X-thousand times across

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The yellow X as a sign of resistance against the transport of nuclear waste in Wendland

X-thousand times across is a nationwide campaign network, particularly in Lower Saxony , against the transport of nuclear waste . It made the protests against the Castor transports to Gorleben its focus of action and, alongside local citizens' initiatives, has been the core of the German anti-nuclear power movement since the mid-1990s . The condition for an action of X thousand times across is that all participants act in a grassroots and non-violent way .

The network came into being in 1996 when the anti-nuclear power movement was reorganized with the first Castor transports to Gorleben. Several thousand people regularly took part in the blockade actions against the transports, which were co-organized by X thousand times. The network also founded or supported several media campaigns for the nuclear phase-out and offers advice on legal issues related to protests. The most numerous action was a multi-day sit-in in front of the loading crane in Dannenberg in March 1997. Five to ten thousand people had gathered under a written commitment to non-violence before loading crane and blocks the transport path.

Jochen Stay , one of the founders and spokesman for the initiative until 2009, was taken into police custody for three days in 2001 prior to the Castor transport to Gorleben . According to the police, this was intended to prevent “the impending commission or continuation of a crime”. Stay had, so the reasoning further, "called in clauses, but understandable for everyone to breach the peace (§ 125 StGB), namely a rail dismantling" and "in the past called several times to commit crimes"; this not in a capacity as a “subordinate member of the action x-thousand times across”, but as a “main initiator”. In a speech on the occasion of a demonstration in the run-up to the Castor transport in Lüneburg, Stay had called for participation in sit- ins, which are viewed by X-thousand times across as civil disobedience .

The Higher Regional Court of Celle declared this detention, which was initially ordered by the Regional Court of Lüneburg , to be unlawful with retrospective effect. This was justified u. a. with the fact that "the district government (as police authority) in the reason for the detention only partially and out of context reproduced the content of Stays speech at the big anti-Castor rally on March 24, 2001 in Lüneburg", that "that When examining Stays complaint, the district court did not bother to watch the video tape with the speech in order to check whether the summary of the district government is correct "and that" the quotation reproduced does not meet the requirements of a call to breach the peace ".

The part of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution was the grouping in Verfassungsschutzbericht "left-wing extremism affected" in 2006 as a designated or "anarchist". The grouping is no longer mentioned in the 2012 report on the protection of the constitution.

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  1. ^ Roland Roth , Dieter Rucht : The social movements in Germany since 1945: A manual . Campus Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3593383721 , pp. 260-264
  2. ↑ Jochen Stay (initiative x-thousand times across) taken into custody. In: luene-info.de. March 26, 2001, archived from the original on March 26, 2002 ; Retrieved January 11, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Jochen Stay's detention is legally questionable. In: Gorleben Rundschau . Edition for November 2001 (HTML version on castor.de)
  4. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report 2006 (preliminary version), p. 189 (PDF)
  5. ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2012 ( Memento from August 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive )