Lina Eichler
Lina Eichler | |
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| Born | 2002 |
| Nationality | Germany |
| Known for | Climate activist |
Lina Eichler (born 2002) is a German climate activist and a prominent member of the Last Generation (Letzte Generation). She has been a hunger striker and involved with a wide variety of acts of disruption to bring attention to the climate change emergency.
Life
Eichler was born in about 2002 and she comes from North Rhine-Westphalia.[1] At a time when she was scheduled to complete her high school gradiation she decided to ignore that to devote herself to activism.[2] She came to notice as a member of "The Last Generation" who went on hunger strike (Hungerstreik der letzten Generation ) to attract attention to the groups concerns about climate change. They demanded meetings with key politicians standing in elections to be the German Chancellor and[1] a citizen's assembly to address the limiting of climate change to 1.5 degrees.[3] The group considered the strike to the last possible peaceful protest. Eichler abandoned the strike after she collapsed after nearly three weeks and she was hospitalised in 2021.[4] The group did get the promise of a meeting which led Henning Jeschke to end the hunger strike.[5]
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In 2022 she was with other members of the group gluing themselves to roads to cause disruption. She was with other activists who dressed themselves in Chancellor Olaf Scholz costumes, in July 2022, to spill oil in front of the Federal Chancellery. She was arrested for gluing herself to the frame of a painting from the Renaissance and she faces many fines and arrests. She knows that the public do not always support her actions, but she believes that the group are "the fire alarm" and she says that people may not enjoy the fire alarm.[6]
The Last Generation group had obtained funding from a group in California to continue to protest against the burning of oil, gas and coal. Eichler and Henning Jeschke were interviewed to celebrate the group's first birthday in September 2022.[7]
References
- ^ a b Laurenz, Nike (2021-09-10). "Hungerstreik in Berlin: Sie essen nichts mehr, bis Laschet, Scholz und Baerbock mit ihnen reden". Der Spiegel (in German). ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
- ^ ""Wenn ich dieses Wissen habe, ist es meine moralische Pflicht zu handeln"". www.rbb24.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-09-25.
- ^ "The German activists starving themselves to make politicians face the climate crisis". the Guardian. 2021-09-18. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
- ^ Barry, Sinead (2021-09-22). "Day 24: Berlin's hunger strikers starve for climate justice". euronews. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
- ^ "Nach Gesprächszusage von Olaf Scholz: Klimaaktivisten beenden ihren Hungerstreik". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). ISSN 1865-2263. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
- ^ Redazione (2022-09-24). ""La resistenza civile è un dovere" Intervista a un'attivista di Letzte Generation". il Mitte. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
- ^ Kurier, Berliner. "Erst hungern, jetzt kleben und blockieren sie: Die "Letzte Generation" feiert ihren ersten Geburtstag". Berliner Kurier (in German). Retrieved 2022-09-25.