In public places, in Novi Sad, Serbia - in a bus, on advertising boards, streetlights – stickers containing unusual content are appearing. Starting with the title "A Little School of Civic Disobedience", the sticker contains short instruction how to give away a valid bus ticket when you don't need it anymore. Bellow simple and friendly illustrations of giving and taking the bus ticket, there is the following instruction:

1. You have a ticket?
2. On your way out of the bus make a gift.
3. Give it away to someone that needs it!

Action of dispatching those stickers on public places in Novi Sad had started after the City Traffic Company's decision to raise the cost of the public transport for more than 80% of the previous price. That decision is in direct contradiction with living standard of ordinary people in the country. After few days of media attention and people publicly expressing their discontent and resignation, everything went silent and the company's decision was accepted as inevitability. Public action "Give your ticket away!" is the first action that promotes civic conscience and the need for mutual solidarity.

Civil disobedience is as old as systems of power to which it confronts itself. The group of contemporary critics of our society, American collective "Critical Art Ensemble" (www.critical-art.net) explains couple of institutions of power and resistance initiatives, both in electronic and "real" environment. Speaking about electronic civil disobedience, they are talking about civil disobedience and system of power. "Before computerized information management, the heart of institutional command and control was easy to locate. In fact, the conspicuous appearance of the halls of power was used by regimes to maintain their hegemony. Castles, palaces, government bureaucracies, corporate home offices, and other architectural structures stood looming in city centers, daring malcontents and underground forces to challenge their fortifications. These structures, bespeaking an impregnable and everlasting solidity, could stop or demoralize contestational movements before they started. Indeed, the prominence of this spectacle was a double-edged sword; once the opposition became desperate enough (due to material privation or to symbolic collapse of a given regime's legitimacy), its revolutionary force had no problem finding and confronting the powerholders. If the fortifications were breached, the regime would most likely collapse. Within this broad historical context emerged the general strategy for civil disobedience.

This strategy was unusual because the contestational groups decided they did not need to act violently toward those who occupied the bunkers of power, and chose instead to use various tactics to disrupt the institutions to such an extent that the occupants became disempowered. Although the smiley face of moral force was the pretext for using this approach, it was economic disruption and symbolic disturbance that made the overall strategy effective. Today acts of civil disobedience (CD) are generally intended to hasten institutional reform rather than bring about national collapse, since this style of resistance allows the possibility for negotiation."

Action "Give your ticket away!" is an action of modest reach, but it is important as a part of global initiative of solidarity and cooperation that raised from people's need for self-organizing and creating alternative systems of knowledge transfer and social action, opposing economic and political domination of minority over majority. According to the analyst Brian Holmes, idea of solidarity lies in common need for egalitarian transformation of society, that is made possible through the conscious use of humanity's accumulated knowledge, skill and overarching ideals. Emancipation, autonomy, substantive equality and the right to subjective and collective difference are the things that we should think about.

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