Call to Action

No to War and Conscription!

We don’t want to be a gene­ra­tion subject to the draft! The already man­da­tory requi­re­ment to fill out ques­ti­on­n­aires, the com­pul­sory mili­tary phy­si­cal exami­na­ti­ons, and the plans to rein­state the draft are massive inf­rin­ge­ments on young people’s freedom. We firmly reject this mili­ta­riza­tion of society.

We are wit­nessing the largest mili­tary buildup since World War II. Soon, every other euro in the federal budget will go toward mili­tary spen­ding and war. We all have to pay for this—with rising prices, cuts to social ser­vices, crumbling schools, an unre­sol­ved climate crisis, and under­fun­ded hos­pi­tals. For the Bundeswehr, on the other hand, record levels of debt are being incur­red to build it into “Europe’s stron­gest con­ven­tio­nal army.” At the expense of our future.

Young people do not want to perform com­pul­sory mili­tary service or be trained to kill. For this reason, we—as grand­par­ents, parents, friends, siblings, stu­dents, and young people—oppose the federal government’s current course of action.

We’re taking to the streets to demand:

• No rein­state­ment of the draft!
• No recruit­ment of minors by the Bundeswehr!
• Keep the Bundeswehr out of schools, uni­ver­si­ties, and rese­arch insti­tu­ti­ons!
• Full reco­gni­tion of con­sci­en­tious objec­tion as a human right and grounds for asylum for people world­wide!
• Fund edu­ca­tion, health care, and social ser­vices instead of blind mili­tary buildup and war!

We stand in soli­da­rity with all people around the world who are working to oppose war. For this reason, there is no place at our event for indi­vi­du­als or groups from the ethno-natio­na­list, natio­na­list, racist, anti-Semitic, or far-right spec­trum.