Iceland steps up the protests


I've been slow in posting any pictures from our trip to Iceland, but because I'm a news gal, here are a couple sorta interesting ones. The Morning News today linked to a set of pictures at The Times of London of the weekly anti-government protest in Reykjavik over the currency crisis there.

A week before -- we were told it's every Saturday at 3 p.m. -- we watched the protest from our hotel room window. They set up a stage, piped a bunch of Pink Floyd tunes over a PA system, and then had some speeches. It was a very peaceful, age-diverse crowd.

But apparently this past weekend it escalated to bonfires and tear gas. (In picture 6 of 8 in their slideshow, you can see our Hotel, the Borg.)


There was one other protest while I was there -- a pre-sunrise arch at 9 a.m. Monday on the day I left. It looked like they marched right up to the parliament building and piled the door high with white bags, I assume "money bags." It was funny watching lights turn on upstairs in the Parliament building all of a sudden as they chanted below.


The protesters, 50 at most, circled the building a couple times and then left.

That's all I got for now.
- posted by Amy @ 1/22/2009 01:04:00 PM