German farmers brought tractors, trucks, and many hundreds of protestors into at least six city centers Aug. 31, in a nationwide action to warn the government and public to stop the assault on agriculture and stop causing world hunger. The chief organizing group was the Land schafft Verbindung (Land Creates Connection, founded in 2019), whose well-known banner was seen at many locations: No Farmers, No Food, No Future. Young farmers were very active in the Mainz and Dresden rallies.
The cities included Stuttgart, Mainz, Dresden, Potsdam, Magdeburg, and Würzburg, and the numbers of tractors and demonstrators varied from city to city, but the national impact of protests in all the Old Town squares was strong. In Dresden, for example, the rally was directly in front of the famous Frauenkirche.
Among the banners in Mainz, one on a tractor in the pre-dawn convoy, proclaimed: “Clueless People Are Going To Ruin Us, So We Are Going To Demonstrate!”
Organizers for the Schiller Institute and the BüSo were on hand in at least three cities. The Schiller Institute has served as a cross-fire center for relaying international messages of support for the protesting farmers, and from all others, to join the fight. The German farmers are manning the frontlines for science, morality and economic policy to produce food.
In Dresden, one of the rally speakers was Andreas Wilhelm, an activist with Land schafft Verbindung, who made a point of discussing what had happened to Ukraine agriculture over the past 30 years, where livestock and diversified farming were reduced in favor of what the transnational cartels wanted for export. Now we must build and fight for all farm capacity.
