10.20.05
Pro-Environmental Terrorism
So, now I’m a terrorist. No really, I am. Well, at least I work for a terrorist group. Called Greenpeace Nordic.
I shit you not, a little while ago a court of law condemned them to pay a fine of 300,000 kroner for terrorist activity because some of their civil disobedience actions fell under the new terror law. And this is where the government has placed me to serve my military duty. Interesting, no?
It’s a great place to work though, I was so sure I would pick the Planetarium, but Greenpeace just had a much more relaxed atmosphere. The people I work with there are younger, the tasks are more interesting (general office work vs. picking up the litter around the Planetarium), and they told me if I showed up before 9, I would probably be alone. Generally, my meeting time is 10 am, which is a huge bonus for a night creature like me.
I spent most of today setting up a Powerpoint presentation for their Workplace Recruitment Project where they travel around and speak about the organization to the employees of whatever companies will let them in order to get them interested and hopefully gain more members. They were totally impressed by my touch typing. Around noon, I also went to the post office to pick up a box of pig sperm for lab analysis. When you walk through the streets of Copenhagen carrying a box of sperm, you can’t help but smirk a little; I’m not really sure why.
By the way, I recommend reading this story about the bombing of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior. It’s old news, but it’s still an outrageous and tragic story; it really made my blood boil.
