The slogans of the mobility of Algeria .. greater than statement and more like a constitution

Ayyash Senoussi-Algeria

Since the start of the popular movement on February 22, the Algerians have taken a time every Friday to organize rallies in which their demands are renewed through slogans that reflect the awareness of their writers and demand freedom and change, slogans that vary and change with each Friday and carry more than one meaning, And more like constitutional articles.

In all its expressions, these slogans are almost the same, both in the central post yard or in the square of May May or in the Bab Al-Wadi in Algiers or in the rest of the provinces. The owners raise them by case and position with their vaccination with a creative and jovial touch accompanied by pictures and caricatures .

In the first movement, the situation was a surprise. Many people did not expect thousands to go out on the street to reject the fifth term of the outgoing president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, so the slogans were clear: "No to the fifth," "The people do not want Bouteflika and the happy," "Algeria is a royal republic" .

After the certainty that the people "embraced" the movement, the demonstrators on the second Friday and beyond raised the roof of their demands slogans calling for a "peaceful and peaceful", and sometimes other: "army of people .. Khawwah Khawwah (the army and the people brothers brothers)" and "Algeria secretariat in our necks "" No fear, no terror, Algeria is the property of the people "and" Algeria is a civilian, not a military state. "

When Bouteflika decided to step down, but after an extra year of reforms and the formation of non-nominating presidencies, millions rallied on Friday, March 15, denouncing the postponement and extension and demanding that the whole regime leave with the slogan "No postponement, no amendment ... we ask you to leave" , And "Together to expel corruption".

"I do not have an acting president. Algeria is a man," he said. "My country's army, brave people, protect your country from the enemies and we will not leave."

"The bottom of the"
It was clear that the emergence and diversity of the slogans always came in response to the decisions of the existing authority. Therefore, the phrase "they will come to the bottom" (to leave all of them) came to unite all Algerians on Friday.

The statement, which has become one of the most prominent slogans of the movement so far, a strong response to the call of army commander Lieutenant General Ahmed Kayed Saleh to apply Article 102 of the Constitution, which provides for the confirmation of the vacancy of the post of President of the Republic, and called for the activation of Articles 7 and 8 of the Constitution, (102) is no longer in service. "

While carrying the seventh Friday and beyond slogans glorifying the people and glorify the symbols of the system, like the slogan "Article 102 dropped by Article 2019" in reference to the current year, and "the people is the only hero .. You are employees of the people," and " Of recycling "in a reference to certain symbols of Bouteflika's regime.

On the ninth day, the demonstrators responded to the men of the transitional period with strong slogans that do not accept appeasement. The most important of these is the "transitional period not led by Ben Saleh and the government of Said Bouteflika (the younger brother of the resigning president)." The transitional period is exclusive to the faithful sons of Algeria, "Bouteflika is stepping down," Bouteflika said.

On Friday, the tenth and final day - until today - called on judges to accelerate the opening of files of corruption through clear and specific slogans: "Judge, what is Ranish Radhi" (not satisfied), and "the army and security and justice lines in the people .. The people, And "the people are ordering change, not turnover" and "no return until we achieve the rule of law and justice above all."

In addition to the slogans that formed more than a statement and responded to the existing authorities, and did not prejudice the marches of millions of slogans raising some of them directed to the outside, especially France and America, warns of any outside interference, such as the slogan, "France has passed the time of repentance" and "Macaron interested in your mother .. Algeria More than you, "and others asserting the unity of the people along the lines of" Shawi, Kabylie, Mazzabi, Arab ... we are all Algerians ", with other slogans written in English" Dear United States and with it .. Algeria is not your business. "

Mind mobility
The political activist and professor Prof. Ismail Maaraf noted that "mobility has developed a lot and it is producing its own speech. Today, these marches are led by a young university student who is a follower of events and thus he is interacting with the developments in the political arena and putting slogans that have changed in dimensions and their epistemological implications into political programs that can Its adoption as a recipe for getting out of the crisis. "

The professor at the University of Algeria believes that "there is a state of consciousness created by the social media, and succeeded to some extent in educating them and push them into the political scene, and make them active in a way that has a lot of influence regardless of their educational level."

For his part, the professor of sociology of sociology Youssef Hanatabli Blida University 2 "to agree first that the movement was beginning to relate to a specific political demand, a collective and unified rejection of the fifth promise, so mobility and through his mind, which he thought to make him resort to a reaction to the activity of those In other words, mobility is an individual activity within the group linked to rallies in which slogans are raised and varied according to the response of the other party. "

The default side
He added: "We should not lose sight of the virtual side in these slogans, because the social networking sites - Facebook in particular - formed a cultural background and information for this type of activity, even before the start of the popular movement on 22 February. After the spark of public mobility, the dynamic activity in virtual reality turned into reality, embodied in the field, as if Facebook was transformed from a virtual space into a social reality, and the street became a moving mural. "

The professor at Blida University made two remarks about the slogans: "The most prominent observation in these slogans that emerged during this movement is that they are not mass or collective slogans, but individual slogans expressed by the masses. Facebook allowed the emergence of the individual within the community or the public, Intelligently view it within the virtual space to a group of individuals who speak in a collective voice or a mass audience. "

He added: "The other observation is that this movement formed a process of political education for the masses, as it was a means of political upbringing for individuals to know the nature of political challenges, in every march in which the individual knows the nature of the demands raised through the slogans and how to formulate them, which enabled the Algerians during this movement of To have a broad knowledge of legal and political terms within the framework of a clear political upbringing. "