"The grassroots F**kparade was born in 1997 as a counter-demonstration to the commercialisation of the Love Parade and to the creeping gentrification of the neighbourhoods around the centre of East Berlin. The organisers have always seen the event as a demonstration against bureaucratic uniformity, corporate culture and the Disneyfication of the city. From the start, it has fused partying and politics. The original ""Hateparade"" attracted trucks pumping out a variety of music, 1000 or so participants and widespread press coverage. Legal complications led the protestors to complain that the courts had quashed their right to demonstrate for their vision of society. They were made to recast the F**kparade into a more explicity political demonstration in order to retain the right to demonstrate, and the sound trucks have since been scratched. Paraders gather at Frankfurter Tor, then march down Rosa-Luxemburg-Allee to Alexanderplatz, with a closing gathering before the Volksbühne (please visit the event website for this year's route). Participants are urged to ""politicise sound"" by bringing drums to beat, boom boxes to blast and so on. Local station Radio Fritz now broadcasts sets by the DJs originally booked for the sound trucks.