The manifestation was initiated by the large NGO Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke (MS)and supported by over 250 different organisations, trade unions, political parties and private companies.

Since the November 20th elections gave the Right absolute majority in parliament the country has been flooded by ideologically motivated government initiatives. These includes privatisation of parts of the public railway system, billion-kroner cuts in the aid to developing countries (“to save the Danish health care system” sic!), a stricter policy aimed at repatriation of asylum seekers, and the shutting down of more than hundred independent boards and research institutions thereby silencing many critical voices that have been criticising the government policy. On of the most controversial is the attempt to shut down the Danish Centre for Human Rights as an independent institution.

Resistance, however, is growing and has taken various forms. Approximately 20.000 students demonstrating in the cities of Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense and Aalborg met the state budget financial cut down on schools and universities. And as the prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen visited the Copenhagen district Noerrebro somebody smashed an egg in his neck.
Mainstream media article on the demonstration
Prime minister “egged”