ACTing Anominously

Last month on the 25th (yes, I am incredibly up to date, you just keep silent) I attended the anti-ACTA demonstration. My blog will be illegal due to my usage of movie poster pictures that I am not the copyright holder of if the law is passed. So no, I am not immensely pleased by ACTA.

Before leaving home I quickly cut out some black cardboard to make the censorship-glasses haha. A lot of my friends participated which made it all the more delightful.
The demo started near Nørreport Station and we heard a few speeches before starting marching.



Some guys formed a band and they kept playing jazz music. It was so classy and really wound up a nice mood.



There were so many people attending! There had been a facebook page where about 7.000 had marked their attendance, but in the end I think we were about 11.000.



My beautiful friends.




Marching, marching, marching...
It was really fun to stop traffic like that! But I cannot understand why the busses kept driving along our walking route since the event-planners had produced a very thorough time table. They should have taken a different route for some hours!



Final destination at the Town Hall Square! Gosh, there were a lot of faces...
A lot of different speakers came to talk - politicians, comedians and ordinary people.




Confetti in the sky and bicycle reflections...
And then it was time to return home!



We walked towards the nearest station while the sun set. It was probably one of the prettiest sunsets of this year until now, so I am very glad I had my camera tugging at my neck.



Goodie night everybody!

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Partaking in democrazy

The election campaign has been going on for the past 3 weeks. Cardboard adverts, television commercials and political debates all over. And it came to its conclusion yesterday on the UN international democracy day.
Why was this important to me? Because I could vote for the very first time, since I am of legal age (18 in Denmark).



Monday we had a debate on the school with 4 representatives from 4 of the 9 parties. But unfortunately I didn't find it all that interesting - after 2 weeks of nothing but debates you're quite tired of them.



My voting card! Look at that - it says "Miss Liv"! Haha, that is so grown-up... or not. Really old fashioned actually.
My feet while voting!



Yes, my dad was sort of proud. Hence all the photos. Folketing Election 2011!




After work in the evening I went to some friends of mine's election "party".
Every time all the parties' election letters came up on the screen like that, I started reading it like a real word. "vaobføick"... I was confused for some nanoseconds before realizing my own stupidity every time haha.


Making a gif

It was real exciting. We all looked like that guy on television. At one point it was pretty much 50/50 between the two wings.

And boy, it was a long election night! All the votes weren't counted until half past midnight... that's an hour later than last time!



But Helle Thorning Schmith and the red wing won. She is Denmarks very first female Prime Minister - that is grand in my opinion. Almost like Obama being the first black President. Just in danish scale.

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Screw this oh! so good system

This week the high schools have been holding sit downs and gone to demonstrations all over Denmark. We did it at my school as well. Part of the reason:

The politicians keep pressing more and more into the education system and keeps taking away the money that used to go to school managing. But when they keep on taking our money, how can they expect that we all go on and become lawyers etc. The government says it wants knowledge to be Denmark's largest export and that they want the danish educational system to be (one of) the best in the whole world. But how will that happen if they just let the schools hang around with no money to improve?

This is taken from the demo at City Hall - by Thorbjørn Chakravarty:

(Look at the dude with red hair. I wonder if he did it just for this??)

Speaking of Hogwarts...

I'm climbing slowly up the ladder of Harry Potter books. It's not going that fast because of school and friends, but that's okay. As long as I get to finish the last book before the new movie comes up in the cinemas! That's actually the whole reason for me reading the series again. I need to remember all those important details!

The sale has begun again. Today I bought this cute bracelet and a whole lot of stuff from H&M Online Store. I'll show it to you all when I receive the package!

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