March 8th – Thousands of people demonstrate in Berlin on International Women’s Day
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Video: rbb|24 | 03/08/2024 | Image: rbb
Unlike in Brandenburg, International Women’s Day is a public holiday in Berlin. Thousands of people took the opportunity to protest for better living and working conditions for women.
Many people carried homemade signs, some large banners. Accompanied by music, the protest marched to the Brandenburg Gate. Among other things, the participants called for better living and working conditions for women. “We fight anti-feminism, racism, anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism together,” said the call for the demonstration: “We fight for sexual and physical self-determination.”
Several thousand people came to another demonstration on Unter den Linden street, the destination was Axel-Springer-Straße. 5,000 people were registered there. Before the meeting started, a truck played a banned song over a loudspeaker, the police situation center told rbb. The event manager was asked to stop playing it and an investigation was initiated. No further information is available at the moment.
Further demonstrations in Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg
Several more demonstrations and rallies were planned in the capital until the evening. The left-wing scene also registered demonstrations in Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg, each with several hundred people.
The police initially spoke of a “quiet event”. According to the police spokeswoman, several hundred officers are deployed across the city to accompany the meetings. The traffic information center warned of obstructions, especially in Mitte and Kreuzberg.
Unlike in neighboring Brandenburg, International Women’s Day has been a public holiday in Berlin since 2019. It was first organized in Germany and neighboring countries on March 19, 1911 at the suggestion of the German social democrat Clara Zetkin. Since 1921 it has been celebrated annually on March 8th.
Broadcast: rbb24 Abendschau, March 8, 2024, 7:30 p.m
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