Germany

Activists In Germany Disrupt Israeli Intelligence Officer

June 1, 2019 Riri Hylton, Electronicintifada.net Resist! Activists, Germany, Israel, Nationalism

Israeli Major Arye Sharuz Shalicar was promoting his new book The New German Anti-Semite at a high school in Aurich in northwest Germany, on 17 May, when two activists, one German and one Israeli, interrupted his speech. “As soon as we got word of the upcoming events we tried to intervene,” Christoph Glanz told The Electronic Intifada. “Shalicar has written two more or less autobiographical books which contain a lot of slander, character assassination and at their core claim that anti-Semitism is everywhere and most prominent among leftists, Muslims and self-hating Jews.”

The Radical Way Berlin Plans To Solve Its Housing Crisis

April 14, 2019 By Emily Schultheis, Huff Post. Create! Corporatism, Germany, Housing, New Economy

Berlin ― A sea of placards streamed across Berlin’s Alexanderplatz, a large public square under the shadow of the city’s massive TV tower, with bold messages daubed in paint and printed across placards. “The City Belongs to Us!” “My Home, Not Your Profit!” “I Don’t Want to Move!” Thousands of people took to the streets in Germany’s capital city on Saturday to protest the rapidly rising cost of apartments in Berlin. “There were old people, young people, families, there were even homeowners … it was basically a snapshot of the entire population of Berlin,” said 77-year-old Barbara von Boroviczény, one of the activists involved in organizing the protest as part of grassroots campaign group Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co.

A Referendum To Expropriate Apartments From Big Landlords In Berlin

April 13, 2019 Staff, Economist.com Resist! Germany, Housing, Land

Sarah-lena knust, a mild-mannered young pr consultant, is an unlikely radical. But finding a place to live in Germany’s booming capital tests the hardiest soul. Since moving to Berlin last year Ms Knust has twice struggled to find affordable housing. The last flat-viewing she attended attracted 30 rivals. The place she eventually found will suck up nearly half her income. “I knew it would be hard,” she sighs. “But I didn’t think it would be like this.” Such tales are familiar in a city where the days of paying next to nothing for cavernous apartments are long gone.

Berlin Activists March To Demand City Seize Housing From Landlords

April 8, 2019 Caroline Copley, Reuters.com Resist! Germany, Housing, Privatization, Protests

BERLIN (Reuters) - Thousands of Berlin residents took to the streets on Saturday to vent anger over surging rents and demand the expropriation of more than 200,000 apartments sold off to big private landlords, which they blame for changing the character of the city. Activists have started collecting signatures for a ballot proposal that would require the city to take back properties from any landlord that owns more than 3,000 apartments. Polls suggest such a measure could pass, forcing the city to consider spending billions of euros buying privatized housing back.

The Rigors Of Organizing: On The Road With The German Climate Resistance

February 28, 2019 Jeff Ordower, Counterpunch.org Resist! Climate Change, Germany

Recently, press in the United States told the story of the great transition that the German Coal Commission announced. Benevolent governments like Germany are deciding to make a just transition away from coal and have even set an end date, 2038, for a long-term orderly transition to occur. The mainstream media is hailing this transition as a model for the rest of the world. There are two problems with this narrative. First, the current German plan renders it impossible for Germany to meet its goals under the Paris accords. Despite what the German governmental spin is, Germany’s proposed coal exit is well behind the 2030 exit of other European countries and includes a transition to fracked gas.

The U.S. Military Is Poisoning Germany

February 18, 2019 By Pat Elder, Civilianexposure.org Educate! Contamination, Germany, Toxic Chemicals, US military

Germany is experiencing a public health crisis with millions of people potentially exposed to drinking water contaminated with Per and Poly Fluoroalkyl Substances, or PFAS. A major source of this chemical contamination comes from the aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) used in routine fire-training on U.S. military bases. After igniting, then dousing massive fires with the lethal foam containing PFAS, the American bases allow the poisons to leach into the groundwater to contaminate neighboring communities which use groundwater in their wells and municipal water systems.

Germany: Fridays For Future

February 14, 2019 Conny Dahmen, Socialistworld.net Resist! Coal, Germany, Protests, Students

“There’s no point in learning for a future that doesn’t exist.” With this motto, more and more young people this year have taken to the streets every week to fight climate change. On January 18, more than 30,000 school students in more than 50 cities across Germany went on strike. Last Friday, 10,000 of them went to Berlin to exert pressure on the Coal Commission, which presented its results of negotiations at the weekend. There have also been large demonstrations in Switzerland and Belgium in recent weeks: on 18 January, 22,000 school students went on strike in Switzerland; on Thursday, 24 January, 35,000 young demonstrators marched through Brussels - making it the biggest youth protest in many years...

The Financial Secret Behind Germany’s Green Energy Revolution

January 26, 2019 Ellen Brown, Truthdig.com Create! Clean Energy, Germany, New Economy

The “Green New Deal” endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D.-N.Y., and more than 40 other House members has been criticized as imposing a too-heavy burden on the rich and upper-middle-class taxpayers who will have to pay for it. However, taxing the rich is not what the Green New Deal resolution proposes. It says funding would come primarily from certain public agencies, including the U.S. Federal Reserve and “a new public bank or system of regional and specialized public banks.” Funding through the Federal Reserve may be controversial, but establishing a national public infrastructure and development bank should be a no-brainer.

35,000 Hit Streets Of Berlin To Demand Agricultural Revolution

January 21, 2019 By Andrea Germanos, Commondreams.org Resist! Berlin, Food and Agriculture, Germany, Policy, Protests

"This protest shows that the desire for a different agricultural policy is now undeniable." Organizers said 35,000 people marched through the streets of the German capital on Saturday to say they're "fed up" with industrial agriculture and call for a transformation to a system that instead supports the welfare of the environment, animals, and rural farmers.

Germany Allocates $62m To Development Projects In Palestine

December 7, 2018 Middle East Monitor, Mintpressnews.com Create! Development, Germany, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Palestine, Uneven Development

Germany allocated €55 million ($62.5 million) to be dispersed to Palestinian development projects in the occupied West Bank and the besieged Gaza Strip in 2019. Klaus Kramer, the head of division in the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, told reporters in Ramallah that it was agreed, in coordination with various ministries in the Palestinian government, that the money will go to mainly three sectors: sustainable economic development, infrastructure such as water projects and local governance, including projects with municipalities. While the funds in the form of grants will go mainly to these three areas, development projects in other fields will also get part of the money, such as projects carried out by civil society organisations.

From Appalachia To Germany: Anti-Capitalist Trees, People Power & Systemic Corruption

October 11, 2018 Eleanor Goldfield, Occupy.com Resistance Report Appalachia, Capitalism, Corruption, Germany

On the front lines of the fight against dirty energy – worldwide. First up, some great news from West Virginia and Virginia – taking time to celebrate these victories while taking a look at the corrupted agencies playing into the hands of big oil and gas. Next, a powerful weekend in the Hambach Forest of Germany – where the fight against the world's dirtiest fossil fuel continues on a large and creative scale.

“Get up” – Sahra Wagenknecht In An Interview About Her Collection Movement

August 16, 2018 By Fabienne Rzitki, Web.de Create! Class Struggle, Germany, Politics

A movement can not compete in elections in Germany. But when we get strong, we can build up so much pressure that the parties open their lists for fellow campaigners. However, our primary concern is not to get parliamentary posts, but to launch an initiative that will make political engagement attractive again. We want to address people who have turned away disappointed from the parties. We want to win those who do not want party-political ox-tours, but are very interested in politics and want to help shape it. We will be different, in our communication, in our appearance. After all, the majority of our now over forty prominent founding members does not come from politics. There are actors, singers, writers, scientists, cabaret artists, theater people.

Germans Want Donald Trump To Pull US Troops Out Of Germany, Poll Finds

July 12, 2018 By Jon Stone, Independent.co.uk Educate! Donald Trump, Germany, US Imperialism, US military

US president has said American military spending to protect Europe is not sustainable. Germans would actually welcome the withdrawal of American troops stationed in their country, a new poll has found – as Donald Trump threatens to pull the plug on military support. The finding comes on the first day of a Nato summit in which the US president is urging Europe to spend more on defence if it wants to continue to receive American military protection. But far from being seen as a threat, a YouGov poll for the dpa news agency found that more Germans would welcome the departure of the 35,000-strong American force than would oppose it. 42 per cent said they supported withdrawal while just 37 per cent wanted the soldiers to stay, with 21 per cent undecided. Last month the US media reported that the US government was in the process of assessing the cost of keeping troops in Germany ahead of a possible withdrawal, citing Pentagon sources.

Blome And Wilayto Arrested At Massive Ramstein Protest; Sept. 30 – Oct. 6 – We Must Rally To “Shut Down Creech”

July 12, 2018 Staff, Knowdrones.com Resist! Germany, Protests, US Imperialism

Toby Blomé, of CODEPINK, and Phil Wilayto, of United National Antiwar Coalition, were among about a dozen mostly German protesters who were arrested on June 30, 2018 by German police as they blockaded the U.S. Ramstein air base in Germany during the fourth annual protest that this year drew about 2,500. Below is a detailed report on the protest by Elsa Rassbach, CODEPINK representative in Germany who has been a member of the Stop Air Base Ramstein Campaign Coordinating Committee since 2015. Press links are included.

Antinuclear Resisters At Büchel Airbase In Germany

July 6, 2018 Pat Elder, Worldbeyondwar.org Resist! Germany, Nuclear Weapons

Early in the morning, when I approached this sprawling airbase that employs 2,000 civilians and soldiers, the bucolic setting was reminiscent of the rolling foothills of the Blueridge Mountains in western Maryland and Virginia. Scattered large, well-kept farmhouses amid the beautiful rolling land planted in wheat and corn reflected this prosperous and peaceful country. The Airbase (Der Fliegerhorst Büchel) is located in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of western Germany, about 60 km from the border with Belgium and Luxembourg. About 20 US thermonuclear nuclear weapons, fitted to the German Luftwaffe’s Panavia Tornado fighter jet, are ready to be deployed in a moment’s notice. German pilots will take off with these weapons if the order comes from President Trump through NATO. The Germans will drop them on their targets, presumably in Russia.

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