How many peaceful protesters does it take to topple even the most angry government? The critical mass of 3,5 percent of the population, which according to scientific studies is needed for the fall of the regime, was largely reached on March 15 and, if according to the theory, it is no longer a question of if, but when the regime will fall
The session of the municipality of Novi Beograd began on March 25 at 10 am, and the opposition left the session. Although tensions were announced, everything went peacefully
"These days, by opposing the terror of liars and fraudsters, I am writing history. Everything I said will be studied," said the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, this time, at Pink, exposing the colored revolution.
Expectations were created among the rebel students and citizens that March 15 could be the beginning of the end of the progressive government. On the other hand, Aleksandar Vučić talks about the end of the beginning of the "illegal" protests and the "colored revolution". Is Saturday really "D-Day", as the regime media presents it? What are students planning, and what are progressive strategists planning?
In an open letter to the "people of Serbia", the students in the blockade say that their protests have turned into national protests. And they call on the citizens to implement direct democracy, to organize themselves into assemblies based on the model of student plenums, because the system of representative democracy in a corrupt and centralized state has failed. What does that mean?
Neither holidays, nor icy days like the one on Sretenje when they were outside for a full 15 hours, nor even colder nights, when they slept under the open sky on the way to Novi Sad, bothered them. Neither the bloody feet from walking hundreds of kilometers, nor the daily intimidation from the authorities that they will be left without scholarships and homes, nor the latest threat that they will lose the year, hindered them. How students teach everyone else what perseverance and adaptability are in the face of new challenges
Teachers, lawyers, actors and other workers stop work, students are constantly blocking colleges and streets, and there are demonstrations in the strongest strongholds of the Serbian Progressive Party. As Vučić's caravan moves from city to city, protests follow in its footsteps. What has stopped so far and where it all leads
Several hundred citizens in Novi Sad silently paid their respects to the victims on November 1, when a canopy fell in this city
We are all shaken by the deaths that occurred in Novi Sad. The reason why they happened is the lack of control mechanisms and independent institutions, i.e. the necessary result of that in the form of unlimited corruption and negative selection. Those directly responsible have not resigned and explain that they have nothing to do with that "event". They are just trying to gain time, so that this horror would not be forgotten, knowing that they have already made all the institutions meaningless and that there is no one who could bring them to justice, as there has never been before
Protests against lithium mining are being organized throughout Serbia. How many people have taken to the streets so far? Today it is the turn of Šabac, Aranđelovac, Kraljevo and Ljig
The opposition leaders who are coordinating the protests called on citizens to gather today, for the thirteenth time, at 20:XNUMX p.m. in front of the Assembly and start a walk to the Public Prosecutor's Office of the Republic
In the destroyed public space, political substance appeared again - the awareness that civic energy must be articulated in political terms. Citizen political parties and citizens' representatives serve exactly that
The immediate reason for the gatherings is this latest violence, but here for quite a long time violence has been carried out at all levels against every kind of humanity, professionalism, benevolence, orderly relations and everything on which a society should rest. It is violence against the rules of behavior in the community, not to mention emotions and empathy
"Vučić would like us to enter into negotiations with him, to bid when the elections will be held, but we do not want that. If we went to rallies under the same meteorological conditions, we want to go to the elections under the same conditions. And for that to happen, it is necessary that the requirements are fulfilled, and that a certain amount of time passes in a normal atmosphere, so that we can then compete."
The power of the opposition protests is hidden in the motivation of the participants who come of their own free will in order to free Serbia from the abnormality in which it is wrapped. The progressive protest showed the weak motivation of the extras, but the top of the party does not lack motivation to stay in power, because they have long stopped wondering who the whistle on the street is blowing for, they know that they are blowing the whistle
"When I was 46 years old, I turned into an old man twice as old who glumly mutters about some ancient, braver, more awake city that is no longer there. And then that lost Belgrade came back to me violently."
The wave of liberation that is sometimes impossible to stop also applies to those "enslaved" in the progressive system of corruption who are beginning to understand that the ruler is not so all-powerful anymore. The oppositionists say that they simply cannot live with a bunch of "repentants" from the government pyramids who bring them information and justify themselves, trying to make a link with the "other side".
"If there are tens of thousands of people ready to walk and press in the coming weeks, that's something no one can control. This is an advantage of non-institutional politics, but it is very difficult to predict the scope because it is something that is outside of all forms and rules. The collapse of the regime can occur in two weeks, and it can also happen that the citizens say: 'We are bored with this and it is not leading to anything, let's go home'"
"Vučić's intention to be the one who will gather people in moments of general mourning cannot succeed. He, lost in a too long and in fact unbearable monologue, panting and rolling his eyes as if he were the greatest victim in the whole tragedy, and the ministers lined up behind him are not a sight that can be connected at all with the unforgettable image of people arriving in processions to the places where they will be laid to rest. flowers and light a candle. These two recordings, these two scenes, show two worlds"
Students used to be the most powerful lever of civil protest. In Serbia, street protests are being organized again, they are visible on social networks, everyone knows about them, but students and young people are not joining them in serious numbers. It seems that their social potential has been lost somewhere
The protests are supported by 14 percent of supporters of SNS, 68 percent of supporters of the coalition gathered around the SSP and 65 percent of supporters of the Green-Left coalition. In the republican elections, 55 percent of respondents would vote for the SNS-SPS coalition, and 46 percent in the city elections, these are some of the results of the latest Demostat survey. It could be tense in Belgrade in April
The question now is how far environmental activists are willing to go and, if they do not back down, whether they will have more mass support from citizens. Because if they abandon the announced blockade next Saturday, they will lose credibility. And if they repeat the action, they would have to have much more massive support from citizens dissatisfied with this government, since it cannot be ruled out that the government will use state or parastate force for the sake of "establishing order and peace." There are more options on the table
