Nothing to C: Climate activists prank Merkel's CDU party
Environmental activists brazenly marched off with a giant letter "C" from the entrance of Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party headquarters in broad daylight Thursday in a stunt to protest its climate change policies.
Members of Greenpeace waltzed into the CDU building in downtown Berlin in the morning and snatched the 2-meter-tall (6.5-foot-tall) letter from inside the glass.
To the remaining "DU" German for "you" they added a banner reading, "should protect the climate."
Later, after someone removed the giant "DU" letters, the activists rappelled down the front of the building and pasted a new part on their banner to spell it out again for morning commuters to see.
The group says it removed the "C" thus taking the "Christian" out of the "Christian Democratic Union" party name because they maintain Merkel's party hasn't been upholding the Christian imperative to protect creation.
While Merkel's party recently agreed a package of measures to reduce carbon emissions, ...