Disarm Rheinmetall – Call for antimilitarist action camp: September 3 to 8, 2024 in Kiel, Northern Germany
Resistance against the new normality of armament, thousands of deaths, flight and displacement is the order of the day. Together with many hundreds of activists, we will gather from 3rd to 8th September for an action camp in Kiel – one of the armament and military hotspots in Germany. There, together with international friends and comrades, we will discuss strategies for our common struggle and carry out direct actions against the military and the arms industry.
War regimes, exploitation and oppression
Our world is in danger of sinking into war and Germany is part of this globally escalating war regime. War technology and weapons produced in Kiel spread unspeakable suffering. The mass killings on the war fronts in Ukraine, the tens of thousands of deaths and displacement in Gaza, the suffering in Kurdistan are just a few examples of the consequences of the global armament of the capitalist patriarchal system. And even where no „hot“ war is being fought, everything is being done to bring it about through unprecedented militarisation, flanked by growing nationalism and the profit interests of huge corporations.
This dynamic shows itself also very clear in Germany: the 100 billion euro rearmament package of the government is being financed by social cuts; protests against war are being answered by arming the police and restricting freedom of assembly.
Although sexualised violence is also embedded in the non-warlike normal state of capitalist societies, it is particularly clear in war zones how sexualised violence against women and other oppressed genders is used as a weapon and becomes a cruel part of everyday life. The subjugation of women is seen as a symbol of victory over the enemy. We condemn this patriarchal violence and at the same time its hypocritical instrumentalisation by Western states.
Changing the world together
Together with various groups and movements, we will fight for a just, ecological and feminist world, network internationally and disrupt the war industry in concrete ways. In doing so, we, the anti-militarist alliance „Disarm Rheinmetall“, will build on struggles here and worldwide. We stand on the side of all the oppressed and want to overcome the divisions between societies, genders, religions and regions. Only together can we create a different world.
War starts here – let’s stop it here
Kiel is the perfect place for our endeavour: There are only a few places in Germany where there are so many sites of the German army, navy and defence industry. At the same time, Kiel is a place of resistance, with an impressive revolutionary history such as the sailors‘ uprising of 1918. And also today there are numerous local resistance movements and allies.
Let’s organise a camp together against war, armament and the border regime! For solidarity and a common practice of resistance against the global war regime. See you in Kiel from 3 to 8 September.
More information (unfortunately only in german) can be found here:
https://rheinmetallentwaffnen.noblogs.org