The snake under the rain
The Fifth Sunday of the Rosia Montana Protests
Bucharest, September 29: When people arrived at the protest on this Sunday,they kind of had a surprise. Everybody had feared there would be very few people showing up, but despite the heavy rain, the guess was wrong. There were hundreds of people who gathered at the Titan metro station, the meeting place.
The bigger surprise came some hours later, when the protesters ended their march in Piata Universitatii (University Square). After almost three hours in the rain, there were thousands of people who made it to the end. What happened is that every time the march passed by a metro station, other tens of protesters with dry raincoats joined, so the snake’s tail grew bigger and bigger.
The best part was when the snake, hidden under hundreds of umbrellas, was passing through very narrow streets, chanting about the saving of Rosia Montana, while amazed eyes were gazing from the windows, what the hell was going on, on their streets, on such a terrible day.
