There appears to be no future for the Bremen branch of the climate change alarmist group “Fridays for Future,” which was originally founded by Swedish climate wunderkind Greta Thunberg in 2018.
On July 3rd, the Bremen Fridays for Future (FFF) wrote on their website that they would be dissolving and accused the German national branch of FFF of being “structurally racist” and claimed that “Black, Indigenous, People of Colour (BIPoC)” people had suffered abuse from other activists with the FFF movement.
The Bremen FFF quoted another group, BIPoC for Future, in their statement, which read,
In the wake of the huge racism problem, BIPoC for Future and its members have experienced racist bullying, insults, abuse of power and much more traumatic behaviour, which has led to many BIPoC leaving these structures because they are neither safe nor supposed to be safe.
The group also listed the Coronavirus pandemic as a major factor leading to the dissolving of the group, stating that support evaporated during the pandemic and had never recovered. They also claimed that anti-capitalist activists were prevented from promoting their agenda under the aegis of the group.
“When we let Palestinians have their say at our climate strike on September 23, 2022, under the theme of “anti-colonial climate justice”, we were not only denigrated by the media but also the German FFF federal level positioned itself against us,” they said, with the German left-wing newspaper TAZ noting that there was a conflict over the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Fridays For Future founder Greta Thunberg is facing problems of her own in her native Sweden, according to a report from the newspaper Die Welt, which states Thunberg has a date in Swedish court following a climate protest in the city of Malmö.
On Wednesday, July 5th, prosecutors stated that charges were being brought against a young woman who had refused police orders to leave the area during a climate protest but did not name Thunberg directly. It was later confirmed to be the climate activist by the Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan.
During the protest, which took place last month, Thunberg and others blocked tanker trucks from driving out of the port in Malmö and refused to leave after being ordered by the police.
Following the protest, Thunberg posted about it on Instagram, saying, “We chose not to be passive spectators, but instead to obstruct the fossil fuel infrastructure. We are taking back the future.”
Around thirty trucks were prevented from leaving the port in total, according to police, who noted that one activist climbed up on one of the trucks as well.
The protest is more radical than Thunberg’s usual protests, which saw her simply not attend school every Friday.
Thunberg has shown more radical sympathies in the past, however, including wearing a t-shirt seemingly in support of the violent far-left group Antifa, which she later clarified, saying the shirt had been borrowed from someone else.
“That T-shirt can apparently to some be linked to a violent movement. I don’t support any form of violence and to avoid misunderstandings I’ve deleted the post. And of course I am against fascism,” she said.
Since that post in 2019, however, Thunberg has not been afraid to support climate activists and others linked to violence, such as the Uprisings of the Earth (SLT), which was shut down by the French government over accusations of fomenting violence.
Thunberg travelled to France last month in support of the group saying, “This is about the right to protest and this is about defending life,” and added, “I hope there’ll be more people who stand up against these things that are happening now, and stand up for the right to protest.”
