greetings from dresden!

[Sasha]

for all you ppl who wonderd where all the crazy dutchies disapeared to; warm greetings from the antifa protests in dresden, germany.
we didn't get our hands at some nazi's until now but we had a big demo and a few tough batlle's with the pigs.

http://www.javno.com/slike/slike_3/r1/g2009/m02/y195440307310886.jpg

http://www.dw-world.de/image/0,,4029900_4,00.jpg

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&iid=ikjik6LB_CU0

everybody from our group is on this moment safe & unharmed (except some bruisses and cuts) and if no arrests in our group are made tonight we hope to head back home tomorow morning.

here some mainstream media reports, later more; http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4030017,00.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aGstsMp983DI&refer=germany

later more.

[Sasha]

just got back in amsterdam and totaly "kaput" (realy tired) so just wanted to let you all know we are okay. :cool:
did we finaly did run in to a bunch of (dutch!!) nazi's at a gas stop before dortmund, werrent they willing to be provoked :crying:
and we realy couldn't make it to land the first punch without getting in lots of trouble with the pigs (we: 35 antifa's, they: 6 nazi's shitting all collors of the rainbow :rolleyes:) so we let them pass with a warning.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

Congrats.

[F9]

great job comrade!:Dthis look interesting!!

Fuserg9:star:

[Killfacer]

Well done comrade

[Rjevan]

Great job comrade! Wish I could have been there.

[Sasha]

(german) reports and pictures on the german indy:
http://de.indymedia.org/2009/02/241458.shtml
&
http://de.indymedia.org/2009/02/241877.shtml

in short:
6.000 nazi's, 11.000 counter demonstrators of wich 4.000 militant antifa.
nazi demo route shortend through our presure but not (b)reached thanx to very tight, brutal and effective policing by 6.000 pigs.
(what was the saying again? there are no nazi marches, just police one's...)
a few retalitation atacks against the pigs after the demo/in the night.

next intresting dates on the antifa calender
1 march, maastricht, netherlands, http://breekvoorpost.blogspot.com/
4th of april, aken, germany, http://akantifaac.blogsport.de/
1st of mai, hannover, germany, http://www.mai-hannover.de.vu/
june, nationaldagen, sweden
september, anti-kriegstag, dortmund, germany

[Woland]

Yeah, I wish I was there too. Well done!

[StalinFanboy]

Good job, man.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

Your away in april )=

I was hoping the Netherlands crew would be at g20

[Melbourne Lefty]

11,000 anti-nazis is good. Who was there aside from antifa?

6000 nazis is very very bad, especially since so many of them seem so young.

[Sasha]

11,000 anti-nazis is good. Who was there aside from antifa?

there where several marches from the "burger kundung" going through the historic center to converge on the central square, and so preventing the nazi's from being able to take center stage in the "alte stad"
this "burger kundung" exsisted mostly from the parlemantarian left, trade unions and churches etc.


6000 nazis is very very bad, especially since so many of them seem so young.

we expexted over 8.000 so it could have been worse, but very scary indeed

[Omi]

I am glad we got back safely, what a journey it was!:D
Hope to see all Germans who where there in Maastricht too, international solidarity!

[Fietsketting]

Utrecht Utrecht Utrecht? :laugh::cool:

[DreamWeaver]

Leuven!:laugh:

We had loads of fun, a tiny bummer that we couldn't get our hands on some fash but we got their demo shortened so victory was ours anyway. It was a fun trip and totally worth the 11 hour bustrip, we showed our international solidarity and made a lot of friends. The anti-deutsche are a bit odd, and I'm surprised but very content with the fact that no one of us got into fights with them over their love of Israel.

[Omi]

Utrecht Utrecht Utrecht? :laugh::cool:

Nijmeeeegûûûûh!:lol:


Ok, enough with the spamming already.:laugh:

[Wanted Man]

Zwolle? :sneaky:

Nevermind, wasn't there. :( Nice to know it went well, though.

[jaffe]

Zwolle?

Nevermind, wasn't there.

:laugh:

ok, insiders joke.

To bad we didn't manage to attack/block or stop them before the march started. But from hearing from other people this year the counter demonstrations were way bigger (and succesfuller?) than the years before, I hope 'we' can continue this line.

[Relnicht]

dresden was great, 48 hours of non-stop stuff. i was also 'kaput'(:
and yesh, those dutch nazi's crapped their pants, stefan heijen eat your heart out!

[Relnicht]

:laugh:

ok, insiders joke.

To bad we didn't manage to attack/block or stop them before the march started. But from hearing from other people this year the counter demonstrations were way bigger (and succesfuller?) than the years before, I hope 'we' can continue this line.

i just wonderd, you said that this year was more succesfull,but i heard that the previous 2 years the demo was completely blocked?

[jaffe]

last year it wasn't blocked (delayed) and the majority of the radical anti demonstrators were anti-germans. But that's why I used a ? by the word succesfuller.

edit: also blocking can also mean they still can start their march but have to shorten their route. Something that happened also this time.

[Comrade B]

The anti-deutsche are a bit odd
These people are fucking douche bags. They are no better than the Nazis.

Nice job though, that is a good counter rally, sometimes you just have to wish the police would stay out of these things...

[Holden Caulfield]

These people are fucking douche bags. They are no better than the Nazis.
bit strong?

anyhoo well done to psycho and the rest of the dutch antifa users.

[Honggweilo]

De Haag kankâhgekkûh! (better late then never)

[jaffe]

No you're doing it wrong.

[Comrade B]

bit strong?
It is just reverse racism. My bet is that if the Nazis had won the war they would be the strongest supporters. It is the left (right? they don't really seem to have any sophisticated political views) out of popularity.
If I meet one of these people some day, I will treat them no differently than I treat any other racist prick.

[L.J.Solidarity]

AFAIK the nazi demo has never been blocked. In recent years, the protests were dominated by the antideutsche, who have quite a following in Saxony but are despised by the majority of the left in the rest of Germany, so very few people actually wanted to go to Dresden to march with them and their Israeli and US flags. This year it was different for the first time, as a large alliance named "No pasarán" had been formed excluding the antideutsche (who called their mobilization "Venceremos") attracting 5 to 10 times more antifascists than usual.
However, the nazis seem to become more aggressive and dangerous nowadays, there were several attacks against antifascists along the highway on the way home, one comrade was dragged from a union bus and had his skull fractured by the fascist scum. :(

[Pogue]

Anti-german just seem to be completely out of it. I'm sorry, but I think anyone involved in that is mentally unwell.

Also, fuck nazis.