PEOPLE FELT TASTE OF DISOBEDIENCE
Cancellation by the mayor of his own decision to raise prices for
transport marked a significant trend – the transition from rallies
and declarations to mass disobedience. The protesting youth managed to
convince the vast majority of passengers not to pay the new 150, but
the old 100 AMD. And that’s what made the mayor to change the decision.
This is the first time when large masses participate in the social
struggle. Until now, even the most crowded action was attended by a few
tens of thousands of people. The ruling regime used to put forward this
argument saying that they could bring hundreds of thousands against
a few thousand. On the day of the cancellation of the decision,
drivers claimed that no one paid them 150 AMD. Passengers cancelled
the decision. Who could be brought against them?
This was a real referendum on the evaluation of the activities of the
mayor and his chiefs. These referendums will be periodic. The mass
civil disobedience does not imply participation in protest actions,
does not imply a commitment to political power or even ideology. It
implies the protection of their vital interests. The future is the
civil disobedience against illegal and anti-social decisions.
It remains only to create a list of vital interests, the most important
of which is the distribution of property. It is necessary to carry
out a public inventory of national wealth and clarification of the
principles of distribution of those benefits. This is not an easy
task, but the public needs to know what it owns, where the millions of
government officials come from, and why the revenues from national
wealth do not flow into the state budget, but in the pockets of
the oligarchs.
People felt the taste of disobedience and realized that it functions.
It remains to wait what the society will propose next.
Naira Hayrumyan 13:15 26/07/2013 Story from Lragir.am News: