Social movements

Soziale Kämpfe und bottom-up Bewegungen

“Protecting the climate is not difficult – public transport”

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On Friday, the 02.02.2024 The ver.di union has called for strikes throughout Germany as part of the #wedrivetogether campaign and the current collective bargaining in local transport. There was a strike in Kassel 500 KVG employees together with passengers, Students and Fridays for Future for better working conditions and massive investments in local public transport. Demands were handed over to Mayor Sven Schoeller at Kassel town hall.

New anti-fascist alliance prevents AfD New Year's reception

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800 Protesters are on Sunday, the 28.01.2024 the call of the newly founded alliance “Kassel against the right” followed, to protest against the AfD and the societal shift to the right. The Kassel AfD had previously invited people to a New Year's reception that day. This had to be postponed and then canceled completely.

“Solidarity with the striking truck drivers in Gräfenhausen!“

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A banner was unfurled on a Kassel motorway feeder road in solidarity with the truckers' strike in southern Hesse. Around people have been on strike since mid-July 150 Truck driver for a Polish shipping company, the Mazur Group, at the Gräfenhausen motorway service area (Darmstadt-Dieburg district). An article about precarity in the supply chains of capital and solidarity on the edge of the A 5.

Repression against climate activists in Kassel

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On Friday, 18.08 have five climate protectors from the organization “Climate Justice Kassel” From the roof of the gas power plant a banner with the inscription “Get out of gas 2030” unrolled. The actions of the police during and after the action were an expression of the increasing repression against the climate movement in Germany.

District networking against the crisis

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On the occasion of the current inflation and energy price crisis, the alliance "Not on our backs" is organizing information stands for the "Wesertor against price increases" campaign.. Regular contact points with warm food and drinks are planned for autumn and winter. They want to use this to create a district network. A report on the work in the district network and the situation in the district.

Demo against price increases

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Under the motto “Get through the winter warm and full” demonstrated last Friday, the 21.10.2022, around eight hundred people in downtown Kassel for a winter of solidarity and solidarity politics in the crisis.

Rallies of solidarity with the protests in Iran

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Numerous people demonstrated in Kassel at the weekend, to express their solidarity with the protests in Iran. There, a few days ago, 22-year-old Mahsa Amînî died in Iranian police custody as a result of injuries inflicted on her under torture.

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