Activity in remote areas

[The Borg]

Hi!

I wonder, what kind of activism can a remote activist do? I live in northern scandinavia, which is the most scarcely populated region in EU. I am the sole communist in my town, with nothing but a few Zeitgeist-nerds to keep me political company. The closest other towns are over 100kilometers away, and even there we have only a handful of activists.

So, I have been remotely writing for our newspaper, and I have traveled over 400km in order to attend demonstrations, but what can a lonely communist do here?

Advice please.

[Lynx]

Very little activism can be carried out in rural areas. Your ability to communicate through words and other forms of expression is an alternative to "being there". If that isn't enough for you, consider relocating.

[The Borg]

This isn't entirely rural area. I live in a town of 50 000 people, and this is the regional capital in 200km radius. So there is people here, it's just that as a communist I am cut off.

[Lynx]

I don't understand what you mean by cut off. I am cut off from the events in Greece because I live in Canada. The only events that have relevance are local or regional.

Describe your town.

[The Borg]

I mean cut off in the sense that I have no local activity, and I don't mean just that things are happening in greece not in the north, but that even here in north things are happening elsewhere.

My town is what we locals call "shopville". It means that there is no industry, no raw materials. This town has grown simply around shops and public institutions for the surrounding countryside. As I said, there are 50 000 people, but they are usually either public sector workers and middle-class, or working in somekind of relation with agriculture. (There are alot of food companies around) There is also a small university, but the students are politically apathetic, or worse, reactionary to the core. This university mostly trains engineers and business majors. The cultural and social units are barely existent.

Politically there are three major parties that completely dominate the town. The social democrats are nowadays where the centrist party used to be, the centrist party sticks out to the agricultural entrepreneurs and the conservative party is there for nationalists and upper middle-class people who are well off.

[the last donut of the night]

dude, don't worry too much about "activism". it's more important to be a good person, be nice to the people in your area, and try to be truly human -- that's becoming ever harder these days. treat people with respect and defend people who need to be defended. you're a person first and a communist second. if you do get into a situation where you can involve yourself more, do it. but no worries, man.

[Lynx]

I live in Nova Scotia. There is barely any political activism going on here outside of the mainstream parties. This is a province of nearly one million people. We have a mixed economy, relatively high unemployment and low wages. There isn't the level of deprivation that there is in Greece. The economic/political/social situation is stable.
If there were disturbances, they would be expected to occur in the largest urban centers, like Halifax.
Administrative towns, where many people are employed by the government, are in a bubble.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Look at this scrub, thinking he lives in a remote area! The population of where I live is measured by a factor of dozens, not tens of thousands! :lol::p

In all seriousness, doesn't sound like you can do much up there. If something pops up that looks like something you'd like to be involved in then go for it, otherwise I wouldn't worry about it. The area I live in is seperated from anything even remotely lefty-activist-related by some of the most rugged terrain on the planet, and the Pacific Ocean. So count your blessings I guess.