Activist movements are preparing international protests against the authoritarian crisis regime of ECB (European Central Bank) and the German Federal Government

* Movements are preparing international protests against the authoritarian crisis regime of the ECB and the German Federal Government
* Powerful dynamics: 250 activists at network building event in Frankfurt

> Powerful dynamics: About 250 activists from various social
> movements met on Sunday in Frankfurt, Germany, to prepare an
> international actvist conference to be held in February. The wide
> gamut of activists range from Occupy groups, Attac, the "Ums-Ganze-
> Bündnis" (something like "everything is at stake movement"), the
> Interventionist Left, to unemployment initiative groups, anti-
> racist networks and student protest initiatives, representatives of
> unions, Solid, the Green Youth Party and the Left Party. Many
> participants from other countries were also present.
>
> The purpose of this activst conference held on February 24-26 in
> Frankfurt am Main will be to choreograph a series of protests in
> the coming months against austerity measures dictated by the
> profiteers of the financial und economic crisis. The main focus of
> Sunday's discussion was to plan and mobilize days of action in
> Frankfurt in mid May, as well as long term campaign consideration
> through 2013. There are already ideas of united mass demonstration,
> and blockades at the banking center. The goal should be a pan-
> European mobilization towards Frankfurt, to display an unmistakable
> sign of international solidarity and resistance.
>
> Shortly after the activist conference in Frankfurt there will be
> another European preparatory meeting in Milan on March 31st. On the
> same day the Communist "Ums-Ganze-Bündnis" is calling for a
> demonstration at the construction site of the new ECB building in
> Frankfurt. On May 12th there will be additional plans for a
> decentralized global day of protest, which is being prepared
> especially by Spanish, Portuguese and English-speaking networks.
> "The so-called Eurozone bailout funds (lit. translated "emergency
> parachute") have caused a large strata of the population into
> poverty and have dismantled people's democratic rights in Europe –
> this has been significantly propagated by the German Federal
> Government as well as the "Troika" of EU, the European Central Bank
> and the International Monetary Fund", said Martin Behrsing of the
> Unemployment Forum of Germany. "But for the resistance to be able
> to succeed, it is high time to unite our forces and to think
> together about how and what kinds of protests will need to take
> place in 2012 ."
>
> Roland Süss of Attac added: "Our goal is to oppose social austerity
> and the authoritarian transformation in Europe and to stand for a
> social and democratic Europe. A Europe united in solidarity, at the
> financial site and seat of the ECB in Frankfurt in May, also means
> that we will give a loud voice to European protestors who are
> suffering from German austerity measures."
> "With mass actions of civil disobedience in May, with an effective
> blockade of the ECB and the whole financial center of Frankfurt, we
> want to bring forth our resistance toward the center of the crisis
> and into the heart of "the beast". We are denouncing our complicity
> with a policy that is trying to dump the consequences of the
> capitalist crisis on the wage-dependent, the unemployed and the
> poor through an unprecedented program of impoverishment, especially
> in Greece, Italy and Spain, as well as in this country." Gerda
> Maler explained, clarifying the goals of the Interventionist
> Left's upcoming activist campaigns.

Organizers Network building event for international activists conference
Frankfurt am Main, January 24, 2012

Press Contact;
* Martin Behrsing, Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland, (Unemployment Forum of Germany), redaktion@erwerbslosenforum.de
* Roland Süß, Attac-Koordinierungskreis, (Attac coordination circle), suess@attac.de
* Christoph Kleine, Interventionistische Linke, (Interventionist Left), luebeck@avanti-projekt.de