From Breitbart/AFP…
A few hundred Bosnians on Saturday vented their spleen at political leaders in a shoe-throwing protest in Sarajevo inspired by an Iraqi journalist’s footwear attack on George W. Bush.
Young and old alike threw shoes in downtown Sarajevo at effigies of leading Croat, Muslim and Serb politicians and top international representative in Bosnia, Slovak diplomat Miroslav Lajcak.
See, if you come up with an idea that strikes a chord people will jump on it. Word of mouth spreads and it’s out of your hands.
It helps to use the new media, social networking etc.
In their Facebook event page, the organisers urged “citizens to wish a happy New Year to our government leaders by throwing shoes of warning at them.”
Good work, protest event organizers Facebook is the way to go. MySpace is over as far as organizing political protest goes.
Shoes were provided by the protest organisers — several non-governmental organisations and civil movements — but some protestors brought their own old footwear.
Nice touch providing shoes for tossing. Some folks might want to hold on to their shoes for traditional purposes and, it’s also a great way to get passersby involved as walk in traffic might be unaware of goings on.
Could this be tied to the Miami event in some way?
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