20110529 Mit 160.000 gegen AKWs

29.05.2011 Mit 160.000 gegen AKWs

Shut it down now!

The Police, Secret Services, and Military Working Group within Aktion Freiheit statt Angst e.V. joined the demonstration yesterday in support of phasing out nuclear power. Together with thousands of concerned citizens, we advocated for an energy transition that prioritizes renewable and decentralized electricity generation.
Standing behind the Japanese demonstrators affected by the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, we drew attention to the connection between nuclear power production and its military “use.”
The U.S. distributes its nuclear waste in the form of depleted uranium at its theaters of war in Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Thousands of people suffer from the effects of radioactive uranium dust, and children are born with birth defects.
Many more photos from the large demonstration can be found here.

For us, dangerous nuclear technology is something that has repeatedly been used as a pretext to restrict people’s civil liberties. There were bans on demonstrations, police cordons, surveillance laws, and even surveillance without the necessary legal basis was carried out. In this context, we like to recall a scandal from 1976. ...

... claim that nuclear technology has repeatedly been used as a pretext for restricting people’s civil liberties and deduce from this the dangerous similarity between nuclear state and surveillance state, as seen here in the encirclement of the Reichstag on the occasion of the black-yellow coalition’s decision to extend the state of emergency.

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