#no legida

So, why am I writing this? Basically, because I am angry as fuck. Last week, no-legida (that's what we call ourselves) People have been attacked by legida people. Legida also attacked journalists, they bashed up one guy's camera, and basically tried to scare everyone off.

It pisses me off that these shitheads think they can just go and scare us away so they can spread their lies about everyone and everything they don't like. It pisses me off that I don't feel safe around police, because they basically did not one fucking thing to protect those against Legida. Legida People were escorted to the place where they met, and No legida was sent around a merry journey around the City centre, where nobody could tell us anything and nobody knew which streets were blocked and which would lead us to our demonstrations.

When we walked to the car last week, people started throwing these really loud firecrackers. And while I didn't see them, I heard them. And together with the violence and the way these Legida people behaved... it scared the shit out of me.

This Friday, Legida and No Legida will have demonstrations for the third time. And I am already afraid of the atmosphere that will linger over Leipzig that day; when you go to work or uni, or shopping, and you don't know if the people that you see today will later wave German flags and behave like fucking Nazis, or if they will stand side by side with you, trying to show that Leipzig is a wonderful open City who welcomes everyone, no matter where they come from and who they love.

I hate these hours before the demonstration starts, because - like last week - I am scared that basically anything could happen. But I won't back down, I can promise you that.

And you know what gives me life? That I know that there are poeple who will stand beside me.

Also, people like this one, who dresses as a Hobbit and Mocks Legida with a sign that says "Hobbits Against the Isengardization of the Shire" (in German: Hobbits gegen die Isengardisierung des Auenlandes, short: Hogida)

[note: I just realized that for some reason, I can't link the pages, so here they are: about Pegida: http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2015/jan/06/pegida-what-does-german-far-right-movement-actually-stand-for

about Legida: http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/jan/21/pegida-members-far-right-streets-legida-leipzig-Video

Hobbits: http://eurojournalist.eu/das-plakat-des-jahres-2014-hogida/