NRecently, a twelve-year-old girl named Lilli was sitting on an exit road off Autobahn 100 in Berlin. It was Monday morning, the asphalt was very cold, but Lilli wasn’t afraid, even though she should be at school at that time. Now she was sitting here, with a safety vest and a dozen other climate protectors next to her, so that the backlog blocked the entire Autobahn. Some of the drivers lost their composure. It was rush hour, they had appointments, climate change wasn’t their main problem at this time. One got out, stood in front of Lilli and yelled: “I have children who have to go to school. You vacate here. Otherwise, I really freak out here.” He explained that he drives disabled children and that he urgently needs to move on. “Otherwise I’ll drive you over here! This can not be true!”
Another dragged one of the climate protectors across the asphalt by the yoke. People drove very close to the blockers, as if considering stepping on the gas. The police came. And right in the middle: Lilli. A child illegally blocking a road was something new. “It was frustrating for her to be yelled at and not yell back,” says her mother, Lena Schiller. The press release from the Last Generation Uprising group said of Lilli: “She was previously active with Fridays for Future. But that didn’t do enough. According to Lilli, blockages are now needed in order to finally ‘really change something'”.