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First of May Meeting 2020 at Paulskirche

Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland

A 44-minute field recording by LIGNA made in Frankfurt am Main, Germany on 1 May 2020, in the morning. Soundscape: church bells, streets & traffic and crowds & voices.

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First of May Meeting 2020 at Paulskirche
44:08
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Recordist's notes

The recording starts with the statement that not the corona virus is the pandemic but capitalism. On the square were something like 200 people. At 1:10 someone with a megaphone is anouncing what the discussion with the police brought. They cannot demonstrate. They are only allowed to go with fifty, she is saying that she will not count the people. After 4 minutes she says that they can just do their speeches and then go, that would be faster. People are chatting. Some crazy old fashioned socialists at 5:40 shout slogans Who saves the world. The worker and socialism. They sound like robots: Revolution, that the world is owned by the workers. At 8:50 the police is making an anouncement that the people should not be closer than one and a half meter. Someone (without mask) is singing an old german folk song (the thoughts are free). At 10:35 he shouts 'freedom for julian assange', someone comments: who is this? The woman with the megaphone declares that the police does not allow a demonstration with signs, they should walk only as two. She proposes to dissolve and reminds the people that dispersed actions are always possible. Some applaud. After 15 minutes the solidarity song by Eisler and Brecht is played with accordeon, very short. At 15:50 the singer anounces that "the free will of humans is invulnarable', in the german law it is the dignity... At 18 minutes a saxophone plays ciao bella ciao. Then the people are gathering around the corner at Braubachstraße. On the way some sex workers who are also protesting are making jokes about the policemen. At 20:40 some shout 'Long live international solidarity'. Shortly later some shout 'Bullenschweine' and other slogans against the police. After 33 minutes a slogan that is hard to understand. At 25 minutes some other slogans like 'we are here and we won't fight. freedom of movement is everybodies right'. After 55 minutes the demonstrators say, the police is rather boring. I leave with the microphone the dispersed gathering, but the anouncement of the police (27:30) is also audible in the small street... They ask for someone who leads the demonstration - if no one is coming to the police all get a 'Platzverweis', a dismissal. The microphone leaves the situation, passes some police cars and walk to the speech of the socialists (32), who criticise the union that does not demonstrate at that day. After 38 minutes the bells of the Paulskirche comments the speech that states that the system has come to its end - but the w

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About the place

Frankfurt am Main is a city of about 650,000 people in Hesse, Germany. OttoAnna lists 81 field recordings from here.

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