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Unlike Germany’s numerous amorphous groups from the autonomous tradition, however, Rote Hilfe operates as a legal organization in compliance with federal law. It is registered as an association, has an official HQ, and maintains an elected federal executive committee as well as local chapters and activities in the public sphere. Although it is regularly attacked by Germany’s ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and features prominently in reports by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, it is not a banned organization. This makes the repression it is currently facing all the more astonishing.

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[-] nykula@piefed.social 1 points 9 hours ago

the organization supports activists financially, through paying fines and funding ongoing legal help

Pretty sure the state and the lawyers only accept bank transfers in official currency, plus lots of paperwork. Civil rights organizations can accept individual donations in cryptocurrency, but the very type of the work they do means they need to convert them to state money in aboveground, official bank accounts.

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