Savo Manojlovic, Belgrade, June 4 2024 (BETAPHOTO/Milan Ilic)
As a way of pressuring the authorities into fulfilling the demands made by the country’s university students in the wake of Novi Sad’s Nov. 1, 2024 tragedy, Savo Manojlovic, the leader of the oppositional Get Going for Change movement (Kreni-promeni), proposed on April 9 synchronized blockades of major thoroughfares throughout Serbia staged at the same time each week.
In his press release, Manojlovic stated that over 400 settlements in Serbia have already demonstrated the willingness to rally and underlined that the country cannot function when key traffic points are blocked at the same time.
Manojlovic recalled that this same strategy of decentralized blockades was employed and organized via his movement’s platform in 2021, leading to the greatest palpable victory of civil resistance in the last thirteen years of Serbian history: the voiding of two controversial laws which had paved the way for Rio Tinto’s plans to mine lithium in the Jadar river valley.
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