Social struggles and bottom-up movements
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.
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.
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.
The Kassel initiative against femicides called on 11. February 2022 to a vigil in downtown Kassel, to bring anger and sadness to the streets at another victim of femicide. The vigil was held in memory of the victims of recent femicides … ▷