Overview

• The three-part series titled “Mit Pauken und Trompeten gegen Grenzzäune und Raketen” will feature about 100 musicians and choir members.
• Thursday’s event at the Eisenhüttenstadt initial reception center will include speeches and a concert for roughly 1,000 asylum seekers.
• Saturday’s daytime gathering at Potsdam’s Deserteursdenkmal marks the 80th anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing with performances alongside Israeli, Russian and Ukrainian deserters.
• An evening concert at Potsdam’s Französische Kirche am Bassinplatz will cap the protest series.
• Organizers demand the closure of all asylum camps, an end to deportations and denounce Germany’s border enforcement and militarization.