Solidarity

Solidarity seems to mean a lot of things to a lot of people. While it took on pretty specific meaning in the union movement (one I sometimes seem to worry it is losing), there is at base some notion of a unity of feeling. In that way, if in no other, it seems to have a lot in common with compassion. 

Anyway, its a feeling and an idea I like. So I just wanted to record one way that I feel solidarity. Somehow, when I'm working alone on schoolwork (particularly at night), knowing that all over the place my friends are doing the same thing at the same time gives me a feeling - perhaps of unity of purpose, perhaps of suffering together - but its a feeling I like and hold onto. And somehow, being connected by the internet, with even the potential of instant communication - even if I don't actually talk to anybody - makes the solidarity somehow more real.