Austurvöllur

Rated R.

October 5, 2010

Iceland’s ombudsman for children has seen reason to send out a press release reminding people that demonstrations like the one we had last night is no place for children. I couldn’t agree more. I was shocked to see children there as young as two or three years old with their parents. Apart from the dangers [...]

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Some pics from last night

October 5, 2010

Along with the video in the last post we took a few photos last night — many of them blurry on account of the darkness but which nonetheless give an idea of the mood: You can see the full set on the Facebook page, or on Flickr.

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Demonstrating with noise

October 5, 2010

EPI and I headed down to the demonstration this evening in Austurvöllur square. There were lots of people there [around 8,000 I'm told] and it was very noisy. There was quite a different sensation to the protests now than in January of last year. Back then there was a lot of raw energy and also [...]

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Power to the people!!

January 25, 2009

The Minister of Commerce and Banking announced his resignation this morning. He moreover announced that he had dismissed the director and board of the Financial Supervisory Authority. wOOOOOOt!!! Seriously, I feel like doing a frenzied African war dance in my living room. In fact … [...] wOOOOOOt!!! OK, now that that’s out of the way [...]

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