Roger Hallam

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Roger Hallam in April 2019

Roger Hallam (born May 1966 ) is a British environmental activist . He is a co-founder of the Extinction Rebellion climate movement .

Life

Hallam worked as a farmer in Wales , but he said he was forced to give up his organic farm due to extreme weather events . In the first half of 2019 he was working on a doctoral thesis at King's College London on the subject of civil disobedience .

Hallam co-founded Extinction Rebellion in autumn 2018, which he justified as follows: "We have a choice: Either we surrender to death or we rebel to get the political elites to maximize our chances of survival." On September 12, 2019, he was arrested in front of a café in London in connection with the planned "Heathrow Break" action to shut down London Airport, which was due to begin the following day. With several “pilots” the activists wanted to let drones soar near the runways so that air traffic had to be interrupted.

Hallam stated, “I am ready to go to jail. We are facing the greatest catastrophe in human history. Other forms of protest have not been able to stop this in the past 30 years. That is why we need massive civil disobedience. "

criticism

On November 20, 2019, excerpts from an interview with Hallam during the period in which he relativized the Holocaust and denied its singularity were published. Hallam said that genocide had occurred over and over again in the last 500 years of human history, described the Holocaust as an "almost normal event" and referred to the atrocities of the Congo and genocides in China , among other things . Shortly after the interview was published, Extinction Rebellion Germany and several German local groups publicly distanced themselves from Hallam on Twitter . Die Zeit then reported that Ullstein Buchverlag is stopping the delivery of its book "Common Sense" with immediate effect.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roger Hallam , entry in the UK Commercial Register , accessed September 12, 2019. (English)
  2. ^ Extinction Rebellion founder cleared of vandalism in landmark case after arguing climate change justification. The Independent , May 10, 2019, accessed September 12, 2019. (English)
  3. ^ Extinction Rebellion founder cleared over King's College protest. The Guardian , May 9, 2019, accessed September 12, 2019. (English)
  4. ↑ Zora Schiffer: Death on Trial for Climate Protection. TAZ , April 11, 2019, accessed September 12, 2019.
  5. ^ Co-founder of "Extinction Rebellion" Roger Hallam: "When a society acts so immorally, democracy becomes irrelevant". In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved September 14, 2019 .
  6. ^ Co-founder of Extinction Rebellion arrested in London. Spiegel Online , September 12, 2019, accessed on the same day.
  7. ↑ Karin Geil: Roger Hallam: Co-founder of Extinction Rebellion calls the Holocaust "another shit". In: The time . November 20, 2019. Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
  8. ^ "Extinction Rebellion" co-founder plays down the Holocaust. tagesschau.de , accessed on November 20, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Roger Hallam: Holocaust just "another shit in human history". Die Welt , November 20, 2019, accessed November 20, 2019 . Karin Geil: XR Germany: German activists distance themselves from Roger Hallam. In: The time . November 20, 2019. Retrieved November 20, 2019 . Extinction Rebellion Hamburg: Given the occasion: We no longer regard Roger Hallam as part of the #ExtinctionRebellion. His relativizing statements on #Holocaust & #Antisemitism are unacceptable. He doesn't speak for the rebellion. We do not link the statements here in order not to offer a stage. @xrebellion_hh, November 20, 2019, accessed November 20, 2019 . Extinction Rebellion Berlin: @XRBerlin also expressly distances itself from #RogerHallam & his statements on relativizing the Holocaust. The systematic annihilation of millions cannot and must not be played down or normalized. No way. Zero tolerance for anti-Semitism. @XRBerlin, November 20, 2019, accessed November 20, 2019 . Extinction Rebellion Germany: We distance ourselves decidedly from Roger Hallam's trivializing and relativizing statements about the Holocaust. In doing so, he violates the principles of XR, which do not tolerate anti-Semitism, and is no longer welcome at XR Germany. @ExtinctionR_DE, November 20, 2019, accessed November 20, 2019 .
  10. ^ XR co-founder: Deutscher Verlag withdraws book by Roger Hallam . In: Die Zeit, November 20, 2019, accessed on November 20, 2019.
  11. ^ Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH: Ullstein Verlag distances itself in all forms from current statements by Roger Hallam. For this reason his book "Common Sense", originally announced for November 26th, 2019, will not be published. The delivery of the book was stopped with immediate effect. In: @Ullstein. November 20, 2019. Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hallam, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British climate activist, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion
DATE OF BIRTH May 1966