Recently, a demonstration was held outside Perth Library, which is noteworthy because libraries are one of the few spaces that receive overwhelming public support. The demonstrators, though, were not the usual crowd of mal-educated, and often unintelligent, student activists protesting against capitalism while filming themselves on smartphones. What was different, this time, is that the people who picketed the library do not normally demonstrate about anything.
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