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The most important measures in the current militarisation of society are the Bundeswehr's massive recruitment campaign and the announced partial reactivation of compulsory military service. This campaign is not only about eliminating the Bundeswehr's ‘personnel shortage’, but also about turning the troops back into the ‘school of the nation’. Young people are to ‘learn to serve’ there again and general compulsory service is invoked as a community and ‘solidarity in the trenches’.

What is scandalous about this plan is the increasing military weapons training of underage young people, who are recruited and trained with weapons with the consent of their legal guardians.

As the German government authorises the recruitment of young people, it is also responsible for the risks and damage. These are serious violations of children's rights and grave breaches of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is also calling for a recruitment age of over 18 in order to prevent the recruitment of child soldiers worldwide. The UN Committee has been calling on the German government to raise the recruitment age to 18 since 2008. However, the German government has so far ignored this call, citing an exemption for state armies in an additional protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The German government is also responsible for the young victims of sexual offences.
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17.10.2024 Not Welcome Mr. President

For peace in Ukraine and the Middle East

“Mr. President: You are not welcome until you take your weapons out of Germany.
We don't want Dark Eagles and nuclear weapons. Stop your wars.”

With these words, US President Biden was disinvited last night before his visit to Germany began. Activists from Aktion Freiheit statt Angst e.V. were also present when several hundred Berliners gathered at the Brandenburg Gate under the slogan “Not Welcome Mr. President”.

The press release on the Friko Berlin event states:

Peace Coordination Berlin is calling for a protest against US President Biden's visit to Berlin on Thursday, October 17. Our protest is directed against the planned deployment of US medium-range missiles, the modernization of US nuclear weapons and their storage in Germany, the aggressive war policy of the USA towards Russia and the refusal of any diplomatic solutions as well as the open preparation of a war against China. Added to this is the current escalation in West Asia (Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen).

Jutta Kausch-Henken from the Berlin Peace Coordination says: “The USA has been supporting the genocide in Gaza for a year and is backing the brutal, deadly invasion of Lebanon. Even a war with Iran is not being ruled out and is possibly already being prepared behind closed doors. We are taking to the streets to protest against the German government's active support for this criminal US policy all over the world and the German government's silence on Israel's war crimes.”

That is why we are also supporting the protest on October 18 by an alliance of humanitarian and peace movement groups who have called for a rally in front of the Federal Chancellery from 5 - 7 p.m. under the title “For a just peace in Palestine and Israel”.

Friko-Berlin

Read more at https://friko-berlin.de
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No to War. For a Transnational Politics of Peace

• From TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL STRIKE PLATFORM. #### ....We see those who claim to be in the forefront of "green change" prioritizing NATO expansion and prospects for future Western investment over peace. We see those who support highly polluting military investments celebrating their murderous feast, endangering not only the people of Ukraine, but the future of us all. It is their fault that the war is happening. "

The sanctions policy and the economic war, while appearing to be less violent than the bombing, hit first and foremost the workers, migrants, women and men who are already struggling to make a living in times of pandemic and crisis. The invasion of Ukraine is not necessarily welcome in Russia, and most are confused and ashamed at the prospect of somehow being responsible for the actions of the Putin government, while the resistance to Putin's autocratic regime faces its many battles and the number of political prisoners and opposition figures is growing. The Russian invasion is bringing destruction to Ukraine, but there is no more "democratic" way to prosecute the war. What we are seeing is an all-encompassing attempt to reshape global relations at a time when transnational dynamics and movements of people are shaking the roots of a rotten geopolitical system.

We stand with all those in Ukraine who are suffering from the outbreak of war. We stand with all those in Russia who oppose the Putin regime. We support all those who oppose the war from all sides, and we demand that all mutual military and economic retaliation must stop immediately. The massacre of weapons must be stopped, as well as another crisis looming over the lives of workers, migrants, women and men struggling for their daily lives. While nationalists propagate their acts in the name of identitarian interests that divide and oppress us, and so-called democrats fuel further conflict in the name of void values that support the influence of capital on the lives of all, we call for a transnational politics of all workers, migrants, women and men for peace and against this shattering war. "

Finally a sensible call against war, arms race and sanctions.
- https://www.transnational-strike.info/2022/02/24/no-to-war-for-a-transnational-politics-of-peace/