And thousands of Germans have pitched in; they take food and clothes to the camps, take refugees to meetings with the authorities in their own cars, pay their fares, foot their medical bills, teach German, translate forms, share couches and bikes, act as nannies, open up soccer clubs, schools and kindergartens for refugee kids, and go on demonstrations against rightwing attacks across the country.
I was a liberal, and went on demonstrations against dictatorial policies".
"I was going on demonstrations as a teenager and the arrival of Margaret Thatcher just electrified everything – it gave us even more to rant and rave about".
The general public struggle to identify with protestors at the best of times; going on demonstrations is just not something that people with jobs and mortgages tend to do.
"I grew up in an environment which was not so hippie-ish and yet my parents were teachers and I went on demonstrations," says Dyrholm. "It was quite political, free actually, in many ways – I had a very open-minded childhood".
A popular attraction is the sand-sculpture demonstration that will go on throughout the day.
Oceanfest in Long Branch will fill a half-mile promenade between Seven Presidents Park and the Ocean Place Resort & Spa on Monday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., with entertainment for adults and children, crafts, games and a fireworks display that begins at 9 p.m. Also part of the celebration: a sand-sculpturing demonstration that will go on throughout the day.
"We now say that without a YouTube video showing what's going on, the demonstration didn't happen, the crackdown didn't happen, and the killings didn't happen," Kinan explained -- that is, they know that without video evidence, the outside world may not be able to trust the reports they hear.
"We were writing about what was going on in the townships — demonstrations, brutal police, and especially women who had been detained, leaving their children behind," Luthuli said.
In the same aisle at Zabar's that day two other demonstrations were going on, so that people were starting at one end with free chicken sausage, sampling a slice of prosciutto, and then pausing at the World's Best stand before heading for the cash register.
Once the demonstration ended, Rink went on to explain how one of the top dogs at Glenwood Management (remember them?) contacted him about hiring someone they thought would be perfect for the consulting job: Adam Skelos.
