After Aleida’s Protest

Berlin punks refused Chancellor Angela Merkel’s policy to approve the budget for supporting Germany’s military in Afghanistan.

December 2, 2008

“Stop Militarism and War!”

A GROUP of young people sporting punk-style hair stood around the Berlin wall at the Brandenburg Gate. One of them raised a rainbow-colored flag with “Peace” on it. Another one brought an anti-war poster. On his chest was a 3-centimeter-diameter round pin which said: “Stop Militarism and War”.

They were part of the thousands who gathered at the Brandenburg Gate on Saturday in the third week of September. T

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