Armenia: New Pro-Government Youth Movement Emerges
Unzipped comments on stumbling upon what looks like the start of a series of anti-smoking actions staged by a new pro-government youth movement. The blog says that Miasin appears to be poorly organized and lacked the creativity of other youth movements which have emerged in Armenia over the past year and a half.
It seems to me they desperately try ‘playing cool’, to take up the initiative from other, more pro-opposition or independent youth groups currently on the horizon […] Fine. But…
Miasin’s march was poorly organised. They were walking along Opera and nearby areas shouting “Don’t smoke!” There was nothing creative in posters they held or the ways this supposedly ‘anti-smoking campaign’ is being carried on. In fact, they looked more like posters from a Soviet time anti-smoking campaigns, which no one was paying attention to. It looked more like an action to tick off before their sponsors that they do something than anything else.
Funnily enough, at least some of the most active girls marching ‘don’t smoke’ are pretty heavy smokers themselves…
Verdict: Not cool.
Photo: Miasin Action, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2008
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