Over the past year, Latvia has seen spates of civic activism unprecedented in the 18 years of renewed independence. This includes thousands massing for protests, tens of thousands signing petitions, hundreds of thousands calling for referenda. It begs the question 's what brings people to the streets, what provokes their civic impulses? Is civic engagement becoming de rigeur, or is it an unsustainable blip on the screen, a brief inflammation, which, if treated with calming salves and the passage of time, will no longer threaten the political stewards (or some may say hijackers) of the body ...
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