facing some pretty exhausted Wilhelmshaven and Oldenburg demonstrators yesterday (... Hopsa), no, today, back from her trip to Berlin, and although that is not due to bad weather so many people participated in the demonstration, as originally expected, the action can be considered a complete success.
quasi middle of the night (after 4.30 clock in the morning) we were broken up, the move had yet picked up some people and had to clock 11.47, which arrived in good time, at the starting point, the Berlin Alexanderplatz. From where we are after about an hour and after a small opening rally of several thousand (or even ten thousand) people in motion. - Long and several Staßenzüge of time, was because of the demonstration, which was divided into individual blocks.
went peacefully and with some background music it across Berlin, after about 2 1 / 2 hours to get back at the Red Town Hall with the Neptune Fountain. Reinforced by some Samba GUPP performance artist and of course in chants we made because of the grievances, of seasonal workers, recipients of HarzIV and everyone else have to suffer under the neo-liberal policy (for the first time this year with a large student strike-block), very closely. -
The observed by the police riot, we can confirm this but: although went off and even a firework to the officials, but this was so isolated from time to time, that even at Rosa-Luxembourg-Memorial March of each year, more happened, and the escalation strategy (for the officers clearly had one in the De-) is not to understand! - Moved but the implemented security forces after they had already stopped the march again, in small groups by the final rally, that in view of the helmeted and was provided with protectors officials sometimes more reminiscent of jousting, as a trade union organized major initiatives and event parties.
very well liked and very funny we found the reason why some participants, from ver.di.-Berlin, we could observe how they herliefen behind the police and anbliesen Papierschnippseln with this, because they refused partout, multiple calls to the leaving organizers to stop using her martial bustle, and a request that the rally to follow.
Finally, we want to say that there are some sources believe that the fate of the crisis has played into the hands of protest and that the movement was actually already dead. - But we, who were involved in the planning and preparation can, the only entgegehalten: it was to see everything! - The crisis management Ala Merkel and Co. is so predictable that we had on the advice in Kassel analyzed this development is relatively accurate. - The cuts in the social sector and the continued patronage of the rulers are a staple, do not learn from the historical contexts ending market radicals and their adherence to the classical "laissez-faire" principle of American economists of the last century.
All we need to thank us for ver.di. Wilhelmshaven, the ALI and many more, it even have made it all possible, that we organize a bus for the trip and provide the participants with coffee and a snack.
