April 23, 2008 (LPAC)--Today, citizens came out to rally in 22 cities in Italy, France, and Germany, to protest against the Lisbon Treaty and the threat that European national parliaments would be sucked into ratifying it. Rallying citizens and activists came from different movements and associations with the aim of triggering a European-wide movement, a mass movement similar to the 1989 Monday demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany, that brought down the COMECON system. In addition to this Wednesday movement, demonstrations took place in Stockholm on Tuesday, and others will take place, in Copenhagen on Thursday and in Vienna on Saturday.

In Stuttgart, Germany one banner read "No to an EU Dictatorship." In Nantes, France, some banners read "No to Lisbon Treaty: Our Countries Are Not Colonies." A citizen in Essen, Germany, grabbed the loudspeaker and addressed the passers-by, telling them: "Fighting against the Lisbon Treaty is the same as what Sophie Scholl did." Sophie Scholl was a 20-year-old German leader of the White Rose anti-Nazi, youth-led resistance movement in Germany.