A-Infos (en) Germany, FAU BERLIN - Protests at least 65 cities in 21 countries within the past 4 weeks

From january 29/30 (the global day of protest) until today there have been protests in at 
least 56 cities in 20 countries against a verdict that prohibits workers in Berlin from 
affiliating themselves with the union of their choice. The bosses at the Kino Babylon 
Mitte cinema managed to find a court to ban the FAU Berlin workers association from 
calling itself a union and are now trying to get the FAU Berlin charged with fines or even 
imprisoned. There is a month-long labor dispute between the FAU shop-floor and the 
management. Not for forget about the protests from the end of december until the global 
day of protest at the end of january. Those included another 14 cities in 5 countries.

More information about the conflict can be found at the FAU website at
http://www.fau.org/verbot (for German) and http://www.fau.org/verbot/en
(for English). There is more information available in German at
http://prekba.blogsport.de (blog of Kino Babylon cinema workers) and
http://www.fau.org/soli/babylon (the conflict at Kino Babylon Mitte)

We received reports about protests at Aachen (Germany), Alicante
(Spain), Athens (Greece), Barcelona (Spain), Berlin (Germany), Bern
(Switzerland), Bilbao (Spain), Bonn (Germany), Bratislava (Slovakia),
Bruxelles (Belgium), Darmstadt (Germany), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Dublin
(Irland), Duisburg (Germany), Düsseldorf (Germany), Florence (Italy),
Frankfurt/M (Germany), Fukuoka (Japan), Gdansk (Poland), Gliwice
(Poland), Gran Canaria (Spain), Granada (Spain), Göteborg (Sweden),
Halle/Saale (Germany), Hamburg (Germany), Hannover (Germany), Jerez
(Spain), Karlsruhe (Germany), Kassel (Germany), Katrineholm (Sweden),
Kiel (Germany), Kiev (Ukrainia), Kopenhagen (Denmark), Leeds (UK),
Leipzig (Germany), Lille (France), Liverpool (UK), London (UK), Madrid
(Spain), Malaga (Spain), Marseille (France), Moers (Germany), Münster
(Germany), Nürnberg (Germany), Olstzyn (Poland), Oslo (Norway), Paris
(France), Philadelphia (USA), Phoenix (USA), Plauen (Germany), Poznan
(Poland), Recklinghausen (Germany), Schwerin (Germany), Stockholm
(Sweden), Stuttgart (Germany), Teneriffe (Spain), Thessaloniki (Greece),
Triest (Italy), Valencia (Spain), Vienna (Austria), Vigo (Spain),
Warszaw (Poland), Wellington (New Zealand), Wroclaw (Poland), Zaragoza
(Spain) so far.

There are detailed reports about many of the protests at:

http://www.fau.org/artikel/art_100128-225439 (German)
http://www.fau.org/artikel/en/art_100128-225439 (English)

We'd like to thank all those of you in Germany and all around the planet
who expressed their solidarity with the FAU Berlin, and their disgust
with the management of the Kino Babylon Mitte cinema and the verdicts of
the Berlin courts. We are deeply touched that we have been the cause of
one of the biggest waves of international solidarity of the
anti-authoritarian workers movement within the the past years. The
struggle has just begun. We know there are more protest upcoming and we
invite you to join into the protests during the international Berlinale
film festival from february 14 to 20, 2010. For reports and any further
information please contact soli-faub@fau.org
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