sweet sweet

vera kelderbar, november 2005

iron cage

stop fur!

fur is murder!

a group of groningen animal rights activists has been campaining against the use of fur in human clothing. firstly they asked shops nicely not to sell such clothes because fur is for animals only. the fur-industry keeps animals in horrible conditions, they suffer much before being gasified and becoming part of a jacket or a hat. the six shops in the city that kept selling fur were visited by the group on a crowded saturday afternoon. protesters showed their anger and frustration towards the shop making lots of noise and shouting things like: blood on your hands! fur is murder! animals have rights! more information and pictures on www.ongehoord.tk

verzet

verzet means resistance.

ff bellen

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however, the emergency law did allow people to gather in schools and religious celebrations. this picture was shot during a "carnaval promenade", resulting in thousands of funny-dressed people heading to the police lines. they intended to break through and occupy the station where the nuclear waste is transferred from trains to trucks, so to travel the last kilometers by road to the village of gorleben, where the storage site is located. results? even though the police outnumbers the protesters by 3 times usually, the people manage to stop the transport for a while. Yet the nuclear waste always reaches its final destination. still, the government has to pay millions of extra euros, hiring insane numbers of policemen to defend the transports and cover costs of repairing the sabotaged railways. so the protesters not only make their opinion known to public through mass media coverage, but strategically try to make the use of nuclear power economically unattractive in germany.

conflict

every time the police of the whole germany is designated in numbers of 30.000 to defend the transport, and keep the people from blocking and sabotaging. the usual laws that, as a basic human right allow citizens to gather in protest, are suspended during the period of the transport.