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Traditional leaders of Namibia's Herero and Nama leaders gather outside Germany's embassy in Windhoek, protesting against the country's offer of financial reparations. IMAGES
Berlin, June 15 (EFE / EPA) .- "Nachtigal", "Luederitz" or "Peters" are names reminiscent of colonial Germany which today houses the Berlin street guide of which some have been crossed out with red ink in reference to the anti-racism protests that have erupted in the world after the murder of African-American George Floyd in the United States.(Camera: CELEMENS BILAN)FOOTAGE SHOWS B-ROLL OF THE STREETS THAT HAVE REFERENCES TO GUSTAV NACHTIGAL (AFRICAN EXPLORER), ADOLF LUEDERITZ (BUSINESSMAN) AND CARL PETERS (COLONIZER) IN THE BERLIN DISTRICT OF WEDDING.ATTENTION, PETERS' STREET WAS RECLASSIFIED IN 1986 TO HONOR HANS PETERS, A CITY COUNCILOR OF BERLIN.
Angela Merkel visits the former German Nazi death camp at Auschwitz for the first time in her 14 years as chancellor, as Germany grapples with a resurgence of anti-Semitism and the growth of the far-right. Merkel is only the third German chancellor ever to visit the camp in Poland, with her highly symbolic trip coming ahead of the 75th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet troops on January 27, 1945. IMAGES
Activists from the #DecolonizeThisPlace movement stormed New York's Museum of Natural History and covered the Theodore Roosevelt statue on Columbus Day, which was this Monday, and dozens of people gathered around the entrance to the museum in front of the statue to denounce America's colonial past. Americans used to celebrate the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492 as a special event that opened what was then called the 'New World' to European migration. However, a growing movement is denouncing this as a celebration of colonialism, and is calling for the day to be renamed as “Indigenous Peoples Day”. 26 US cities have chosen to focus on Native Americans. New York however has not joined those efforts yet, and activists voiced their anger by organizing the #DecolonizeThisPlace protest. Theodore Roosevelt’s statue was covered, as the activists consider it to be a “stark embodiment of the white supremacy that Roosevelt himself espoused and promoted”, according to their open letter. They also marched through the Natural History museum and took to the streets, chanting "Allen Locke" and anti-police slogans. The action coincided with the weekly Monday protest organized by ‘NYC Shut It Down’, which focuses on a different victim of police brutality in every demontration. This week the protesters called for justice for Native American man Allen Locke who was killed by a police officer in December 2014.
Images at the start of the trial against Bjorn Hoecke, head of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Thuringia, who appears in court for publicly using a banned Nazi slogan. He stands accused of twice using the phrase "Alles fuer Deutschland" ("Everything for Germany"), once a motto of the so-called Sturmabteilung paramilitary group that played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power. IMAGES
French, German Foreign Ministers and top EU officials are gathering in Paris for an international conference on Sudan. France is hosting the conference and seeking contributions from the international community, exactly a year after war broke out in the northeast African country, leading to a humanitarian and political crisis. IMAGES
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