Arrest at Anti-NATO protest in Belgrade

Saw that. The thing you didn't mention is that NATO bombarded Belgrade in 1999. and now they are accepting Serbia as their new member. Funny how things change. Anyway, most of the Serbs are against NATO becouse of the bombings, and there will be ( I hope ) a stronger resistence to the membership of NATO. As one guy said in the video on the site mention above, NATO is nothing else but modern-facism.

 

I just returned home, got rejected at the border - undesirable foreigner they called me - along with ten others from germuney and austria, seems like the serbic cops were serious about it...
From the more liberal news:

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article ... ato-summit

And some of our less inspired "comrades":

http://www.newser.com/article/d9nqvl0o0 ... grade.html

So it wasn't that bad at all, guess we missed the "good" protesters...

 

Funny how most of the protests seem to be coming from the most fascistic ultra-nationalists in Serbia.

 

There is still a strong pan-slavistic tendency, especially within the nationalist movement, more orientated at russia and the tradition of mutual support between russia and serbia - and with poland and croatia already nato-members it's getting a bit too tight too much for the russian security interests, it's a bit like Mexico becoming "red" - front gardens are always strange places...
If serbia joins the nato instead remaining neutral it could be seen as a further destabilisation of the weak relaxation process between east and west europe, the russians won't like it, especially not if they have to deal with their ongoing inner crisis at the same time they can't hold their old allies in line.
After poland joined, putin "continued" some ICBM-programs just for propaganda of a "strong" russia - I wonder what they will come up with if the serbs get caught too...

 

Because our entire left-wing is full of movements caring only about self-promotion, and following their ideology blindly, rather than being united, and doing something useful. If one movement starts a project, all the others will rush to claim it as their own, and if they don't succeed, they will do whatever they can to disrupt it. And even if we manage to do something, it is ignored by the media, since it does not involve trashing half of the city.

So while we are at it, I seek advice. What can one do, in a city without a valid movement I could be a part of, knowing that even if I start something out, some communists or something will come and claim it for themselves? On the positive side, at least I often meet individuals who are positive and possible to cooperate with...

 

Pissed with the actual circumstances around here - green "party" idiots singing the praises of the "next" date (2022) for the germun nuclear withdrawal but keeping their big mouths sewn shut about the next food-production scandal (36 people in northern germuney died because EHEC-infection spread by a eco-farming-company) I think that thats the best way to achieve something:
Gather Individuals, evade professional big mouths and career junkies, try to deal with local issues people can identify with and draw a serious personal connection to. Evade party-like structures - no chairmen, no charta - and don't forget about the social aspects of soccer-/football playing, neighborhood fests and other opportunities to bring people together - you never have to be part of a movement, as long as you're moving yourself...

 

Do you think you can make a difference without others ?

 

I didn't mean "without others" - but if a movement means that you have to play the games of greedy and fame-/powerhungry individuals taking over your energy and using it for themselves, something quite different is necessary. Again, I think this

may make a good start for something like a movement without the teething illnesses of parties and "movements" as we know them. If many move at the same time...