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Special Screening: Doku PETRA KELLY - ACT NOW! mit Regiegespräch
In the organizer's words:
Special screening of the documentary PETRA KELLY - ACT NOW in the presence of and followed by a discussion with director Doris Metz.
A fighter for peace without respect for conventions, an activist for the protection of the environment who was far ahead of her time.
Petra Kelly believed that a single person could change the world. At the height of the arms race between East and West in the early 1980s, she brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets to protest against the stationing of nuclear missiles on West German soil. Petra Kelly became famous not only as a co-founder of the Green Party and its star, but also as a woman who was able to establish a new, world-changing policy and take on two superpowers.
She became a symbolic figure of the peace movement in Europe and was in contact with East German civil rights activists such as Wolf Biermann as well as international comrades-in-arms such as Joan Baez and the Dalai Lama. Already 40 years ago, she relentlessly demanded the radical transformation of society. Environmental, peace and human rights issues were equally important to her.
PETRA KELLY - ACT NOW! is a rediscovery of a political activist who was exceptional in her fight for women's rights and climate protection and her international orientation and networking. Far ahead of her time and today a role model for many young people who are exercising their right to civic engagement to save our planet, even outside the political arena.
"If we transgress laws with our civil disobedience, it is because we are reckoning with a higher law, the law of conscience, and because we also know that the power of the state is not absolute and that is why civil disobedience is our answer." Petra Kelly in the Bundestag
With Luisa Neubauer, Otto Schily, Lukas Beckmann, John Kelly and many more.
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