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Blockupy-Newsletter 16.5. Update: Blockupy-Aktive wollen das Recht auf Versammlungsfreiheit durchsetzen!
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Blockupy-Newsletter 16.5. Update: Blockupy-Aktive wollen das Recht auf Versammlungsfreiheit durchsetzen!
Blockupy-Aktive wollen das Recht auf Versammlungsfreiheit durchsetzen!
Trotz Totalverbot werden Versammlungen stattfinden. Menschen werden zu der Versammlung für uneingeschränkte Versammlungsfreiheit auf dem Paulsplatz aufbrechen.
Donnerstag 12 Uhr Hauptbahnhof. Aktive wollen vom Hauptbahnhof aus in Richtung Paulsplatz starten. Sie werden Zelte mitnehmen.
Donnerstag 12 Uhr Paulsplatz Versammlung für uneingeschränkte Versammlungsfreiheit.
Weitere Informationen von der ersten Blockupy-Assembla:
Am Samstag findet um 12h ab Baseler Platz die internationale Demonstration statt, wie sie von uns angemeldet wurde. Die Route wurde gerichtlich bestätigt. Bis zum Samstag werden wir in der Stadt präsent sein, um mit vielen, vielen Tausend Menschen unseren Protest gegen das Spardiktat von Troika und Regierung und für internationale Solidarität und Demokratisierung aller Lebensbereiche auf die Straßen und Plätze zu tragen.
Die Stadt Frankfurt und die hessische Polizei organisieren bereits das Chaos: Zwei U- und S-Bahnstationen sind seit Mittwoch früh geschlossen, Straßen im Bankenviertel sind abgesperrt, viele Geschäfte und Bankfilialen haben schon am heutigen Mittwoch ihre Türen nicht mehr geöffnet. Das alles allein wegen unseres Aufrufs, Frankfurt für ein paar Tage dicht zu machen. Die Blockade läuft bereits. In den kommenden Tagen werden wir durch unsere Präsenz zeigen, wer dafür verantwortlich ist und warum.
Das Jugendbündnis ruft zum Rave auf: Heute, Mittwoch, 19 Uhr, Hauptwache.
Blockupy hat begonnen. Venceremos.
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Blockupy-Newsletter 16.5 Update: Taking back our right to freedom of assembly!
Take back our right to freedom of assembly!
Break through the strategy of repression!
Thursday, 12:00 at the Central Train Station (Hauptbahnhof). People will meet at the Central Train Station, and march towards the Paulsplatz.
Thursday 12:00 Paulsplatz. People will bring tents!
Further information from the first Blockupy Assembly:
As previously announced, the international Demonstration will take place at 12:00 on Saturday from Baseler Platz. The planned route has been legally confirmed. Until Saturday we will be active throughout the city, so that together with thousands of people we can carry onto the streets and squares our protest against the austerity measures of the Troika and the government, and call for international solidarity and the democratisation of all areas of life.
The city of Frankfurt and the regional police are already organising chaos: two subway and city train stations have been shut down since Wednesday, streets in the financial district have been sealed off, and many businesses and bank branches have already closed their doors. All this because of our call to occupy Frankfurt for a couple of days! The blockade is already in action. But over the coming days, we will show who is responsible for all this, and why.
The Frankfurter Jugendbündnis (Youth Alliance) is also announcing a party: Today (Wednesday), 19:00, at the Hauptwache.
Blockupy has begun. Venceremos.
Occupy Frankfurt
Police in Frankfurt cleared hundreds
of protesters who set up camp outside the European Central Bank
(ECB) in October as they prepare for as many as 30,000 anti-capitalist
activist.
Officers started carrying off demonstrators gathered under the Occupy Frankfurt banner at about 9 a.m. local time today after issuing several warnings.
The camp is being cleared before the ECB begins a conference on monetary policy, and the first of the four-day protest rallies gets under way this afternoon.
“We want to change the system, we want to criticize it, and we’re not allowed to do so,” said Erik Kuhn, an activist at the ECB camp. “We hope to achieve some publicity to show the people in Germany and around Europe that the state and the city of Frankfurt doesn’t have a clue how to react to the protests.”
The protests are taking place as disenchantment with Europe and Germany’s response to the sovereign debt crisis grows and Frankfurt, the euro’s birthplace, becomes a focal point of the discontent.
Peaceful Protest
“We want to be peaceful, what’s the point of us being cleared out of here just because there’s a security area?” said Marcel Goebel, a protester. “We won’t take what’s happening any longer with all the bailouts.Authorities erected fences in front of several banks in Frankfurt, where Germany’s largest lenders Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) and Commerzbank AG (CBK) are based. The demonstrators outside the ECB, who numbered several hundred, resorted to splashing police with a mixture paint and water in an otherwise peaceful response to the evacuation.
Police closed off a subway station underneath Deutsche Bank’s headquarters, one of the targets of the rallies. Commerzbank is shutting its two towers and closing branch offices to protect their staff and property, the bank said in an e-mailed statement yesterday.
Some shops on Frankfurt’s Goethestrasse, including luxury retailers Tiffany & Co. (TIF) and Jil Sander AG, boarded up windows with plywood today.
The administrative court of the state of Hesse banned the protests through May 18, Katrin Lehmann, a spokeswoman for the court in Kassel, said in a telephone interview. The decision overturned a ruling by a Frankfurt court that permitted a rally outside the ECB today and a rave tonight. The Kassel court said a demonstration on May 19 can go ahead.
Protesters can still ask the federal constitutional court in Karlsruhe to overturn the verdicts of the Frankfurt and Kassel courts.
Solutions Sought
Some demonstrators will probably proceed with protests regardless of whether they have permits, Gerhard Bereswill, vice president of the Frankfurt police, said at a press conference yesterday.The Blockupy Frankfurt movement is affiliated with the activist group Attac. The Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens was founded in Paris in 1998 is now active in 40
countries, according to its website.
“We want solutions, real solutions,” said Kuhn, from the Bavarian town of Aschaffenburg who has camped in front of the ECB since October. “The movement is about the financial system, the crisis in it and everything that is connected to it. We have to talk about homeless people, we have to talk about jobs, taxes. We have our democratic right to do so.”
About 5,000 police officers will be deployed each day to protect the ECB, banks and demonstrators, Harald Schneider, who is leading the police operation, said at the press conference yesterday. Police are advising Frankfurters to leave their cars at home and avoid confrontation with protesters.
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