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Monthly Archive July, 2016

Woke Up Screaming Twice, No Longer Silently

Was wondering whether I’ll manage to make a post out of a rant I sent Alma at the start of the week, after struggling to hold back on actually spilling it all out directly to my parents during a recent conflict, despite not being caused by the conflict or by what caused that, but simply […]

Street Sports and Certej – July 27 and 28 in Bucharest

I’d like to be able to say that something’s being done regarding the manner in which green spaces are being massacred in my Sector, as that was bad before and has now gotten significantly worse after the Sector 3 mayor was reelected with over 60% and also has the full support of the new mayor […]

Standing for Human Rights in Turkey – July 20 and 21 in Bucharest

This month’s story should be the proposed new public gatherings law, which a few activists and Remus Cernea worked on and which he submitted to the Parliament on July 1. However, after a brief initial push to announce this as a major event and promises to quickly release tools to gather comments and suggestions for […]

Silent Screams, Runs, Passing by a Protest and Hovering Around Another

Quite a crash two days ago, the noise from the construction work nearby waking me around 9 AM and not letting me quite sleep again until I eventually got up, even if that was after 1 PM. Just kept nodding off and then waking again, being confused and miserable, even though it was just drilling […]

Turkey Is Lost

I’ve been wondering how to title this post since late Friday night, when it became clear that the attempted coup in Turkey will fail, but I’d say this is short, simple and accurate enough. Sure, military rule can never be desirable and a coup usually works out dreadfully, Egypt now being clear and obvious recent […]