Young network for political actions

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The Young Network for Political Actions (JunepA) - until April 2019: Youth Network for Political Actions - was founded in 2013 and organizes actions of civil disobedience in Germany on various current topics such as climate change or militarization. The activists want to be a platform for young people who network for political actions and bring about political change and claim to be independent and self-organized.

Awards

JunepA was awarded the Aachen Peace Prize in 2017 . In the justification, the protests and actions of civil disobedience by JunepA are described as "courageous, creative, highly worthy of recognition and support". The network puts its fingers in currently burning socio-political wounds.

Campaigns

Banner campaign in the Hambach opencast mine in 2017

The network's topics include climate justice , the use of nuclear power , anti-militarism and criticism of capitalism . The action forms include actions such as banner in 2015 at the Berlin Victory Column at the World Climate Conference COP 21 , sit-ins , such as in 2015 at the fuel plant of the company Areva in Lingen and Go-ins as 2016 at Büchel Air Base . The campaign was also replaced by Coal! initiated by JunepA, among others. Replace Coal! blocked the access roads to the Neurath power plant during the days of action in 2017 and successfully called for blockades of lignite infrastructure in the Leipziger Land in 2018. In 2019, construction work and driveways were again blocked at the Garzweiler opencast mine , trucks had to make detours and coal trains were canceled.

Legal consequences

Activists who occupied the runway at Büchel Air Base in 2016 as part of a JunepA campaign were fined by the Cochem District Court for trespassing in 2017 . Two of the activists appealed, which the Koblenz Regional Court rejected on April 12, 2018. The IPPNW criticized the judgment as a justifying emergency existed. The activists announced they would like to appeal further. Three JunepA activists who demonstrated against the free trade agreements TTIP and CETA in Cologne Central Station in 2016 with a banner campaign were also fined at the Cologne District Court for trespassing.

Web links

Commons : Young network for political actions  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report from the federal meeting in Koblenz, April 5th to 7th, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c Aachen Peace Prize: Prize Winners 2017. Aachen Peace Prize e. V., accessed on February 7, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Declaration of Principles - JunepA. Retrieved November 23, 2017 .
  4. ^ Richard Derichs: Peace Prize Winner in Aachen. September 1, 2017. Retrieved November 23, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Activists hang posters on the Victory Column. In: Berliner Morgenpost . December 4, 2015, accessed November 23, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Andreas Wyputta: blockade of the nuclear fuel plant Lingen: The most bizarre error of the nuclear phase-out. In: The daily newspaper . September 24, 2015, accessed November 23, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Dieter Junker: Büchel: Peace activists get on the runway. In: Rhein-Zeitung . September 12, 2016. Retrieved November 23, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Leipziger Internet Zeitung: MIBRAG stirs up the mood, police drive up with armored vehicles, parties criticize the propaganda - L-IZ.de. Retrieved on February 7, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ Patricia Hecht: Climate protest "End of the terrain": Symbolic disturbances . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 26, 2017, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Malte Kreutzfeldt: Action against Lippendorf power plant: lignite power plant blocked . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 5, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed February 7, 2019]).
  11. ^ Kurt Lehmkuhl: Protest near Golf Club Haus Wildenrath: 60 activists block road construction at the Garzweiler opencast mine. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
  12. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Peaceful protest at the Garzweiler opencast mine. Retrieved April 13, 2020 .
  13. ^ Anett Selle: Protests in the Rhenish lignite district: sit-ins around RWE . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 25, 2019, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed April 13, 2020]).
  14. ^ Trial of peace activists: Strolling on the Büchel runway. SWR, accessed on November 23, 2017 .
  15. ↑ SWR Aktuell, SWR Aktuell: Opponents of nuclear weapons fail on appeal. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Criticism of the convictions of anti-nuclear weapons. Retrieved February 7, 2019 .
  17. ^ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany: Protest in the air base: opponents of nuclear weapons fail - Panorama-News. Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 12, 2018, accessed on August 21, 2020 .
  18. ↑ TTIP and Ceta protest in Cologne: Activists climb the 4711 lettering in the main train station . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . ( ksta.de [accessed on November 24, 2017]).
  19. ↑ BERNHARD KREBS: Protest against TTIP: Three men convicted of trespassing . In: Kölnische Rundschau . ( rundschau-online.de [accessed on November 24, 2017]).