G20 demonstrations

Actually he was Dee Generate, but big ups for old-school punk knowledge.

My suggestion would be actually working to affect a change. Whatever you believe in there is likely an organisation already working to that end or else, you know, DIY. Start your own.

Just don't paint a sign and dress up and pretend you're doing something to assuage your guilt at inaction.

While a committed course of action over a lengthy period is always going to have more chance of being effective, sometimes events such as this can politicise those previously unpoliticised and, just once in a while, popular demonstrations can effect change. The Poll Tax riots are a good case in point.

Times of plenty breed apathy and inertia. Perhaps today's economic issues will give rise to a more politicial youth. Today could be the start of that.

But then again, perhaps not.