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      Global Protests Erupt in Solidarity With Racial Justice Defenders in US

      Global Protests Erupt in Solidarity With Racial Justice Defenders in US

      "Police brutality has created a flashpoint for unrest that was already simmering," read an editorial published Monday in The Times of London.

      Julia Conley
      Jun 01, 2020

      People in a number of international citiesviolated bans on large gatherings over the weekend to show solidarity with protests against police brutality that have exploded in at least 140 cities across the United States.

      Political leaders overseas condemned the killing of Floyd, who died after now-former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee onto Floyd's neck for over eight minutes while the man was unarmed and handcuffed and as onlookers pleaded with Chauvin to stop.

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      Doubt It Can Happen Here? Tell It to Berlin

      Doubt It Can Happen Here? Tell It to Berlin

      A note to those who think it unfair to compare the Trump White House and the GOP to what happened in Germany 85 years ago.

      Michael Winship
      Oct 17, 2018

      BERLIN--On the last full day of two weeks spent in this city, the requisite visit was paid to Checkpoint Charlie, the spot at the Berlin Wall where, from 1961 to 1989, allied forces and other foreigners crossed the uneasy border between East and West Berlin. (Germans had designated checkpoints of their own.)

      The wall once split this city in two with concrete and barbed wire, dividing people into those ruled by democratic West Germany or communist East Germany. Now, capitalism rules. Big time.

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      "UnTrump the World": Hundreds of Thousands March in Berlin Against the Far Right

      "UnTrump the World": Hundreds of Thousands March in Berlin Against the Far Right

      We are #unteilbar we are many and change is coming

      Common Dreams Staff
      Oct 13, 2018

      Hundreds of thousands of people marched Saturday afternoon demonstrating against racism and calling for solidarity against the rise of the far-right across Germany and Europe.

      On a hot and sunny fall day a 3-mile stretch of Berlin city's center, from Alexanderplatz through the Brandenburg Gate to the Victory Column, was closed to accommodate the huge parade, which was united under the hashtag #unteilbar ("indivisible").

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