Germany

Berlin: Refugees Threaten To Jump From Roof If Police Evict

June 29, 2014 Revolution News, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Germany, Immigrant Rights, Police, Refugees

There is a rooftop standoff ongoing in Berlin for the 5th day in a row, in which the riot police have tried and failed to evict an occupied refugee squat and school. People from Berlin gathered in sit-in, blockades and protests have stopped cops for yet another night from evicting the refugees who found shelter on the roof so they can’t be attacked, brutalized, arrested and deported. Their solidarity was stronger than the army of cops, and all their abuses. Several people were arrested and injured by cops, because they defended the refugees. Berlin: Tomorrow Saturday 28 June, at 16:00 (0400pm), there will be a demonstration against the army of cops occupying the Kreuzberg district. Starting point will be Hermann Platz. The cops tweet: “Refugees rejected the offer of the senate. Police is not planning further steps.” Their offer was a scam to lure them in so they can arrest them, of course they refused it. Cops ordered hundreds of police from other states to Berlin. Convoys of cops from other states were seen driving towards Berlin tonight. Refugees will need more support. Cops seem upset that people do not appreciate their abuses, violence and brutality. Refugees say they never threatened to burn the school and that they have no gas or gasoline. But they will jump from the roof when the police enters the building. “We have nothing to lose. When the polices comes into the school we will jump.”

Germany Cancels Verizon Contract Over NSA Spying

June 28, 2014 Reuters, www.reuters.com Educate! Business, Germany, Surveillance, Verizon

The German government has cancelled a contract with U.S. telecoms firm Verizon Communications Inc VZ.N as part of an overhaul of its internal communications, prompted by revelations last year of U.S. government spying. Reports based on disclosures by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden alleged Washington had conducted mass surveillance in Germany and had even eavesdropped on Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone. Berlin subsequently demanded talks with Washington on a "no-spy" deal, but these collapsed after the United States appeared unwilling to give the assurances Germany wanted. Germany also launched an overhaul of its internal communications and secure government networks. This is one of the first actions involving a U.S. firm to result. "The pressures on networks as well as the risks from highly developed viruses or Trojans are rising," Germany's Interior Ministry said in a statement on Thursday. "Furthermore, the ties revealed between foreign intelligence agencies and firms in the wake of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) affair show that the German government needs a very high level of security for its critical networks."

Germany’s Environment Minister: Make Fracking Illegal

April 3, 2014 DPA, www.thelocal.de Educate! Energy, Fracking, Germany

Germany’s environment minister has called for the controversial gas extraction technique known as “fracking” to be made illegal. Her comments came ahead of an emergency energy summit. The country’s 16 state premiers were set to meet on Tuesday evening in Berlin in an attempt to smooth over disagreements around the financing of the country's switch over to renewable energy, known as the Energiewende. Ahead of the meeting, Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks said Germany should never consider turning to fracking as a solution for its energy needs, despite the success of the technology in the USA. Fracking involves blasting water mixed with sand and chemicals at high pressure into rocks, releasing the gas. “Unlike the USA, our country is densely populated and small,” Hendricks told the Passauer Neue Presse on Tuesday. She added that not only would a successful commercial fracking industry in Germany be “wishful thinking” but that “a rethinking of our energy policy should take us away from fossil fuels – no matter where they come from.”

Der Spiegel: NSA Put Merkel on List of 122 Targeted Leaders

March 30, 2014 Ryan Gallagher, www.firstlook.org Educate! Germany, NSA

Secret documents newly disclosed by the German newspaper Der Spiegel on Saturday shed more light on how aggressively the National Security Agency and its British counterpart have targeted Germany for surveillance. A series of classified files from the archive provided to reporters by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, also seen by The Intercept, reveal that the NSA appears to have included Merkel in a surveillance database alongside more than 100 others foreign leaders. The documents also confirm for the first time that, in March 2013, the NSA obtained a top-secret court order against Germany as part of U.S. government efforts to monitor communications related to the country. Meanwhile, the British spy agency Government Communications Headquarters targeted three German companies in a clandestine operation that involved infiltrating the companies’ computer servers and eavesdropping on the communications of their staff.

Hamburg Activists Resist ‘danger zone,’ Cops Caught Lying

January 8, 2014 Rote Flora, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Germany, Police abuse

Riot police are continuing their installment of martial law in Hamburg, in a designated area referred to as the “danger zone.” Also, details have emerged that indicate police have fabricated claims of an attack on a police station as an excuse to continue restricting the area, but more on that later. Predictably, oppressive police tactics have backfired as demonstrators have taken to the streets of the Hamburg-occupied territory demanding they free the area. Police have effectively been holding a large part of Hamburg under arrest, by imposing the “danger zone” to intimidate the population for siding with activists defending Rote Flora two weeks ago, and to suppress further demonstrations. The area will remain restricted for an unspecified amount of time, and probably at least until spring.

German Activists Protest Rota Flore Eviction

December 22, 2013 Resist! Germany, Immigration, Police abuse

Several hundred activists were injured, 120 detained and 16 arrested in Hamburg when armed riot cops attacked 8,000 demonstrators, who, in solidarity with refugees, gathered to defend the Rota Flore, which is under threat of being evicted, after last week the “Esso” social houses were already evicted. While surveilling demonstrators from the helicopter, between 2,000-3,000 cops, armed with water cannons, teargas, and guns, surrounded the demonstrators and attacked them, unprovoked. Footage clearly proves this as cops are suddenly seen rushing towards the demonstrators and attacking them. Activists say the cops claimed their attack was justified because the “demonstration started too early.” There was a massive use of teargas, cops seemed to mimic the tactics used during the Gezi repression by the Turkish police, and continuously attacked demonstrators with water canons.

Snowden Ally Says Berlin Apartment Subject To Raids

December 21, 2013 Staff, www.rt.com Resist! Edward Snowden, Germany, Human Rights, NSA, Privacy, Surveillance, Wikileaks

Applebaum described strange scenarios which have been haunting him. “When I flew away for an appointment, I installed four alarm systems in my apartment,” Appelbaum said. “When I returned, three of them had been turned off. The fourth, however, had registered that somebody was in my flat - although I'm the only one with a key. Some of my effects - the positions of which I carefully note - were indeed askew. My computers had been turned on and off,” he added. “The monitoring pressure has ultimately destroyed my relationship with my girlfriend,” he mourned. The internet activist, journalist and cybersecurity specialist is a core member of the Tor encrypted network and has well-documented ties to WikiLeaks. Appelbaum believes that the intention behind the incidents is to make him feel uncomfortable - so that he knows they “care” about him “while leaving no possible evidence.” He reiterated his commitment to internet freedoms and the right to privacy. “It's about protecting our core values against a totalitarian surveillance state - whether in analogue or in the digital world,” he said.

Military Spending, Banking, Austerity, TAFTA…Protested

December 20, 2013 Staff, www.euronews.com Resist! Austerity, Brussels, Europe, Finance and the Economy, Germany, Greece, Italy, Video, Wars and Militarism

The EU summit brought hundreds of protesters onto the streets of Brussels over a variety of causes – from austerity to food production and military policy. While European leaders talked about defence and banking rules aimed at protecting taxpayers, demonstrators complained the EU favours vested interests. “They are pursuing policies for big business, the big bosses, whereas we need all that money for the people. If we don’t fight we’ll be adopting the German model, where the situation of young people, having to work for little jobs, will always be precarious,” said Stephane, a student. Traffic was disrupted as some 50 organisations turned out to stage demonstrations. Anger was also directed at cost-cutting by Belgium in its new budget, and by other European governments. “What we see in countries with very strong austerity like in Greece, Portugal or in Spain, is that debt goes up, the deficit goes up, so does unemployment and the number of suicides. It’s economic poison,” said Felipe Van Keirsblick from the CNE trade union representing private sector employees.

Austerity In Europe Brings Calls For Decentralized Protests

November 23, 2013 Staff, www.dw.de Resist! Austerity, Finance and the Economy, Germany, Occupy

"We're planning decentralized days of protest across Europe," said Roland Süss of Germany's anti-globalization pressure group,Attac, in addition to the main demonstration at the ECB. As a preventative measure, the Frankfurt police have proposed to meet with the organizers and their associated groups and start a dialogue. They want to avoid scenes like those in the spring, when there were violent clashes between police and demonstrators. In addition to Attac, various leftist groups and unemployment groups from several European countries are also part of the Blockupy movement. The more people fear for the future, the more they join the protests in Spain, Greece, Portugal or France - to Blockupy's benefit. But the core of the protest alliance is still found in economically strong Germany, partly because the ECB is based in Frankfurt, according to Oliver Nachtwey, of the economic sociology department at the University of Trier. In addition, he said, economically strong Germany has backed strict austerity policies

Don’t Move, Occupy! Social Movement Vs Social Arrest

November 5, 2013 Mehmet Döşemeci, www.roarmag.org Strategize! Arab Spring, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, Mexico, Occupy, Spain, Türkiye, Wars and Militarism

Regardless of their final present political fate, the global uprisings since 2011 have already established mass continuous occupation of public space as the dominant form of political struggle in the early 21st century: the coming together of people who have both withdrawn their consent to be governed by the existing order and, equally importantly, discovered the responsibility, dignity, difficulty, and — above all — joy of instituting a society outside of it. In so doing, they have challenged the periodization that separated a mass political uprising from the democracy that may follow it. The common feature of all these occupations was the creation of democratic forms within the space and time of the uprising itself. This was made possible not through a politics predicated on movement, but rather one of arrest, of occupation, in order to create sites for the collective restructuring of social relations and space.

No To Asylum, But Germans Want To Hear What Snowden Has To Say

November 4, 2013 Staff, www.dw.de Educate! Edward Snowden, Germany

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has again ruled out granting asylum to NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden. This comes amid growing calls for a way to be found for Snowden to meet with German parliamentarians. Germans want to question Snowden, but how? The chancellor's spokesman on Monday took great pains to stress the need to avoid a break with Washington over allegations of the mass surveillance of German citizens by the US National Security Agency (NSA), and possibly even the tapping of Merkel's mobile phone. “The trans-Atlantic alliance remains for us Germans of exceptional importance,” Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert told reporters in Berlin. He added that Germany had benefitted more than virtually any other nation from its friendly relations with the United States.

Snowden To Assist Germany Investigating US Spying

November 1, 2013 Staff, www.bbc.co.uk Resist! Edward Snowden, Germany, NSA

The German government says it is keen to hear directly from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden about the US spy agency's activities. "If the message is that Mr Snowden wants to give us information then we'll gladly accept that," said German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich. Mr Snowden has met a German Green MP, Hans-Christian Stroebele, in Moscow. Speaking to German ARD television, Mr Stroebele said that Mr Snowden "is fundamentally ready to help bring things to light". "The conditions for that have to be established. We had a long discussion about that." The MP said he had suggested that investigators could question Mr Snowden in Moscow about the NSA. Mr Snowden "made it clear that he knows a very great deal," he went on. Mr Stroebele described the former intelligence contractor as "amazingly talkative - he has a mission, an urge to communicate, he wants things to be put back on a legal basis".

US Spying On Foreign Governments Creates Major Blowback

October 25, 2013 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Brazil, Empire, France, Germany, NSA, Wars and Militarism

Now that the extent of US spying on foreign leaders, including US allies, is known it is creating major blowback against the United States. No doubt anger at the United States for its aggressive leadership of the largest empire in world history which has military, economic and political implications has been building up for a long time. Countries have been pulled into wars based on lies, forced to participate in torture and rendition, drawn into negotiations on trade agreements that undermine their national policies in favor of profits for US transnational corporations among many examples of abuse of power. The spying on foreign leaders is an issue in its own right, but in fact the issues are much broader.

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