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Saturday, March 1st 2025 from 4pm (OpenEnd)
Café Knallhart, Von-Melle-Park 9, 20146 Hamburg

On Saturday, 1st of March, we want to spend a nice soli afternoon with you at Café Knallhart. We invite you to a soli-clothes-swap-party from 4 pm with hot and cold drinks, delicious cakes, snacks and good music. Look forward to an afternoon in good company with the opportunity to socialise and make new friends. And of course you can also dance in the evening.

For all those who have been in need of new clothes or a new party outfit for a while, we are organising a big clothes swap. Bring along items that you would like to pass on. We are happy to receive clothes in good condition for all genders. Admission is free, drinks and food are available for a donation. We are also happy about vegan cakes you bring along.

Proceeds from donations will be donated to the ‘Land der Tiere’ sanctuary and the Polylux network to support anti-fascist projects in East Germany.

We look forward to seeing you there! Your regional group Hamburg.

Information about barriers: The event is smoke free and the Café Knallhart is easily accessible by wheelchair, but the toilet is not barrier-free.

In 2021, Gemeinsam gegen die Tierindustrie blocked the Plukon chicken slaughter factory in Gudensberg near Kassel (report in German).
Now, more than three years after the action, one person is on trial for their commitment
against exploitation, climate destruction and animal suffering.

Our regional group in northern Hesse organized a solidarity rally on December 18th to mark the start of the trial in Kassel. We say, put an end to the repression!

For updates on the trial, visit our regional group on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ggdt_nordhessen

On 29 March, we will be demonstrating against Bavaria’s largest cattle slaughterhouse in Waldkraiburg (east of Munich)!

The meat company Vion currently has around 4,200 cattle slaughtered there every week. Following Vion’s withdrawal from Germany, Tönnies now wants to take over the slaughterhouse. The takeover would make Tönnies the undisputed number one in the cattle market – and expand its corporate power even further. Tönnies already stands for profit at the expense of people, animals and nature. Such a takeover must not happen! We say: Stop the exploitative animal industry and the power of Tönnies!

The animal industry thrives on animal exploitation, the exploitation of workers and the destruction of our environment. Tönnies and Vion are just two faces of a system. It is time to fundamentally change this system. For an agriculture that respects people, animals and the environment and produces good food for everyone.

You can find all the latest information about the demo here: https://gemeinsam-gegen-die-tierindustrie.org/demo-waldkraiburg

Text on image: “Stop destroying our planet. Stop EU-Mercosur, more than 395 organizations say”

For years, the EU and several South American countries negotiated the EU-Mercosur agreement without success. The EU is currently pushing for it to be signed again. There is strong resistance from agrarian change and environmental organizations as well as small farmers in Europe and South America. In a joint declaration, over 400 organizations worldwide are calling for the agreement to be stopped.

We as the alliance “Gemeinsam gegen die Tierindustrie” have also signed the declaration. This deal would only reinforce neo-colonial continuities. This includes European imports of soy for animal feed for the German animal industry as well as the mass import of beef.

Those who benefit of the neoliberal agreement are the large international agribusiness corporations. The victims are not only small farms in Europe but also small farmers, indigenous peoples and quilombola communities in South America, who are constantly affected by land grabbing, displacement and physical violence.

There is also no doubt that the agreement would fuel the destruction of ecosystems for the monocultures and cattle ranches of agribusinesses. So, get rid of it!

Read the explanation and background:
https://europeantradejustice.org/eu-mercosur-nov2024

Soy production for feeding the (German) livestock industry is responsible for land grabbing, displacement and deadly conflicts in South America. This is confirmed in detail in the report “Violence against the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil”, with a focus on indigenous groups in Brazil.

Among those affected are the Guajajara, Guarani-Kaiowá, Munduruku, Kaingang, Ava-Guarani, Kanela Memortumre indigenous groups. This means that in addition to the deforestation of the rainforest and the Cerrados, the existential threat to indigenous population groups in the Global South is also a direct neo-colonial impact of the livestock industry.

Just a few weeks ago, Deutsche Umwelthilfe published a similar study, accusing meat companies such as Tönnies, Westfleisch and Rothkötter of concealing their responsibility for the destruction and displacement through non-transparent trade chains.

Summary of the report (in German): https://cimi.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/kurzfassung-gewalt-indigenen-volker-brasilien-2023-cimi.pdf

The entire report (in English): https://cimi.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/report-violence-against-indigenous-peoples-brazil-2023-cimi.pdf

Call for protests from November 25 to 26 in Mainz

At the German Meat Congress 2024 in Mainz at the end of November, the German meat industry will come together to talk about its “existential challenges” and otherwise pat each other on the back.

Of course, the Tönnies Group is not to be missed and sends Maximilian Tönnies to the podium to talk about everything but the meat company’s exploitation regime. Dialogue with the public is not desired, and with a regular admission price of €1,650, the corporate elites are likely to keep to themselves.

However, an alliance of climate justice, environmental and animal rights groups will ensure that the event does not run as smoothly as planned. Protest actions have already been announced in front of the Rheingoldhalle and in Mainz city center. The protests will kick off with a panel discussion on November 25 about the future of the meat industry.

Current information, dates of protest actions and more can be found at the Kolibri-Kollektiv:
https://kolibri-kollektiv.net/fleischkongress

Are you campaigning against the animal industry or want to become active? Perhaps you would like to find out what the animal industry has to do with your activism? Or just want to network with other activists from the region?

At our get together, we would like to give you the opportunity to do so and provide insight into our intersectional activism and our current actions against the meat giant Tönnies.

On Friday, November 22nd, we invite you to the West of Leipzig at 7 pm. We look forward to meeting you, whether you are already active against the animal industry, want to become active or just want to drop by! There will be vegan food and drinks.

When? Friday, 22.11. – 7 pm
Where? Exact location on request.

Please contact us at mail[at]gemeinsam-gegen-die-tierindustrie[dot]org. This will also help us to estimate how many people will come.

We look forward to seeing you!

The power of Tönnies must not be allowed to grow! That’s why on November 8 we blocked the access roads to a leather factory that Tönnies wants to take over from the Vion meat group for several hours.

The Tönnies system must finally end! Instead, the group wants to expand its market power by taking over several Vion sites: further slaughterhouses, but also cutting plants and the leather factory in Memmingen – Tönnies just can’t get enough.

Together with 20 activists, we held sit-in blockades in front of the gates of the leather factory and demonstrated loudly. Several people chained themselves together and the blockades were only broken up by the police after 5 hours.

We demand an agricultural system and textile production beyond animal production and capitalism without environmental pollution and exploitation of humans and animals!

Press reports:

Allgäuer Zeitung: https://www.allgaeuer-zeitung.de/arid-812290
TAG24: https://www.tag24.de/3332971
NTV: https://www.n-tv.de/25347290.html (DPA-Meldung, Ähnliche Berichte gibt es bei SZ, FAZ, Stern u.a.)

Background Information about the Take-over of Vion by Tönnies:
https://gemeinsam-gegen-die-tierindustrie.org/tonnies-ubernimmt-vion-standorte