You’re right, the shaping outcomes part is especially well put. The dispiriting thing is that as long as we’re not the ones being fucked over I don’t see my colleagues giving much of a shit about organizing. They’re generally happy about the company. The problem here is the effect our work has on other people.
Apparently the government is using the excuse of the current emergency situation to ban a much larger protest scheduled in Utrecht against cuts to university funding. I think the fascist hooligans were too macho to get their asses beat intentionally, but stirring shit up sure was convenient.