[Imc-sydney] German IndyMedia

[diet simon]

To "Pyewacket Cat",

Germany is a leading nuclear power and German resistance to the nuclear 
menace is among the most imaginative we can learn from here. They've been 
there, done that, whereas we are still naive virgins in this fight.

Germany is a leading economic power with all the worst outgrowths of 
capitalism and greed but also some of the most imaginative ways of fighting 
it - think of the Heiligendamm thousands of G8 summit demonstrators 
thoroughly ruined.

Germany has become a military power present in Afghanistan, off the Horn of 
Africa, in the former Yugoslavia (all the ones I can think of 
spontaneously), having given up its postwar pacifist stance. It is a leading 
mealy-mouthed, hypocritical arms exporter yet has some of the most vibrant 
anti-militarist, anti-war movements.

Germany is a heavyweight in the European Union shaping policies that affect 
us here and people in other countries we might care about in solidarity - 
for example heavily pushing agrofuels that devastate rainforests in 
Indonesia, Malaysia and several South American countries, killing people 
there either by outright murder or through starvation from being pushed off 
subsistence farms.

Germany has one of the fairest electoral systems in the world that truly 
reflects the votes cast, instead of our crooked system of 2nd preferences.

Germany has a frighteningly active and growing neo-Nazi revival that should 
be a lesson to us here. I see no real fight against tyrannical ASIO powers, 
like the Gestapo had in the Third Reich, people here just take it like 
docile sheep being carted to slaughter.

Germany has a huge potential of IndyMedia users and their friends and 
contacts who can be recruited into solidarity petitions and international 
campaigns.

Just some of the things off the top of my head that make it "matter what 
happens" in the country where I lived from 1966 to 2006.

Best,

Diet


From: "Pyewacket Cat" <pyewacketcat at hotmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 11:53 PM




Does it matter what happens in Germany really?