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

in seven 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 as 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 in 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 Scholz, 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 RAF, or Red Army, faction. Also known as the Butter Minofgang,

the RAF was a far-left terrorist group that routinely kidnapped, bombed, and assassinated its

targets, beginning in the 1960s. Because, sure, throwing mashed potatoes at a painting is totally

the same thing.

That's the stump that drew international attention to last generation, throwing mashed potatoes

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