Oury Jalloh supporters take their demands beyond the courtroom

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...

Tens of thousands marched in Rostock ahead of the Heiligendamm summit, opposing the G8’s power over debt, trade, war, climate, and African poverty. The coalition joined labor, church, development,...

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....

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...

Around 120,000 people linked the Krümmel and Brunsbüttel nuclear sites through Hamburg in a human chain against plans to extend reactor lifetimes. The action joined local communities, environmental...

Tens of thousands marched against the government’s plan to extend nuclear power plant lifetimes; organizers estimated 100,000 and police estimates were lower. Protesters formed a human chain around...