There will be two rallies in Linz over the next two weekends. Almost traditionally, there is a large demonstration against the Burschenbundball on February 3. A week later, several organizations called for a demonstration against right-wing extremism.
The demonstrations against the right in Austria have already started in Vienna, Salzburg and Innsbruck. On February 9, the SPÖ women’s chairman of the Urfahr-Raum district, Beverley Allen-Stingeder, calls with her private initiative “Rote Brille” for a demonstration “against right-wing extremism and racism” in Linz. A week earlier, on February 3, the alliance “Linz Against Right” will protest against the annual Burschenbundball.
Multiple organizers
“Fridays for Future”, “YesWeCare”, “Solidarwerkstatt” and “Jabali – Young Black Generation” are co-organizing the march on February 9 through the center of Linz. It is a civil society project, as was said before. According to the police, ‘300 participants registered’. It starts at 5 p.m. in front of the music theater, the final meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. on the central square.
Protest against honorary protection for ball
The alliance “Linz Against the Right” – consisting of about 35 organizations, many with a red, green or trade union background – is organizing the meeting against the “right-wing extremist boys’ union ball” in the Palais Kaufmännischer Verein for ten years. They want a “democratic, open and free society, without old-fashioned, right-wing extremist ideas”.
The demonstration with 350 people registered with the police will start at 5:30 PM on the AEC square and end with a final meeting in front of the exclusion zone at the Palais. In mid-January, the alliance had already expressed its protest in front of the headquarters of the ÖVP state party, the Heinrich-Gleißner-Haus, against the renewed protection of Upper Austrian Governor Thomas Stelzer for the ball.
Source: Krone
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