A friend turned out for an anti-AfD march in his home city of Cologne, at which 5,000 people where expected and 40,000 turned up. www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/... - ThreadSky

sturdyalex.bsky.social • 30 days ago

A friend turned out for an anti-AfD march in his home city of Cologne, at which 5,000 people where expected and 40,000 turned up.

https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/demos-gegen-rechts-in-nrw-und-bundesweit-wochenende-100.html

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geoffreyharris.bsky.social•30 days ago

I was there too! It was a colourful, friendly demo. Heartening. Gave me an excuse to give the old EU beret an airing. Severe hangover of too-many-photos to process now though...!

geoffreyharris.bsky.social•28 days ago

Big ol' heap of mediocre photos here-

https://bsky.app/profile/geoffreyharris.bsky.social/post/3lgokrgll422y

simonr13.bsky.social•29 days ago

We need to hear more of this!
Well done, Cologne..
Excellent turn out!

caulfieldl.bsky.social•29 days ago

Let's hope they all vote
I still can't believe 90 million people didn't in USA

laikax.bsky.social•29 days ago

That's encouraging.

chrisannad.bsky.social•29 days ago

Bravo Cologne!

motosunburn.bsky.social•29 days ago

That's not good.

branx.bsky.social•29 days ago

Good. pleased to hear it.

stroppypanda.bsky.social•29 days ago

This is welcome news. I think the Trump inauguration and all that has followed is a lesson to everyone .

philswallow.com•30 days ago

Did he end with a “Roman Salute”?

maxshrek.bsky.social•29 days ago

Hmm what is AfD? I'm here in the "somehow red state NY" in the US.

swaledalemutton.bsky.social•29 days ago

Essentially a neo-Nazi political party in Germany

chrisweston.bsky.social•30 days ago

We are all going to have to be part of this coalition in the next few years. It's going to get messy.

victoria1921.bsky.social•29 days ago

Thank you for sharing a piece of good news and some hope in an otherwise fairly dreadful week. 🙏 The bad guys can still be beaten.

jmwcook.bsky.social•29 days ago

Musk flew in to AfD

ethelcrimble.bsky.social•29 days ago

Good. When a student in West Germany in the late 70's, these extreme right people were still anathema though operating under the surface.
It's one thing for those born after '45 not to apologise, it's another for present generations to regress to such hellish attitudes and behaviours.
May they rot.

hoogostiglitz.bsky.social•29 days ago

Germany knows what's at stake. I'm afraid we're going to have to learn our lesson the hard way here in the U.S.

herrackerbau.bsky.social•30 days ago

We had a lot of people in Berlin today as well...

chalkwitch.bsky.social•30 days ago

So glad to see people standing against this tide of hate and the Muskrat. It worries me how many Shy Fascists there are. People who claim "I'm not a fascist but ...".

ahideousthing.bsky.social•29 days ago

"I'm not a fascist, but I am really."

hubertlaneite.bsky.social•29 days ago

Keep it up…. Please keep it up.

missallot.bsky.social•29 days ago

That's good news x

kimmaxdale.bsky.social•30 days ago

Good to read this - very heartening. 🙏

byhand.bsky.social•30 days ago

Kölle Alaaf

martinott1.bsky.social•29 days ago

Cheery news

daryltu.bsky.social•29 days ago

Encouraging......

sukey49.bsky.social•29 days ago

Encouraging.

concerned-person.bsky.social•29 days ago

Germany must do what France did. The left and centre must not compete in order to ensure there is no split vote which allows AfD in. Politicians MUST put power aside and do everything in their power to prevent AfD at all costs.

#FuckTrump, #FuckStarmer, #FuckAfD

msjonestoyou.bsky.social•30 days ago

heartening to hear. But I am worried about the forthcoming elections....

sturdyalex.bsky.social•30 days ago

Elections do not change a country. They reveal it. Whatever is going on is better to know than not to know.

ahideousthing.bsky.social•29 days ago

It does put the levers of state power into the hands of the fascists though, which usually has horrifying consequences. I'd rather not be killed than know that I'm going to be killed.

msjonestoyou.bsky.social•30 days ago

Yes, I guess so. Thanks for the reply x

osirisquang.bsky.social•30 days ago

I like this perspective very much

jonty24.bsky.social•29 days ago

The important thing is that each of the protesters marching today also casts a vote against AFD in the election, if they are serious about combating extremism.

sturdyalex.bsky.social•29 days ago

You think that people who turn up to march in the rain in the middle of January may not be planning to vote?

jonty24.bsky.social•29 days ago

I'd hope not. But every single vote will be critical. At the moment, populism and extremism has the momentum. That has to be reversed and in a way that is emphatic.

sidestream.bsky.social•29 days ago

Yeah but protests don’t change much. Look at Iraq protests. They’re a feel good for the crowd.

What’s the voting percentages looking like?

shirleyanng.bsky.social•29 days ago

Bravo Cologne 👏 👏 👏!

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