OFFICIAL STATEMENT
GDV | 17.06.2004 17:05
OFFICIAL STATEMENT
from peoples meeting in Resnik
IT WAS ENOUGH of humiliation and discrimination of us and our work by those who facticly runs the PGA process in Belgrade (they hold the PGA money, making rulls of using the office and speaks in the name of PGA). Milan`s and Majda`s attitude blocking all further cooperation with us.
THOSE WHO HAS MONEY ARE MAKING RULES. We are against that capitalistic concept!
We don`t want to do something that someone has decided beside us. We don`t care about private phone calls from the abroad because we don’t have bosses who giving us instructions. They could make a phonecall to God himself but we don’t give a shit about it.
We are judging Milan`s pressures on our activist to move out from office in the center. We all have agreement that everyone who works on PGA process and don’t have place to live are welcome to stay.
We don’t tolerate forcing seriousness by those who are buorocratizing the PGA process in Belgrade and turning it into non-govermental organization with only one job of sending `balls dingling` statements.
We don’t wanna to put our activities down because of PGA process. Those who left activism for building carrier now asking us why are we doing our own actions when there is conference job to do.
We do not wanna to be disrespected `cause of our aproach to politic and life. We don’t tolerate forcing orders and discipline `cause we are not in the army.
We shit on Andrej`s suptile threats with violence – we are ready even for that solution.
We are strongly against Ivana`s idea for paying people who works on PGA (translations, food workers, etc.), because we think if it is not based on volontery work then there is no need to have something like that.
STOP USING PGA FUNDS FOR MAKING POLITICAL PROFIT! (food affair)
We don’t want to participate in Ivana`s dream of helding conference in big city kongres hall Sava centar because we don’t want to create picture of PGA like legacy of Tito`s and Milosevic`s politics.
Our next question is: Is it possible that there will be no money for cultural program (that was decided in London, without us)????
Then we think that it was big mistake spending money for travel cost from Belgrade to London, and now we don’t have money for cultural part of conference.
There are many talking behind our back on changing location. We want to inform you all that some people planing to held PGA conference in Jajinci and Vozdovac instead of Resnik and Rakovica. They are already looking for alternative location, not because existing location is lost but because they have political conection with local goverment on other location.
Off course, they talk that no one turns back to Resnik, but facticly they are working nothing for the helding conference here.
FROM THIS MOMENT WE CANCEL ALL COOPERATION WITH PEOPLE LIKE THOSE!!! Off course, we don’t want to make pressures on rest of our camarades who wanna continue to work with them because we think that this is on eveyones councesness.
We want to put accent on very bad human relations in DSM.
This is not question of diferent political opinion.
We will continue further cooperation inside PGA network only with collectives and individuals who are not discriminate us.
STOP inposed cooperation!!!
We will continue preparing of PGA conference in Resnik – Rakovica even without the money that they are helding now.
There is room for staying in our office in Resnik for everyone who wants to help for organisation of PGA conference.
We call you to support us !!!
People from Resnik involved in PGA process trought GDV, SUS, P.M.P.M. Crni Blok collectives from DSM coalition.
Contact:
grupa_dobre_volje@yahoo.com
www.gdv.co.sr
“Longer dem drag our feet - bigger we rise, stronger we grow.”
from peoples meeting in Resnik
IT WAS ENOUGH of humiliation and discrimination of us and our work by those who facticly runs the PGA process in Belgrade (they hold the PGA money, making rulls of using the office and speaks in the name of PGA). Milan`s and Majda`s attitude blocking all further cooperation with us.
THOSE WHO HAS MONEY ARE MAKING RULES. We are against that capitalistic concept!
We don`t want to do something that someone has decided beside us. We don`t care about private phone calls from the abroad because we don’t have bosses who giving us instructions. They could make a phonecall to God himself but we don’t give a shit about it.
We are judging Milan`s pressures on our activist to move out from office in the center. We all have agreement that everyone who works on PGA process and don’t have place to live are welcome to stay.
We don’t tolerate forcing seriousness by those who are buorocratizing the PGA process in Belgrade and turning it into non-govermental organization with only one job of sending `balls dingling` statements.
We don’t wanna to put our activities down because of PGA process. Those who left activism for building carrier now asking us why are we doing our own actions when there is conference job to do.
We do not wanna to be disrespected `cause of our aproach to politic and life. We don’t tolerate forcing orders and discipline `cause we are not in the army.
We shit on Andrej`s suptile threats with violence – we are ready even for that solution.
We are strongly against Ivana`s idea for paying people who works on PGA (translations, food workers, etc.), because we think if it is not based on volontery work then there is no need to have something like that.
STOP USING PGA FUNDS FOR MAKING POLITICAL PROFIT! (food affair)
We don’t want to participate in Ivana`s dream of helding conference in big city kongres hall Sava centar because we don’t want to create picture of PGA like legacy of Tito`s and Milosevic`s politics.
Our next question is: Is it possible that there will be no money for cultural program (that was decided in London, without us)????
Then we think that it was big mistake spending money for travel cost from Belgrade to London, and now we don’t have money for cultural part of conference.
There are many talking behind our back on changing location. We want to inform you all that some people planing to held PGA conference in Jajinci and Vozdovac instead of Resnik and Rakovica. They are already looking for alternative location, not because existing location is lost but because they have political conection with local goverment on other location.
Off course, they talk that no one turns back to Resnik, but facticly they are working nothing for the helding conference here.
FROM THIS MOMENT WE CANCEL ALL COOPERATION WITH PEOPLE LIKE THOSE!!! Off course, we don’t want to make pressures on rest of our camarades who wanna continue to work with them because we think that this is on eveyones councesness.
We want to put accent on very bad human relations in DSM.
This is not question of diferent political opinion.
We will continue further cooperation inside PGA network only with collectives and individuals who are not discriminate us.
STOP inposed cooperation!!!
We will continue preparing of PGA conference in Resnik – Rakovica even without the money that they are helding now.
There is room for staying in our office in Resnik for everyone who wants to help for organisation of PGA conference.
We call you to support us !!!
People from Resnik involved in PGA process trought GDV, SUS, P.M.P.M. Crni Blok collectives from DSM coalition.
Contact:
grupa_dobre_volje@yahoo.com www.gdv.co.sr
“Longer dem drag our feet - bigger we rise, stronger we grow.”
GDV
e-mail:
grupa_dobre_volje@yahoo.com
Homepage:
http://www.gdv.co.sr
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Unofficial anouncement
23.06.2004 09:16
The letter always returns to the sender address
We went through the accusations by a part of the activists from Resnik with due attention.
In that letter we are accused of a number of violation. However, we will focus on three huge distortions of the truth.
“The food affair” was in fact our proposal at the international meeting that involved more than 40 people. The proposal that was adopted by consensus was to assign food preparation to local workers from forgotten mess halls, construction companies, instead of entrusting this task to self-organised international collectives, as was the custom up to now, that are not any cheaper than the former variant. To be more precise, between the options to invite an international collective that is very expensive (1), an unrealistic suggestion to have the activists themselves prepare food for 1000 people (2) and the one to have the workers of a large, once self-managed state company, who re in strike, prepare the food (3), we opted for the third option at the international meeting that was attended by the signatories of the “official statement”.
At the same international meeting we agreed to make a deal with local workers that have not received wages for a long time and who have already replaced three managements, who are self-organised and, like many, pressed by the evils of the privatization process and who are waiting for slow death in empty corridors to equally distribute (a condition set by several collectives) the fee to everyone involved in organizing food preparation: cookers, cleaners and procurers.
- “The affair with the Sava Centar conference complex is not a resumption of Tito’s or Milosevic’s policies (!?). On the contrary, it is an initiative to go beyond the politics of campfire resistance and a chance have the wider public involved in the conference (this is one day of the entire conference) under the premise that we can get this location for free. For one day, Sava Centar could belong to everyone, to the people that it belongs to. We still don’t know whether we we get/take over the location.
- Change/adding of location was a necessity: on this we decided only after it became absolutely clear that it is impossible to hold the whole program in Resnik. Before this decision we went to school in Resnik at least 4 times, trying to persuade school director to postpone the renewal. Unfortunately we weren’t successful. Without the school in Resnik it is impossible to hold a conference there, since similar object doesn’t exist there.
About negotiations in Jajinci we were informing people through our mailing list and on the meetings. Local politician who helps was, as a friend and member of their ex-political party, introduced by Group of good will members.We were inputted with projection of their own guilty consciousness.
The object of our activities was not making ‘an event’ in Resnik, but working on organizing a PGA conference in Europe and making sure that we provide proper locations and infrastructures.
From the moment when it became clear that desired locations in Resnik were not available we started to investigate other possibilities. In Jajinici we are now finalizing formal involvement of infrastructural objects and needs for holding the biggest part of the conference.
On other mentioned ‘scandals’ we do not react. Cultural and festival events we consider part of the program. But not more important then the rest.
As the letter returns to senders own address, the announcement of some people from GDV is going back to its senders through our questions: Why, we wonder, nothing is agreed on meetings? Why there is no real communication? Why didn’t you try to communicate first with us, part of the same network, instead of making local and international affaires on this? Why you do not respect direct democracy? Based on witch grounds do you claim that your rights are being endangered, when you signed GDV, undemocratically, without consensus and presence of big number of groups activists who haven’t even been invited to the meeting for making this decision?
All those who are working on PGA conference in Belgrade
In alphabetical order
Andrej,Darko,Jelena,Majda,Milan,Milos,Stefan...
andrej,darko,jelena,majda,milan,milos,stefan,