The Humidity! Humanity as well
Jul. 30th, 2011 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaIn case you weren't aware, Israel is in turmoil. The good way, as in, people are taking to the streets, rather than to our guns.
Three weeks ago, a protest regarding the cost of living (mainly the price of rent) was started by a young grad student who set up a tent in one of the businest boulevards in Tel-Aviv. And well, the rest is history.
roga has a picspam that will show you the magnitude of this, well, surge.
There have been quite a few big marches and demonstrations, and tonight there were simultaneous demos all over the country.
150,000 people marched in Tel-Aviv alone.
I didn't go to that one. I went to the one close to home, the one in my town. We were 300+ people shouting slogans about social and economic justice.
My town is very fiscally conservative, like most of wealthy suburbia, so I felt it was important to show a presence in places where it is very much not obvious that there will be a turnout.
So there I was, shouting along and holding up the symbolic tent.
Times they are a-changing?
I can only hope the idea of social justice, welfare and economic justice will spill out towards actually touching the Occupation and how the majority of our issues come from the fact that cheap housing is built in the territories, that the jumbo budget of the army should be allocated towards education, welfare and public health.
I don't have faith, but I do have history, I rely on it being repeated.
Three weeks ago, a protest regarding the cost of living (mainly the price of rent) was started by a young grad student who set up a tent in one of the businest boulevards in Tel-Aviv. And well, the rest is history.
roga has a picspam that will show you the magnitude of this, well, surge.There have been quite a few big marches and demonstrations, and tonight there were simultaneous demos all over the country.
150,000 people marched in Tel-Aviv alone.
I didn't go to that one. I went to the one close to home, the one in my town. We were 300+ people shouting slogans about social and economic justice.
My town is very fiscally conservative, like most of wealthy suburbia, so I felt it was important to show a presence in places where it is very much not obvious that there will be a turnout.
So there I was, shouting along and holding up the symbolic tent.
Times they are a-changing?
I can only hope the idea of social justice, welfare and economic justice will spill out towards actually touching the Occupation and how the majority of our issues come from the fact that cheap housing is built in the territories, that the jumbo budget of the army should be allocated towards education, welfare and public health.
I don't have faith, but I do have history, I rely on it being repeated.
