Monday December 10th was the 70th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. My friend from France sent me this picture of a bridge in France where she had witnessed (from a safe distance) some protesters demonstrating and marching to the city to protest diesel prices, and a host of other issues brought about by Macron’s government.  Meanwhile in Poland, people at the UN Climate Summit are discussing Typhoon Haiyan and other climate disasters as impediments to Human Rights.

This picture made me stop and think.  It’s so serene, and from one minute to the next, everything could change.  I don’t have much more to say, but I like to imagine that the protests in France could be a wake-up call to the rest of the world that things are not ok.  Things could be better, and tyranny doesn’t happen over night.  It is subtly introduced until nobody knows how it started, and nobody knows how to stop it.