The following document has been written by the opposition in Belarus at the moment. It is long, it is complex, but I would suggest you read it.
There is not much we as non Belarusian can do, other than spread the word about the arrests, detentions and murder currently going on in the country.
So far, 25,000 have been arrested and imprisoned. Four have been killed. Many hundred have been beated up and severely injured.
Forgive the length of the article. It is produced here just as it was published on the Telegram portal. I would suggest that you download a copy as there are a couple of sites which post in English, with many up to the minute videos.
Belarus Protest Update (English), [15.11.20 20:20]
[Forwarded from Belarus Protest Update (English)]
‼️ VICTORY PLAN TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH - @NEXTA_LIVE
Defeating fascism is a difficult task, but our ancestors did it. Now it's our turn. We are fighting for our lives, for the future of our children and for all those who have already suffered from terror. Open and from the underground, together and separately, with bright deeds and daily imperceptible efforts. Before you is a general strategic plan of how Belarusians will regain power, justice, law and fair elections. This will require the methodical regular work of the whole society. And the more people begin to do at least some part of this work, the sooner the result will be, the less people will spend in prisons or suffer from Lukashenka's bandits.
Spread the Victory Plan among your acquaintances and study it yourself. Select those elements of the plan in which you will be most helpful. Determine for yourself the amount of time and, if necessary, the funds that you are willing to spend on the struggle for the liberation of the country. It can be 4 hours a week, and 40 - any number, the main thing is to do it persistently and regularly, until you win.
Not every generation gets to make history. The Victory Day over Lukashism will be another of our national holidays.
PURPOSE OF THE PLAN
Lukashenka's departure, the appointment of new free elections.
Release and full rehabilitation of all political prisoners and people who have been prosecuted for political reasons.
Honest, open trial over all those guilty of murders, tortures and beatings of Belarusians.
WHERE ARE WE NOW?
Having lost the election to Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the psychopath is trying to hold out for at least a little more exclusively by violence, turning the country into a concentration camp and destroying all living things - the IT sphere, private business, other sectors of the economy, medicine, education, culture, etc. The Lukashists were the first to destroy the law and erased all moral boundaries - putting the people in a powerless position in relation to thugs who are ready to plant, beat and kill by moving their mustaches.
Everyone is subject to terror - from national elites (luminaries of science and medicine, the best entrepreneurs, leading athletes and cultural figures) to the simplest people whose names you may not even know. But these names will be inscribed in the history of the country as the names of heroes. If someone thought to sit out in "their own house on the edge", then these months of terror should get rid of illusions. Until the complete victory of the people, the robbery of the Lukashists will only grow, they are already coming to our homes and yards.
The whole civilized world and almost all neighbours who do not recognize the self-appointed as legitimate are with the Belarusians. Our indifference and solidarity, the ability to unite and act - this is the birth of a new Belarus, which the majority dreams of. It remains to free the country of our dreams from the invaders.
CREATION OF FRONTS
The invaders are armed, do not limit themselves by any laws and morals. But there are many, many more of us. The energy of millions of free Belarusians must be united and directed to specific points of resistance. We will conventionally call these points "fronts".
ECONOMIC FRONT
The paradox of the war with the people, which the Lukashists unleashed, is that they receive funds for this war only from the people themselves. Any measures to deprive the bandit power of our money are useful. In particular, it is worth making your way of life:
- Using Krama (Android, iOS) or BelScan applications in supermarkets - to avoid buying goods from Lukashenka's clan companies.
- Refusal from goods and services of companies from the Black List.
- Withdrawing deposits from banks and funds from card accounts - immediately after receiving a salary. At any time, this money can be stolen by Lukashenka's mafia, which has sunk to the outright theft of money collected by the victims. Use alternative payment systems, foreign cards or cryptocurrencies.
- Delay in payment of utilities - up to 2 months or more.
- It is worth postponing for a while large purchases in Belarus, since the VAT included in them goes directly into the pocket of the invaders.
- Payment for goods and services "off the checkout" and without a check, and salaries - "in envelopes." Any other means available to you to evade taxes and fees until the law is restored and new elections are scheduled.
- Maximum transition to goods and services from private companies and imports.
- Reduction of consumption or complete rejection of cigarettes and alcohol purchased in Belarus: there are large excise taxes in each pack and bottle, which are subsequently used to go to war with the people. Let's drink after the victory.
- Refusal to work with government agencies and security officials. No service for the invaders.
- Economic pressure on the regime is available to absolutely everyone - and it will be the more successful the more people are included in it. Involve friends and colleagues, distribute flyers.
The clear majority of Belarusians are for fairness and fair elections. But the Lukashists feed their propaganda with huge budget (that is, ours) money and an army of ideologists, and they are waging a war of destruction with independent media and bloggers. Therefore, do not give in to the illusion that “everyone knows everything anyway” and spread independent information and calls for concrete action much wider. Start right with this Victory Plan.
- Expansion of the Telegram sector. Create accounts for your parents, grandparents, colleagues and neighbours. Subscribe them to the main news channels. Follow the basic rules of safe communication on Telegram and the Internet, teach them to your friends and relatives.
- Spread news and independent opinions on any other platforms: VK, OK, Instagram, Viber, YouTube.
- Fill out information in leaflets (you can use the Leaflets97 channel and the Agitka website). distribute them at your entrance and in the area.
- Support for paper independent publications and samizdat. Real information about what is happening in the country should also reach those who are not on the Internet and are vulnerable to propaganda.
- Creation of thematic text, video and photo content. Create channels on any platform on topics that are not yet covered (for example, regional).
- Support for independent channels, journalists and bloggers. Help them with information and videos, and if you can, with money.
- For diasporas - the maximum dissemination of information about Belarus in the world: foreign social networks, media, informing local politicians.
- We support any format of protests - marches, chains of solidarity, flash mobs, processions in areas, any other actions of civil disobedience. We must be visible.
- Strikes of all kinds - from "Italian" to full-scale.
- Themed actions - for example, retirees, students, doctors or athletes, creative and creative actions.
- The spread of our symbols.
- This plan consists of peaceful formats of pressure on the regime, as it is addressed to absolutely every Belarusian. But r to actions of direct action and a "partisan" aimed against criminals and their technology, treat with understanding and support.
POLITICAL FRONT
- Increased pressure on the authorities at all levels to join the three popular demands. Boycott of any imitative, fake political initiatives.
- Withdrawal from all organizations of the invaders: Belarusian Republican Youth Union, pro-government trade unions (you can get help with leaving them on the profbel.online website or via the Telegram bot @ProfbelBot).
- Ignoring any voluntary-compulsory pro-government measures.
- Create your own chats, city and courtyard communities (add them to dze.chat), professional associations. All these associations are a powerful basis for future self-government, the basis of a civil society capable of interacting for common interests. All this will be useful for defending your interests even after the change of government.
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
- Svetlana Tikhanovskaya is the first Belarusian president who is accepted at this level: Macron, Merkel, etc. But the changes will be accelerated by the growing involvement of the Belarusian diasporas: in lobbying programs of assistance to the Belarusian civil society, sanctions against the regime and an international tribunal for state criminals, and full coverage of Belarusian events in the world media. Diasporas are real embassies of free Belarus around the world.
Choose by yourself or with your group Movement ministries and directions, actively get involved in the work to build a new Belarus. If you encounter problems, seek organizational help and advice from the funds and structures listed here.
Long live Belarus!
detained and persecuted, record everything that happened to you. Tell journalists and human rights activists about this. Write down all the details and names of the invaders who betrayed their people. Not a single crime of the state. authorities and each individual employee should not be forgotten and left without further investigation.
- Submit information about arrests, the names of operatives and judges and any other significant facts to the human rights center Viasna, to the Black Book of Belarus, as well as to 23-34.net.
- Collect all the facts about any persecution for political reasons at enterprises and educational institutions - and also submit them to the Black Book of Belarus or to the website Participants of the Crime.
- Help the Black Book of Belarus and other similar projects to identify criminals: one of them may be your neighbor or classmate.
- Disseminate information about criminals reliably established by these projects or other leading media outlets - even leaflets in their entrances and districts. Put social pressure on them. Even their own children will despise people who participate in the suppression of the people - and even more so, the servants of the inhuman regime must receive signals of condemnation from the whole society.
- Help those Belarusians who are forced to leave for security reasons.
- Get involved in volunteer projects in which you can participate remotely. In addition to volunteering in the listed funds, these are, for example, peramen.org, probono.by and others.
In a totalitarian regime, the interaction of society is not based on an extensive network of physical offices and a clear hierarchical structure. And on the stated above goals, common values and principles: a developed rule of law, respect for civil rights, freedoms and each individual person. THE MOVEMENT OF NEW BELARUS, ABBREVIATED - MOVEMENT OR ROK, is a symbol for all that wave of awakening in 2020. Each group of like-minded people who work together for change and interact to achieve common goals is already part of the Movement.
Connect with your colleagues, family and friends using Telegram and other social platforms. Create a coordination chat for your personal Movement group. Choose the fronts that are close to you, and then start systematic work in the chosen direction.
If the task of the fronts is resistance, the struggle for freedom, justice and fair elections, then in parallel with this we continue to build our own mechanisms and structures that will serve the people directly, bypassing the invaders. For convention, let's call them "ministries".
- Until the victory over the occupiers, we develop as much as possible an economy alternative to the state. Purchase of goods, services or currency from private traders and friends. Farm products. Announcement sites and related Telegram communities. We help each other earn money without extra deductions in the pocket of the invaders. We will begin to pay all taxes when we have an elected government and popular control over the spending of these taxes.
- Creation of whitelisting businesses (example) - cafes, restaurants, individual entrepreneurs, companies and businesses that do not cooperate with the occupiers and help the resistance movement.
- Helping the work of solidarity foundations that support victims of repression and those dismissed for political reasons (a few links to the ones that have proven themselves - above). Remember that each of them needs volunteers, as well as information promotion.
- Those taxes that you do not give to the invaders should be addressed to those in need. Support your relatives, friends and neighbors, help retirees in your entrances or those who have a financially difficult situation
- Creation of local security forces, self-defense, which will ensure the safety of your area at the time of the transit of power (including with the participation of former security officials). And now they will monitor and suppress the illegal actions of the occupiers.
- Creation and development of trade
