activism 2002-2003 - smile

however, the emergency law did allow people to gather in schools and religious celebrations. this picture was shot during a "carnaval promenade", resulting in thousands of funny-dressed people heading to the police lines. they intended to break through and occupy the station where the nuclear waste is transferred from trains to trucks, so to travel the last kilometers by road to the village of gorleben, where the storage site is located. results? even though the police outnumbers the protesters by 3 times usually, the people manage to stop the transport for a while. Yet the nuclear waste always reaches its final destination. still, the government has to pay millions of extra euros, hiring insane numbers of policemen to defend the transports and cover costs of repairing the sabotaged railways. so the protesters not only make their opinion known to public through mass media coverage, but strategically try to make the use of nuclear power economically unattractive in germany.

activism 2002-2003 - smile however, the emergency law did allow people to gather in schools and religious celebrations. this picture was shot during a "carnaval promenade", resulting in thousands of funny-dressed people heading to the police lines. they intended to break through and occupy the station where the nuclear waste is transferred from trains to trucks, so to travel the last kilometers by road to the village of gorleben, where the storage site is located. results? even though the police outnumbers the protesters by 3 times usually, the people manage to stop the transport for a while. Yet the nuclear waste always reaches its final destination. still, the government has to pay millions of extra euros, hiring insane numbers of policemen to defend the transports and cover costs of repairing the sabotaged railways. so the protesters not only make their opinion known to public through mass media coverage, but strategically try to make the use of nuclear power economically unattractive in germany.