Well the raid started this morning at around 7 a.m. 15 properties were searched this morning in 7 of the

German of the 16 German states so that is a pretty big operation where some 170

officers were involved altogether. In May 2023 German police conducted a

massive raid on the homes of leaders in the climate group last generation.

Our website and our email have been taken down and several technical devices have been confiscated and accounts are blocked.

It doesn't mean that the resistance will stop.

It was a pretty rapid escalation.

Last generation had only just started staging protests in January 2022.

The group began is just seven young people in Germany

who went on a hunger strike trying to get the front runners

in the 2021 national election to talk, just talk about climate change.

After three weeks and multiple hospital visits, only two of the activists remained

on their hunger strike and they managed to get the presumed winner of the election,

Olaf Schultz, to agree to host a public discussion about the issue.

Almost 70% of Germans believe they are more concerned than their government about

climate change today and as a result have become pretty pessimistic about the

government's ability to pull through on its climate commitments.

So in late January 2022, activists with last generation

began blocking roads.

Within months, a prominent conservative politician, Frank Schaffler, was sounding the alarm about them being extremists and terrorists, and multiple other politicians joined in.

When last generation activists painted the headquarters of his party, the FDP,

Schaffler compared them to the R. A. F. or Red Army faction, also known as the Bodermainov gang, the R.E.F. was a far left terrorist group that

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