Citizens' Protests: Media Images and Ideological Prisms -part 2 of 2 - Бесплатное архивное аудио

The Project âPeopleâ and âCivil Societyâ as Resources of Democracyâ aims at studying through a series of discussions the social significance of collective mobilizations of citizens in Bulgaria, but also in a larger international context. In the course of the past few years Bulgarian society has been the arena of various civic protests â of the railway workers, the farmers, the students and professors from the Sofia university and some other universities in Sofia, the drivers from the public transport, the physicians, the movie makers etc., which testify to the level of civic activism of different professional groups. However, all these protests have barely drawn the attention and the comprehension they deserved, they have barely changed â if at all â Bulgarian society. Organizing discussions including the participation of activists from different civic organizations and movements, politicians from the political parties represented in the Bulgarian Parliament, and researchers from the social sciences is of a crucial importance to clarify the motivations, the potential, the modes of legitimizing and the possible effects of collective mobilizations of citizens. Civic protests have an important reformist potential, the question is how to explicit it and how to realize it in the most appropriate way. With the participation of Petya Kabakchieva ("St. Kliment Ohridski), Veselin Stoinev (Trud daily), Bojan Znepolski ("St. Kliment Ohridski ", Sofia-HSSF) Moderator of the discussions: Boyan Znepolski (HSSF/Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridsky). The cycle of discussions is realized with the support of the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria). In Bulgarian.