Hi BRlin group, If you are following the Extinction Rebellion movement, you will probably already know there is a very active and fast-growing group in Berlin... in short: Their focus is to demand more action on climate breakdown and the ecological crises ! You can read more about them here: https://xrebellion.org/ ( international) On Monday the Berlin groups are organizing a *registered* demo ( technically, no risk ) in front of the Bundeskanzleramt... 17h ... to draw attention to the destruction of the Amazon, and put pressure on EU trade with Brasil... One of their frequent tactics is to have Die-Ins... ( there is one 2day at Gendarmenmarkt at NOON )... And this will be part of what will happen on Monday as well... ( you could read more below... in a quick post to me last nite, so i could send it out to this list and others who i know involved in Indigenous struggles, Amazon, Brasil topics )... PLease free to show up, support, take part... The main orgainizer for this particular action is Claire Wordley, but i do not yet have a contact for her... There could be an invite for this action already on Fbook ... and should be posted to the Veranstaltung page here: https://extinctionrebellion.de/veranstaltungen/ ( de events ) That's all i have time for now... Perhaps i can come back and share those links later 2day... in solidarity ! Paolo fwd>> via Claire... @all Hello all, so I've registered to read out the scientist's letter about the Brazil-EU trade at 5pm on Monday 29. April at the Bundeskanzleramt. The point of this is to get media attention to the implications of this trade deal, and also to get media attention for XR in Germany as a serious group. My idea was to have a short explanation of why this trade deal matters so much, in English and in German, and why we are standing up for the forests and Indigenous peoples affected by our consumption in Europe. Then we read the very short letter, also in English and German, which was signed by scientists working in every EU country and 300 Indigenous groups from Brazil. We can have pictures of the Amazon and the people and animals that live there, and pictures of what it is being cut down for; beef and soy, mostly for livestock feed. Then we have a short die-in. We need people to come and hold pictures and die (you will come back to life quickly), and people to reach out to journalists Now for a terrible automated German translation... @all Hello all, also habe ich mich angemeldet, um am Freitag, den 29. April um 17 Uhr vor dem Bundeskanzleramt den Brief des Wissenschaftlers über den Brasilien-EU-Handel vorzulesen. Dabei geht es darum, die Medien auf die Auswirkungen dieses Handelsabkommens aufmerksam zu machen und auch die Medien auf XR in Deutschland als ernstzunehmende Gruppe aufmerksam zu machen. Meine Idee war es, kurz zu erklären, warum dieses Handelsabkommen so wichtig ist, auf Englisch und auf Deutsch, und warum wir uns für die Wälder und indigenen Völker einsetzen, die von unserem Konsum in Europa betroffen sind. Dann lesen wir den sehr kurzen Brief, auch in Englisch und Deutsch, der von Wissenschaftlern aus allen EU-Ländern und 300 indigenen Gruppen aus Brasilien unterzeichnet wurde. Wir können Bilder vom Amazonasgebiet und den dort lebenden Menschen und Tieren sowie Bilder davon haben, wofür es abgeholzt wird; Rindfleisch und Soja, vor allem für die Tierernährung. Dann haben wir einen kurzen Einbruch. Wir brauchen Leute, die kommen und Bilder halten und sterben (Sie werden schnell wieder zum Leben erwachen), und Menschen, die Journalisten zu erreichen.