Saturday saw the second edition of the peace march in Luxembourg. Although participation numbers suffered (due to coronavirus) compared to last year, a considerable number of people still showed up to demonstrate.
"Building bridges instead of walls" was the message of the day. An overall appeal was made to people to not limit their protests to social media, but show the same commitment in the real world.
OGBL president Nora Back commented on the peaceful march: "We are experiencing the repercussions of economic wars on a daily basis, which risk damaging our way of life in an irrevocable manner. International cooperation is ever so often turning into confrontation lately, as we have seen with the closing of borders. The situation becomes even more dangerous if communication between fractions stops working, which can lead to unintended developments."
Wars, injustice, nuclear arms, refugees, COVID-19, climate change. All themes that moved the protestors to come out and march together.
A final plea was made to the Luxembourgish administration to not invest into NATO's armament, but rather in a sustainable future.
