Germany’s far-right group PEGIDA is mobilizing weekly ‘virtual marches’ livestreamed on YouTube. On a Monday evening in early April 2020, around 1,000 users are waiting for a YouTube livestream, hosted by Lutz Bachmann, co-founder of the Dresden-based protest movement ‘Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the Occident’ (PEGIDA). We are pleased to share previously unpublished materials with the community under creative commons license 4.0 (Attribution-NoDerivatives).This article was originally published at CARR’s media partner, Open Democracy.

Entretanto, duas manifestações contrárias no mesmo local conseguiram abafar ao menos parcialmente as comemorações.Os oponentes do Pegida - sigla em alemão para "Patriotas Europeus contra a Islamização do Ocidente" - fizeram bastante barulho ao ponto de levar os líderes do movimento xenófobo a reclamar e ameaçar cancelar discursos, segundo informações da imprensa local.Manifestantes dos dois lados estavam próximos uns do outros, separados apenas por cordões policiais. This ritualized format seemed to be able to keep constant mobilization levels over an extended amount of time.Do the ‘social distancing’ measures thus doom PEGIDA to decline? Indeed, it is impossible to find out if the YouTube followers were more or less the same as those who joined the street protest. Pegida mit Björn Höcke die Nationa... 17.02. Indeed, the demonstration planned for Monday, 16 March 2020, was Based on the ethnographic observation of the first two YouTube livestreams, PEGIDA aims to make its online version as similar as possible to its street events by following the offline format and procedures. Alexander Wolf, membro do comitê executivo do partido, disse que o comparecimento de Höcke na marcha do Pegida seria algo arriscado pouco antes das eleições na cidade-estado de Hamburgo, no domingo.

In addition to Pegida bosses Lutz Bachmann and Siegfried Däbritz, Thuringia's AfD chief Björn Höcke is also expected to speak.

Third, the speakers praised the movement and its supporters for constituting not only Germany’s economic backbone, but also for being the guardian of civil liberties and Europe-wide leader in peaceful protest politics in times of crisis.Nevertheless, the online adaption differs in many ways from the well-established protest ritual. For the second time already, Bachmann’s YouTube channel ‘LUTZiges’ – a pun of his given name and the German word Over the years, participant numbers consolidated at around 1,500 supporters per demonstration. Some of the best-known figures of the German speaking far-right scene livestreamed or sent video messages from their living rooms to address PEGIDA supporters, including Michael Stürzenberger (activist and blogger from Munich), Christoph Berndt (activist and AfD politician from Brandenburg), Heiko Hessenkemper (AfD politician from Saxony), and Martin Sellner (cover boy of the Austrian Identitarian Movement). Siga-nos no Facebook | Twitter | YouTube Manifestantes protestam contra a 200ª marcha do Pegida em Dresden, que contou com a presença de líder de ala radical do partido populista de direita AfD. O governador Michael Kretschmer e vários secretários estaduais também ofereceram apoio.Lutz Bachman, líder do Pegida, já foi condenado diversas vezes por incitamento ao ódio, entre outras acusações, o que contribuiu para que o movimento perdesse apoio. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Most viewers, however, did not use the chat.For a long time, both interested observers and PEGIDA’s political opponents have been wondering why the movement survived even though many of its demands have found a parliamentary arm in the AfD. Björn Höcke 2010 bei Neonazi-Aufmarsch in Dresden © 2010/2017 ZDF heute Throughout the YouTube events, the organizers kept their well-studied roles: Wolfgang Taufkirch as serious host, Lutz Bachmann as funny moderator, and Siegfried (‘Siggi’) Däbritz as bad boy.Similarly, the invitees were more than familiar. 1 . Second, the speakers also continued to discriminate against people of immigrant and Muslim background, accusing them of not respecting the restrictions to public life – in contrast to the socially responsible PEGIDA supporters.