@ilijajerkovic
Roaming around Berlin, from Belgrade. Fundraising, supporting youth participation, dialogue, active citizenship and working on bringing communities together at Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe. Big into politics, cinema, basketball and Frank Ocean.
Strong, resilient, and, above anything else, democratic spaces and societies rely on political participation of people with ambition and commitment to fundamental values. From my experience, volunteering for good social causes and in values-driven organisations is a great first step on this journey!
“Sada je pravi trenutak da nastavimo da se bavimo tim temama, da insistiramo na svom političkom cilju. Mi se trenutno suočavamo sa istorijskom šansom da naše društvo istrgnemo iz tužnog balkanskog konteksta u kom se nalazimo poslednjih 35 godina.”
Koliko smo daleko od promena?
Snažan centar dominira, liberali (i jedni i drugi) ponovo mogu da vladaju, a neki dinosaurusi da naprave mesta mlađim ljudima. Odlični rezultati, posebno imajući u vidu kako su prošli prethodni izbori.
Evropski parlament u novoj rezoluciji na najjasniji mogući način podržava studente u Srbiji i baca svetlo na represivne mere režima SNS-a. Država opisana ovom rezolucijom nikada neće biti članica EU, a posledice i izolaciju će trpeti samo građani. Srećom, Vučić nije država. To mora da postane jasno.
Sada kada Holanđani shvate da je jedno rešenju u nekakvom cenzusu.
🎉 This year’s Autumn Digital Assembly is a wrap!
💬 Thank you to everyone who joined in for such an important conversation about #authoritarianism in #Serbia and the ongoing student protests. We’d like to thank Mladi PSG, Pokret Slobodnih Građana and FNF Western Balkans for supporting this event.
HBO right now:
“Građani su za ovih devet meseci povratili ne samo hrabrost, nego i snagu, svest o tome kolika im je moć, svest da je ta moć sve ovo vreme, svih 13 godina, bila njihova. Samo ih je jedan siledžija ubedio da nije tako.”
Luka, a student from Zrenjanin, heavily beaten by police, while following their orders with his hands up.
After several operations, he was handcuffed to his hospital bed in Belgrade like a criminal.
Everything is upside-down in Serbia.
Their hands are getting bloodier every day.
“Nismo želeli da na bilo koji način kalkulišemo sa bazičnim političkim i vrednosnim principima. Što se tiče “spornog tajminga”, on nije biran već istorijski predodređen. Nije naša krivica što su zločinački odredi Ratka Mladića u tom periodu pre 30 godina sistematski ubijali hiljade civila.”
It was my pleasure to speak about our work on civic education and participation tools for young people in schools. It was wonderful to exchange with so many colleagues from civil society, decision-makers and educators passionate about these topics at the European Forum on the Rights of the Child.
LYMEC President Statement on Political Repression in Georgia: www.lymec.eu/blog/news-2/...
Vredi podsetiti da je Tramp vodio izbornu kampanju na ideji (svakako ne okosnica kampanje, ali ne bih rekao ni zanemarljiv deo) ekspresnog okončanja rata u Ukrajini i neulaska u bespotrebe konflikte po svetu. Plašim se malo šta će me dočekati ujutru, ako ovako idem na spavanje.
European Commissioner for Equality Hadja Lahbib will next week attend Budapest Pride, an LGBTQ+ celebration that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has tried to ban.
Rodoljub Šabić – Beograd na vodi u fazi metastaze
Nacrtom izmena prostornog plana predviđa se da Beograd na vodi zauzme i deo Terzijske terase, Beogradski sajam i deo Topčidera, uz Hipodrom i Staru šećeranu. Učešće javnosti svedeno je na minimum.
Sounds awful, but an excuse to spend a weekend in Berlin is never a bad outcome. Let me know if you need recommendations!
Great conversation at the @n-ost.bsky.social about the media landscape and coverage of Srebrenica genocide in the last 30 years. Valuable input from @adicerimagic.bsky.social and @alexmiladinovic.bsky.social, with their perspectives and experience in journalism and policy analysis.
Being real in 2025.
Spektakularna žena koju sam imao čast da upoznam tokom svog rada u fondaciji u Berlinu, ne samo zbog života koji bi mnoge nepovratno bacio na kolena, već pre svega zbog snage i strasti sa kojom je i sa 103 godine radila na obrazovanju mladih, kulturi dijaloga i borbi protiv mržnje i ekstremizma.
Konačno razvio film, a sa njim i sećanje na najveći protest u mom Beogradu, uz uspomene na ovaj veličanstven skup i na stotine hiljada ljudi željnih slobode i pravde.
Punopravno članstvo otvara vrata aktivnijem učešću u oblikovanju evropskih politika, jačanju regionalne saradnje, kao i povezivanju sa liberalnim organizacijama i pojedincima širom Evrope. Ova odluka stavlja Pokret slobodnih građana na političku mapu evropske omladinske liberalne scene.
I was very pleased to attend the @lymec.bsky.social Congress in Zagreb, where PSG Youth became a full member of this European liberal network with overwhelming support! In addition, the Congress adopted a resolution in support of Serbian students and citizens fighting for democracy and justice.
Here is a site where people are collecting and analysing information related to the use of a long range acoustic device (LRAD) against civilians in Belgrade on 15 March 2025.
zvuk.labs.rs
Students have blocked RTS, the state-owned public radio and television broadcaster in Serbia. For 22 hours, together with groups of citizens who joined and supported them at different times, young people demanded responsibility for derogatory words from one news anchor and overall censorship.
Protest prosvetnih radnika i roditelja na Voždovcu. Duga, porodična šetnja!
Being real in 2025.
A good step, but he is irrelevant. What students (and hundreds of thousands of citizens protesting for months) want is for their demands to be met and for Serbian institutions to function independently. Neither of the two will be resolved by the PM’s resignation as he has little to no power anyway.
Berlin cinemas for a movie baby.
