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Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Leftover pic from assignment

Right picture. Wrong dude.

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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Belated posting: another demonstration in Oslo

From last Saturday. It went along peaceful this time.

It didn’t get any press. Maybe nobody even noticed.

“No peace without freedom. No freedom without fight. Free Palestine”

“It’s enough”

Poster with dead child

Making sound on the streets

Well spoken

Lighting candles in support

The message

Demonstration ends, the group dissolves

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Friday, January 9th, 2009

Clashes over Gaza in Oslo

Peaceful protest turn ugly in Oslo.

Gangs of kids with no political agenda, only desire to fight.

Make everything difficult for everyone else.

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Friday, October 24th, 2008

Walking around in Athens on my first day there I felt great relief. So many young people, so many pretty people, in general, so many people. Most of my trip has gone through outback America, places with as few as 17 people (Middlegate, Nevada), 200 people (Austin, Nevada), 10 000 people (Delta, Utah).

Usually with these small places, anyone who is born there moves away when they reach adulthood, to go to larger cities that can offer schools, universities and cultural events in general.

I guess the same problem exists all over the world, the bigger issue of urbanization.

Athens have the opposite problem – young people come in hordes every september, trashing the town in some aspects, and bringing so much back in a lot of others.

I read in a newspaper while I was there, that the fire department had to put out a couch that was burning in the street. There was a big street party going on, where several houses were participating. Reportedly, the crowd of 2 500 people chanted “NUMBER ONE PARTY SCHOOL” as the firemen extinguished the couch.

Now, I wasn’t at that party in particular, but I was at a concert in someones basement, at a combined concert and art exhibition, a chili cook-off where the mayor of the town were one of the judges. This contest of gastronomical skills ended in a spontaneous rap concert in the backyard. I guess non of these things would have happened if it weren’t for all the students.