A series of demonstrations is set to take place in Berlin on Sunday’s International Women’s Day, including a large procession to the City Hall, where Mayor Kai Wegner has his official residence.
A series of demonstrations is set to take place in Berlin on Sunday’s International Women’s Day, including a large procession to the City Hall, where Mayor Kai Wegner has his official residence.
In alliance with other groups,, the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), called for the demonstration under the slogan “Feminist, in solidarity, with the trade union.”
The union’s district chairwoman Katja Karger plans to give a speech at the opening rally, which was registered to go ahead with 10,000 participants.
Berlin City Hall is popularly known as Red City Hall, not because of its politics, but for the colour of the bricks it is built from. Incumbent Mayor Wegner is a conservative.
The main march is scheduled to start at around 11:30 am (1030 GMT) at Oranienplatz in Berlin’s south-central Kreuzberg district.
Other events marking the globally observed holiday include the traditional “Purple Ride” bicycle tour – also in Kreuzberg – organized by left-wing and lesbian women’s groups, with 2,000 participants expected to take part.
In the afternoon, left-wing groups plan to march to the central square named after Polish-German Marxist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg under the banner “Feminism Unlimited.”
A total of 3,000 demonstrators are registered to take part.
Another demonstration with 1,200 participants under the slogan “March 8 International” is planned for the afternoon, marching from Kreuzberg to neighbouring Neukölln district.
Radical left-wing groups are also calling for marches under the slogans “Freedom for Palestine” and a “Revolutionary March 8 Demonstration.”
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