On November 5, 2017, at the beginning of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:2017_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference" title="Category:2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference">COP 23</a>, the activist organization <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_pour_la_Taxation_des_Transactions_financi%C3%A8res" class="extiw" title="en:Association pour la Taxation des Transactions financières">Attac</a> and the alliance <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ende_Gel%C3%A4nde_2017" class="extiw" title="en:Ende Gelände 2017">Ende Gelände 2017</a> demonstrated against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lignite" class="extiw" title="en:Lignite">lignite</a>-fired power <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation" class="extiw" title="en:Electricity generation">generation</a> in the Rhenish lignite mining district not far from <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bonn" title="Bonn">Bonn</a>.
<p>After the rally with several thousand people, about 600 people invaded the open pit <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tagebau_Hambach" title="Category:Tagebau Hambach">Hambach</a>.
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The operator had to stop two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket-wheel_excavator" class="extiw" title="en:Bucket-wheel excavator">bucket-wheel excavators</a>.
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