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You can also complete a full 
School education or a degree,

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for which you will ultimately
have to pay extra.

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Or you might
join the armed forces after all.

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There will certainly be more alternatives, 
there's no question about that.

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Either way,
however, it is clear

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that volunteering is not
voluntary at all, but depends

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on the economic conditions
in which we live.

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The neoliberal trend
is clearly visible and noticeable

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for you and
for me.

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Competition, exploitation
logic and profit.

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And for that we are to be sent 
into the trenches.

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For the profits of Rheinmetall,
Siemens and Deutsche Bank.

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And it won't be the 
children of the CEOs

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of these corporations who 
will be sent into the trenches

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to have bullets 
fired into their heads.

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That's supposed to
be us!

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We're supposed to be
cannon fodder.

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And we're supposed to shoot at 
young People from other countries,

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who, just like us,
have hopes and dreams,

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who, just like us, have
their whole lives ahead of them,

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and with whom we have so much
more in common

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than with Merz,
with Pistorius,

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or with the children
of some

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super-rich
corporate executives.

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Make peace
without weapons!

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I'm Shmuel, I'm 17
and I'm here today

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to demonstrate against conscription
and to strike.

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The strike is not just for
school pupils to attend.

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Of course, everyone else can
also come to the strike,

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but also, for example, if
you are a teacher,

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as a teacher, try

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strike committees,
 for example

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or structures where
students can organise

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for the strike and mobilise
against conscription

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and against the rearmament of Germany
- to provide such spaces

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and to show solidarity with the
students in this sense.

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And when I see how many people
are gathering here today

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and then I have to say
I am really proud

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and I am also totally 
excited and just happy

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that you
have the courage

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to stand up for all your needs
and clearly define your boundaries.

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And I would just like to say
give yourselves a round of applause.

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...but two years later, it succeeded 
in ending the First World War.

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It succeeded because workers
all over Germany went on strike,

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because sailors mutinied
and soldiers turned their guns around.

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They were able to end the war because 
they recognised the power we have

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when we
join forces.

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Just as the dockworkers in Marseille, 
Piraeus and Genoa are showing.

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who are preventing arms deliveries
to Israel with strikes

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and thus practising
very practical solidarity

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with the Palestinian
people.

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I'm Paul,
I'm 17.

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I'm Karl,
I'm 16.

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It's not our job to defend the 
wars, to take part in them,

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that the old farts
have caused.

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That's not
our problem.

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Our teachers fully support
us coming here today,

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because it's also our
right to be here

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and to protest
against it.

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I can only agree.

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The rich want war,
the young want a future.

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The young people in Braunschweig 
understood this 110 years ago.

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We say the same 
Thing today.

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We want a future without 
war and without conscription.

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And who should fight for it,
if not us?