#protests in georgia

[marsprincess889]

Ok so I'm back to bringing you guys' attention to what's going on in my country.

I don't have the heart to tell it all in detail. In truth we're all so familiar with it that talking about it seems comical. But to keep you up to date, there have been massive protests in Tbilisi, Georgia since late November.

On 26th of October of this year, the Georgian Dream party falsifies yet another election and on the 26th of november elects themselves as the ruling party again, despite EU, most of the other nations and all the other parties recognizing the elections as illegitimate. Recently they chose their new president, who was basically the only option. The photo of the literal bulletin from the parliament leaked.

People demand another election, a fair one. Peaceful protests soon turned into police beating up the protestors, even teens and women. They're still using water cannons mixed with pepper spray, in December btw. You can look up the videos, even on here.

The main thing that is painful to me and my generation in all of this is the fact that this is a completely new, modern and different version of the same damn fight. Right now I'm thinking of young men and even women and others who were severely beaten up, about people struggling to make ends meet who have their loved ones in such situations, young people trying to build their future who see less and less hope every day in their homeland but are desparately trying to hold on to the last tiny bit of it, maybe even goimg to protests in that state. Today I heard two girls around my age talking. "We gotta get out of here right?..." "yeah... but who are we leaving it to?" "The country?..."

Being free and sovereign in your homeland should not be an uphill battle or a luxury.

We have been fighting against Russian influence for centuries. For those who don't know, even when the repression isn't obvious, they still attack bit by bit(killing or kidnapping our citizens near the occupated borders??????), often with an old and tried tactic: trying to erase our culture and history, and with it our spirit and identity. And with all the other horrors, this is a huge insult.

My heart sinks everytime I read a random comment on a map or other type of video saying "Georgia is not Europe", "but Georgia is Asia". Not that there's anything wrong with Asia, but those statements mean something different and much deeper than an average foreigner suspects. Georgia never ever was "not Europe" to me. This isn't even about joining EU immediately as much as it is about us voicing our own wishes, opinions and truth as the vast majority of our country.

One thing I want to say to people who are far away from this is this: please do not fall for propaganda. And by that I mean Russian propaganda. If you just try to keep it clean while posting about us or checking sources while reading about us and calling out misinformation, it is going to mean a lot.

I tried to not write about this cause let's be honest, what can I do here?

I hope this will do at least something.

I do have followers so, I'm also asking them🤍🤍🤍 even those who just know me from astrology. Please consider reading and reblogging. 🤍🤍

reblogging(esp with tags) is still support.

Edit, additional info that you should probably know: Georgian Dream is a pro-russian government, they just banned wearing masks and goggles(those protect you from pepper spray by the way). If you walk by the parliament in Tbilisi your eyes and skin will almost definitely start to "burn" and you'll most likely start coughing.

There have been phone numbers calling and cursing at/insulting/threatening citizens, even pre-teens, believe it or not. And since the government passed "the russian law" earlier this year, we are most likely being tracked😐

Here is my post from this spring, written in an angry and tired state.

[vladolak]

Flashing Lights Warning ⚠️

Heard about the protests in the country of Georgia and how the cops were using rubber bullets, water cannons and tear gas and more

Then a dude (who I call Firework Man) pulled up with a firework minigun and it brought to mind some metal gear music

EDIT: Update, I have come to find out that the individual in the video was in fact Firework Woman 👍

[i-merani]

HELLO! MY COUNTRY IS DESCENDING INTO AUTHORITARIANISM! PLEASE READ!

I'm too angry to formulate how many lines the government has crossed and how dangerous the situation has gotten… please read, and know the truth.

[hufflpuffin]

As the police escalate violence, beat and attack students and professors, and conduct mass arrests, student protesters should know their rights.

Here is the link to the National Lawyer's Guild booklet for protesters.

If you plan on going out to support the protests, please take some time to read through this and know your rights.

[folklorespring]

Protests in Georgia (Sakartvelo) against Russian-style "Foreign Agents Law". International media doesn't pay enough attention to these brave people.

[brieftimetravelwhispers]

There are every day protests in Georgia (country) right now, it has been going for ten days and there's no end in sight. Every night illegitimate government sends out riot police or titushki (government thugs) to beat up protesters and journalists in front of police, who just looks the other way and who intimidate active civilians in daylight by totally illegal searches. There's. Bloodshed. Every. Single. Night. And!!!!! Right now, as it's 4:50 am and protesters just went home, Tbilisi mayor has people cleaning the territory in front of parliament to put giant fucking Christmas tree. So called government and their supporters don't give a single fuck about how many people bleed every day in streets to steer Georgia back in it's existentially important direction, they only care about their own dirty money and positions. This is nothing new but it still hurts every time when I realise that there are people with whom I share past, collective memory, heritage, history, who'd choose fucking tree over our lives and future.

[jennthegardner02]

Universe: How much chaos can l do before 2025

3 weeks before 2025: hold my beer

[lookninjas]

So if you go downthread on the linked tweet here, people are saying there were up to 300,000 people at one night of protests in Tbilisi:

That's wild. Rooting for them.

[bakobakobako]

This is my cousin, Mika. He got arrested last week by the “Georgian Dream” forces. He got arrested for innocently protesting as shown in this video. He is seen harmlessly standing and saying “we want fair elections” right before a storm of these masked forces attacked, beat, and arrested him.

They broke his nose, 2 of his ribs and he also got a concussion. He’s a father of 3 amazing kids, husband, super talented architect, coolest cousin and the sweetest soul.

I found out today that he even had some internal bleeding. While dealing with all of this, they also made him go to court and fined him about 2,000 lari.

The protests are still happening. Georgians deserve a better government than this.

[machineheraldcommune]

Firework cannon immediately made me think of Jinx. All of my feeds right now are

Arcane

Georgia

South Korea

[gwydionmisha]

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Short version, they are trying to get rid of cash bail for things protesters and the very poor are likely to be arrested for. It also makes bail funds not a things as they'll be limited to posting bail thrice a year. It's a way to clear out protesters and render the 1st Amendment mostly a dead letter.

If you live in Georgia, please make your voice heard now, lest you lose the ability in future.

[siriuslyobsessedwithfiction]

Woman shooting fireworks at the police who had beaten up peaceful protestors in Tbilisi, Georgia. Welcome back, Jinx from Arcane.

[i-merani]

⚠️ Video contains police violence

Police in Tbilisi violently kicks already beaten protester who's laying on the ground

Georgian people are protesting illegitimate government and illegitimate ruling party Georgian Dream who are violating our democracy

The police violently beat up protesters, many people are currently in hospitals. The police also beat up journalists, many have their skulls fractured and faces broken.

Links for more information:

[sailorsally]

Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830 // Protest against russian law at Georgian Parliament, Tbilisi, April 30, 2024

[folklorespring]

Georgia (Sakartvelo) continues to protest foreign agent bill tonight 🇬🇪

[brieftimetravelwhispers]

On 26th October and even before that, Georgian Dream patry decided to steal elections in Georgia. The ruling party decided to strip us from our constitutional right to vote anonymously, they decided to steal our future and steer us back towards USSR, our dark past that promises us dark future.

In the last two years GD party has introduced at least two new laws that were used in Russia in past to solidify Putin's regime. Namely Law against foreign influence, that christens every NGO that is financed from abroad as an agent of foreign influence; and law regarding protecting family values and minors that forbids LGBTQ+ 'propaganda', meaning that symbolism associated to it, as well as literature, art or any kind of public expression that somehow informs about or includes non traditional family values, sexual orientation or gender identity is banned. We can no longer read Oedipus King in university, Sappho, Gilgamesh and many more starting from December, sections from cultural anthropology will be banned as well, and it's simply matter of time before critical skills and knowledge will no longer be reachable. This is authoritarian regime, where everything happens on a whim of one oligarch, what he says is a law for lawmakers, his slaves and he himself is subordinate of russian regiment.

Today, just several minutes ago, 'Parliament' declared itself legitimate, even though members of opposition are rejecting their seats, even though the President doesn't acknowledge fairness of elections, even though constitution clearly says that parliament needs at least 2/3 of deputies to do so. If that is not enough, constitutional court currently is discussing legitimacy of all 150 deputies per the Presidents suit, that automatically pauses working of the new parliament according to the constitution.

Georgia needs desperately to be in spotlight right now. Foreign support is all we have, as court, church, police is corrupt. Police keeps breaking up peaceful demonstations, beating up and jailing protesters, court keeps postponing their hearings as they know that the President, only pro-western institute right now, will use her right to pardon them and she wont be able to do that after her term is up in following months.

We've had painful past, full of protests, bloodshed and fighting for our nations survival. That's what being neighbour to Russia means for us. We won't stop fighting for our future and independence, won't let our ancestors sacrifice to be wasted.

20% of Georgia is occupied by Russia. And even today, there are some people, some georgians who prefer occupants claws, false sense of 'security' to fighting for our freedom.

This is not all, there's lot more that's impossible to fit in one post, for example GDPs pre election promises were pretty alarming, their rhetoric is horrendous, words they use are plain manipulative and dehumanising. They have their own pro government media that is brainwashing people and destroying every critical thinking brain cell. I am angry, I am disappointed and tired and so are hundreds of thousands.

Some sources about the situation: