Fighting the good Fight

So organizing a demonstration in Munich is always a bit of a gamble because mobilizing is a bitch in this city that is very unpolitical. I assume its because people feel secure with what they have achieved, and Munich is full of achievers, mainly of the over kind. As a Rebel and Revolutionary  underachieving the best I can is a full time job, but surprisingly enough I do have time to voice my opinions in the streets. To not be put in the loony bin, I try to do so only when there is some kind of mob around me to give my action some kind of relevance.

The banner I helped design

             So this weekend there was some kind of an oversupply of mobs to follow as if my city wanted to show me that even in the underachievers entertainement sector it could overachieve. So the first mob I had the pleasure of solidarizing with , was voicing their opinions about the situation in Kobane and the whole question of the kurdish state. There were roughly 200 people holding up banners one of which I even helped design. Around half of the people though, I would argue didn't really care about the kurdish question, but used this demonstration to create visibility for their own political positions, which they disguised behind general demands like seen in the picture below.

who would disagree with this ? 

The second mob was a demonstration against surveillance and for more privacy. It was organized by two high-school students, and there was a singer songwriter singing anticapitalist songs between bits of anti-surveillance hipi hop and electro songs. This mob was significantly smaller with only 30 or 40 people at most, but they very cleverly stopped at the a choking point between Marienplatz and Marienhof which was bustling with shoppers who then had no choice but to be subjected to the anti surveillance message.

The surveillance truck of the Police that documented the anti surveillance protest

I wonder though, why are there nearly 10 times as much people demonstrating for a cause that is thousands of miles away then for a cause that concerns every one right here. My answer is simple. The workers movement is blind and still stuck in the last century. My suggestion to them is to modernize their defintion of class and their language to appeal to modern day consumers or be smashed by modern day capitalist marketing.


Also I met this girl from Dresden who sported this wonderful look that I just had to capture ;-) She seemed to be aligned with the OccuPeace Movement.