Happy Barricade Day, Les Mis Fans

[labingi]

Happy Barricade Day! I was reading a chapter for my homework about environmental activism in Nigeria against Shell in the 1980s and how it ended with agitators being executed, and I wrote "barricade" in the margin, because that's how my brain works. And then I remembered it is June 6th today. As old and very old-school Eurocentric as it is, this story never stops being relevant--and hope inspiring.

Comments

[skinintheway]

This seems sort of fitting! Today is the first election day for the European Parliament, and for the first time since I was 18 I have decided to vote for the candidate I actually want, as opposed to all the strategic, lesser evil votes I've been making up until now. I guess that's the measure of how truly p*ssed I am about so much of our politics. XD

[labingi]

I hope it felt good to vote your conscience! Your disgruntlement sounds a lot like many of my degrowth colleagues who live in the EU. I think you might find fellow feeling in that community. If you're interested in learning more, here's the International Degrowth Network website:

https://degrowth.net/

(I can't remember if I shared that before. Sorry if I'm being redundant!)