Police everywhere; it is raining; the march in Lueneburg is over. Some are cold. Despite, we are here and want to stay; even though the police prevented the formation of two resistance camps near the RR-tracks in Tollendorf and Govelin. The police demonstratively spread quietening mottos: "It has been a rather quiet night", according to a police spokesman in Lueneburg, as we gladly hear in the radio. Some of us had a lodging offer at churches but we preferred to stay in an admitted camp and with friends and comrades. Brrr- it is cold. We make bonfires and warm up. Drink cola at 3 centigrade outside. Somebody in the circle wonders if the young ones can stand it easier? We grin. It is of some comfort that the ladies and gentlemen of the oppression forces on-site have lodging-problems. Especially the Magdeburgers are bitching. As chair man of the police union, Niedersachsen branch, Bernd Witthaut, told "Bild am Sonntag" (Sunday tabloid), conditions are beneath human dignity, police are being penned like animals. Wouldn't that be a reason to desert and go home? You don't have a business to be here in Wendland; people here despise you! There is said to have been an attack against the the RR-tracks Hamburg-Hannover near Celle. According to the police they put to concrete slabs on the tracks near Celle station. A local city train ran over the obstacles but didn't derail. Nobody got injured either. On another track, officers of Bundesgrenzschutz (federal police, border protection forces) found a wooden slab that had not been run over. As they say usually, the police are investigating a possible connection to the Castor transport to come. Following the Surday evening march in Luenebeurg, the first attempt to squat RR-tracks occurred. About 500 people went to a platform in the station and partly sat down on the tracks. Since the action was obviously of symbolic character, we left after 20 minutes. There is Stunkparade today (allusion: to kick up a stink= stunk machen) With their tractors, farmers form a convoi against the Monday nuclear waste- transport to Gorleben. The Bauerliche Notgemeinschaft (Rural Emergency Community) mobilized about 250 farmers. As farmers of the vicinity say, there will be still some more. Castor-transport lines are made taboo for the protest. We'll see. We are cold but we stay here. Let's force the costs for Castor-transport up to astronomic levels!

Red Winterhude, Sunday March 25, 2001, somerwhere in Wendland.