Academic supports civic solidarity protests around the Croatian!
citizens in their protests highlighted dissatisfaction with not only the current government, but also a political system in general. I fully understand the suspicion that the mere change of government in the elections would not be substantially changed things because so. opposition also announcing the attack on social and labor rights, without structural changes, which is just a continuation of neoliberal and partitokratske policy that is the source of the current disastrous situation in the country. Therefore, the solution for the whole society, as well as for the academic community, we see the development and promotion of those models that allow democratic control from below, ie that citizens increased participation and institutions of direct democracy, such as referendums, directly control the policy and decide on the most important issues in society.
See Joseph Đakić clash with protesters in Virovitica
"In my eyes you look and you're lying," says Đakić one of the protesters, while others try to explain to him that he had sent about 150 applications in a variety of contests for the job, but still on the market. Đakić said he would sue the organizers of the protest for harassment of his wife and minor children. No library card HDZ, Josip Djakic protection or Ivica Kirin, in Virovitica-Podravina is impossible to find a job and live a normal life, discouraged young people who dared to enter into verbal infighting with "Virovitica governors.
chronology of protests: On the streets at least since people started walking
emphasized and transparent "Japan has been hit by the tsunami, Croatia has been hit by the HDZ. Protesters carry a flag of Japan with the message "We pray for you."
leaders replaced by direct democracy
Direct democracy means not only political organization, but rather points to the possibility of its application in any environment - in family relationships, love relationship, workplace, supermarket, factory, union, university, or wherever it was. As it says great protest flyer in Rijeka, direct democracy is a method of deciding on which all who are involved in decisions concerning its decision, a decision is made by direct participation through discussion, followed by consensus or voting, be it environmental, labor rights , stop the devastation of the city, stopping the commercialization of education. The fundamental difference between direct-democratic organizations in relation the representative is that of direct-democratic organization is not a traditional leader, but a responsibility to all those who discuss and decide. The group that discussed a particular problem chosen delegates, which is under the imperative mandate, which means that there is no power of independent decision making, does not agree to negotiations, settlements and agreements on their own responsibility, but only on behalf of those who sent him, can not be purchased, flattered or frightened (such as union leaders), and any suggestion that he offered to transfer the base to be examined, may be revoked at any time and shall be elected for a short time, that is - is constantly exchanged, and yet, not be a large and educated politician, nor a charismatic personality. In this way democracy works "bottom up". Is the responsibility of everyone involved, as opposed to democracy "from above" where government is committed to each other with the maximum sentence that the next elections may not be elected. Direct-democratic community can be found in practice in many parts of the world and in various workplaces.
lull before the storm
protest was uncommon ending on the Ban Jelacic hours worked after a short route through the Flower of Mark's Square, the inevitable HDZ to the Japanese Embassy. Held a minute of silence, lit candles and placed a few paper cranes.
As Pernar stole protest (video)
front of HSS on Zvonimirovoj street protesters shout 'HSS goes'.
Shortest protest walk so far, in a column less than 1000 citizens
chanting that they will not give up, they arrived in front of the Workers' House in the Square of King Petar Kresimir IV. and there are unionists shouted, "Treason, treason", saying: "Take to the streets"
Support plenum popular protests
At a time when citizens are flooding the streets of Croatian cities, plenum, Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and the official stops along the insurgency in joint action against political protunarodnih structure and economic "vision" that lead to further and complete the privatization and commercialization of public goods - from health, education, science and natural resources. ... Forming the front of discontent, which we are witnessing the last few weeks, should be used for fundamental social change that will mean a change in the concept of democracy in the four-year cycles, which proved to be sufficient time period for the impoverishment of the people and create an even bigger social differences regardless of which parliamentary parties (k) s work. Publicly expressed the voice of Croatian citizens in fact we are not moving away from Europe, but united in a common struggle. Together with us, and European nations - from Portugal, Spain and Greece and to Ireland and Britain - are fighting the same tendencies that they have imposed local implementers measures neo-liberal capitalism has long been the only agenda of the European Union. We find ourselves in a position to be the final entry in the Economic Community created oppose the party, but apparently not popular, the consensus on the integration of these countries into the union, which rests on a fragile economic and political foundations which perpetuate inequality and already established in the "transitional" period .
"D Day" for the Government Kosor: Čakovčanci first told her to go
the Republic Square in Cakovec this morning were about two hundred people. Speakers su poručili Vladi da odstupi s vlasti te su izrazili ogorčenje pljačkom Hrvatske, nepravednim zakonom i siromaštvom.
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Clinton, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, Embraces a Revolt She Once Discouraged
Even as she embraces the changes in Egypt and in Tunisia, which she will also visit this week, the popular uprisings in Libya, Yemen and Bahrain have been met with force — violently and, so far, successfully. In Bahrain, the Obama administration encouraged King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa to negotiate with the protesters, but it has stood by ineffectually as the king instead invited two American allies, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, to send troops to back up the brutal assault his security forces carried out on protesters in the capital, Manama, on Wednesday. ... Gamila Ismail, a prominent politician who joined the protest movement, opened the meeting with a pointed critique of American support for Mr. Mubarak, which continued until the eve of his departure. As much as the administration eventually pushed for Mr. Mubarak to step aside, many Egyptians remember more vividly Mrs. Clinton's remarks on Jan. 25, as street protests boiled over into an uprising. “Our assessment is that the Egyptian government is stable and is looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people,” she said then. Hossam Bahgat, executive director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, who also attended the meeting with Mrs. Clinton, said Wednesday that those remarks were “a cause for widespread disappointment and criticism in Egypt.” ... Those in the meeting also raised the subjects of American support for other autocratic rulers in the region, the violence in Libya and Bahrain and the perception that the United States had failed to press for a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mr. Bahgat said he urged Mrs. Clinton to use the United States' “unparalleled access” to Egyptian military leaders to bring an end to military tribunals and the torture of detainees in the country.
Complaints of Abuse in Army Custody
Mr. Kashef, 24, was detained by the military police on March 9, when soldiers and armed men in plainclothes known as baltageyya (“thugs”) violently broke up a small protest camp in Tahrir Square. Soldiers brought him and his brother Raif to an entrance of the nearby Egyptian Museum. For six hours, Mr. Kashef said, soldiers beat, whipped and electrically stunned them and scores of other blindfolded prisoners as they lay face down on the pavement. The prisoners were later taken to a military base, and Mr. Kashef said the people in his group were stripped and beaten. Eventually, he said, he was given a military trial that lasted just 30 minutes. ... The military, said Heba Morayef, a researcher on Egypt for Human Rights Watch, is routinely abusing human rights by “arbitrarily arresting people and then subjecting those it has arbitrarily arrested to military trials.” ... Ms. Morayef said the organization had received more and more “serious reports” of military torture in recent weeks, with a surge of new cases after March 9, the day 190 protesters, including Mr. Kashef and his brother, were arrested. The protesters had remained in Tahrir Square to press for a number of demands of the revolution that had not been fulfilled. Ragia Omrane, a lawyer with the Front for the Defense of Egyptian Protesters, said the detainees were beaten and subjected to electric shocks, and later tried behind closed doors, in proceedings that sometimes lasted only 10 minutes. She said one of the detainees was 15 years old. Ultimately, 148 of the detainees were convicted and are serving sentences in military prisons. The crimes they are charged with range from obstructing traffic to possession of explosives, Ms. Omrane said. She added that lawyers had not been given access to either the detainees or their trials, nor had they been informed of the specific convictions or sentences of individual detainees, although military judges told Ms. Omrane that sentences ranged from one to seven years. Since then, 37 more people have been arrested after being taken into custody either on the streets of downtown Cairo or at an antitorture protest held outside the museum on March 16, Ms. Omrane said. Eleven of them have been sent to appear before military prosecutors, she said. ... Former prisoners and the family of one detained man said that three detainees died in army custody on Saturday, while as many as 150 others began a hunger strike against the ill treatment on Monday. Neither reporters nor lawyers can verify those claims. Human-rights activists have expressed concern about the apparent cooperation between army and the plainclothes enforcers who attacked the protesters on March 9, because Mr. Mubarak’s government regularly deployed them to beat and intimidate people. People detained that day said in interviews that they were tied up and blindfolded, beaten with metal clubs and whips and repeatedly shocked with electric stun devices. ... Rami Essam, a well-known singer, said he had been beaten with clubs and bricks by soldiers who cut his hair. Rasha Azab, a journalist, said she had been beaten while handcuffed to a wall around a manicured museum garden. Sherif Abdel Moneim said he had been beaten inside the grand entrance hall of the main museum building by soldiers who struck him across a scar from cancer surgery. ... Mr. Kashef said he and his brother were in a group taken to a military prison the day after their arrest. There, they were strip searched, held in a cell and beaten by a soldier who showered them with curses while accusing them of having Facebook accounts.
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