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VAŠINGTON - Izvršni direktor Centra za primenjenu nenasilnu akciju (CANVAS) Srđa Popović, koji se našao u vrhu liste 100 globalnih mislilaca čije ideje utiču na svetsku javnu i društvenu scenu, jedan je od osnivača "Otpora" koji je u Srbiji 1998. godine započeo kao studentski pokret.
Popović je, zajedno sa Slobodanom Đinovićem, takođe iz grupe CANVAS, krajem prošle godine dobio i prestižnu nagradu za ljudska prava i demokratiju, danskog fonda "Paul Lauricen", za "doprinos demokratiji i njenu promociju širom sveta.

 

Osnivači "Otpora" su ove godine, dobili i ostrvce Tinadu, sa 14 kuća, 37 stanovnika, dve uličice, kućicom za iznajmljivanje, kolektorom za kišnicu i agregatom, kao poklon za prekomorsku misiju u svetskom turističkom raju Maldivima.

Popović je u više intervju podsetio da je "Otpor" nastao u jednom kafiću krajem oktobra 1998. godine. Tada su se okupili on, student biologije i gradski odbornik na listi opozicije i još desetak mladih ljudi, među kojima Slobodan Homen, Slobodan Đinović, Nenad Konstantinović, Ivan Andrić, Dejan Ranđić i Ivan Marović. Dizajner Nenad Petrović odmah je kreirao simbol - stisnutu šaku, pesnicu.
Iz prve postave "otporaša" pojedini su otišli iz zemlje - Marović, Vukašin Petrović, u biznisu je Đinović, u politici i pravosuđu Homen, u poslaničkim klupama Konstantinović i Andrić...
Popović navodi da su "otporaši" u prvoj masovnijoj akciji, decembra 1998, prošli u maršu ulicama Beograda. On je tada zatvoren i u zatvoru prebijen, a na slobodu je pušten na intervenciju Amnesti internešnela.
Ubrzo, kad su na Filološkom fakultetu organovali performans, kako je izjavio zabrebačkom "Jutarnjem listu", "dekanovo osiguranje ih je pretuklo, ali pod pritiskom javnosti dekan je zatim smenjen, i to je bila prva pobeda 'Otpora'".
O iskustvima "Otpora", koji je zvanično ukinut 2004. godine, govore film "Rušenje diktatora", koji je preveden na gotovo 20 jezika širom sveta a prevođena je i knjiga "Nenasilna borba u 50 tačaka", inače dostupna i na Internetu.
Popović je ušao u godišnju listu 100 globalnih mislilaca, po oceni prestižnog političkog magazina "Forin polisi" (Foreign Policy). Tu listu od 2008. godine objavljuje "Forin polisi", a ovo je prvi put da se na njoj nađe jedna ličnost iz Srbije. Dobitnici ovogodišnjih priznanja su i predsednik SAD Barak Obama, nemačka kancelarka Angela Merkel, francuski predsednik Nikola Sarkozi i disidenti Palestinac Mustafa Barguti, privrednik Bil Gejts i mislilac Bernar Anri Levi.
Na sajtu "Forin polisi" se navodi da je "Pokret mladih 6. april", jedan od glavnih organizatora ovogodišnjih protesta u Egiptu na kojima je srušen režim Hosnija Mubaraka, "takođe preuzeo inspiraciju i praktične instrukcije od CANVAS-a, grupe koju vodi Srđa Popović, nekadašnji student biologije koji je postao revolucionar, i sačinjene od drugih veterana 'Otpora', omladinskog pokreta koji je organizovao studentske proteste kojima je naposletku srušen režim Slobodana Miloševića".
Lauricen, po kome nosi ime nagrada koju je prethodno Popović dobio, bio je danski industrijalac i antifašista. Dobitnici te nagrade su bili tibetanski poglavar dalaj lama, lideri poljske "Solidarnosti" Andžej Milčanovski i Pjotr Andžjevski.
"Nenasilna oktobarska revolucija iz 2000. postala je u poslednjih 10 godina najbolji srpski brend u svetu, od Gruzije i Ukrajine, preko Libana i Zimbabvea, do daleke Burme i Maldiva, hiljade demokratskih aktivista širom sveta inspirišu se onim što smo uradili u Srbiji", izjavio je prilikom dodele te nagrade Popović.
Prema navodima medija, bivši aktivisti "Otpora", u svojstvu eksperata centara CANVAS (navodi se još i ime CNVR) odnosno kao saradnici drugih organizacija poput Fridom hausa, bili su angažovani u Ukrajini i u uspele nenasilne pokrete i izborne revolucije u Gruziji 2003. i Libanu 2005. godine, kao i u neuspešne pokušaje svrgavanja režima u Belorusiji 2001. i 2006. godine. Oni su imali, navodno, saradnju i sa članovima albanskog omladinskog pokreta Mjaft, uzbečkog pokreta Bolga i pokreta Jok u Azerbejdžanu.
Prošle godine je Popović, prilikom gostovanja na Zagreb film festivalu, gde je najavljen kao predavač nenasilne borbe, u intevjuu za portal "Indeks" izjavio da je od Petog oktobra Srbija "doživela barem tri važne stvari za koje smo se mi borili. Prvi cilj je demokratija: Srbija ima slobodne izbore, prilično slobodne medije (koji su nekad čak i preslobodni), nezavisno sudstvo (koje je nekad presporo i kilavo, ali nezavisno od političara)".
http://www.tanjug.rs/novosti/25754/srdja-popovic-od-otpora-do-egipatskog-6--aprila.htm
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