Blockupy movement

Blockupy
Part of the anti-austerity protests
A Blockupy protest at Frankfurt Airport in 2013
Location	Primarily Frankfurt-am-Main, with some actions across Germany
Caused by	Economic and social inequality, corporate influence over government, inter alia.
Goals	Rejection of austerity by European Central Bank Anti-capitalist and anti-globalization social change An end to deportation and anti-immigration border control
Methods	Occupation Non violent protest Civil disobedience Picketing Demonstrations Direct action
Parties
ATTAC Die Linke Syriza Verdi and other German trade unions Local socialist, communist, anarchist and antifa groups Hesse State Police, including Wachpolizei units Bundespolizei Bereitschaftspolizei units from the aforementioned police forces
Official Website

Blockupy is a movement protesting against austerity. The Blockupy alliance includes trade unions and Germany's Linkspartei.^[1]

Representing grass-roots critics of supranational financial institutions such as the “troika”: the European Commission (EC), European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF),^[2] its name is derived from the Occupy movement which sprang up in Wall Street in 2011.^[2]

Organisers have verbally supported (since July 2015, former) Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis's criticism that ECB policy towards Athens is "asphyxiating".^[2]