Story: One hundred years of civic activism in Macedonia Century of struggle for identity and democracyThe dream expressed with the Krushevo manifesto – a state where Macedonians, Albanians, Turks, Vlachs, Romas and everyone who has roots on this land will live equally, has become true. How much has the civic initiative contributed to this, is a question we wanted to tackle with this text, and maybe to provoke a detailed research on this topic. In the archive documentation Rich tradition of civic associating Civic activism in the communist era Under patronage of the Popular Front A memory Shefket – mercy and heartiness