Archive for February, 2011

Protests in Berlin

February 27th, 2011 | benjamin

Protests in Belrin have more of a Soylent Green quality to them than those I’m familiar with. Fortress sized trucks parked at intersections, sparkling in their spotlights are the drips from the water cannons mounted above.

And it really is cold, yet the left turns out in droves.

Teams of police officers tap their hoses against tear gas canisters while local entrepeneurs collect discarded bottles of Beck’s and Club Mate for the deposit latent in each.