On Monday, the Parish gathered students, war veterans and bikers from different cities in the area. At the first meeting, the citizens condemned the behavior of Aleksandar Vučić towards the municipal president Jelena Paunović. A wall of shame was built in front of the municipality and the film - "Truth behind postcard images" was shown.
Students, war veterans and bikers from Kruševac, Varvarin, Blac, Trstenik, Kraljevo and Brus were on Monday protest in Aleksandrovac. Under the slogan "iZBORi se" Students of the Parish they organized a meeting where they held first citizens' assembly, showed a film about the problems faced by the citizens of the parish called "The truth behind the pictures of postcards".
They held a sixteen-minute silence and a protest walk to the Aleksandrovac municipality building, where they performed a performance - "Wall of Shame". The police secured the rally all the time.
Students from Kruševac also organized a humanitarian bazaar in order to collect funds for the treatment of their fellow citizen Jane Lazarevic, who urgently needs a kidney transplant.
The students were accompanied by grandmother Milanka, the "parish heroine" who earlier greeted the students of the parish as they walked towards Nis.
"Children, we are with you"
At the beginning of the protest, student Sofija Ivanović invited the crowd to join the protest rally in Blac on Tuesday, and to show solidarity with the citizens of that place. Then she invited the war veterans to speak.
The representative of war veterans, Nenad Ristić, said at the gathering: "Children, I would like to tell you on my own behalf and on behalf of the war veterans that we are with you. Support is important because we can only change things together."
After him, Matija Kovačević, a student of the Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Kragujevac, spoke and said from the podium: "We are not interested in the government, only the truth. How many more innocent people have to suffer in order for some people to realize that if it's not all about the money, there must be something in their heart. If they have it at all."
With eyes full of tears, he added: "The main question is whether I will wake up tomorrow with the desire to stay in this city or with the desire to leave it as soon as possible. I don't know, but I know that even if I leave, I will come back at least for this great holiday."
"We know why we are here and how we got here," student Milica Popović began her speech. "The canopy fell. It fell because of the uneducated, because of the corruptible, because of the obedient, and they tell us to go back to the universities and study because it can always get worse. And can it?"
She added: "It is unlikely that someone loves their city as much as the residents of the parish love the parish. And the saddest place is the bus station in Aleksandrovac on a Sunday afternoon at half past four, and that leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. So, let's talk, let's hear each other. This is our bazaar and I don't want it to be nice just to come to it, let's make it nice to stay in our bazaar."
At that moment, the students developed a banner: "It's nice to stay in your bazaar."
The first choir in Aleksandrovac
Ana Andrejić, representative of choirs, was handed a manual for leading choirs.
At the first assembly in Aleksandrovac, student Ivanovic called for the assembly's first decision to clearly and unequivocally condemn the unacceptable behavior of the President of the Republic, Aleksandar Vučić, towards the president of the Aleksandrovac Municipality, Jelena Paunović.
From the crowd was heard the sound of whistles and an exclamation: "Wow".
"He is not competent to decide who will be the next president of the municipality. We consider it extremely inappropriate and inadmissible for the president of the Republic to declare that if something does not happen by Monday, she will no longer be the president of the municipality," said Ivanovic.
Citizens overwhelmingly voted to approve this proposal.
Earlier, at the session of the Aleksandrovac Municipality Assembly (February 11), the councilors of the Serbia Against Violence coalition requested that the behavior of the President of the Republic towards the president of the Aleksandrovac Municipality be included in the agenda. However, the ruling majority of councilors (SNS and SPS) refused it.
"The truth behind postcard images"
Then the students held a 16-minute silence, after which a film made by the students of the parish was shown.
In the film "Truth behind postcard images", one of the scenes shown is the flood that happened in Župa. "The floods caused enormous damage to the traffic infrastructure by destroying a total of 13 bridges in the villages of Aleksandrovka. What is worrying is the fact that even to this day, almost two years after the unfortunate event, the local self-government has not been able to repair most of the damage," the film said.
All the time during the screening of the film, the student held a banner next to him with the inscription: "Leave the armchairs, go to the field."
The entire film will be published on the social networks of students of the Parish.
After the screening of the film, citizens started a protest walk to the Aleksandrovac municipality building.
The students made a performance called "Wall of Shame" where they plastered photos of part of the problems in the parish on the front door and fence of the municipality.
While the action was going on, the following was heard from the megaphone: "The wall of shame of the municipality of Aleksandrovac. This is only a part, the Chinese wall would not be enough for us."
After the exhibition, the citizens dispersed peacefully, and the rally passed without incident.
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