WORLD WORLDWIDE GERMANY COLOGNE TURKEY - news journal UPDATE - (en) Germany, Die Platform: Report from the large demonstration in Cologne: Freedom for Öcalan and all prisoners of the Kurdish freedom movement! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation

 On February 17th, a major demonstration by the Kurdish freedom movement

for the liberation of Abdullah Öcalan took place in Cologne. Tens of
thousands of people from all over Western Europe took part. Platform
comrades from North Rhine-Westphalia took part in the internationalist
bloc together with comrades from our French sister organization Union
communiste libertaire and other anarchists. ---- After an opening rally
at the Deutzer Werft, the demonstration moved under a sea of white flags
with Öcalan's portrait to the Severins Bridge, which began to vibrate
under the weight of the many thousands of people. We then went back over
the left bank of the Rhine and the Deutzer Bridge to the Deutzer Werft,
where a wide program of speeches and cultural contributions took place
until the afternoon.

The day was only marred by the harassment of the authorities, who had
tried early on to make life difficult for the organizers with
conditions. For example, they wanted to stop the sale of food and drink.
On the day itself, the North Rhine-Westphalia police lived up to their
reputation as thugs of the German and Turkish states. On several
occasions they stormed into the demonstration to drag out people who
were allegedly randomly shouting banned slogans.

The ongoing suppression of the Kurdish freedom movement by the German
state shows how necessary it is that we as internationalists continue to
stand in solidarity with the Kurdish freedom movement. She is an ally
for us anarchists - regardless of whether we fight side by side with
her, as in Rojava, or arm in arm with the German or French state, as
here in Europe. Our common perspective is: for the liberation of women
and down with patriarchy, for democratic self-government at all levels
of society, for an ecological perspective against capitalist
environmental destruction.

Freedom for Öcalan and all prisoners of the Kurdish freedom movement!
Solidarity with Kurdistan!
Long live internationalism!

https://www.dieplattform.org/2024/02/24/bericht-von-grossdemo-in-koeln-freiheit-fuer-oecalan-und-alle-gefangenen-der-kurdischen-freiheitsbewegung/#more-2916
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