By Laura Kërtalli
The Prophet ﷺ said: “Whoever among you sees an evil, let him change it with his hand; and if he is not able, then with his mouth; and if he is not able, then with his heart.”
I've been in protest since day one and let me tell you the truth.
The square has developed an immense hypocrisy, where we have decided to remain silent to preserve the protest, and if we speak, then we are causing division. But the truth cannot be division, nor can you preserve something that does not exist.
In 86 days of protests, the self-proclaimed coordinating group has decided to usurp the protest by setting up a microphone stand in the square. They decide who will speak and who will not, what should be said and what should not be said. Moreover, under the guise of guardians of harmony, they also decide who will be excluded from the protest through threats and pressure.
Specifically, Gent Progni's group, after two weeks or more of pressuring Visuar Dalipi's group to abandon the march, provokes them in the square by hitting them and then running away. Then they film their reaction, manipulating the event. The reaction was violent and must be punished. We do not support any act of violence in the protest, but we also condemn the fraudsters who use tactics to usurp the protest.
In parallel, peacekeeper Dritan Goxhaj, commander-in-chief and part of the coordination group, mobilizes the various groups by asserting to them that these problems are real, but the solution is silence.
With unprecedented delirium, he thinks that his war tactics are superior and the only ones that can work, and we clearly see the result in 86 days of protests: failed operations, escalation and the preservation of the power of the microphone squad, recently taking over, among other things, the design of the route that the march will take and obtaining permission from the police.
Moreover, based on personal experience, as a hero of religious tolerance, he has held very Islamophobic positions, forbidding me from leading the march because I am wearing a headscarf and that it could allegedly be interpreted that the protest has been taken over by Islamists and that it could harm the protest.
The protest is not of any interest group, it is of the people.
I really criticized, they might really attack me as a divisive person, but at the same time I'm also offering a solution.
The protest belongs to the people and the only way is for the people to take it into their own hands, as it was in its early days. Just as we have the great two-party system in Albania, we also have the system in protest, and the only way to overthrow it is to boycott it.
Let's boycott the microphone and let the people take the march into their own hands. September is approaching, the numbers will increase, let's do it right this time!
An action plan should be drawn up and made public, while unforeseen escalations should be attributed to spontaneity or ingenious planning and individual responsibility, not to the orders of a group that has already failed.
Rama will not be overthrown by crying about his troubles or by my poems.
The protest must achieve the blockade of the government. This can be done with peaceful road blockades, university boycotts and economic boycotts.
If they have quality within the coordination group, let them compile an action plan and make it the responsibility of every individual there to follow it.
That's it. No protagonist, just a plan that is followed.
At the same time, I invite them to relinquish power, Rama along with them.
Resignation! Resignation!
For every question, you have me in protest.
