Short summary of political situation and latest trends in #Belarus (THREAD)
1) Solidarity & self-organisation in society still highly present: crowd-funding for victims of repressions, solidarity chains/actions, humour as important solidarity tool, assistance from diaspora 2) Still no single political centre for coordinating protest moods => many different levels of self-organisation, actions often spontaneous, horizontal communication gains importance. People are getting used to actively using public space for political messages

BREAKING => BelAZ - one of the most important state-owned enterprises (they produce the biggest tracks in the world) - as well as further state enterprices initiated a strike today in #Belarus. They want: free elections, stop the violence and dislocate OMON (police) from town

https://twitter.com/OlgaDryndova/status/1293749941907656709

another state enterprise in Hrodna: "Who voted for #Tsikhanouskaya?" Everybody raises hands!!!

THREAD. Summary of this dark evening in #Belarus
1. Protests were NOT initiated by #Tsikhanouskaya, she only called for gathering near polling stations & waiting for results. Simultaneously, popular Telegram NEXTA called for peaceful protest gatherings in city centres nationwide 2. Both strategies worked. People came to make pressure on election commissions. At several polling stations voices were even fairly counted & #Tsikhanouskaya won over #Lukashenka. Then people went to protest on the streets: it was not coordinated or centralised, but nationwide