About 200,000 people have taken to the streets of Germany in further protests against the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD).

Protests on Saturday also took place in Dresden, Mainz and Hanover in a sign of growing alarm at strong public support for AfD.

Roughly 150,000 people flocked to the Reichstag parliament building in Berlin, where protesters gathered under the slogan “We are the Firewall” to protest against right-wing extremism and to show support for democracy.

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  • rustyfish@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Was one of them. Not in Berlin of course. Fuck that. But in my city they expected 700 people. We have been more than 5000.

    • Vub@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Your phrasing makes it look like you say “I was also demonstrating but of course not in Berlin, fuck Berlin”, I guess you meant something else?

    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
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      10 months ago

      Thats the French one.

      German is Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit, found in the national hymn, on old German mark coins and now German minted euro coins.

      Translates to Unity, (rule of) Law and freedom.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Yeah I’m not as familiar with German anarchic slogans as I am with French and Spanish (married a mutualist and am a syndicalist), but good to know this

  • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    This is very nice. In the meantime the German government cut funding for the UN humanitarian aid organization, with the predictable outcome that many thousands of civilizations are going to starve or thirst to death or die from diseases. Because Israel said so after the ICJ ruling.

    This in contravention of the ICJ ruling that ordered to stop Genocide. Which is binding for all countries to take steps to prevent genocide. German press isn’t really reporting on what that means.

    Which means the current “social democratic / green / liberal” coalition is potentially aiding in a genocide.

    Fuck the AfD fascists but you know… fuuuuuuuuuuuck