Bremen: burning electric charging stations

The costs of the energy transition … and electric charging stations on fire

The exploitation of new sources of raw materials, mines and factories to implement the so-called energy transition and the shift to electrified individual transport is in full swing: megafactories exploiting groundwater; new lithium mines in Portugal; nickel and gold from stolen indigenous land in Indonesia; exploitation of vanadium deposits in Norway and rare earths on Samí territory in Sweden; cobalt from the Congo… the industrial exploitation of copper, cobalt and nickel on the seabed; the supply of hydrogen from artificial islands in the North Sea or via neo-colonial import strategies from Namibia and Chile … the costs of this energy transition and of continued exploitation are now common knowledge. The shift towards green capitalism is inevitably accompanied by a intensification of the exploitation of people and nature!

There are an infinite number of targets, means and methods for attacking, delaying and sabotaging this process.

We have chosen to focus on an infrastructure that is currently developing rapidly and is present almost everywhere: electric charging stations. They are a necessary component of the Green New Deal’s transportation shift and therefore make an ideal, low-threshold target.

Over the course of two nights, we struck at different locations and sabotaged different models. The first time (night of June 15 to 16), we destroyed a fast-charging station in a supermarket parking lot in the Huckelriede district, simply by prying open fans at the rear of the charging station, then igniting accelerants inside. The second time (night of July 13-14), we destroyed a charging station in the Neustadt district, simply by unscrewing the casing from the cable shaft and letting the accelerant do its work.

In both cases, we were careful to keep a safe distance from residential buildings and no uninvolved people were injured. The cops, the press and the fire department have so far been silent on these fires.

Against the continuing extractivist destruction of the Earth, the only solution is to multiply sabotage, resistance and real alternatives to capitalist production – For (eco)social revolution!

Switch-Off! The system of destruction!

[German found on de.indymedia, July 25, 2023]

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Translated by Act for freedom now!