Maybe, maybe not. This is a sidenote. Today, I took part in the Student Walk of Shame, when whoever wanted to - perhaps 15-20 students from NSCAD joined a few other students in front of Province House, which is where parliamentary decisions, or something similar to that, is held every year. Our Walk was actually rather well organized, though I can't remember the specifics, and not many people attended, not nearly as many as the Student Day of Action, which I did not take part in. Today was the date for some important meeting, and to have our voices heard we went with banners and slogans and songs to remind the Province's government that we have something we want them to do. We screamed until our voices cracked, and well after. When my sign broke from the constant shaking, I held it in my hand and beat the stick to the rhythm of the slogans. When my hands chafed I switched hands and kept going. We did so for perhaps an hour and a half. At the end of it all, I was spent. But the organizer encouraged us with messages from inside the building, that they could hear us well into the rooms, that they had decided to discuss our issue. We celebrated, and chanted louder, as loud as we could, though really we couldn't speak anymore.
But you know, they listened to some extent, and so that is a nice thought, that our effort was somewhat recognize. Whether we will get anything out of it remains to be seen, but it's better than sitting around and waiting for the axe to fall. They somehow agreed to talk about our complaints. That, perhaps, is a success in itself. I find myself invigorated, remembering that these men are humans too, and that their job being to administrate a province, they can't be totally unreasonable when it comes to listening to those who protest against them. Maybe, if we tell them what we want, and prove to them that we want it badly enough, they will consider our desires. After all, we are their subjects, no? At the very least, we will not be ignored. At the best, we will not be defeated.
Are we their subjects or they ours? A question.
ReplyDeleteGood point. As I suggested in yesterday's post, they should be ours. Is it perceived that way though? They serve our interests, but they lord over us. That's how I see it.
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