P.S. Stuttgart 21

[yakalskovich]

Der Spiegel finally deigned to translate an article about the escalating protests in Stuttgart for its English online edition.

Seems their translators were just working on it, and nobody was intentionally obtuse, as I suspected. Now you can read it all for yourself.


Warning! They open the article with the picture of the injured old man I had used in my other post as well. It's quickly becoming iconic, as I suspected it would.

Comments

[ceitfianna]

Read and tweeted that link, that's just scary.

[yakalskovich]

It's totally scary. I must admit I am scared.

People are getting political here again, which is a good thing. On October 9th there will be a large-scale political protest here in Munich against extending the permits of all nuclear power stations in the country, which our conservative government have agreed to without allowing for much debate, and tonight, rallies of solidarity for Stuttgart are scheduled at the train stations of all major and medium sized cities all over Germany.

I'm planning to be at both. I doubt there'll be much happening tonight (Munichers are notoriously hard to turn out for anything not involving beer and will only react when the pain has reached a threshold beyond the bearable), but October 9th promises to become interesting.

[ceitfianna]

I'll keep following things through my various news places. I hope things change.

*sighs* This just isn't a good week.

[yakalskovich]

Nope, isn't. Started with Stuxnet, ends with this.-