Fuckparade
Trip Start
Aug 01, 2011
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Trip End
Feb 01, 2012
Berlin, Germany
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Berlin sees itself as constantly evolving city of art and culture, as a creative and colourful city. Fuckparade emphasises the importance of fostering this culture of creativity without the constraints of commercialism, bureaucracy and unnecessary police force. It is a protest against the commercial sale of inner city spaces by investors and bureaucrats for unrealistic prices, forcing artists and alternative projects out of the city centre.
I think Sydney needs its own fuckparade. Newtown especially is no longer able to sustain a decent amount of artists and musicians due to the doubling of rent prices in the last few years. Newtown has changed very rapidly since I moved there in 2005.
There were fervent speeches in a similar tone and style to Nazi speeches, but promoting multiculturalism and denouncing fascism. They spoke of cultural diversity, freedom and tolerance; the core issues of fuckparade. There was so much passion and conviction in their voices. I couldn't understand them, as the only English words they used were "fuck you!" numerous times throughout the speeches, but Nino explained it.
Many people were covered in tattoos and dressed in anarchist slogans and gothic attire. Everyone was dancing insanely to hard dance music in the sunshine whle marching through the streets of Berlin after floats of various styles of music. There were a few techno Vikings caning about. We stayed by the drum and bass float where everyone was going nuts. The rave filled out across the wide, dilapidated streets of Berlin and advanced through the city for hours, blocking the path of cars and bikes.
The parade was prohibited in 2001 and has had a lot of problems with authorities, despite the fact that the right to demonstrate together with others for something in public in Germany is a fundamental and inalienable right codified in law. It was finally recognised as meeting the definition of a protest in 2007.
It was like this but sunny and with a lot more people: http://www.clipaday.com/videos/all-hail-technoviking
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