This is the Popular Front podcast with me Jake Hanrahan.

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In this episode, we're speaking to Mirian.

He is a frontliner protester who is taking part in the resistance to the increasingly

violent police and now hired goons that are trying to stamp down the uprising in Georgia.

He's going to give some much needed political context to what's going on there and explain

the brutal tactics that have been dealt out on the people on the ground.

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We've covered the Georgia situation a few times.

Protests got pretty serious.

But from what we've been seen in the last few weeks,

it's starting to look a lot more like an actual uprising as opposed to just the kind of regular clashes and protests we have every year there.

Can you tell me what's been going on? How did this protest turn from peaceful gatherings into what looks like all-out battles on the streets with the cops? people are being beaten up politicians, people are being jailed for just airing anti-government views.

Shit seems to have gone south. How did that happen?

At this moment, every day, like thousands and sometimes even hundreds of thousands, you know how people are taken to the streets.

And I would say that this is not something very new for us because we've been protesting against this regime quite long.

And since we realized that they were like Russian regimes

as how we would call them. Yeah, we've been protesting about a lot of issues in this country.

But so far, the protest is growing every day and unfortunately there is no sign from the government

that they are ready to reconsider their decisions towards the European Union.

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