The group “Friends of Forest, People and a society without exploitation and oppression ”have the Green Kassel on the afternoon of 05.01.2021 delivered a letter with an action, whose reason is the Clearing in the Dannenröder Forest is. The Eviction of the forest occupiers has been completed since the end of December and the route has already been completely cleared.
To accompany the letter, the Kassel activists unloaded tree trunks in front of the party office, Scattered sawdust and briefly protested with signs and banners. In the letter, the action group accuses the Kassel Greens, to be partly responsible for the destruction of the forest to further build the A49. Instead of protecting the forest, as one would have expected from the Greens, They had used massive police force to clear out the civil society protest.
“While you from Tarek al-Wazir to the local group only argue and assert the rule of law, your hands would be tied, The activists in the Dannenröder Forest have long since recognized this, that real change cannot be achieved with the rules of the existing system.”, said the action group in its letter. She also mentioned the upcoming construction of the A44 near Kaufungen and announced her protest.
At the end of the action there was a short conversation between the activists and two members of the Green Party, who observed the action. A member of the Green Party argued, that the highway was a decision at the federal level, which the local group of the Greens could do little to change. An activist from the action group contradicted this. The claim, that the Greens' hands are tied, sei nicht haltbar und es hätte durchaus Möglichkeiten gegeben, die Rodung zu verhindern.
