Iran: The solidarity continues!

About 250 People gathered last Saturday, the 29. October in front of the Kassel town hall for a rally in solidarity with the current protests in Iran. The reason was 40. Todestag der Kurdin Jîna bzw. Mahsa Amini.

Rallies of solidarity with the protests in Iran

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.

Feminicide in Gemünden

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 …

Femicide in Bad Arolsen

Last Monday in Bad Arolsen, a 32-year-old woman was killed by her husband with several knife wounds. In Kassel, the murdered woman was remembered at a vigil and the act classified as femicide.

“150 Years of resistance to §218”

Knapp 150 People followed on 15. May to the call of various feminist initiatives 150 Years of resistance to the so-called abortion paragraph §218 to remember. 1871 the prohibition of abortion was included in the then Reich Criminal Code and has existed since then. The paragraph was with over time …

“Place of the Resistant Women”

Am 30. April feminists celebrated Walpurgis Night with a demonstration in Kassel. The night before, the place at the Goethestern was in the “Place of the Resistant Women” renamed. The activists want to draw attention to the ongoing violence against women and re-own a place with decades of feminist tradition.