Don't give up!

The sign above takes the Fatherlanders' old slogan, "Latvian -- don't surrender!" -- and changes a couple of letters to spell "don't sell yourself"... here is some footage of today's events. Click "nākošā" to see the next video. The President made a surprise appearance. When he says he wants to be the people's President, he is interrupted by the chant "prove it!"

For those who find Latvian revolutionary aesthetics odd -- I reminded a friend that they were delightfully weird even in 1905. When 150 000 people gathered at Grīziņkalns to hear the masked man (Jansons-Brauns), expecting fire and brimstone... he lectured on the need to bring art to the workers.

Photo from a gallery by AFI.