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the right to freedom of association
The debate went ahead. I like the thought of hundreds of protesters sitting in the Union and refusing to move, but the thing went ahead.
We tried protesting. No, more than that, we exercised our rights to free speech and went out and protested. I am exhausted, both physically and in my head; I have done no work today, but have worried and fretted and run around and stared at LJ and not said anything. So I will answer all your comments in time, and thank you for making them, but right now I'm just going to post pictures of the protest, and try not to panic about how much work I haven't done. Claire is lovely, and suggested I write to my tutor and say something about how I cannot possibly deal with democracy in the Middle East right now, I am too busy engaging with democracy right here. (Her variant: she can't possibly engage with democracy in Thucydides right now, she's too busy... you get it.)
Thank whatever deities are out there for my friends, whose pictures I have happily stolen, with thanks.
The banners were worth seeing, it must be said. My favourite was a lovely one of Voltaire's "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" quote, with footnote:
Also. Pedar thinks that someone called in to the Radio Five phone-in this morning and was talking about me. Any confirmation on this point would be appreciated.
We tried protesting. No, more than that, we exercised our rights to free speech and went out and protested. I am exhausted, both physically and in my head; I have done no work today, but have worried and fretted and run around and stared at LJ and not said anything. So I will answer all your comments in time, and thank you for making them, but right now I'm just going to post pictures of the protest, and try not to panic about how much work I haven't done. Claire is lovely, and suggested I write to my tutor and say something about how I cannot possibly deal with democracy in the Middle East right now, I am too busy engaging with democracy right here. (Her variant: she can't possibly engage with democracy in Thucydides right now, she's too busy... you get it.)
Thank whatever deities are out there for my friends, whose pictures I have happily stolen, with thanks.
The banners were worth seeing, it must be said. My favourite was a lovely one of Voltaire's "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" quote, with footnote:
Also. Pedar thinks that someone called in to the Radio Five phone-in this morning and was talking about me. Any confirmation on this point would be appreciated.
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And YAY you and your friends for going out and protesting. If nobody protests, the fuckers don't realize they're offending people.
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Thank you, dear! We could only do what we could do. But we did that.