As promised, below you can read the first article published in the first issue of our community’s newspaper Počasnik.

Read, think, and share!

Industrial archeology

Built structures often outlive their original purpose. In addition to historical buildings such as castles, this also applies to industrial buildings. Abandoned mills, mines, factory halls and warehouses are in most cases doomed to collapse, but sometimes they get saved, refurbished and revived with new content. In Great Britain the evaluation and revitalization of industrial plants started in the fifties, because a lot of the buildings were destroyed during the war. In 1955 the British historian Michael Rix coined the term industrial archeology and the beginnings of revitalization of this architecture date back to this period. Today the Unesco’s list includes a large number of buildings that belong in the category of industrial heritage as evidenced by the agreement on the importance of these historical legacies that bear witness to a time of great social and technological change. However, few qualify as monuments of national importance.

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On 4th February, on the first day of Indeversary, we presented our new creation – the first issue of the community Inde’s newspaper named Počasnik. It evolved slowly, but steadily. Like all indecreations. We decided on an exclusively analogue edition, an old-school paper one, because we are autonomous and because we still get excited by the rustle of paper under our fingers. Nevertheless, after a month from the publication two selected articles from it will be published on our website – as a teaser, since their content is more important than our whims.

You will be able to read the first one from tomorrow on. The publication follows, the author is known. Počasnik was and will be available at different places on the coast – in libraries, faculties, secondary schools, health centers, at Pina, at related places elsewhere, etc. And, of course, at the premises of the Creative Platform Inde. It’s free, but it’s worth opening it. Writers who would like to participate in the creation of this medium in the future are invited to contact us. Next issue is expected to be ready in May. Read!

INDEversary? That’s right! On 5^th February 2015 we confirmed our presence to the public with a 4-day opening marathon. Everything was still dusty, half empty, cold and dark. But the Inde-year that passed, brought us enormously. In occupied rooms that we created, equipped and then used we have also created new relationships. Peer, friendship, love relationships. And that’s how and why we can prolong the opening marathon and celebrate it with a 5-day long 1st year inaugural!

On 4^th February 2016 we will start remembering and reflecting upon what exactly we did in the year of the goat. (In any case, we often disturbed “Zagraščanska goat” when we were visiting her place to fetch the water.) We tried to fill the days with content that was otherwise lacking, what else! Let’s hope that the monkey will bring a lot of new and even better. Bless her with us this week and come to visit!

Thursday 4th February, 6pm

Presentation of the publication Počasnik
Opening of the exhibition “CPI – the time lost”
Animated films Animateka

Friday, 5th Februar, 6pm

Presentation of the ČKZ compendium on racism “Razrezani svet”
Skate document-ary: Coastal sk8&bmx scene
Zana (DJ set)
N’Toko (DJ set)
Čunfa (DJ set)

Saturday, 6th February, 9pm

SK8 movies: Listen to Srečna mladina & Conquered Joy
Concert: Grime
Svinjske tačke
FPZ Zborke

Sunday, 7th February, 6pm

“Consultative” Assembly
Dinner
Concert: Campo Krizi

Monday, 8th February, 6pm

Socializing
Short films by Karpo Godina (in collaboration with Association Kraken)

Tonight, while some of us are counting hard earned pennies, others despair over the quality of their roast and the cut of their new outfit, but most of us share the ritual of counting the hours until midnight, the agreed time transition between today and tomorrow. Amidst all this noise of the world, we from the Creative Platform Inde Collective call out and thank ourselves and all of you for all the presence, support, solidarity, love and creativity that we have donated to each other in the past year. Let it be here and now! Viva!

On Sunday, Dec 20th we attended one of the most pointless referendums in Slovenia’s history. It was not unreasonable for the topic it addressed. It was absurd because it was a second time around, because in March this year the parliament adopted the change of law by majority votes, and since there are currently a lot of other important things with which to deal, as we will soon feel sharp tightening of a wire around our necks. Above all, it was pointless because the marriage of homosexuals and their legal creating of families should no more be a question, and if it is, the answer can only be one – FOR! The result of Sunday’s referendum showed us a completely different image of the country’s mentality. The conservative mentality that oppresses minorities prevailed. Instead of letting some rainbow colors enter Slovenia, we filled the barb-wired frame with more blackness. In a little while we will need to cut our wrists to get a little color in this country, which is increasingly becoming similar to Tolkien’s Mordor.

Finally, let’s not forget the infamous confrontations at the national television. Those who were against argued their views with medieval bullshit. What about those who were arguing for? Did they sufficiently argue their positions?

Conus, UPInde

The collective C.P. Inde strongly protest against the installation of the razor-wire along the border with neighboring Croatia. We see this prime minister’s move as completely absurd and harmful. It is absurd and harmful to the people who are fleeing from war zones, where they have been victims of violence, poverty and persecution. It is absurd and harmful to the animals that die for no reason by wounds caused by razors when they become entangled in the wire, which prevents their natural no-borders moving around. And last but not least, it is absurd and harmful to all of us who live along the border, to all people who believe that the path to the future is towards a world without borders, not the world, surrounded by a killing wire.

We condemn the government of the Republic of Slovenia which shamefully exploits the spectacle of this so called refugee crisis to fill people with fear, which under the guise of “increasing security” stands as excuse for their all-present control over us all. Control has never increased security. Control only increases violence. Anyone who follows world events in recent decades can clearly detect and identify the strategies of spreading fear and simultaneously increasing degrees of control over people in some countries of Western Europe. All this is being done under the guise of increasing security. This agenda is being dilligently followed also by large and small dependent and biased media that create artificial hysteria and fear from this so called refugee crisis, which in reality does not exist. Rather, it is a humanitarian crisis from which the rich Europe, that has for centuries parasitically drew wealth from the countries which now refugees come from, would prefer to turn away. Would prefer to close its eyes, pretend not to see, set high walls, wire fences, all in order to avoid liability.

In fact, it is simple logic. We owe it to open the doors if we are human. Therefore, we repeat the questions that we as individuals and as a society have to ask ourselves when we think about current events. It is necessary to ask who is actually getting protection by the political, religious, capitalist and academic elites who foment the fear of migrants? Do they really protect us? Did the migrants legalize the crisis? Did the refugees introduce the golden fiscal rule, which snatched from us what little constitutive power that we had? Do really the migrants, foreigners and others control, restrict, sanction and bang on our pockets? Of course not!

In fact, this is probably one of the most progressive and empowered human movements in recent decades. People who are coming may very well be coming to us to help us. If we just realized that we are together in the same boat. That we can help ourselves only with solidarity and joint resistance against fascist repressive measures, such as the installment of razor-wire and closure of borders.

The collective C.P. Inde strongly protest against the militarization resulting in the installment of the razor-wire. We do not want to be surrounded by a wire that makes us all prisoners – both before and beyond the wire. Militarization is a dangerous process that – history has taught us – leads to a fascist totalitarian state. Militarization is dangerous because in addition to legality it also codifies the legitimacy of violence. Today, this violence is directed against newcomers, migrants, refugees. Tomorrow it will may easily be directed against all those who are fighting for freedom – it will be enough to be declared as “dangerous to security”.

In the present humanitarian crisis Europe has for the first time shown its true face. Schengen has clearly demonstrated its state of decay. Schengen borders protect only the capital. The dreadfullness of the system in which tomatoes and capital more easily cross borders than human beings has become totally clear.

The collective C.P. Inde is therefore calling for civil disobedience. Let’s join the protest against the wire, which will be held on Saturday, 12.19. at 11 am in Brezovica near Gradin and at 2 pm, in Dragonja. Remove the killer wire, if you can, where you can, when you’re able to. If you can not, demand the immediate removal! We will not be quiet until the last piece of the wire is removed and the last razorblade safely harvested and converted into something friendlier to living beings.

The Creative Platform Inde Collective

On 10th December 2015 a demonstration for peace and a different Europe took place in Ljubljana. The rally was attended by over a thousand people from different initiatives and collectives and different backgrounds. Park Zvezda was the point where the crowd began to gather. Officially, the demonstration began at 5 PM. A group of people first began to march from park Zvezda towards the government of the Republic of Slovenia. On their way they were joined by the anarchist group with torches and red&black flags. In front of the government building a few individuals talked over the loudspeaker and expressed their disagreement with government policies, especially with the installment of the barbed wire. The march continued towards the parliament. The final point of the rally was RTV Slovenia, which received loud criticism for their racist reporting on the refugee crisis. Spontaneous action was carried out by a masked anarchist group before the Bank of Slovenia. Given the current situation in the country an overdose of apathy was observed. More than a thousand people gathered, but nevertheless the atmosphere was not as fervent as during the period of uprisings.