Demo Diary: Views of the CETA - TTIP March
Fighting for the right to live, eat, breathe... and party ... at last Saturday's demo On the surface, the Stop TTIP & CETA demo last weekend was a mass uprising in all of the usual ways: there were signs, costumes, chants and dance tunes. People marched and made demands. But the demo seemed like it was more than just the sum of its parts. It wasn't just because there were more people there than at any demo I've been to in Germany. Their feelings about the cause were also tangible, full of new variety and depth. They were feelings shared by people that'd never meet any other way : families, kids, teens, pensioners, working classes, black bloc anarchists, ad-hoc hippies... and that's rare in a city where people tend to plan every detail of every social encounter, from the friends that they handpick to share it to the exact second that their train returns them home. Maybe I'm just unlucky but since leaving England, I've rarely felt a multifacet...