News from Kassel
About 1.500 People took part in this year's demonstration for 8. March in Kassel. Despite the ongoing corona pandemic and the corresponding restrictions, significantly more people took to the streets on the international feminist day of struggle than in the previous year.
Forest fires, Droughts, Weather disasters. In view of the recurring reports about the catastrophic consequences of global climate change, the construction of a motorway seems out of date. Nevertheless, the A44 from Kassel in the direction of Harleshausen is to be extended to Thuringia. Because the building project does not at all reflect the necessary rethinking of climate, environment- and transport policy, there is political resistance.
On Monday the 01.03.2021 demanded around 200 People in front of the town hall “Leyla and Meryem: stay". They demonstrated for the secure residence and a work permit for Leyla and Meryem Lacin. The rally was organized by the initiative for Leyla and Meryem consisting of friends of Leyla and Meryem.
Lina comes from Kassel, is 25 year old, Student and has been in custody for four months. The federal prosecutor accuses her of participating in two attacks on a bar known as a neo-Nazi meeting place in Eisenach and its operator. We took a closer look at the case and talked to Lina's mother about it, how it is, when the daughter is suddenly supposed to be “Germany's most dangerous left-wing extremist”.
Hundreds of people came to Kassel on 19.2.21 to commemorate the anniversary of the racist terrorist attack in Hanau. Speeches were made on the steps of the town hall in mourning for Ferhat Unvar, Hamza Kurtović, Said Nesar Hashemi, Vili Viorel Păun, Mercedes Kierpacz, Kaloyan Velkov, Fatih Saracoglu, Sedat Gurbuz und Gokhan Gultekin gehalten.
Stephan Ernst was closed because of the murder of Walter Lübcke 15 Sentenced to years in prison, his alleged helper Markus Hartmann was able to leave the courtroom as a free man. Punishment for attacking Ahmid I with a knife. was not imposed in Frankfurt. Protest against this judgment and against right-wing terror in Germany formed locally and in Kassel.
On the occasion of the “Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism”, the 27. January 2021, had the local association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime – Association of Antifascists (VVN-BdA) called for decentralized and virtual commemoration.
The group “Friends of Forest, People and a society without exploitation and oppression ”have the Green Kassel on the afternoon of 05.01.2021 delivered a letter with an action, whose reason is the clearing in the Dannenröder forest.