Editing Neuruppin (section)

=== Neuruppin remains colorful ===
In the run-up to a planned demonstration of [[Far-right politics|radical right-wing]] groups in the core city of Neuruppin on September 1, 2007, the non-partisan action alliance ''Neuruppin bleibt bunt'' formed and organized a counter-event with about 1000 participants.<ref>[http://www.neuruppin-bleibt-bunt.de/ ''Neuruppin bleibt bunt'']</ref><ref>{{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100421144804/http://www.aktionsbuendnis-brandenburg.de/aktionsbuendnis-neuruppin-bleibt-bunt |title=Aktionsbündnis Neuruppin bleibt bunt |date=2010-04-21}}</ref> On September 5, 2009, in view of another planned demonstration of radical right-wing groups, the action alliance organized a series of actions for civil courage along the demonstration route.<ref>{{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100809015846/http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/beitrag/11593297/61299/Das-Aktionsbuendnis-Neuruppin-bleibt-bunt-plant-fuer-den.html |title=''Kultur gegen Neonazis'', MAZ 28 August 2009 |date=2010-08-09}} Retrieved 23&nbsp;September&nbsp;2015.</ref> On March 27, 2010, Neuruppin bleibt bunt organized the democracy festival Demokratie im Quadrat with 2,000 participants in the face of a demonstration march by the radical right-wing Freie Kräfte Neuruppin with 350 participants.<ref>''Tausendfach Protest gegen Rechtsextreme'', Schweriner Volkszeitung 28 March 2010.</ref>

On June 6, 2011, the action alliance received the ''Band für Mut und Verständigung'' award for its work. In November 2011, a party convention of the [[National Democratic Party of Germany|NPD]] took place in Neuruppin under protest of ''Neuruppin bleibt bunt'' against the will of the city.<ref>{{cite web| title=Neuruppin demonstriert gegen NPD-Parteitag |publisher=sueddeutsche.de |date=2011-11-12| url=http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/npd-neuruppin-demonstriert-gegen-npd-parteitag-1.1187404 |accessdate=2011-11-27}}</ref> The action alliance was able, through broad civil society engagement, with cultural stage program on the school square and a blockade for the first time to stop the so-called "Day of the German Future". The far-right Freie Kräfte Neuruppin/Osthavelland had organized the demonstration for June 6, 2015.<ref>{{cite web| title=Kein Durchkommen für Neonazis – Tag der deutschen Zukunft dieses Jahr in Neuruppin erstmals blockiert |publisher=neues-deutschland.de |date=2016-06-08| url=http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/973640.kein-durchkommen-fuer-neonazis.html}}</ref>