jaro gruber ;-): 6/1/24

Saturday, June 22, 2024

stop u.s. air base ramstein

as every year, we the peace activists protest against the u.s. air base ramstein (RMS / ETAR). it is the biggest u.s. military base outside the usa. according to wikipedia, it covers a surface of 1,400 ha (= 14 km2) and there are 38,000 u.s. soldiers 'employed'. btw, killing peole is not a job, is it? well, in the whole u.s. military area kaiserslautern - landstuhl - ramstein-miesenbach which is called kaiserslautern military community (KMC) 'work' 40,000 u.s. citizens (wiki, for the year 2020), but google says there are currently 52,000 people ...

... and yes, in germany are 181 out of the 587 u.s. military facilities (not just bases) outside the usa. on top, the french and british army also have some troops here. so germany is still an occupied territory, isnt it? (source: german government statistics office de.statista.com for the year 2015, which still is the most current data, when you search for it in summer 2024 😰). at least the russian army went home in 1994 ...

me, succesfully changing the course of our earth

in the city center of kaiserslautern. no joke, it worked! 😇

source: german government statistics office here

dr. daniele ganser

dr. daniele ganser + me

no wars!

this year we have been more protesters than in the last few years, so my buddy and me were lucky to get a parking slot and a place for tent / place to stay when arrived friday evening at the peace camp ...

the main demonstration was on saturday in kaiserslautern. even if kaiserslautern is not nice at all, i was happy to see s.th. new and not again the roundabout in front of the air base in ramstein-miesenbach, where i've got THREE TICKS 🐜when protecting myself from the sun in the adjacent forest beside the demo stage last year ... well, this year we've had rain + mud + sunken cars all over the peace camp (in steinwenden, close to kottweiler-schwanden) ... its not that bad ... i'm sure you know, we do not come here just to enjoy a nice wheather, dont you?

what are the demands of the peace protest?

peace
germany out of NATO
NATO out of germany
no more weapons & money for the ukraine
free julian assange ... and yes, few days later got julian assange his freeedom after many years (13?) in prison + embassy house arrest + the like
.... what about free palestine? israel out of palestine? ceasefire in gaza? NOPE. germany is still so heavily paralysed by its comitted genocide on jews in WWII, that there are almost no voices agains the israeli genocide in gaza + west bank (+ soon in jerusalem too, dont you think?) even if also we germans know that it is not correct when the israeli army kills innocent civilians, babies / ill patient in hospitals, journalists, help aid workers, refugees in tents in areas where israel forced them to leave and promissed these areas will not be attacked ... i have to cry heartbreakingly😭

what else?

what a nice speach by the swiss historian daniele ganser in the peace camp on friday
what an emotional speach by pastor eugen drewermann in the peace camp on friday. i've had tears in my eyes ... and then we've sung john lennon's give peace a chance all together 💖
football aka soccer crazy town kaiserslautern = k'lautern (1. FCK, red devils, 4 times german champion 1951, 1953, 1981, 1998 as a newbie)
swimming in the bärenlochweiher (in kindsbach near landstuhl)
castle ruine nanstein above landstuhl with a beautiful view at the surrounding area + at starting military planes from the ramstein air base. of course, we've climbed up to enjoy the nice castle and the beer garden and not the war planes out there 🍀✈🍻
tasty vegan food in the peace camp in steinwenden
music & bonfire in the peace camp on evenings
on the way home to munich: swimming in the lake pfuhler see close to the danube river near the city of ulm and sightseeing in the st. peter + paul monastery in oberelchingen (in bavaria)