#wiederdonnerstag

I waited for nearly an hour in the cold today and then marched with the anti-government protest (also expressing solidarity with the metal workers' union in their yearly fight about wages) for almost two hours. I'm tired, but it felt good: there were several thousand people marching and chanting, and the weekly Thursday protests give me hope. Yes, they're nowhere near as big as they were in 2000 because so much bad stuff has become normalized, but they're happening, now also in other cities, and after almost two months the number of participants seems to be growing. Yes, the political direction Austria is currently on is terrible and the right-wing populists are very good at propaganda, but they haven't won yet.