For weeks, activists of the last generation have been promoting their next wave of action in Vienna. According to the latest information, this may take even longer than previously planned. “We plan an action every day for at least three weeks. Perhaps a fourth week is possible,” said spokesperson Florian Wagner on Thursday. In any case, it was the largest protest of the last generation so far.
The actions will largely follow the familiar pattern: the activists want to be on the street early in the morning on weekdays to disrupt traffic for as long as possible. “But we also attract attention with the actions, so that more people who want to participate contact us again,” said the spokesperson. The hard core of the group, which has gone through the right training module to be able to stick to the street scene and then spend the rest of the day in the police station, has now grown from 80 to 200. But also separately from that, the climate stickers enormous popularity. “We can’t keep up,” Wagner said delightedly.
No doubt the group’s best-known member, co-founder Martha Krumpeck, won’t be able to participate in the early wave, as she’s been serving a two-week suspended sentence since Tuesday for unpaid administrative fines. “She’s coming later,” Wagner said in an interview with APA.
Connection via Arlberg paralyzed
The planned wave is the third in Vienna. Already in January and February, activists temporarily paralyzed traffic in the federal capital for several weeks. During the actions in January, 52 arrests were made and more than 200 reports were filed. In the second wave in February, 126 people were arrested. “Of course it should be noted that a number of people have been arrested here several times within these two weeks,” the police said. There have also been almost daily actions by the group in the federal states lately. “Everyone is very active,” Wagner said. On Thursday morning they were activists in Vorarlberg. The Arlberg tunnel barrier was used to hold on to the pass road in St. Anton. The activists’ demand: Tempo 100 on highways.
The protesters’ main form of protest, following the example of the UK group “Just Stop Oil”, has been sticking to the roadway to halt traffic at critical points. But there are also other actions: at the car summit on April 19, for example, a member sprayed the Federal Chancellery with an oily liquid, and they also disrupted the Vienna City Marathon on Sunday with a stabbing action.
Source: Krone
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