Rostock’s anti-G8 march challenges elite-led globalization

Protests against the Hartz IV labor-market and welfare reforms took shape in eastern German cities including Leipzig and Magdeburg. Participants described the reforms as a threat to livelihoods and...

The movement’s national high point brought demonstrations to more than 200 cities, with organizers reporting at least 200,000 participants. Opposition grew from eastern Germany and spread westward....

Around 50,000 people gathered in Berlin amid the continuing anti-Hartz IV wave. The march made clear that protests over benefit cuts were also a national debate about labor, dignity, and the social...

Oury Jalloh, an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone, died in a Dessau police cell on 7 January 2005. His death became the focus of a sustained anti-racist campaign demanding an independent...

On the anniversary of Jalloh’s death, supporters gathered to remember him and challenge the handling of the police-cell death. The annual action helped build a durable movement that connected...

Activists used mass blockades to obstruct routes into the summit security zone, arguing that political decisions affecting the world’s majority should not be made by a small club of powerful states....

After organizers rejected the limits of the court process, the initiative called a nationwide demonstration in Dessau under the demand to leave the courtroom and take the struggle to the streets....

The annual Oury Jalloh demonstration kept public attention on a death in police custody that activists said had not been adequately investigated. The movement’s insistence on remembering Jalloh by...

The 2009 Bildungsstreik wave brought school pupils and university students into coordinated demonstrations and occupations. Protesters challenged underfunding, tuition fees, crowded classes, and...

Students took to the streets in many German cities during the Bildungsstreik, demanding better-funded public education and a voice in decisions affecting schools and universities. The strike...