Human chain
Call for the human chain on December 3, 1989 near Bad Düben
A human chain is a series of many people who, in contrast to the queue, are actively formed to perform a special task or to demonstrate a political will . Here, the often hand given or as a symbol of unity and solidarity that kept hands of the neighbors, the neighbor .
The formation of a human chain can also be limited to the passing on of objects, such as B. Buckets of water in the event of a fire (then it is referred to as a chain of buckets ), sandbags in the event of flooding or various things in the game .
Human chains as a form of demonstration often span a great distance between different places or a ring around a place. One of the largest human chains was the Baltic Way : In August 1989, around two million people spanned a chain over 600 kilometers in the independence-striving Baltic Soviet republics of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania .
Examples
| date | event | place | Number of participants | purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Berkshire , England | 40,000-80,000 | Against the stationing of American medium-range nuclear missiles in the Federal Republic of Germany . | |
| October 22, 1983 | Human chain from Stuttgart to Neu-Ulm | from Stuttgart to Neu-Ulm | probably over 400,000 | Protest against “retrofitting” according to NATO's double resolution . On this day, a total of around 1.3 million people protest in Germany as part of the peace movement . |
| 1984 | 33 km long torch chain | Site of the planned Garzweiler opencast mine | 4,300 | Protest against the planning of the Garzweiler opencast mine |
| 23rd August 1989 | Baltic way | Baltic States (from Tallinn to Vilnius ) | 2,000,000 | On the anniversary of the German-Soviet non-aggression pact for the independence of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania ; repeated on August 23, 1991. |
| 3rd December 1989 | GDR | approx. 2,000,000 | "Renewal and democratization of our society - a light for our country" | |
| 2000 | Latin American Jubilee 2000 | Germany | 50,000 | For debt relief for developing countries . |
| February 28, 2004 | 228 hand-in-hand rally | From Keelung to the southern tip of Taiwan (approx. 500 km) | over 1,000,000 (over 2,000,000 according to organizers) | In memory of the incident of 28 February 1947 and as a protest against the threat of Taiwan ( Republic of China ) by missiles of China . |
| July 25, 2004 | from Gush Katif (a cluster of Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip ) to the Western Wall in Jerusalem (90 km) | 130,000 (according to the police); 200,000 (according to organizers) | As a protest against the plan of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to demolish Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. | |
| April 24, 2010 | CHAIN REACTION! | from Krümmel to Brunsbüttel | over 100,000 | Two days before the anniversary of Chernobyl, protest against a possible extension of the running times of German nuclear power plants by the German government |
| October 9, 2010 | Chain reaction Bavaria | Munich, " CSU regional management" to the " Bavarian State Ministry for Environment and Health " | over 25,000 (50,000 according to organizers) | Protest against the extension of the service life of nuclear power plants |
| March 12, 2011 | Anti-nuclear human chain | from Neckarwestheim to Stuttgart | 60,000 | Protest against the extension of the term by the federal government under the motto "take nuclear phase out". Coincidentally, exactly one day after the start of the Fukushima nuclear disaster . |
| 11th September 2013 | Via Catalana | from Le Perthus to Alcanar | probably over 1 million | Demonstration for the independence of Catalonia |
| June 25, 2017 | Stop Tihange | The tri- border area in the Belgian border area via Maastricht to Aachen | About 50,000 | Because of the concern about the safety of the Tihange and Doel nuclear power plants due to the thousands of cracks, citizens of the three states are taking to the streets for an immediate nuclear phase-out. |
| 23 August 2019 | Protests in Hong Kong 2019 | Hong Kong | Estimated 200,000 | In memory of the freedom movement in the Baltic States, a 60 km long human chain in Hong Kong to appeal for the continuation of democracy and freedom of expression in Hong Kong |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christoph Drösser : Does a move with a "human chain" take place faster? In: right ? ( The time ). No. 21, May 16, 2013.
- ↑ With human chains against electricity from brown coal. WDR , April 20, 2015, accessed April 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Hanns Jürgen Küsters, Daniel Hofmann (editor), Federal Ministry of the Interior (ed.): German Unity: Special edition from the files of the Federal Chancellery 1989/90 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, October 1998, ISBN 978-3-486-56361-0 (documents on Germany policy), p. 601 ( online )
- ↑ a b Homepage of the organizers
- ↑ MDR-Nachrichten ( Memento from April 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Homepage of the organizers
- ↑ Route of the human chain ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ BR-Online ( Memento from October 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Daily mirror
- ↑ The mirror
- ↑ 50,000 protest against Belgian Akw , Tagesschau, June 25, 2017, accessed on June 25, 2017.
Web links
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