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XR climate activists start march from three cities to block A12 in The Hague next week

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Nederlands: Spandoek van Extinction Rebellion bij het bezoek van de koning in Amersfoort.Image by Daandelft, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Nederlands: Spandoek van Extinction Rebellion bij het bezoek van de koning in Amersfoort. Image by Daandelft, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

https://nltimes.nl/2023/09/03/xr-climate-activists-start-march-three-cities-block-a12-hague-next-week

Participants in a climate march set off from Arnhem, Alkmaar, and Almere on Sunday morning, ending six days later in The Hague. The march is an initiative of Extinction Rebellion (XR), in advance of the next blockade of the A12 highway, which the climate activist group has announced for next Saturday. According to XR, the march will be “public-friendly and fully within the law.”

For each day, the activists have set a route of about 20 kilometers. The routes will go from station to station, so people who want to join the day’s march can do so easily. A similar march already took place in May, but then only from Arnhem.

Starting Saturday, September 9, XR plans to block the A12 in The Hague every day. This part of the road passes the temporary Tweede Kamer and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. According to XR, this is exactly the right place for a protest against the financial benefits that the government grants for the use of fossil fuels. These fuels cause by far the most CO2 emissions and thus contribute significantly to global warming.

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Climate activists occupy Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam during World Port Days

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https://nltimes.nl/2023/09/01/climate-activists-occupy-erasmus-bridge-rotterdam-world-port-days

Roughly 100 people gathered on the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam as part of a protest organized on Friday by environment activist group Extinction Rebellion. The protestors blocked traffic on the bridge in both directions in an effort to divert attention away from World Port Days, an open event at the Rotterdam Port, the largest in Europe by volume, and the tenth largest port in the world.

“The Port of Rotterdam is responsible for 20% of all greenhouse gases in the Netherlands,” Extinction Rebellion said on Friday afternoon, shortly after the protest began. The activists flew a banner that stated, “Recover the Harbour,” in Dutch.

Police told newswire ANP that there were no plans to break up the protest, even though traffic was blocked for both private vehicles and public transport services. Bicyclists and pedestrians were able to pass along the bridge as of 2:30 p.m., according to Rijnmond.

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Dutch Extinction Rebellion announces another A12 highway blockade in March

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https://nltimes.nl/2023/01/30/extinction-rebellion-announces-another-a12-highway-blockade-march

Climate group Extinction Rebellion plans to again block the A12 highway in The Hague on Saturday, March 11. That would be the sixth time the climate activists blocked this stretch of highway.

Extinction Rebellion activists blocked the Utrechtsebaan, the stretch of the A12 in The Hague that runs by the temporary parliament building and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, this past Saturday. The highway was impassable for hours.

The police arrested over 700 people at the protest. Many hundreds of people stood above the tunnel pit to express support and cheer the activists on.

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Over 500 arrested at Dutch Extinction Rebellion protest closing A12 motorway

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https://nltimes.nl/2023/01/29/a12-open-extinction-rebellion-protest-500-people-arrested

The A12 highway near The Hague was reopened to traffic shortly after 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, according to the police. The highway had been blocked for hours by climate protesters from the action group Extinction Rebellion. The last activists were removed by police around 5 p.m., but it took Rijkswaterstaat more than half an hour to clear the road and reopen it to traffic.

Around noon, hundreds of climate activists gathered on the road, next to the Utrechtsebaan and on the Malieveld. They protested because they disagree with the government’s handling of subsidies for fossil fuel producers.

According to the police, hundreds of people were arrested, but an exact number has not yet been announced. According to Extinction Rebellion (XR), however, more than 500 activists were arrested. Those arrested were taken away in buses and placed in gymnasiums, among other places.

Overall, the protest on Saturday was a full success for the climate action group. “We showed the level of support for our demand to stop subsidies for the fossil fuel industry,” a spokesperson for the organization said.

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Dutch Extinction Rebellion protest closes A12 motorway

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