Tolerance Posters

Today October 17th, EFSYN newspaper from Greece published an article about the Tolerance Poster Show that took place on October 2nd in response to the Neo-Nazi rally in Plauen, Germany. According to  my greek-speaking friend:  "The article is more than just positive – a real in-depth positive comment on the core of the Tolerance Poster Show concept."

On Sunday, October 2nd, participants of the demonstration organized by the nazi party "Der III. Weg" (the third way) gathered at Oberer Bahnhof Plauen (train central) in the early afternoon. The police and media estimated a crowd of around 230 people. About 30 Tolerance posters hanging on the ceiling of the lobby hall of the train station "greeted" these participants. The group started marching through the upper part of the city at 3:00 p.m., heavily secured and isolated by police forces, accompanied by several left-wing driven counter-demonstration groups and protesting citizens. Around 4:00 p.m., the group passed by another strategically positioned 20 Tolerance posters mounted on a fence between the elementary school "Karl-Marx-Schule" and kindergarten "Pusteblume" (Dandelion). We are very grateful to Susann Schmidt (PR department of Vogtlandkreis court house), who campaigned beyond all measures for this relaunch of The Tolerance Project (You m...

  Here are the pages of my interview about the Tolerance Poster Show in the Croatian newspaper Novi list .