Social struggles and bottom-up movements
More than 1.200 Yesterday people demonstrated in Kassel against the introduction of compulsory military service and possible conscription. The protest action of the alliance “School strike against compulsory military service” took place nationwide 90 cities instead. The demonstrators marched from the town hall to the KNDS factory and to the main train station and expressed their views along the way … ▷
Under the motto “Against their wars” gathered on Saturday, the 19. April 2025, around 400 People in Kassel, To the anti -capitalist Easter march. The demonstration was from the alliance “Rheinmetall disarmed!“Organized.
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.
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.
Two weeks before the Hessian state elections, numerous parties were, as always, present in the Kassel interior, to take advantage of the sunny election campaign weekend. For the AfD, however, Saturday went differently than planned.
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.
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.
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.