To the 8. March 2020, International Women's Day, had called the women and queers strike committee Kassel to a feminist demonstration. According to the call of the committee, this should bring current feminist struggles onto the streets. Specifically, it was about battles to appreciate concern- and reproductive work, the struggle for recognition and equal opportunities in training and on the labor market and the advocacy of the physical, gender self-determination.
Are calling, roughly estimated, that. 600 People followed, who turn around on Sunday 14 Clock on the station forecourt. After a short The demonstration started against the rally in front of the main train station 15 Clock from Station forecourt and ran across Kölnische Strasse and Karthäuserstraße to Ständeplatz, where an interim rally was held. Then the demo continued on the Koenigstrasse to the star. There was a brief sit-in on the Crossing held. The demo ended on the Dutch place.
The contributions throughout the demo were numerous and varied in form and content. At the beginning the Women and Queers Strike Committee made a speech, which contained the numerous demands of the committee, which were roughly based on the various topics in the call. Then a group of approx. 30 Personen die Performance „A rapist on your way“ (Spanish: A rapist on your way) presented, which was originally initiated by the feminist collective "Las Tesis" from Chile. That’s the performance, addresses gender-based violence and the culture of rape, was performed publicly for the first time in Kassel, having been since November 2019 has been adapted worldwide.
Further speeches were made by speakers of the support group who were directly or indirectly affected by the sexualized assault at the 'Monis Rache' festival., of the group 'Field Feminism' from Witzenhausen, der JXK (Student women from Kurdistan) and the internationalist network Ya Basta. In addition, the feminist group 'Fraternity Vulgaria' performed their 'Hymn to the Golden Matriarchy'. In the variation of the various contributions, the breadth of feminist struggles and demands was reflected and it became clear, that the feminist struggle against patriarchy must be waged on different levels and in numerous areas.
A much-quoted statement at the demonstration, that about the 8. March there were enough occasions for feminist struggles, was impressively confirmed by the HNA's reporting on the demonstration. In his article “International Women's Day in Kassel with two pages: Angry speeches and serious dialogue” the local journalist Axel Schwarz described the demonstration as an “open anger articulation offer from all imaginable sensitivities of perceived disadvantage” and reported to the speakers, “No specific and therefore debatable issues mentioned” to have. Thereupon protested approx. 20 Feminists on the morning of 11. March in the HNA – Buildings on Frankfurter Strasse opposed this reporting.
“Axel Schwarz's article is not an objective reporting, it is a political statement, namely a statement of anti-feminism”, so the women and queers strike- Komitee Kassel in its statement on the action. The committee criticized further in the statement, that feminist concerns would be discredited, by only addressing supposedly inappropriate emotions, with which legitimate claims would be brought forward. In the editorial room of the HNA, the protesters performed the aforementioned performance “Un violador en tu camino” and literally threw the committee's statement at the feet of the editors.
