of CO2 emissions in Europe—resulting in global climate instability, waves of climate refugees, and resource and ecological collapse in the 6th largest anthropogenic extinction of species.

Furthermore, Jus is on hunger strike to condemn the fueling of dynamic complicity of local law enforcement and the justice system in protecting and representing corporate interests of RWE, and spending massive public resources to attack, displace, and criminalize environmental activists protecting the planet.

Jus stated that he is now in solitary confinement and has been experiencing aggression an abuse. Lights are turned on every 15 to 30 minutes throughout the night night to “monitor his health,” and food is pushed or kicked into his cell during meal time in the facility. The doctor sees him only on a weekly basis, even though he has made many appeals for closer monitoring of his health by a doctor. Now he has been threatened with force-feeding.
“Today, on the 21st day of my hunger strike, I am transitioning from water and tea to water only with a message of climate movement unity strength and solidarity,” Jus said.

“As climate chaos ensues and the last remaining habitats like the Hambach forest are put on a corporate chopping block, the earth itself has become just another commodity and as climate criminals like RWE rage across the planet, it is up to us to keep up the pressure and raise the call of Alarm!

“To my Comrades in the Hambach forest, I would like to state that you probably have no idea how much that support really means to me—the prisoner support actions you organized—and I think fondly of the moment when I join you for a meal in the forest. Knowing, defending, and perpetuating all the species that sustain us.”

We request for your solidarity support with the prisoner who is entering his 5th week of hunger strike on Tuesday, August 18th.

Please direct your support and correspondence to:

Werkstatt für Aktionen und Alternativen (WAA)
“Solidarity with Jus”
Kallsgasse 20
52355 Düren-GürzenichWAA
GERMANY

http://hambachforest.blogsport.de/