This morning I attended a protest. My college - which is a liberal arts college - has cut music majors entirely, has slashed the budget for art, history, and English to save $500,000 because the new science building is going to cost them 1.7 MILLION dollars over the next decade. Additionally, our president is a shady racist bastard.
When the main speaker came and asked me why I was here, I said "I am an Environment and Sustainability student, but my minor is in Diversities and Humanities, and I am a writer. Writing is my passion. I am here because I am not here to be turned into a fucking drone."

A lot of what we were shouting was in the vein of:
"What is life without art or music? Fucking boring!"
"We are here to enrich ourselves."
"We are not here to be turned into corporate slaves."
"What happens after the liberal arts are cut? The soft sciences go, and all you're left with is 34 engineers. Try making money off of THAT."

I don't talk about this much here, but this is why I place such an emphasis on *not* emphasizing rationality and logic. When those attributes get emphasized as "productive," other areas of academia, OF LIFE, suffer. The arts suffer, music suffers. And if there's anything I've learned this semester and from what I've shared, environmental storytelling is paramount in actually getting people to care about the Earth, not academic journals and fact sheets. Emotions are human.

This is one of two (maybe more) projects I have surrounding this protest, we are staging demonstrations every Friday. Earlier today I also grabbed some free buckets from the bakery at my local city market, and I'm planning on making some bucket drums because LORD do people need help staying in time while singing. I've been to quite a few protests in my life, and my greatest contribution has always been as the time keeper.