In a normal year, there's probably around forty-odd demonstrations in my local town of Wiesbaden. Most have to do with strike-action (various groups), pro-asylum, or the Greta-kids.
So yesterday (Saturday) was this unique day...with three demonstrations in one single day. A lot of this coverage is reported by Wiesbaden Aktuell.
Demonstration #1: the Dannenröder woods group, from the Greenpeace folks. This is the group that is trying to halt the A49 autobahn project (miles and miles north of Wiesbaden).
This amounted to roughly a hundred people.
Demonstration #2: 'Lateral Thinking 611' folks came out....maybe around 100, to hype up their opposition to the Corona-19 ban rules and German regulation.
This group was mostly all peaceful, except they didn't perform the required mask and social distance business....so the cops got all into their business about that.
Demonstration #3: 'Omas against the Right' came out....maybe around 20, and demonstrated against right-wing people. This was a presence over at the train station area.
I would imagine the police were on continual duty for the whole day....going from one demonstration to another, and ensuring the peace.
Three in one day being unique? Well....yeah, one might suggest that. But that's one of the unusual aspects of protests these days....there are probably a dozen topics which get people riled-up and pumped-up for a state or national protest action.
I would lean toward suggesting that there's more pumped-up German feelings now, than at any point of the past couple of decades. Curiously, the public TV news folks carry a lot of the protest action....with commercial TV news carrying the bare minimum. Just an odd aspect....perhaps.
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