Germany

Anti -war Hiroshima and Nagasaki month:Imperialist war But ;"Who Started the Blitz"?

 

      Between 1940 and 1945, sixty-one German cities with a total population of
      25 millions were destroyed or devastated in a bombing campaign initiated
      by the British government. Destruction on this scale had no other purpose
      than the indiscriminate mass murder of as many German people as possible
      quite regardless of their civilian status. It led to retaliatory bombing
      resulting in 60,000 British dead and 86,000 injured.


Nuclear opponents from seven countries met in Germany

By SOFA Münster, translated by Diet Simon

From 2 to
4 May about 150 anti-nuclear activists from about 40 centres in Germany
as well as Russia, Finland, Sweden, Hungary, France and the Netherlands
took part in the spring conference of the anti-nuclear movement in the
German town of Ahaus, site of a nuclear waste dump.


Activists trying to set up a second IMC in Germany - dispute with controllers

Efforts are under way to set up a second IndyMedia in Germany. One reason is disagreements with the central group that controls the site now. I've picked this up from the German Indy site:


Germans given right to litigate against nukes

By Diet Simon

People living near nuclear installations in Germany have been given the right to litigate against them.

This is the upshot of a ruling by the country's highest administrative court, the Bundesverwaltungsgericht in Leipzig. The case file is BVerwG 7 C 39.07.


"Illegal" German nuclear funding challenged

By Diet Simon


war-is-illegal.org

War is illegal

Against a background of escalating ecological crises, and the fact that large
parts of the world´s population are being exposed to extreme poverty, inhuman
working conditions and increasing social tensions, the annual global military
expenditure has risen to more than 1000 billion dollars.
The
military-industrial complex of just a few G8 countries is responsible for the
overwhelming part of this spending, causing incalcuable social and ecological
consequences.

Protest against palmoil for German candle production

One of Germany’s biggest candle producers, Eika Wachswerke Fulda, will use more plant oils like palmoil because of the big jump in oil prices and hence the paraffin used up to now. Palmoil production causes destruction of rain forests, expulsion of small farmers from their lands and the use of agricultural poisons reports Reinhard Behrend from Germany, as translated by Diet Simon

Related:: FOE: Australians urged to act on unsustainable palm oil | Palm Oil: What you can do | Videos | UN report: The Last Stand of the Orangutan | Dutch to deny palm subsidies until green levels met

German Atomic Forum wins Worst EU Greenwash Award

On 4th Dezember the  Worst EU Lobby and the Worst European Greenwash were
being awarded in the Botanique in Brussels.

The award for the Worst EU Lobby went to Porsche, Daimler and BMW for
trying to keep car emission targets at bay. The German Atomic Forum, the lobby-organisation of the german nuclear power industry, won
the award for its "Unloved Climate Protectionist"-advertisement campaign.

Stand-up comedian Christina Martin, one of the presenters of the event,

new name of meeting hotel

new name of meeting hotel


demonstration against Atomic forum in Berlin

demonstration against Atomic forum in Berlin


German Nazis carved swastika into struggling girl’s leg as people looked on

Diet Simon, translating from German IndyMedia  

Protest against police brutality in Germany

By kmii at http://de.indymedia.org/2007/10/197827.shtml

In the morning of 24 October at 6.20 a.m. 250 police with dogs marched into a refugee accommodation in Remscheid (about 50 km northeast of Cologne).


Berlin solidarity demo for NZ arrestees

This afternoon, 19/10, a group of approximately 25-30 activists of many nations gathered together outside the New Zealand embassy in solidarity with the imprisoned Kiwi activists, demonstrating against these recent raids and
accusations of terrorism.

 


70 police break up anti-nuclear demo by 30 in St Petersburg

By Ecodefence and Bellona

About 30 activists protested near the St Petersburg parliament on Thursday against dumping of European uranium waste in Russia.

Police violently stopped the banned protest and detained 9 activists. (Photos St Petersburg IMC)

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