Status: 05/01/2023 09:53 a.m
Numerous rallies and demonstrations are taking place in Lower Saxony today. When will protests take place in which city? Are there any special features or prominent speakers? An overview.
The German Trade Union Confederation (DGB) has put May 1st this year under the motto “unbroken solidarity”. “Because we as trade unions stand for solidarity, even in troubled times,” it said in advance in a statement. Rarely has a motto been so appropriate, commented the union ver.di: “It doesn’t matter whether it’s for the postal wage negotiations, at the airports, in local public transport, in the private energy industry or, most recently, in the long and intensive ones Labor disputes in the public service of the federal government and the municipalities (…) we have shown what we can achieve together in solidarity.” The DGB is planning rallies, demonstrations, festivals, concerts and discussions in numerous cities.
There were already events in Lower Saxony on the eve of May 1st – for example the concert “Rock Against Right” in Oldenburg in the town hall market. Find more events for today on the interactive map of the DGB to May 1st. Here is an overview:
May 1st in Lower Saxony: A list of demos
- AlfeldMarket Square (11 a.m.): Rally
- BarnstorfRathausplatz (11 a.m.): Rally
- BramscheAt the Tuchmacher Museum (11 a.m.): Rally
- Braunschweig, Burgplatz, Bürgerpark (from 11 a.m.): rally, demo and international festival with stage program. Union members are honored at an evening reception Daniela Cavallo, Chairwoman of the General and Group Works Council of Volkswagen AG, speaks
- Cuxhavenin front of the former fish shipping station/Restaurant Unikat (11 a.m.): rally, live music and information stands
- DelmenhorstBismarckplatz (11 a.m.): Demo, rally and family party
- Einbeck, market square (11 a.m.): rally; Thorsten Gröger, district chairman of IG Metall Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, speaks, among others
- EmdenStadtgarten (10.30 a.m.): Demo, followed by a rally (11.30 a.m.) and family party
- Gifhornunion building to Wolfsburg union building (7:45 a.m.): Bike tour to Wolfsburg for the demo
- GöttingenAlbaniplatz (10 a.m.): demonstration and rally, with speeches, actions, stands, children’s bouncy castle, carousel and contributions from companies
- GoslarMuseumsplaza (10 a.m.): Demo meeting at the Kaiserpfalz with short stops and actions and subsequent May Day rally on the Museumsplaza
- Hannover, Goseriede (10 a.m.): Demonstration followed by a rally and family party (11 a.m.). Speaker: Cosima Ingenschay, Deputy Federal Chairwoman of the Railway and Transport Union (EVG)
- HelmstedtMarktplatz (10 a.m.): Demo and rally
- Hildesheim, Market Square (11 a.m.): Demonstration rally (11.30 a.m.). With speeches by Lower Saxony’s Labor Minister Andreas Philippi (SPD) and Kevin Komolka, State Chairman of the Police Union (GdP)
- Holzminden, Market Square (11 a.m.). Rally, speaker: Ralf Becker, Regional District Manager of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union (IG BCE)
- taughtRathausplatz (10 a.m.): Rally with speeches by Lars Klingbeil, SPD federal chairman, and Mehrdad Payandeh, chairman of the DGB district of Lower Saxony, Bremen, Saxony-Anhalt
- LingenHall IV (10 a.m.): Demonstration and rally
- Lüchow, Roland-Brandin-Str. 2 (10 a.m.): Demonstration and then rally on the market square (11 a.m.)
- LueneburgTheater (10 a.m.): Demonstration and rally on Lambertiplatz (10.30 a.m.)
- honeyAm Marktplatz (11 a.m.): Rally
- Nienburg, Museum Garden (10 a.m.): Communal breakfast, rally, family & cultural program. Speeches by MdB Marja Liisa Völlers (SPD) and Markus Wente, collective bargaining secretary of IG Metall
- NordenForum WBZ (11 a.m.): rally and family celebration
- NordenhamJahnhalle (11 a.m.): Rally and family celebration
- NorderneyKurplatz (11.15 a.m.): rally and family celebration, speech by Mark Baumeister, head of the gastronomy department and member of the NGG main board
- NortheimMünsterplatz (11 a.m.): rally, music and Cuba cocktail stand
- OldenburgRathausmarkt (11 a.m.): The DGB invites you to the rally and the subsequent family celebration
- OsnabruckAt the union building (10 a.m.): demo and rally with family party
- Easterode, Martin-Luther-Platz (10.30 a.m.): rally and children’s attractions. Speakers will include Mayor Jens Augat and Ute Gottschaar, deputy chairwoman of ver.di Lower Saxony-Bremen
- Papenburg (13 o’clock): Rally, information stands, children’s program and music
- SadnessUnion House (11 a.m.): rally and festival, speaker: Holger Westphal, deputy GEW state chairman
- Salzgitter, Schützenplatz, Platz Alte Feuerwache (from 10 a.m.): rally, demo and international festival with stage programme. Daniela Cavallo, Chairwoman of the General and Group Works Councils of Volkswagen AG, will speak
- lakesJacobsonplatz (11 a.m.): Rally and brass band music
- StadeWest water at the Schwedenspeicher (11 a.m.): rally
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- Uelzen, Herzogenplatz (11 a.m.): Rally, later live music, Sportjugleure Dreillingen e. V. and bouncy castle for children
- UslarRathausplatz (11 a.m.): rally and erection of a maypole
- Varelyouth and club house weaving (11 a.m.): rally and family festival
- VechtaOn the horse (1 p.m.): rally and information stands
- Wehrstedt (2 p.m.): May Festival and music procession
- Wilhelmshavenpumping station (11 a.m.): rally with a speech by Ralf Sikorski, deputy chairman of the IGBCE
- Wittmar, Waldhaus zur Asse (11 a.m.): Rally and speech by the member of parliament Jan Schröder (SPD). Also: music and goulash cannon
- WolfenbuettelStadtmarkt (10.30 a.m.): Rally with the managing director of the NGG for the south-east Lower Saxony-Harz region, Katja Derer – and subsequent demo (12 p.m.)
- Wolfsburg, Rathausplatz (9.30 a.m.): Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) is expected to speak at the rally. Hans-Jürgen Urban, executive board member of IG Metall, has also announced his presence
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