Reports of the MMM 2003 [ 04.05.2003 ]
The first reports from the meetings arrived:

• Flensburg
  
• Bremen
  
• Cologne
  
• Rostock
  
• Berlin
  
• Potsdam
  
• Leipzig
  
• Dessau
  
• Loud brook/Hessen
  
• Four-home
  
• Frankfurt/Main
  
• Darmstadt
  
• Vienna (Austria)
  

Report from Flensburg :

For the third time the hemp & action day took place - again parallel with many hemp actions world-wide in Flensburg.

The participation in the demonstration removal held itself within limits, yet we could reach many humans by the proven combination from info. conditions the Holmnixe and the demonstration removal.

In this year in relation to the size of the removal smaller (however finer;) Closing speech offered the possibility to everyone freely to express itself.

Irene weber closed the meeting officially and pointed to it that the current "old" organization team urgently a separation searches and thanked you all prospective customers and participants.

(report from Flensburg, hanfnord.de)

Pictures of the meeting in Flensburg

Report from Bremen :

The demo ran and buten and within spoke of approx. 200 participating consumers. Thus substantially less than in the last year...
Two very young Leten the joint with the police stolen however otherwise probably gave it no special incidents!
This evening gibts still another MMM party in the Cinema cafe ' starting from 22 o'clock with Tchen SE, Riskut and Mishiva...

(report of Olaf from Bremen, 3,05,2003, Millionmarijuanamarch.de forum)

Report from Cologne :

How in the previous years has grow! Club/CannaCom e.V. a info. table in the Fuessgaengerzone developed. The resonance trade winds was again surprisingly large, even if all did not understand the sense equal the action... Nevertheless it was again good possibility of talking and of discussing straight with the "petrol normal citizens". Participates remarkable, which obviously the reasons for a hemp legalization arrive slowly however probably also at people, where we would not have expected that.
Also again signatures for the "show Dich!" action were collected.
We were surprised, like little expenditure a info. table explain and like with it being reached much can...

Report from Rostock :

The international hemp legalization day on 3 May 2003 in Rostock

We had made much, had expected beautiful weather we and would not have been bad a stage with beer conditions also. Full courage pulled then also a good dozen [ ' solvently ] ' to s direction city center. Armed with three info. conditions, each quantity of materials (of Legalize flyern over tinkering elbows, stickers, poster, hemp journals and such a thing) and some painted transparencies, we reached then also punctually the university University of, heart Rostocks. Constant drizzling diminished also a little and after everything was developed, the music plant the first tones of itself gave, rose the tendency and it could loose-go. Passanten looked surprised to us over here, some came interested on us too, we grinsten back and given away info. materials. The first contact was attached. Soon thereafter it came to first ungezwungenen discussions. With nice musical Untermalung maintained one, anxious parents asked themselves whether and starting from when Kiffen become dangerous can or whether it was bad, if their favorite in the cellar breeds hemp. Kiddies were pleased about the Give Aways and even the hardest continuous rain could not us not from our mission hold. When however for the second time a info. table of a Sturmboee became to then umgeschmissen, with the materials on it lay, kriselte a little at our motivation. Also the target audience, well, was missing somehow which we would not have given up. The music plant however also still failed a little later to all abundance. We used the rain-free time around everything to diminish. Nevertheless we exposed the university place to sound good 3 hours and loose-became some materials. And which is important, Rostock participated for the first time and that is nevertheless already which.

Report from Berlin :

Our action for global the March for Cannabis liberation (GMfCL) ran completely well. We met on Saturday against 14:00 o'clock in TACHELES in the city centre and divided handbills, poster and documentation exercise the GMfCL and our own action, the HANFPARADE2003 on 23 August. There was music and hemp cake and also goods and additional, more general documentation over hemp. I estimate the fact that about 500 people went past and looked at itself it.

In the same evening we organized concerts (3 volume for 3 euro) of per hemp of volume as "The Flashbacks", "NichSchlecht" and "House OF Pancakes", which a success was, because the place of event in TACHELES, which was pushed full cafe ZAPATA and more than 200 people visited the concerts.

Therefore also the supervisors are in Berlin with the result completely content. Only the sun could itself have shown a little more...

(report of the press speaker alliance hemp parade, 05,05,2003)

Report from potsdam :

Thus the liberation Day 2003 in potsdam was a full success! Our planned program could statffinden with slight changes and enjoyed one to move of Zuspruchs. Unfortunately the weather did not play with us also, thus that completely the meetings in the free one took place particularly with storm, cold weather and rainstorms to fight had. Despite everything became our info. conditions (DHV, book shop Sputnik and Chill Out e.V.) well accepted. The specialized lectures, which was cinema as well as the kurzfilme well visited. As particularly successful the Verquickung of hemp and catering trade proved. Whether hemp kitchen, hemp dte or the party in the evening - here it was always full and the information offers installed in each case was well frequented.

We are sure us that our actions could contribute a good contribution for an objective Disskusion. All involved ones have themselves to co-operate on it informed also further and argue for a liberalisation from hemp to.

Finally we can support the unanimous opinion of the organizers as a supervisor only:

Liberation Day 2004 - we participate!!!

Report from Leipzig :

Thus we rate MMM Leipzig as full success. Were so approximately 15 trucks with music acoustic irradiation and 1000 people celebrated.

There are photos under www.technohardbeat.de
or later under feinkost13.org

In the following again the whole from the view of the LeipzigerVolksZeitung:

"dancing alone is not enough out"

It was loud schrill and: The parade of approximately thousand young people on Saturday by the center provided duly for attention. Against 14 o'clock, approximately one hour late, had started itself at the "spoon family" in the Karl dear farmhand route a multicolored music unit train to third "global space the odyssey" in Leipzig with approximately 20 vehicles. The idea of the demonstrators: They want certain life, another drug politics - among other things the legalization of Cannabis - and no Ausgrenzung. The organizers, a team of approximately 20 local projects, is clear: "dancing alone is not sufficient." On the road to go, no sense has, "if we for a global policy of peace not together occurs", thus Conny of the organization team. The slogan read therefore "rhythm and change" - in the small one as in the large one. The removal over a part of the ring up to the Richard Wagner Hain with Abschlussfete ran according to police without considerable incidents.

Report from Dessau :

The alternative youth centre from Dessau called to 03.05.03 at 14:30 o'clock to the Ganja move. Approx. 70-80 persons appeared themselves for this call. Among them also representatives of the Greens youth from Saxonia notion, as well as the regional chairmen of B90/DG from Saxonia notion.

Before the start a representative of the city youth ring gave a speech and afterwards sat down the demo by the roads of Dessau in course. Before the demo a vehicle of the police/the Federal Border Police drove the entire demo course on the entire distance process to that by video noted. With the first intermediate stop a speaker from the VfD came to the course and at the end distance gave the regional chairmen of B90/DG a speech.

At the time of the following conclusion vent some restaurants of volume and one played could still to 22:00 o'clock divert itself there. At the edge of the Abschlussversanstaltung the police and pulled arbitrarily, above all young stationed itself, to felt people out around it. A large catch was not under it, but the people their small quantities were seized to the self-consumption.

With the speeches the entire topic was addressed around Cannabis.

Report from loud brook/Hessen :

DEMONSTRATION "GIVE THAT TO HEMP FREE!" IN LOUD BROOK/CHessen
30 hemp friends (with back advice) took part in sunshine with stormy hoists in the MMM demonstration of the Greens assistance Hessen in the hessian province. Johannes Haunerdinger (Party of Democratic Socialism Hessen), max of Plenert (the Green youth Hessen), Carsten Labudda (solvent Federal association), Rudi Reiser (rheumatism patient) and Jo beer one ski (the Green assistance Federal association) demanded
- the cancellation of Cannabisprodukten from the BtMG
- the development of delivery models, e.g. according to the Netherlands Coffeeshop model
- the release all Cannabis arresting
- as well as the completion of the unequal treatment of Cannabis and alcohol in the traffic.
Furthermore protest letters of the GHH at Federal Ministers of Transport Stolpe and Christian Stroebele (B'90/Die the Green) became and greeting letters of Bernd Salomon (ms patient) and Gabriele Gebhardt(LebensPartnerin of a ms patient) for the Cannabis release read out.
Between the speech contributions music titles were presented about Hanf/Cannabis/Marihuana.
Contacts between Party of Democratic Socialism, the Greens youth, solvently and the Green assistance, were attached whom can suggest a common MMM meeting 2004 in Frankfurt.
A demonstration reader with the speech contributions is of the Green assistance Hessen (contact: Jo beer one ski, lower Fulder lane 12, 36304 when field, ichhabe@... ) planned.

Report from four-home/south Hessen :

Also without speakers the meeting was very good, 4 new members, a quantity of prospective customers, the press was there and the pictures of the conditions is on-line.

Report from Frankfurt/Main :

MMM in Frankfurt, hemp initiative

Our info. conditions as well as show you and hemp TV were more?berauschender? Success. Although the conditions were very well occupied with 7 activists, the interested ones had to arrive to a large extent to waiting over at the conditions, get flyer for and support the signature actions. Approximately 1000 visitors speak for itself...

Legalization opponents hardly were against it under it. In view of the crush their number with a zero before the comma is to be numbered.

Many interesting became, also were called, discussions at the conditions led. Approximately 100 sympathizers registered themselves into the new list of the hemp initiative, over over the coming Events: Soli concert in June, Kundgebung also Smoke in in July, or the travel to the hemp parade in August to be informed and along-arrange partly also active.

In addition approximately 150 signatures for?Zeig you became? and?Ich gekifft? collected.

All on this day to have shown up we want to say and promise hereby cordially to THANKS: WE MAKING FAR ONES!!!

Pictures of the info. conditions in Frankfurt/M: 1 , 2 , 3

Report from Darmstadt :

I had small conditions in Darmstadt on the Luisenplatz and signatures for the showing you action and for the Cannabiscampagne collected. Nevertheless 42 people for the Cannabiscampagne signed and 17 for show you.
Also for making next year also a few more aids will the MMM then also in Darmstadt somewhat more largely and then think I to it a few photos.

Report from Vienna (Austria) :

Report of the hemp fire
To the hemp fire 6 on 3 May in Vienna about 2000 humans demonstrated against the Cannabisverbot in Austria. The meeting was part of a set of actions against the Cannabisprohibition in more than 200 cities world-wide those annually on the first May weekend takes place.

With a before publicly announced "first Haschtrafik Austria" the organizers tried to tighten the interest of the media. There one however still no Cannabis could acquire; that would have been still punishable. One could give only a vorbestellung up for the time of the legalization.

The hemp fire was this year again the largest meeting against the Cannabisverbot in May in the German linguistic area and one the largest world-wide meeting row: In London 1500 demonstrated, in Toronto (Canada) 3000 humans.

Further reports shortly!

Actions to 03. May 2003

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