Navapolatsak: Protest Action on Independence Day
04.07.2007.
Tags: actions, benefit cuts.
Source: RFE/RL.
One more picket of protest against benefit cuts was carried out in Navapolatsak yesterday. Such actions are carried out in this city every day since June 27th.
Just as during previous days, the picket participants collected signatures under the demand to keep the benefits for pensioners, blood donors, and liquidators of the consequences of Chernobyl disaster. They also collected signatures under petition to recall the member of poarliament from Navapolatsak district because he voted for canceling the benefits. According to Valer Shauchenka, one of the action organizers, several hundred Navapolatsak residents signed put their signatures under the petitions already.
The picket participants also handed out a special newsletter about poverty in which many Navapolatsak pensioners lived. The newsletter also had the contact information of the state officials, where people could send a letter of protest against benefit cuts.
The month of civic protest in sanctioned by the local authorities. It will continue until July 27th.
See also
03.12.2008 Signatures against construction of nuclear power plant are collected in Astravets district
03.12.2008 Pickets near monuments to Lenin are banned
03.12.2008 Polatsk: police detain participants of action in support of political prisoner Barazenka
02.12.2008 Astravets: police detain civil activists on the way to nuclear power station building site
02.12.2008 Chavusy: activists collect signatures against construction of nuclear power plant
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