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Last gen

UGC 1

Upsot LG activist walks covertly through office building

WOLLI HUNGER STRIKE

In Germany…

UGC 2

Upsot Wolli walking down aisle in packed football stadium

..a battle for the future is underway

UGC 1

Activist looks around and then sets off a loud alarm in building

UGC 2

(alarm continues) Wolli runs onto Bundesliga football field during match

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Montage of LG preps for action:

Where ordinary people are going to extraordinary lengths

Blocking traffic

Cutting through fence at Munich airport

Chrsitian and Wolli Breaking into oil pipeline

Upsot alarm

D3 Christian:

I'm fighting for something that's very, very serious for me

to save the planet from climate change

Upsot alarm : We are the Last Generation. We are in a climate catastrophe.

using what’s known as ‘direct action’ protesting

Wolli

It’s really a matter of life and death, right now.

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IV with Karsten Woldeit

But what happens when one man’s climate crusader

WOLLI: One solution!

becomes another’s climate extremist?

AFD GUY

these are most serious criminal offences that must be called exactly that. terrorism comes in different forms

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Protester getting kicked

Upsot LG protesters attacked

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Pain grip

Upsot LG protester cries out in police pain grip

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Angry motorist in car

MOTORIST – They’re not right in the head. They want to save the world… With what?

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Christian IV

Christian:

If they find me, if they track me down, they will kill me.

TITLE CARD: Activist or extremist?

QUICK ENVIRO SETUP

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Music change - ominous

ISS VIEW EARTH AT NIGHT

2023 was the world’s hottest year on

ORRORAL VALLEY FIRES

record

STORM IAN

The effects of climate change are

already observable

STORM IDA NEW JERSEY

The UN’s climate change body, the

PAKISTAN WEATHER FLOODS

IPCC, says human activities have

warmed Earth’s climate by more than 1

SKY NEWS CLIP

degree Celsius since the late 19^th

century

It’s having a significant economic

impact on everything from agriculture

and energy, to insurance and infrastructure

And as temperatures rise, so too does desperation.

BUT THIS...WE ALREADY KNOW. IT’S ALL OVER THE NEWS EVERY SINGLE DAY

AND sceptics remain

Sky upsot:

Climate catastrophe clown Greta Thurnbeg still behaving like a spoilt little brat. Calm down love!

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SCREEN GOES TO BLACK

Ominous music ends

CHRISTIAN’S MINI PROTEST

Meet Christian

Understand what a protest involves

Why he does it

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Dresden establishing shots

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Christian writing sign Home cutaways Shot out window

Upsot Christian at home drawing protest sign

As many people look the other way, not wanting to face the facts, others are ready to fight

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Christian leaves house

THOUGHT TRACK

Christian:

I'm 42 years old and I have spent the last year in full-time for climate activism. But actually my normal job would be in IT. Someone approached me who I trusted and said, you should really go to this presentation // ABOUT the climate crisis. That was for me, the magical moment.

From there, Christian’s convictions have only intensified.

Christian:

I'm willing to go to jail, it means I'm fighting for something that's very, very serious for me.

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Protest actuality

Darren watching protest

Angry young guy gets out of car

Christian – We have to watch out that things don’t get too dicey.

It’s evening rush hour and motorists are eager to get home

But these activists have other ideas

Upsot sit-in protest on Dresden street

This is what’s known as a ‘direct action’ protest

The goal is to cause as much public disruption as possible – and grab media attention along the way

Upsot Horn beeps and motorists get angry

They want to pressure the German government to do more to tackle climate change

This is the 50^th time Christian has blockaded streets like this

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Christian in situ iv

Darren: So what’s the plan here today Christian?

C – The most important part is that we get attention to the climate crisis and precise political actions against that.

D: And do you think these people are getting that message? Why stop traffic, what’s the use of that?

C – Yes, so most of these cars are unfortunately still powered by fossil fuels – oil, gas – so we need to stop somewhere and we need to do something about the climate crisis so it’s an obvious choice.

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PTC

DARREN PTC: Traffic is backed up all the way down the street going back into the city and some of these motorists are really quite irate. Now Christian hopes this kind of action will draw attention to the climate crisis but I wonder if he’s making more enemies than friends

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Upsot more horns

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Actuality – Darren speaks with angry motorist

(IN GERMAN)

DARREN – What do you think about this?

MOTORIST – This is shit. I need to pick up my daughter

DARREN – German. Um… So, what is going on here? What is the problem?

MOTORIST – They’re not right in the head. They want to save the world… With what? They’re five people here. And what they do in the streets... (shakes his head).

DARREN – There is no crisis? MOTORIST – No, not for me. DARREN – Why not?

MOTORIST – The world is broken. They’re only creating more problems.

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Christian IV

Darren :

Do you see a lot of growing public apathy for climate action, people switching off from the debate?

Christian:

Yes, it is difficult to convey the message that this becomes more urgent.

Christian:

So we never ever had this idea that we will be popular. The goal was to transport a message about the climate. And if we get hated by the way, then this is fine.

LAST GEN EXPLAINER

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Protest ends

Upsot fast paced music for LG montage

Christian is part of an activist group called Last Generation, which sprung up about two years ago and helped pioneer direct action protesting in Germany

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Wolli first LG Insta vid Intro Mirjam

Arne and Timon intros Christian intro

Upsot Hello. My name is Christian Blaul. Upsot Ich am Wolfgang

Upsot Ich Bin Mirjam

Christian

The climate catastrophe brings the greatest suffering to people

Wolli

Significant CO2 savings can be achieved very easily

Christian

This, in my opinion is reprehensible and cannot continue. That’s why I am involved in the campaign

Wolli

I am ready to take measures of civil disobedience

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Graffiti on walls

Tomato soup on ministry building Last Gen activism

At first their protests were light touch

Upsot “fantastisch”

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Blocking traffic

Christian in front of truck

Then they started blocking traffic

Upsot police moving protesters

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Police try to move guy with hand glued

Christian with hand glued to road

To prevent police simply picking them up and moving them, they started gluing their hands to the road

Upsot protester shouts

“Ich bin geklebt!!” (I am glued!!)

And it proved very effective in grabbing headlines

Their opponents started calling them Klima-Kleber – Climate Gluers

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Last Gen UGC

Christian and Wolli going to pipeline

Then …things really escalated

This is Christian and his fellow activist Wolfgang, or Wolli for short, breaking into an oil pipeline, turning off the flow

Upsot

And chaining themselves to the valve

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WOLLI HUNGER STRIKE

Guy runs into athletics meet Glueing hands to painting Mirjam throws mashed potato

Cutting through fence at Munich airport

Last gen activism

Upsot football match

The group’s targets expanded

UPSOT: We are the Last Generation. We are in a climate catastrophe.

The goal was twofold .. get the public’s attention …and stoke an overreaction from police and security … in the hope it might encourage debate about climate change

GERMANY CLIMATE EXPLAINER

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DRONE FOOTAGE UKRAINE FOOTAGE

lignite coal mines

German protestors protesting lignite mines

Germany has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55 per cent of 1990 levels by 2030

But when war in Ukraine erupted, Germany was thrown into a full blown energy crisis

The country had to decide between its climate goals and keeping the lights on – opting to bring some of its shuttered lignite coal mines back online

It meant groups like Last Generation had to ramp up their actions

LAST GEN MEETING

Show Last Gen gathering in Berlin for action; intro to crackdown; new

strategy;

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Darren walking

For a while Last Gen’s tactics worked

But now, a new hard line approach from German authorities is threatening to undo all that

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Group chat in hostel

Darren cutaways

Mirjam: It's so wrong, And it is all part of the repression. And I would call that smart repression.

Christian and Wolli are meeting other Last Generation activists ahead of a protest in Berlin tomorrow

Mirjam Herrmann advises on the legal risks Last Generation activisists faces on the frontlines

Mirjam: We don’t have this one dictator who stamps out protests with his police, but for example, we have fee notices from 16 different federal states affecting lots of different individuals. This city issues a general order, and in Passau there are notices about special usage bans, which you’ll get fined for, in Munich, they’ve forbidden you, Wolli, from transporting glue

In Berlin alone, police have spent more than 400,000 hours working on more than 4,500 incidents registered against climate activists

Upsot: We are doing a preventive detention with short-term notice.

While in the southern state of Bavaria, activists can be held for up to 30 days in preventative detention – meaning police can take them into custody before they carry out a protest – it’s a strategy originally intended to tackle football hooligans

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Climate Protesters

It’s part of what Mirjam calls ‘smart repression‘

Upsot painting attack

She’s a protest veteran herself

That’s her throwing mashed potato of all things, on a Claude Monet painting

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Mirjam leads Last Gen discussion

MIRJAM

It's not just the legal crackdown.

That repression is already starting the moment politicians stand up and say, ‘these climate terrorists, they're all criminals.’ Repression starts right there. Then, someone stands up and says 'this is like with the Taliban.

FAR-RIGHT UGC MONTAGE

Show clips of far-right voices in Germany

using words like terrorist, criminals etc

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Beatrix von Storch

Upsot far-right AfD in parliament

“If that is not a precursor to terrorism, then what is a precursor to terrorism?

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ALICE WEIDEL

Upsot

“Tough action is required here, including prison sentences, of course"

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Beatrix von Storch

Upsot far-right AfD in parliament

“Ten years’ prison for the idiots from the Berlin Airport protest.”

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UGC far-right pushback AfD in parliament

These politicians are all from the far- right Alternativ für Deutschland party, or AfD - once dismissed as a fringe movement but now rapidly gaining support in Germany

It’s continually shifted to the right, pushing fierce anti-refugee, anti- immigration and anti climate rhetoric

More recently, it’s sought to capitalise on voter frustrations with the rising cost of living and electricity bills as

Germany tries to transition to cleaner energy

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Christian IV

THOUGHT TRACK

Christian:

So it seems to me that politicians who are in charge right now, they adopt policy suggestions from the far right, including slower climate protection and that's quite dangerous.

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motorists attacking LG Motorist hits protester Motorist kicks protester Guy assaulting activist

Motorist tries to drive through blockade

Last Generation says the AfD is both feeding off public anger at their direct action protests – and fuelling it

Upsot motorists and passers-by abusing protesters, pulling them by their hair off road, kicking them

BACK TO LAST GEN DISCUSSION

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WRAP UP WITH LAST GEN GUYS

THOUGHT TRACK

Mirjam:

But they don't see us as human anymore. And this is a really dangerous dynamic that we have there. And that's really what we're up against.

There was an old guy, who looked at me fiercely, really angrily, and told me that I was a climate terrorist.

It gets heavier every time someone places those little stones in the backpack. And I feel that quite massively now after two years in Germany.

Meet the AfD

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Building exteriors

Upsot Darren and Woldeit greeting

The AfD is facing allegations its rhetoric is fuelling abuse against climate activists

Darren/Woldeit greetings WOLDEIT ON CLIMATE CHANGE

So I want to put this to one of the party’s loudest voices against Last Generation

Upsot greeting

WOLDEIT: I think, and this is also my party’s opinion, that our share in what contributes to climate change is significantly smaller than what we are being led to believe. I feel sorry when I see those people, crying and screaming in a hysterical frenzy on TikTok and other social media, because they’re afraid that the world will end tomorrow.

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Woldeit IV

DARREN REVERSAL

Climate activists we’ve spoken with say the AfD is enabling a culture of threats, violence and hatred, capitalising on emotions about climate change, in order to win votes. What’s your response to that?

WOLDEIT: I am talking about things that actually happen. And when young people glue themselves to a road, when they block airports, when they penetrate high-security areas, then I can talk of terrorism.

Darren - there is a difference between civil disobedience, which is what the activists are doing, and an act of terrorism.

BUTT TO

Why call them terrorists?

Within terrorism, we have different escalation levels.

There are the terrorists who just want to kill, and there is a form of terrorism when I terrorise other people.

DARREN

But do you accept that by using the

word terrorist you’re encouraging

hatred and potentially attacks against these activists?

Woldeit: I understand completely that the language may sound too hard for some.

But if I terrorise people, what am I? If I use terror, regardless of how I do it, then I also have to put up with others calling me what they see me as.

I want to extend preventive custody to up to 30 days

We need an extension of the video surveillance in public spaces.

We need to enable more restrictive measure, a legal basis for spot checks.

RAID RECON

Illustrate the police raids; hear why Christian is willing to go to jail; what

motivates him

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Dresden

Scene setting shots

The AfD wants to see laws toughened to squash Last Generation for good

But the criminalisation of activists is already well underway in Germany – being pushed by more mainstream conservative parties

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Christian IV

Police raid on Christian reconstruction

Christian:

I was at my partner's house. At 7:00 AM the police knocked at the door. The daughter from my partner opened the door. There were at least 10 policemen standing there with masks, uniforms, weapons.

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Christian:

The first thing I noticed from the raid was police surrounding my bed, handing over the court order.

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Cont'd

Christian:

The court order also said that they are supposed to take the cash I had at home, my electronic devices, phone, laptop, but also any indications if I might be a left wing extremist.

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Christian:

I was really, really nervous of doing something wrong but they were the anti-terrorist group. So that was a direct connection to the previous language from politicians that we were the terrorists, so the terror Police has to come and raid our homes.

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Last Gen raids

The nationwide raids were televised across Germany, and saw police seize computers, freeze bank accounts and shut down Last Generation’s website.

Investigators were alleging the group had fundraised 1.4 million euros to finance what they called “crimes” – but what Last Generation says are non- violent direct action protests

It was being alleged that Christian, and other activists like Mirjam, were all part of a criminal organisation

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Christian IV

Police raid on Christian reconstruction

Christian:

So whenever there's this accusation that you're a criminal group, they can tap your phone, search your location, radio, your home, and so on. So these are all typical measures for mafia, for criminal gangs and everything that happens underground. These raids, for example, or wiretapping of phones of activists becomes the norm, then I mean free speech is in danger. And this is the core of democracy, and I'm quite worried about this.

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GFX STATEMENT

The raids sparked an outcry outside

Germany

The UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders said they’re

“deeply worried.”

While the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights said:

There’s “a clear asymmetry between the responses of many state authorities and the standards that safeguard the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly.”

BERLIN PROTEST

Learn about Last Gen’s new strategy

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Berlin street GVs

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LG Protest

Last Generation has gathered for their demonstration in downtown Berlin

Police are also here in numbers, expecting direct action tactics like hand gluing

But today, we’ve been told Last Generation will make a surprise announcement

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Last Gen leader delivering speech

Darren standing with protesters

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but on Monday we announced a new strategy for Last Generation.

We’ll no longer glue ourselves to roads.

After two years, this marks a significant shift for Last Generation

They need more people to join the cause and not fear arrest…

There are many who will join us, who will walk with us, who will stand with us on the streets, but may not want to glue themselves to them.

And we need these people

Christian at protest Mirjam at protest

Wolli at protest

The hope is that by having a less extreme strategy they avoid the harsh legal repercussions brought against Last Generation’s first generation

Mirjam is facing up to five years in prison if the allegations that Last Generation is a criminal organisation are upheld

THOUGHT TRACK

Mirjam: The government reacted with this smart repression kind of approach and it was just so smartly all put together that it just slowly suffocated us and didn't punch us off the street. It's getting really, really fucking dangerous for democracy

Christian is mired in half a dozen court cases around Germany

Upsot Wolli shouting

“One solution! One solution!”

And Wolli has almost 90,000 euros in fines hanging over his head

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Darren PTC

DARREN PTC: It’s a very slow moving protest. The idea is basically to try clog the roads as long as possible and cause maximum civil disobedience and disruption. It was originally just going to be a protest about the climate crisis, but now they’re joining forces with a much larger protest against the far-right.

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Protest signs and stickers

There’ve been calls to ban the AfD since revelations senior party figures attended a secretive meeting – alongside neo-Nazi influencers

Upsot Two rappers on stage singing

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Song at protest

The battle over climate change is delving into the political fringes in Germany

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Rising tide retreat Coming Up strap

But in Australia, there is a movement to bring action very much into the political and social middle

UPSOT: NO MORE COAL!

RISING TIDE WORKSHOP

New groups are forming appealing to middle class; see the workshop in action; meet Alexa

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GFX LOCATION STRAPS

CUTAWAYS OF AUDIENCE LISTENING, APPLAUDING

Darren watching on

UPSOT FROM FACILITATOR:

To start off with, let's just recap on Rising Tide’s three demands...

Along the central coast of NSW…

Everyone repeat that after me...

...END ALL COAL EXPORTS FROM NEWCASTLE.

A newly-reformed climate activist group is laying the foundation for a campaign they hope will make them immune from the crackdowns happening globally.

NAOMI: 2025 is when we hope we will have the power and numbers to launch a civil resistance phase... That's what we’re aiming for. That’s why our goals for 2024 are about building capacity up to that point...

For Rising Tide, their strategy boils down to a simple adage - strength in numbers…

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Alexa IV

ALEXA: The most effective movements have mass numbers of diverse and everyday citizens. We know that like the

majority of Australians are really scared

about the climate crisis. So if we can include as many people as possible in this movement, I think that's where we're going to find our real power.

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The group aims to have 10,000 members before it launches its civil resistance phase - a rolling wave of disruptive acts including stopping coal trains and blocking coal ships from passing through the Port of Newcastle later this year

DARREN: So what strategy or approach will you guys use to grow your numbers.

ALEXA: Rising Tide’s number one principle is that we target the problem and we don’t target everyday citizens.

DARREN: So you don't piss members of the public off.

ALEXA: So yeah, when we’re doing disruptive actions we are always trying to target either the fossil fuel companies or the politicians who are enabling this crisis to continue.

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B-roll of Newcastle Blockade

B-roll of Alan’s arrest

UPSOT: What’s our goal? No more coal.

A perfect example of this is their blockade of the Newcastle Port in 2023 – the world’s largest coal export port – which saw thousands of ordinary Australians in canoes blocking shipping channels for 30 hours.

It was the largest act of civil disobedience in Australian history - and lead to the arrests of over a hundred kayakers including Alexa’s 97-year-old grandfather…

Upsot coal port blockade AMAZING!

ALEXA AND HER GRANDDAD

Meet the friendly face of the protests

here at home or at a local park

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B-roll of protest Alan in-situ IV

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Alan in-situ IV

B-roll of protest

NEWCASTLE SUBURBIA

DARREN: So Alan at the age of 97, you’re the new fresh face of the climate movement in Australia

ALAN: Well, it was just it was really nothing NAUGHTY! It was just a a group of people there quietly on the water. We didn’t really disrupt anything!

DARREN: Were you willing to be arrested at the blockade?

ALAN Oh yeah, it didn't matter to me. But when you really stop and think of it, what does age matter? It's what the person does. The fact that, I’m, 97 shouldn't disqualify me from making a statement or taking a stand

…….

You know, the number of floods that you hear, these days, never heard of those things in my day

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B-roll of Alan getting arrested CHANNEL 7 NEWS REPORT PROTEST UGC

Alan’s arrest helped the Rising Tide protest go viral

Upsot news broadcast: A 97-year old man is among a group of people charged....

The group says it wanted to reach the living rooms of ordinary Australians with an unthreatening message

Alexa: I remember at the blockade there was a quote calling us extremists and the footage that accompanied that quote was some young kids playing in the water with inflatable toys. And I

think that real contrast, it really subverts what people expect and it really makes them think about who is it that is standing up for this.

Upost: no more coal! No more coal!

And in our case it is so many people from all different backgrounds and walks of life

WOLLI HUNGER STRIKE

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Darren meets Wolli on Berlin street CU on Wolli’s face

But family-friendly mass protests aren’t what Wolli thinks will achieve much- needed results now

Darren: So what’s the plan today? Wolli: Buying supplies

So he’s preparing to take an even more extreme stand …on his own

Upsot Darren:

So you just told me there’s a chance this might not end well

Wolli: Ohh yeahh

Wolli… is planning a life threatening hunger strike

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Darren and Wolli buy some take away food

Darren: How far are you willing to go?

Wolli: I've done everything I really could, therefore I'm willing to risk my life in order to make it clear that it's really a matter of life and death right now.

HUNGER STRIKE BEGINS

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GFX with text of Wolli’s demands Wolli and other activists

Upsot launch event for strike

Wolli is demanding the German chancellor issues a statement saying…

humanity’s survival is extremely endangered by climate change …That the CO2 content in Earth’s atmosphere

is already far too high… And that radical action is needed now

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TAKING SALT AND ELECTROLYTES

“Hi. This is day 1 on hunger strike

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DAY 15 UPDATE WOLLI

Upsot

Wolli: Good morning, so this is my 15^th day.

Wolli: This is my 27^th day

By now, he’s lost over 10 kilograms and fatigue is starting to set in

WOLLI HUNGER STRIKE DAY 20

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Music change

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DAY 27 UPDATE WOLLI

Upsot Wolli speaking to camera

It was a shitty day yesterday

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Wolli IV

Wolli has now been on hunger strike for over 40 days

He’s losing weight rapidly and doctors are checking his vitals

Darren REVERSAL

If this ends badly for you and you lose your life, do you think that would make a difference?

Wolli

Well at least people will ask. So why did this guy die? Why did the government let him die? Yeah. He demanded from government that it speaks out the truth.

CLOSING GRABS

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With increasingly dire warnings about climate change – and accusations that governments aren’t doing enough – Last Generation say they’ll continue fighting despite being branded as criminals

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Woldeit:

Woldeit IV

Offences such as coercion, dangerous interference with road traffic, dangerous interference with air space...

It’s not helpful, when people try to downplay this by calling them harmless kids and activists.

Wolli IV

Mirjam:

If now governments keep people from getting active // it’s a fucking death sentence for humanity

And we are going to continue and it is really hard

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Closing grabs from Mirjam, Christian, Wolli

Mirjam

But we are trying to find strength in each other and build a global community of people rising up because we simply don't have much time left.

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Wolli picture

Wolli text on screen:

At the time of broadcast, Wolli remains on hunger strike

The German government has not acknowledged his demands

END