{"id":36436,"date":"2025-04-21T13:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T11:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36436"},"modified":"2025-04-21T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T11:20:07","slug":"germanys-easter-peace-marches-lament-war-filled-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36436","title":{"rendered":"Germany’s Easter peace marches lament war-filled world"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DISARMAMENT & SECURITY .<\/p>\n

An article edited by: Darko Janjevic from Deutsche Welle<\/a> (translation by google, reprinted by permission)<\/p>\n

Thousands of people around\u00a0Germany\u00a0on Saturday joined in some 70 so-called Easter marches to demonstrate for peace, a tradition that dates back to the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Some 100 events are planned up until Easter Monday, according to the Bonn-based activist group Netwerk Friedenskooperative (Peace Cooperative Network), which has coordinated the marches this year.<\/p>\n

Easter marches are reportedly planned for cities\u00a0including Cologne, Munich, Berlin, Leipzig, Bremen and Stuttgart.<\/p>\n

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\n‘Never again war’ is written on this 1924 banner by German artist K\u00e4the Kollwitz, carried at an Easter march in Potsdam<\/center><\/p>\n

Appeal to new German government<\/strong><\/p>\n

A spokesman for the group, Kristian Golla, said a focus of the\u00a0demonstrations this year was an appeal to the\u00a0incoming German coalition government\u00a0<\/a> for\u00a0Germany to\u00a0“become capable of peace rather than war.”<\/p>\n

(Continued in right column)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Question related to this article:<\/div>\n
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\nIs there resistance to the rearmament of Europe?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

(Continued from left column)<\/p>\n

“Instead of\u00a0taking on new debt\u00a0<\/a> and\u00a0spending several billions of euros on arms<\/a>, disarmament agreements and clever diplomacy are needed” to end\u00a0Russia’s war on Ukraine\u00a0<\/a> and establish a joint European security architecture guaranteeing peace, he said.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0marches started on Thursday and will continue until\u00a0Monday, the last day of Easter holiday season in Germany.
\nGolla said that\u00a0the attendance\u00a0has been slightly higher than in previous years.<\/p>\n

The demonstrations also include a\u00a0three-day march that has started on Saturday in Duisburg and will continue until Monday through the Ruhr area via Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne and Bochum to Dortmund.<\/p>\n

Gaza, US missiles<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to protesting against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the buildup of weaponry in Europe in response to it, demonstrators are also voicing their opposition to the war in the Gaza Strip and the\u00a0planned stationing of US medium-range missiles in Germany.<\/a><\/p>\n

The marches are taking place under different mottos in different cities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Bonn, the motto is “Yes\u00a0to peace \u2014 no to combat readiness,” in Kassel “Peace \u2014 disarmament \u2014 climate protection \u2014 come to the Easter march” and in Leipzig “Against rearmament and cuts to social services.”<\/p>\n

The Easter peace marches in Germany had their heyday during the Cold War in the 1980s, when hundreds of thousands of people took part.<\/p>\n

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