![]() Activists walking to a Code Rood civil disobedience action at the coal terminal of the
Port of Amsterdam in 2017 | |
Purpose | Civil disobedience, climate activism |
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Code Rood (also styled CODE ROOD, Dutch for "Code Red") is a network of climate activists based in the Netherlands. The activists organize large-scale civil disobedience actions in opposition to the fossil fuel industry. [1]
Code Rood is horizontally organized, and was inspired in part by Ende Gelände 2016, during which protestors shut down a coal mine and a coal-fired power station for a period of two days. [2] [3]
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In June 2017, Code Rood called for a civil disobedience action at the Port of Amsterdam as well as a climate camp nearby. [4] The civil disobedience action took place on June 24, the second anniversary of the court case State of the Netherlands v. Urgenda Foundation. [2] A group of about 300 activists successfully shut down the OBA Bulk Terminal Amsterdam coal port for over eight hours, which the company's executive director said cost them about 50,000 euros. [5] The group had stated that they would leave before dark, but five activists remained in a crane and were arrested for trespassing. [6]
In August 2018, Code Rood organized a protest in Groningen near a group of storage tanks belonging to Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij (NAM), a joint venture which is owned by Shell and ExxonMobil. [7] The march was set up by locals whose homes had been damaged by NAM's natural gas extraction in the area, and approximately 400 [8] to 700 people attended, setting up a camp which blocked transportation in and out of the tank complex. [9] After 200 [8] to 300 more protestors joined the group in the late afternoon, [9] police used batons and pepper spray against a group that moved closer to the fence than agreed upon, and Code Rood reported that five activists were injured and one had to be treated in an ambulance. [8] [10] In February 2019, the police issued a statement that officers had used disproportionate force at the protest. [11] [12]
In May 2021, Code Rood collaborated with Extinction Rebellion to paint a Shell gas station in The Hague black as a protest while the gas company was holding its annual meeting in the same city. [13]