Coalition "Democratic Petersburg" will coordinate
and conduct mass-scale public actions of the democratic forces,
as well as other events. In the near future the coalition
plans to organise the traditional "March Against Hatred"
which normally takes place in late October. In addition, the
coalition will support the initiatives and projects of its
member organisations.
Also the coalition will continue collection of signatures
for per-term elections to the State Duma and the Legislative
Assembly of St. Petersburg. This work began at the rally on
Saturday.
The coalition adopted a special statement on the Democratic
March and a rally that took place on Saturday, September 15.
The statement runs that the Democratic March conducted in
St.Petersburg within the framework of the March of Millions
on September 15 was successful. The Democratic March joined
together the largest number of people as compared to other
actions organised by different political forces on that day.
Also it proved that the strategy of non-cooperation with nationalists
and left radicals was correct.
All the organisations-members of Democratic Petersburg
share the same values: priority of human rights and civil
equality, adherence to democratic procedures and values, non-violent
methods of fight and rejection of fascism, xenophobia and
discrimination.
The participants also indicated that being in opposition
to the present government and a desire to change the present
regime does not provide a basis for cooperation with people
who do not share democratic values or propagandise hatred,
xenophobia and fascism. Democrats will never facilitate legitimization
of such marginal groups through joint rallies.
The coalition also indicated that ideas to unite all the
political forces despite of their differing principles and
goals as harmful. We believe that the times of the purely
negative protest civic activity have passed, and people are
waiting for a coherent and positive political programme, and
come to street actions not only because they would like to
once again hear the "Down with Putin!" slogans,
ran the statement.
The participants of the coalition also stated that St. Petersburg
had always been a city with a very strong democratic potential.
The Democratic Petersburg coalition invited all the public
and political organisations sharing democratic values to cooperation.
They proclaimed that the collation would function on the basis
of openness, democracy and pluralism.
The following organisations participate in the coalition
"Democratic Petersburg" as of today:
The YABLOKO party, y RPR-Parnas party, Christian Democrats,
the "Civil Initiative" party, the Libertarian Party,
the Russian Socialist Movement, the People's Labour Union
of Russian Solidarists, the Russian Social-Democratic Youth
Union, the Human Rights Council of the St. Petersburg Memorial
Society, the "LGBT Initiative", Women Voters League,
the Youth Human Rights Group, Heterosexuals Alliance for
Equal Rights for LGBT, the public organisation "Soldiers
Mothers of St. Petersburg", the Committee for Workers'
International, Civil Municipal Control, the Council of Initiative
Groups of Hoodwinked Investors of St. Petersburg, the Liberal
Union of the Solidarity movement, the Constitutional-Democratic
Movement and the "Okhtinskaya Chain" movement.
See also:
Freedom
of Assembly
Democratic
Coalition
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