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- Subject: Germany:500,000 March vs Racism
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- Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- 500,000 Germans protest anti-foreign violence
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- By John Catalinotto
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- Continuing to express outrage at the neo-Nazi murders in Germany,
- some half-million people demonstrated Dec. 20 in a dozen German
- cities. The people took to the streets only hours after racist
- arsonists threw firebombs at a refugee center in Greifswald near
- the Baltic Coast in eastern Germany.
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- Greifswald police reported that about 25 refugees from Romania
- and several African countries were in the shelter when two
- firebombs were thrown onto a balcony. No one was injured in the
- fire.
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- On Dec. 20 more than 120,000 people took part in candlelit
- marches in both Karlsruhe and Stuttgart, and 100,000 marched in
- both Hanover and Bremen. Another 55,000 marched in Saarbruecken.
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- These marches follow earlier demonstration of 300,000 in Berlin
- in early November and a similar number in Munich earlier in
- December. Smaller but still massive marches, rallies and concerts
- were held in other German cities.
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- The ruling parties in Bonn have fueled the rightist attacks by
- calling for restriction of immigration instead of condemning the
- neo-Nazis. But millions of immigrants and Germans have joined
- together to condemn the racists. Smaller groups have formed to
- defend refugee shelters from attacks and even to take the battle
- directly to the neo-Nazis in their headquarters and hangouts.
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