Regarding that, this peace of paper is dealing with the events whose goal is to make our beautiful planet a more bearable place to live. Human/animal rights, ecology, alternative, anti- imperialism, multiculturality, tolerance. Thousands of small steps which all lead towards self-realization. We of course support all these efforts, and we try to include them in our articles. At the same time the above mentioned group of outsiders gathered around ZAP (Zagreb Anarchist Movement) is trying to play an active role in the process of making of these small steps. Our (non)success can be judged only by those who contacted us or eventually cooperated with us in such an attempt. If there is anybody who wishes to get active, that would be nice. Feel free to contact us.
When reading this newsletter one can notice that we write a lot about punk and hardcore scene. That is true, but there are more reasons for that. One of them is that this scene really represents the alternative, that is this part of the scene which we cover. So, an alternative to industry, alternative approach towards life, and the fact that there is a huge interest for this newsletter within this small movement. Besides that some of the authors are either still active within the punk scene or they grew out of it. So, to make things clear, our goal is not to write about punk because it is our "territory", but simply most of the information we receive come from that realm of life. We would be happy to see that this kind of resistance is represented in all structures of every day life. Unfortunately that is not the case over here. Naturally we can't and won't deny that there are many "positive" efforts made by various civil movements, and non-government organizations. It is quite the opposite, such efforts really please us. We try to support any kind of any positive thought which appears on the horizon...
Zaginflatch/Necemo i nedamo (it's English version) publishes periodically, although not very regularly. It is still free but donations keep it going. We are very grateful to everyone who has supported us financially or in any other way, in the period of our existence. Necemo i nedamo/Zaginflatch is given away for free among various alternative circles, and we also try to reach the people who usually don't have a chance to see such literature. Circulation of the last issue was 1500, and some 600 were sent to other parts of ex-Yu. . . The reason for that is our effort to break through the informational blockade, and we like to think that by this we stimulate communication, because hate has caught deep roots among the people here. We believe that such small scale attempts are a ground for bigger deeds.
Zaginflatch has a considerably smaller circulation and it goes only to the groups, people and magazines interested in it. We are continuing with our work... zagreb anarchist movement. June 1996.
IMPORTANT!! CHANGE OF ADDRESS!!!
We have recently changed our address. Now it is ZAP/ARK; GAJEVA 55; 10 000 ZAGREB; CROATIA. Although we will be able to receive mail on our old add. as well, at least for some time. Our e-mail add. is zap_zg@zamir-zg.ztn.apc.org
What's new within ZAP...
* In the last issue we wrote about our wish to organize a meeting of ex-Yu anarchists, somewhere in Hungary. We contacted some people, and we are still waiting for their reply... Info Shop is still open. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 20 o'clock onwards people can come to our address and dig into huge quantities of alternative literature. From books, to fanzines, from newspapers to magazines and pamphlets. All this can be found in there. Note that we are still in need for your donations in material, so please try to continue supporting us in this way. Our info shop will be closed during summer period, and will reopen sometime early September. This is partly due to space problems which we have.
* We still have a couple of benefit T-shirts left. They are benefit for our zine Comunitas, and they cost 15 DM ppd. The text on the shirt is antinationalist, but it is in Southslavic language...
* In the last issue of Zaginflatch we simply skipped "the news" that somewhere in November we did a video projection where we showed two films. Dunkerland Sandwich and Undercurrents entertained around 20 people who enjoyed a couple of hours of fun. We are looking forward to future possibilities, but we are gonna have to get some material first...
* An antifascist demo was held on 9.5. in Zagreb. From 600 to 700 people gathered to demand the return of the old name of the Square of Victims of Fascism (today - Square of Croatian Great Man). It was fun to see so many old people, together with some youngsters, standing for one cause.
* Annual 1st May celebration was shit. It seems like the syndicates are afraid of something. We wonder what it is...
* A CARTOON about human rights should be made this year. It will particularly cover the problems of rights of refugees, and will be a maximum 15 minute story about teenage refugees. For more info on this situation see article Kupljensko -- dead end road.
* ZAGREB CYBER PUNK. ZG HC PUNK is a home-page on internet.
http://wiskey.hrt. com.hr/"mdrazic
Yeah, you guessed, it's all about hc/punk in Zagreb.
BALCAN PUNK / HARDCORE NEWS.
A new D.I.Y. record has seen daylight. Two Slovenian bands WASSERDICHT and SCUFFY DOGS joined their energy in an effort which makes a difference on our regularly passive scene. We like this a lot... Maybe this was not much of an information to some, but you have to understand that not many such things happen over here, so we are very happy to see that work like this one is done... contact them at: MEHTSUN M&M / SKOLIBROVA 6 / 62270 ORMOZ / SLOVENIA.
HOCU? NECU!, SMUDOS i MORTUUS, all from the city of Kraljevo, have new recordings, and their tapes should be out really soon. You can contact them at PopadiC Aco / R. Vilotijevica 6 / 36 000 Kraljevo / Yugoslavia.
Totalni Proma{aj, another punk band from Kraljevo, has released their debut CD, for a Japanese publisher. The same publisher prepares a CD compilation on which will appear some more YU bands... A group of active people started doing some pamphlets and posters, which they spread in the streets. So far 400 copies were made, but new quantities are announced. Also new materials should appear. For info on what is new in Kraljevo write to HOCU? NECU!
DEAD IDEAS a HC band from Belgrade, SR Yugoslavia, had a
tour over Slovenia. They played as many as 6 concerts all over
the place, and it was really good. The most wonderful thing was
to see in live the people we are in contact for some time, but
weren't in position to meet due to the war situation. We managed
to break down the communication blockade at least for a couple of
days, and had a good time at the same time! We should also say
that situation in Metelkova (Ljubljana) is better than it used to
be and that Pekarna (Maribor) is still doing fine. Those two are
the only two free zones in ex - Yu, and regarding that they were
army barracks progress is evident. As someone nicely noted: If
all army barracks would be like this two, people would fight to
go to the army... while we speak about the army, UNIJA 47 the
only Cro conscientious objector's group is still having problems
with registration, and a new law should be brought regarding
civil service. General hope is that this one will be at least a
bit more flexible one than the old one...
you can contact UNIJA 47 at GAJEVA 55, ZAGREB, CROATIA
A compilation tape, WAR IS DAILY LIFE REALITY was released in Austria. This is a peace initiative which was started by a naturalized Austrian, who originally comes from ex -Yu. Many excellent punk / hc bands from all over ex - Yu come together, and appear on the tape + booklet. Get it from SID, P.O. BOX 38, 4605 WELLS, AUSTRIA.
FECAL FORCES PRODUCTION (Boris Milakovic, Sv. Duha 30, 34 000 Pozega, Croatia) have released two new tapes. One of them is an international benefit compilation + booklet, for anarchist peace front. The other one in "Fecal Attack" vol 2, with 34 Croatian bands. Mostly all bands are hc/punk.
VERBALNI DELIKT is another young anarchist punk band which has a tape out. It's 15 songs of engaged noise. Write to Fistric Robert, V. Dosena 13, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Shit in Split. Sometime in the middle of March, in one of the rare Split's cafes which is open to counterculture, a punk week was to be held. Together with an exhibition, 7 days of fun were promised, and this would save the local punk scene, as they don't have any places to hang together, and meet at. Unfortunately, some fascists managed to break in the premises and destroyed the whole inventory. They even burned everything what had anything to do with punk.
A benefit action for the help to the children who have lost their parents in this bloody war came to it's end. One guy, Sasa FIGHT BACK De La Rossa, decided to do something for the kids who have suffered the most, and today live in hard conditions in "osijecki dom", so he released a benefit tape + booklet. After one year of selling he managed to collect enough money to get some things which the children needed. Then he delivered these things directly to them, avoiding middlemen. It's so nice to hear that there are still people who actually care...
KUPLJENSKO
After Dayton and Paris agreements, there is a huge pressure on Bosnian refugees to return to their homes. Croatia is not an exception. On a dead end road, near Kupljensko some 12000 refugees found shelter, while running away from the BIH army. These refugees are mostly Muslims, but they were against the government in Sarajevo. After a huge attack, most of the inhabitants of north western Bosnia escaped to Krajina (part of Croatia held by Serbs). They couldn't stay there, and Croatia didn't want them so their only choice was either to return to Bosnia, or to live in the no-mans-land between Krajina and Croatia.
After Croatian military attack and defeat against Krajina, the refugees consequently ended in Croatia. They weren't allowed to leave the area of Kupljensko, and soon afterwards special police built a fence around the camp. All humanitarian aid coming to the camp has to be approved by the Croatian authority, and they approve only the essential needs. With time, number of the refugees has fallen, and people decided to return to Bosnia rather that stay and live in Kupljensko.
Five kilometers of improvised tents, enormous concentration of people, not enough food, bad hygienical conditions and police pressure made them return to Bosnia, despite the fear for their lives. Some people were actually killed after return, and many were mistreated.
The pressure on the refugees was and still is enormous. The police has orders to kill everyone who tries to leave the camp illegally, and so they did. Also, they managed to kill a little girl while wild driving through Kupljensko. Recently, a squad of special police escorted financial police, and together they clashed in the camp claiming that there is illegal trade going on.
The truth is that some people tried to organize little stores in order to survive. They arrested everyone near the stores, and many people were sent back to Bosnia... The tragedy of Kupljensko still continues, but now in Bosnia, since all refugees had to leave it in the meanwhile. Note that this is a rather old article.
TORPEDO
Torpedo, an anarchist group from Smederevo became a regular guest in our newsletter. They almost regularly translate and publish various pamphlets on basics about anarchism. So far 5 different releases were made, and some new are in the state of development. in one of their regular releases, torpedo - newsflash, in english, they plan to publish a list of all known ex-Yu anarchist groups. Being as active as they are, torpedo deserves your support. We feel that we have to mention that torpedo strongly opposes the way ZAP functions, and they even mentioned us in the context of contrarevolution. We are often accused for being to liberal. Although our groups have big differences, we still communicate a lot. Main topics of our ongoing discussion are formal against informal use of language, and exclusiveness which by some working class has over revolutionary fight ...
you can reach them at:
MILAN DJURIC
M. VELIKOG 12/10
11300 Smederevo
YUGOSLAVIA
10.12. International Day of Human Rights.
Together with Antiwar campaign and in collaboration with many other NGO's which care about human rights and civil alternatives, we organized a celebration of this date. After an open forum where different organizations presented their work and afterwards a discussion, we all together went on the streets where we put some stools. This part of organizing was particularly interesting to us because we like personal contact with people on the streets. Although we were denied a permit (ZAP wouldn't ask for it, but other NGO'S are more formal so we did a compromise), this part of the event was held, and it was more or less a success. Yeah, to some of you all this might sound like a very small effort, but for us and for the local scene it doesn't. It is important as there are no street events and protests at all. There is a strong need to develop such tradition over here, and to break the frame of passivity which holds people down. Some bigger things are in process of planning...
MIRAMIDA
Miramida - training for young volunteers, about which we wrote before, was delayed. It was finally held in the last week of February, and was a success. There was also a next training in Gornji Vakuf (Bosnia), but there aren't any reports from it. New training is to happen from 2.-7. 6. Miramida is a project which has roots in Project Pakrac, a very explicit and important project taking part in peace building in ex Yugoslavia, from 1992.
For more info write to:
PROJEKT PAKRAC
TRG HRVATSKIH
VELIKANA 11
34 550 PAKRAC
CROATIA
LOESJE
Loesje is an international group who's field of action is postering. Originally, Loesje was founded in the Netherlands, but today they have followers all over the place. Slovenian branch is one of the most active ones. What they actually do is, make posters and place them on urban walls. The posters are mainly engaged, and often not as direct. Usually they use word games and other similar and funny methods, to get your mind going. Members of the group are very young, and know each other very well. That's an advantage, don't you think?
ANTIFASCIST AID FOR BOSNIA
A group of people from Britain, are collecting aid for Tuzla in Bosnia. After several visits to Tuzla with International Workers Aid, some people decided to organize their own group, and give the aid directly to the people who need it, and to avoid so-called humanitarians. At the moment Antifascist aid for Bosnia are collecting money and other goodies. You can write to ZAP, and we will forward the letter.
Z A P - Zagrebacki Anarhisticki Pokret
Zagreb Anarchist Movement
GAJEVA 55
10000 Zagreb
Croatia
ZAP_ZG@ZAMIR-ZG.ZTN.APC.ORG
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