Protests in Bonn Anti-Trump demo and Sister Women’s March

Bonn · Demonstrators joined an anti-Trump rally and the Bonn Sister March to the Women’s March in Washington DC on Saturday afternoon.

 Demonstrators joined an anti-Trump rally and the Bonn Sister March to the Women’s March on Washington DC on Saturday afternoon.

Demonstrators joined an anti-Trump rally and the Bonn Sister March to the Women’s March on Washington DC on Saturday afternoon.

Foto: Lisa Kelley

The inauguration of the new US president Donald Trump on 20 January prompted people to take to the streets in Bonn as well as in America.

Protesters gathered for an anti-Trump demonstration on Saturday, 21 January at 2pm at the Kaiserplatz in the centre of Bonn. The demonstration was organised by the Bonn Youth Movement, which sees the “election of Donald Trump as a sign of a worldwide swing to the right, that also affects Germany and against which there is a need to act.”

The hundred or so participants marched from Kaiserplatz to the main train station and down Poststraße to the Marktplatz. A bus carrying the Bonn Carnival prince and princess to an event at the same time was unable to get through the crowd of people and the Prince and his Bonna had to make their way on foot.

The demonstrators then marched along Sternstraße to Friedensplatz. Apart from the Carnival royal couple’s bus, traffic was only slightly affected and the demonstration was peaceful.

Nearly 200 people joined Saturday’s Bonn Sister March to the Women’s March on Washington DC, organised by American Sonja Seitamo. Participants gathered at 2.30pm on Martin Luther King Straße before marching through the Rheinaue. The demonstration had a truly international flavour, with participants from Germany, America, England, Holland and Spain among other countries.

Demonstrators said they were marching for peace, inclusivity, for their children and for the climate. Two students even cycled from Cologne to join and make a statement. For many it was their first ever march, others were demonstrating for the first time since the Cold War. Seitamo said she was delighted and touched so many people joined her to speak up for their beliefs.

(Original text: ga; Kate Carey. Translated by Kate Carey)

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