2023-06-28 06:50:00
28.06.2023 08:50
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Activists of the “Last Generation” blocked traffic on the Wiener Ring on Wednesday morning. ©Last Generation Austria
Activists of the “last generation” slowed down the morning traffic in Vienna with a “protest march at a snail’s pace” on the Vienna Opera Ring.
On the Wiener Opernring, people of the last generation have started a protest march at a snail’s pace, slowing down the morning traffic. According to a broadcast, the activists see themselves forced into peaceful resistance because Nehammer and Kogler continue to ignore the scientific warnings of a climate catastrophe. As a protective measure, the “Last Generation” demands a ban on new oil and gas drilling and a 100 km/h speed limit on the autobahn.
ÖAMTC reported traffic jams up to Vienna’s Fran-Josefs-Kai
A police spokesman told the APA regarding 20 people. The rally was not registered, the executive said. According to the ÖAMTC, there was a traffic jam up to Franz-Josefs-Kai and further delays on the two-way line, in the area of Karlsplatz and Schwarzenbergplatz.
Climate activists of the “last generation” blocked Wiener Ring
Out of solidarity, Dr. Julia Göd, specialist in psychiatry, at the protest. She supports the demands of the last generation, because the Vienna Medical Association declares its solidarity with the goals of the climate movement in a resolution: “The climate activists remind us as a population as well as the federal government in a possibly ‘disturbing’ but always peaceful and non-violent way and way of complying with and implementing the self-imposed and absolutely necessary climate goals,” the resolution says. As doctors, one recognizes the corresponding health policy responsibility in climate protection. It is the task of the medical profession to protect human life, and this requires serious climate protection measures. “We have no time to lose,” was the urgent appeal from the medical association.
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