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When I was following some tweets on Egypt, I was struck when I came across the symbol of Otpor. Subsequently I noticed that a number of protesters also using the Otpor symbol. The obvious question is whether this use of symbols was coincidental and some movements or protesters in Egypt were just inspired by Otpor or whether there are stronger links. A number of Serbian news sources of varying quality (Alo, Vesti Online) have now published articles suggesting that former Otpor activists have been training some opposition groups, including interviews with anonymous former Otpor members and the Serbian embassy. The...

Why is Occupy Wall Street Affiliated with a Professional Revolutionary Organization like Otpor!? Updates: http://djosiris.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-affiliated-with.html http://video.godlikeproductions.com/video/Ivan_Marovic_of_Otpor_addresses_Occupy_Wall_Street?id=d04ba0913c063ff7ca0 After seeing video footage of Ivan Marovic addressing the Wall Street Protestors, I find that you must be warned about the infiltration of OTPOR into the Occupy Wall Street movement. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBqBSrrTyzo This is information about Ivan Marovic from Source Watch.org http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ivan_Marovic Ivan Marovic, Serbia and Montenegro “Along with a group of other Serbian student leaders, Marovic formed the OTPOR (“Resistance”) movement in 1998. OTPOR used popular protest and peaceful provocation to build anti-Milosevic support in the 1999-2000 period. Although OTPOR started by mobilizing young...

<p>IF YOU ENJOYED the election crisis of 2000, you’re going to love what Democrat leaders are cooking up for November.</p> <p>"George Soros has purchased the Democratic Party," charges Republican National Committee spokeswoman Christine Iverson. (2) Some might dismiss Miss Iverson's comment as hyberbole. However, Soros' massive soft-money contributions have indisputably given him power over Democrat strategy.</p>

11.27.2004 Saturday US-Supported OTPOR now Ignites Ukraine OTPOR is the Serbian abbreviation for "resistance" and the name given to the activists who, overthrew former Yugoslavian leader Slobodan Milosevic four years ago . It was once a term used to illustrate events in Georgia, and is now part of the so-called "Velvet Revolution" in Ukraine. The US backed Serbian movement continued it's studies in "democracy export" in Belarus. The "velvet revolutionists" in Georgia modeled themselves on OTPOR and the pro-Westerns in the Ukraine, hope to achieve similar results with similar tactics. The Center for Nonviolent Resistance (CNR), which is based in...

"The criminals want to send you to the barricades," he tells nations cops, soldiers (Korrespondent.net) - Presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko called on the leaders of the armed forces and security forces to defy all orders to take action against the Ukrainian people, appealing to them to take care of the country's citizens, Interfax-Ukraine reports. Flanked by Ukrainian boxer Volodymyr Klitschko, pop star Ruslana, and Okean Elzy rock band leader Slavko Vakarchuk, Yushchenko made the appeal in front of several hundred thousand people on Maidan Nezalezhnosti during late afternoon of Nov. 24. Yushchenko appealed "on behalf of the Ukrainian nation,...

Younger boxing brother backs Yushchenko: "the people are the authority" (Post Staff) - Heavyweight boxer Volodymyr Klitschko spoke to hundreds of thousands of supporters of opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko on Maidan Nezalezhnosti in central Kyiv during the early afternoon of Nov. 23. An estimated million opposition protesters are clogging central Kyiv on this snowy afternoon during Ukraine's political crisis. Wearing a scarf and tie in Yushchenko's signature colors of bright orange, Klitschko -- whose older brother Vitaly is heavyweight champion of the world and who flew into Kyiv from Las Vegas -- said "Viktor Andreyevich Yushchenko is our...

Tbilisi — It was back in February that billionaire financier George Soros began laying the brickwork for the toppling of Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze. That month, funds from his Open Society Institute sent a 31-year-old Tbilisi activist named Giga Bokeria to Serbia to meet with members of the Otpor (Resistance) movement and learn how they used street demonstrations to topple dictator Slobodan Milosevic. Then, in the summer, Mr. Soros's foundation paid for a return trip to Georgia by Otpor activists, who ran three-day courses teaching more than 1,000 students how to stage a peaceful revolution. Last weekend, the Liberty Institute...