Dejan Sretenovic on Thu, 08 Apr 1999 20:26:00 +0200 |
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Syndicate: what to do? |
Dear Syndicalists, Thank you for your attention. First of all, I think that you should meet in Budapest with or without us. There are some other topics to discuss except the war in Yugoslavia as Heert pointed out. Since women are still allowed to leave the country, you should invite Darka and Katarina from Rex and Branka from Novi Sad to participate. Bojana and Zoran from Apsolutno are already in Budapest. Male persons could contribute through email. Concerning B92, you should address to Veran Matic and ask him what kind of support they need at the moment. I have just expressed my personal thoughts about certain initiatives, but I am not a B92 employee. Therefore, someone from REX or B92 should come to Budapest for that reason too. About the future of "other Serbia". Well, happy times are behind us, but the future is still uncertain. B92 does not exist any more and the destiny of NGOs, including Fund for an Open Society and SCCA, is still under the question. You have all heard that NATO prepares itself for the ground attack on Kosovo. If it takes place, and I don't see any political mechanism which could prevent it, it will turn into a massacre. What's the goal of a ground invasion? Just to conquer Kosovo and to allow refugees to return? To give Kosovo full independence? To occupy Yugoslavia and turn it into a NATO protectorate? Is Milosevic going to stay in power? I doubt they have intentions to overthrow him (remember Iraq). I highly appreciate the analysis by Zizek and Benson, but they cannot give us a clue to predict the future. The economy of this country is already ruined and political pluralism suspended. How it will look like after the war? Which media, NGOs and individuals will survive the war and what will happen to them after? What about post-war trauma? Poverty? Cultural scene? Too many questions without answers. A lot of people from the NGO scene, intellectuals and artists plan to leave the country forever after the war. Most of the people here don't feel in a shape even to think about the future. We can build different strategies, but are they going to be useful after the war? I cannot give any prognosis even to myself and therefore I cannot give you any idea what's the best thing to do. I keep on working on some projects but is there going to be any possibility to realize them? Please, try to understand that disaster takes place around us each day. We have no fear, but one cannot avoid the pressure caused by constant air raids, news, rumors, political propaganda, shortages, destruction of the country, humanitarian catastrophe, etc. We are experiencing the politics of destruction at work and I truly hope that we'll draw certain conclusions from it, regardless the price we have to pay as individuals and a society as well. Dejan Sretenovic ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- information: http://www.v2.nl/east/ mail archive: http://www.v2.nl/mail/v2east/current/ to unsubscribe send a message to <syndicate-request@aec.at> with the message in the body: unsubscribe your@email.adress