Berlin: For self-determination of people in need of care and against IPReG

June 30, 2020

Several dozen people, including many ventilated patients, gathered in Berlin to protest against the Intensive Care and Rehabilitation Strengthening Act (IPReG) passed by the governing coalition.

Those affected accused Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) of wanting to force back nursing staff working in this field into hospitals and homes. This would be to the detriment in particular of patients requiring artificial respiration, who would lose a large part of their self-determined lives if they were forced to live in a home.

In the meantime, politicians from Bündnis90/Die Grünen, the Left Party and the F.D.P. have also spoken out against corresponding regulations in the draft law. On the part of the SPD, there are appeasements and consolations.

During the rally, more than 200,000 signatures against the draft law, which were collected on the change.org platform under the motto "No home obligation for people in need of care", were handed over to members of the Bundestag.

Affected persons in need of care pointed out their precarious situation in speeches.

Thousands at Seebrücke protest in Berlin for open borders

March 7, 2020

Several thousand people took part in a demonstration in Berlin called by the Seebrücke alliance.

The participants demanded open borders and safe escape routes for refugees. They criticized the policy of sealing off the European Union, as well as massive attacks on refugees in Greece by right-wing radicals and the police.

The background is the recent opening of the border in Turkey and the policy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogans to bring refugees from Turkey to the border with Greece by bus.

There, people are stranded in no man's land after Greece has refused them entry to the EU using force. At the same time, there have been massive attacks by right-wing extremists on fugitives, NGOs and journalists, which the Greek police have not stopped.

Protest in Berlin for the reception of underage refugees

February 8, 2020

Several hundred people take part in a rally in front of the Foreign Office in Berlin, followed by a demonstration to the Bundestag for the reception of under-age refugees. The protest was organized by the alliance "Seebrücke Berlin" under the motto "We have room!

The opening rally was joined by several hundred people who protested in a rally against the election of the Thuringian Minister President Kemmerisch (FDP) with the help of the right-wing radical AfD.

The background is that thousands of refugees are stranded in Greek refugee camps, where they live under deeply inhumane conditions. About one third of the people there are minors.

Indians protest in Berlin against discrimination against Muslims in India

January 18, 2020

About 100 people demonstrate in Berlin against the plans of the Indian government to reform the citizenship law and against discrimination against Muslims.

The background to this are plans by Prime Minister Modi's Hindu-nationalist ruling party BJP to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from neighbouring countries, but to exclude Muslims from it. During protests in India several people have died.

Kurds demonstrate in Berlin for the Syrian Rojava

December 7, 2019

Around 150 people took part in a demonstration in Berlin Neukölln and Kreuzberg in solidarity for Rojava and Kurdish self-determination. The participants also opposed the invasion by Turkey of the self-governing region in northern Syria.