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-Daniel, December 12, 2012



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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

BYD #98: Go on a Demonstration.

Today's the First of May (May Day; Labour Day), so figured I should take the chance to join the annual demonstration of the socialist parties. I'm not really politically active, but I do agree with most things they demonstrated against, so what the heck, right?

So at 12.45 me and Sofia took our bikes and cycled down the the center of Umeå and joined all the others. I was told about 700 people joined the demonstration. The most fun part was the march with the traffic jam we caused and all the songs we sang and the catchphrases we shouted. When the march ended, and some guy started holding a speech, me and Sofia got bored and went back home.

I'm a little bit disappointed at the fact that neither me nor Sofia had any badges or placards though... We didn't really fit in to the crowd. Here's some pictures of us at the demonstration...

3 Comments:

oskyldig said...

Awesome, I was in a demonstration also. It was in Stockholm during Christmas when they were manifesting things against the occupation of Somalia or something. I had no idea, but I joined in and yelled a few phrases, took a photo so I prooved that I took part. Yeah I'm cool.

daniel said...

Haha. Yeah we demonstrated against that as well. "USA - Ut ur Somalia! Etiopien - Ut ur Somalia!"

oskyldig said...

Yeah that's probably the one, at the time I frankly had no idea what I was supporting or refuting; I just felt the moment was right for me to join in and be able to say that I did a rally of some sort!