At the last European Elections in 2014, only 46,7% of Berliners went to the voting booth. This number is fucking disturbing because this means that less than half of the population even cared to make Democracy work.
But in 2019 we can’t afford to be that careless anymore. In the last couple of years, the rise of populism and anti-Europeanism made it clear that we can’t go on with our lives and leave the boring government stuff to the politicians. They will fuck it up if we don’t initiate a movement and start a counter-revolution to these reactionary forces that are unchallenged.
Yesterday, we were again proud of Berlin for showing up and making noise for a progressive and positive European Democracy. One week before the elections for the European Parliament over 25 000 people walked through the city to demonstrate for a free, human and ecologically aware Europe.
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by Claudio | Stories
photo: Burg Schnabel
With the election results from my home state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern the right-wing populist party AfD has managed to move into yet another state’s government. The leading party of Germany, the CDU, turned out to have even less votes than them, which is the lowest result they ever had and not a good sign for the elections of next year.
So far it seems that the established parties are doing very little about the uprise of the AfD. It seems they are helpless even though it would be clearly in their responsibility to educate the people of the true intentions of this party. So the Berlin club scene united under the helm of the Club Map and the Zug der Liebe parade took it upon themselves to tackle the task of spreading the word about the true agenda of the AfD with a new poster campaign. They are fighting for an open and tolerant Berlin and hope to convince the people not to give their “frustration vote” to the AfD at the elections. Have a look after the jump for the posters and their important messages.
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by Frank | Stories
“Gay-friendly” Ad-Busting
Horror and disbelief on Sunday evening on facebook!
Yeah, we gave Merkel a second term! What seemed to be fun last week at Picknick (throwing around an FDP sponge, picture below), just became reality. The Tigerente, a popular German toy, is about to come in form of a black and yellow coalition.
I didn’t want to write about the elections, but some people were left highly surprised, even appalled, after the first results were published. My first thought was: What did you expect?? But to be honest, actually prepared for anything, I was a bit shocked, too. More after the jump.
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by Suz | Stories
