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Want to see your friends? Call it a protest

3 April 2021

9:00 AM

3 April 2021

9:00 AM

I wonder exactly when we agreed that it is more of a priority to gather with strangers than to meet loved ones? You might chart a number of moments, but the presumption seems to have become fixed.

You might say that it started before the pandemic with the idea that truanting from school is worthy, even admirable, so long as it is done in opposition to climate change.

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