{"id":3540,"date":"2014-12-25T12:40:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T17:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2014-12-25T12:40:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T17:40:38","slug":"new-social-movements-arise-in-bosnia-herzegovina-roar-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3540","title":{"rendered":"New social movements arise in Bosnia Herzegovina | ROAR Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

New social movements arise in Bosnia Herzegovina | ROAR Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New grassroots movements, assemblies and unions are arising in Bosnia Herzegovina. Other post-Yugoslav countries experience similar returns of the left.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span>What\u2019s going on in Bosnia Herzegovina ten months after the\u00a0uprising<\/a>? Following the violent\u00a0riots<\/a>\u00a0in February 2014, the citizens of Bosnia have jointly channeled their rage into horizontal and self-organized assemblies called\u00a0plenums<\/a>, which mushroomed throughout the country and surfaced in as many as 24 cities and towns. Unfortunately, the flood that hit the country a few months later appears to have wiped out the new experiments of collective self-organization. But the protests, plenums and even the flood contributed to activate a solidarity chain that has now translated into an informal network calling for social justice.<\/p>\n

Where have all the protesters gone?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0February protests<\/a>\u00a0kicked off in the city of Tuzla, 130 kilometers north of the capital Sarajevo, where the laid-off workers of five bankrupted factories staged a protest to get their unpaid pensions and health insurance back. Shortly afterwards, the protest exploded across the country, in the biggest protest wave the country has witnessed since the end of the war. Although the participation in the rallies faded away several months after the revolt, the laid off workers in the Tuzla area have not stopped voicing their rage. They still keep staging protests in front of the institutional buildings, claiming the salaries and pensions the factory owners still owe them. To this end, they founded an independent trade union called Solidarnost (Solidarity), aimed at uniting workers with various professional backgrounds and across ethnic boundaries.<\/p>\n

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New social movements arise in Bosnia Herzegovina | ROAR Magazine. New grassroots movements, assemblies and unions are arising in Bosnia Herzegovina. Other post-Yugoslav countries experience similar returns of the left. What\u2019s going on in Bosnia Herzegovina ten months after the\u00a0uprising? Following the violent\u00a0riots\u00a0in February 2014, the citizens of Bosnia have jointly channeled their rage into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2154,2153,657,1709,734],"class_list":["post-3540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bosnia","tag-bosnia-herzegovina","tag-protests","tag-riots","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}