The protests in Munich were plain and controllable
Althought 30.000 people demonstrated in Munich there was hardly an echo of the media. It's time to ask, why it was like that and how strategies of the anti-war movement have to change.
Althought 30.000 people demonstrated in Munich there was hardly an echo of the media. It's time to ask, why it was like that and how strategies of the anti-war movement have to change.
When i opened the newspaper on monday i couldn't beliele what i saw: i found simply NOTHING about the protests against the NATO conference. How can it happen that 30.000 persons protest and noone report it? I think, the protests were too plain, too adequate (angepaßt). It doesn't do anything, when masses demonstrate and the government has nothing to worry about. If a member of the Munich alliance reads this: why have you planned it like this? Why didn't you have a concept for the blockade/disturbance of the conference? You wrote "it was not task of a protest-movement to be liked by the governing and the powerful". But your actions were completely different. You had negotiations with the police about the loooong route, which wasn't near the meeting of the warlords at all. Subsequently there was full programme, so that nobody could raise the idea to visit the hotel Bayerischer Hof. Every attempt of a break through was sabotaged by loudspeakers, saying "stay calm, keep close to each other" etc. You see yourself beeing the tradition of the protests of Seattle, Prague and Genova. Seattle was a success cause the WTO was PREVENTED. In Prague there was a concept, to get to the conference-building by different routes. What's my critics on the Munich alliance, concerns the entire peace movement. Blockades, actions of civil disobedience are an exception to the rule. The campaign "resist" may be the beginning, but unfortunately there are too little people compared to smaller actions. What could happen, if 30.000 had tried to prevent the NATO meeting? What could happen if thousands of military transports were blocked (like the anti-atom movement)? What could happen if no everyday life would be possible in barracks of the federal army, cause peace-activists would disturb it every day? If weapon-firms weren't able to work cause there was blockades during the change of shifts every day? We have to face the war-engine, we have to stop their murdering everyday business.
For an offensive, uncontrollable anti-war movement!
When i opened the newspaper on monday i couldn't beliele what i saw: i found simply NOTHING about the protests against the NATO conference. How can it happen that 30.000 persons protest and noone report it? I think, the protests were too plain, too adequate (angepaßt). It doesn't do anything, when masses demonstrate and the government has nothing to worry about. If a member of the Munich alliance reads this: why have you planned it like this? Why didn't you have a concept for the blockade/disturbance of the conference? You wrote "it was not task of a protest-movement to be liked by the governing and the powerful". But your actions were completely different. You had negotiations with the police about the loooong route, which wasn't near the meeting of the warlords at all. Subsequently there was full programme, so that nobody could raise the idea to visit the hotel Bayerischer Hof. Every attempt of a break through was sabotaged by loudspeakers, saying "stay calm, keep close to each other" etc. You see yourself beeing the tradition of the protests of Seattle, Prague and Genova. Seattle was a success cause the WTO was PREVENTED. In Prague there was a concept, to get to the conference-building by different routes. What's my critics on the Munich alliance, concerns the entire peace movement. Blockades, actions of civil disobedience are an exception to the rule. The campaign "resist" may be the beginning, but unfortunately there are too little people compared to smaller actions. What could happen, if 30.000 had tried to prevent the NATO meeting? What could happen if thousands of military transports were blocked (like the anti-atom movement)? What could happen if no everyday life would be possible in barracks of the federal army, cause peace-activists would disturb it every day? If weapon-firms weren't able to work cause there was blockades during the change of shifts every day? We have to face the war-engine, we have to stop their murdering everyday business.
For an offensive, uncontrollable anti-war movement!
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