It took a dead child to change the discourse around the refugee crisis, and a series of sexual assaults to change it again

On 21 January, 2016 By Alison HaywoodIn Current Events2 Comments

It took a dead child to change the discourse around the refugee crisis, and a series of sexual assault to change it again.

Koln-Rapefugees-Not-Welcom — More than 3,000 PEGIDA demonstrators showed up to protest against the assaults in Cologne on New Year’s Eve 2016. Source: News Observer

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Punk rock shows, guerilla gardening, and musings on various types of extremism

On 12 May, 201523 April, 2019 By Alison HaywoodIn City Life, Culture, Erasmus Mundus5 Comments

We ain’t got no place to go
So let’s go to the punk rock show!
Darlin’ take me by the hand
We’re gonna see a punk rock band
There’s no use in TV shows
Radios or rodeos
I wanna get into the crowd
I wanna hear it play real loud!

-MXPX, “Punk Rawk Show”

Of all the artists and all the concert venues in the world, the American punk rock band Against Me! performed at Fonden Voxhall in Aarhus last week. As part of their European tour, this band, which is huge among rockers and punkers in the U.S., stopped by li’l ole Aarhus to play for a crowd of less than 100 people on a weekday night.