Poster campaign in Germany to continue

The campaign launched by Tatort Kurdistan and the feminist movement ‘Let’s fight together’, is called # 7000 against isolation (# 7000gegenIsolation).

The poster campaign launched on Thursday in Germany to draw attention to the 7,000 prisoners on hunger strike demanding the end of isolation is continuing.

The prisoners have joined the hunger strike resistance demanding the end of Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan launched by DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven.

The campaign launched by Tatort Kurdistan and the feminist movement ‘Let’s fight together’, is called # 7000 against isolation (# 7000gegenIsolation).

Activists were asked to use their imagination and give way to their creativity to put up posters in corners and places of the German cities. 

Many posters reminded the situation of Leyla Güven and the prisoners, others carried photos of the hunger strikers in Strasbourg and South Kurdistan, Wales and Canada. 

The Störtebeker and Zitronenjette statues, on of the symbols of Hamburg, as well as many other monuments were used to spread the news and call for solidarity with the hunger strikers. 

In Berlin and Magdeburg, red paints were poured on the squares to draw attention to the health status of hunger strikers.

Similarly, it was learned that posters were hanged in cities such as Leipzig, Bielefeld, Munich, Hannover, Tübingen, Celle and Bonn. Activists also took photos of posters hanging all day long and shared it on social media with the hashtag ‘#7000gegenIsolation’.

The promoters of the action want to continue their solidarity initiatives to get more people involved and concerned of the situation of the hunger strikers. They try to push the Berlin administration to act. 

In addition to public spaces such as schools, train stations and metro stations, posters were placed on vehicles, bikes, balconies and trees. German activists are expected to continue to hang posters for a while.