Drumming for the climate: 300 participants at Fridays For Future in Dorfen

300 participants demonstrated for climate protection on Friday at Fridays For Future in Dorfen.

The speeches were marked by calls for a “climate election” on Sunday.

Dorfen

- drums, rattles, loud calls - the volume was right on Friday. The more than 300 participants in the Fridays For Future demonstration march through Dorfen could not be overheard - and they followed the organizers' call. In the choir, many demonstrators chanted the obligatory “We are here, we are loud because you are stealing the future from us”. Many children and schoolchildren went with them, and as usual at FFF, the protest was creative and colorful. From the cemetery via the B 15 and the market square it went to the rally in front of the town hall.

“Only humans are so stupid and kill their children”, “Save the Poles, stop the coal” and much more could be read on the banners. An anarchist-ironic protest song about “Heaven on Earth” thundered from a pram that had been converted into a loudspeaker transporter. On Max-Hertwig-Weg, a boy cycled towards the demo and put his thumb up. A car driver on Oberdorfener Strasse also took it calmly when she had to wait because the police had blocked the passage. "It fits, they're on the road for our environment," said the woman.

Briefly, "The Party" caused a dispute.

A delegation moved up to the top and unrolled the largest banner of the entire demonstration: "Paralyze coal infrastructure" was written on it.

That didn't suit co-organizer Gerald Forstmaier at all, the saying was too radical for him and he didn't want to identify with it, said Dorfen's environmental officer.

After a short discussion, the “party” took a back seat.

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Colorful ribbons with climate requests could be labeled there - "so that something sticks from the demo".

Sandra Fischkandl and Matthias Lehner attached some of them to the clothesline.

© Timo Aichele

During the speeches in front of the town hall, which Mayor Heinz Grundner is said to have left shortly before the train arrived, a climate ribbon campaign, initiated by Kathrin Böhling from St. Wolfgang, was running.

“We want something to hang on from the demo,” she said. Anyone can come to her and write on a strip of fabric. Several dozen colorful ribbons with climate requests quickly hung on a clothesline that was attached to the flagpoles. “More flower meadows - that's from me,” said Böhling. “I think that the green areas in Dorfen could be more insect-friendly. You can do a lot locally. "

Above all, the speakers focused on the big picture and the general election. Sebastian Emehrer spoke of "four years of Andi Scheuer as Transport Minister: four years that we have lost in the fight against climate change." As the CSU councilor Sabine Berger found, she did not reveal her under her breathing mask. She stood bravely in the front row during the speeches, which one after the other called for a “climate election” on Sunday. But that was also how her BBV poster “Climate protectors buy regional” was very well seen.

Around Berger, listeners applauded Emehrer when he called for “parks instead of parking spaces” or scolded: “The railway is still single-track, but we now have a motorway.” Stefan Brandhuber appealed: “There must be no more like this.” And Andreas Forstmaier declared that for the expansion of renewable energies, “the insane distance rules must finally be abolished”.

As a tried and tested fanatic, Paula Hutner, who was only 18 years old, took over the microphone and shouted: “We are here, we are loud.

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. ”Everyone agreed.

TIMO AICHELE & MICHAELE HESKE