Nachricht Nummer : 352 Übertragungszeit : 3 min 51 sec Nachricht von : WAM@ZAMIR-ZG.comlink.de (Wam) Betrifft : Zagreb Diary on 21 December, 1993 Kopienempfänger : /APC/YUGO/ANTIWAR, /CL/EUROPA/BALKAN Erstellungsdatum : 31.12.1993 17:12:00 W+1 Zagreb Diary 21 December, 1993 Dobar dan, This morning I appeared on maybe the first real virtual conference ever been taken place (at least I never heard of it before), held in the "gemeente museum" of Arnhem in the Netherlands, the tittle of the conference is "The conference of the Future of the World.....", impressive. The conference will go on until the 23th of January. And I am on a list with nice contributors, with most of them I never ever expected to be on the same list. Name's like Samir Amir, Hannah Arendt, Robert Bullard, Helen Caldicott, Benjamin Franklin, Nenad Fisher, Donna Haraway, Thich Nhat Hanh, Winona LaDuke, Nikola Tesla, Karl Marx and Helena Norberg- Hodge, just to call up some names. My session today was about "on reconciliation" and I wonder what I have said and who visit my session since I was just here in Zagreb. On the 15th of January I have my second session, with as topic "The communicative potential of consumer technology", I really have to think about what I shall say there, since I rather don't know..... any way I was glad to get the agenda and see that it was happening. Yes in a virtual world every thing is possible. Wonder if they made a poster for this conference, would like to see my name between all those others, a nice souvenir. In the real world I recieved my reactions from Beograd, the people from the part of Depos I know were indeed not so happy with the strong words of Vuk, some try to cool it down a bit for me saying that it was just election talks (during election politicians always tell lies, they said), but still said is said. The second wave of rumours make clear that Milosevic party indeed haven't won the absolute majority and it look like it that Depos is now the second biggest party in Serbia, I am sure nobody, at least from us, expected that. Arkan seems to be totally disappeared out of the parliament, only one seat and also Sesjell's Radical Serbian Party has lost a lot of it strength. The first fights about not correct counting has also started and it seems that there will be re-elections is some districts on next Sunday (it is anyway no Christmas yet on that day in Serbian, at least not for the Orthodox). Also real was the talk Vesna J. and I had with somebody from "Seed for Peace", the group of 22 people (mostly from the States and some from Germany) who stayed basically in Medjugorje the last two weeks, waiting to get a permission to spread leaflet's about non-violence conflict resolution in Mostar. The talk was real, but the idea that they had to stand on the bridge (the pontoon bridge, since the other one is gone) in between the two fighting (or better three, since the Bosnian Serbs troops are still on the mountain top overlooking the city) groups in the hope to force a cease fire that way sounded, for Vesna and me, to say it softly, at least a bit un-real. We felt a bit like little school kids, our actions, publishing ARKzin, working with Human Rights, rebuilding in the warzone, helping in refugee camps and every thing else ARK and us two personal are doing seems to be child play in comparance by this real peace work, standing in between the bullets and shouting "PEACE, MIR", that is the real thing, it seem. This evening Sophy had her good-bye party, the last days a lot of people are leaving for home, some, like the Polish guys (or rather referred to as our Muppets) and Lynette will come back soon to start the work on the other side, but Sophy will go first to India. Nevertheless she hopes to be back in this part of the world in the end of March. During the evening they, Sophy, Vesna J. and Sara (who is also from the UK and works at the Center for Women victims of War and in the Women Shelter), were already making plans to organise next spring a huge bicycle tour from Zagreb to Pakrac (unbelievable how many people in Zagreb are starting to get ideas about what to do with and for Pakrac, it start to become a fashion place for the movement if we don't look out). It was full in my flat (I haven't been there for a long time, even I am still paying for it, need to have it as official permanent address). Sanja, after living for 28 years with her mother starts to live there now, and David from Austin is there now already more than two months, Sophy is staying there and a lot of long term volunteers from Pakrac are using it as their sleeping place. I was indeed a bit surprised that everything looked at least more or less a lot the same as I left it last time. Beside from the fact that the landlord had taken of the portret from Tito and put in out of side. I liked the portret a lot and was a bit proud that it still was hanging there. But he said that you could see it from the outside (the flat is a the 6th floor) and that he thought that it could bring me in danger, when I have official visitors. Beside Vesna J., the more or less steady inhabitants of the flat and Sara, also Vesna T. and Stephanie from IRC came by. Sophy started a kind of women support group on Monday evenings for women from ARK and related projects (IRC is not direct related, but Stephanie knows everybody). So that's why all this women know each other so well. We will miss Sophy, she has done a lot for the school youth in Pakrac and builded wonderful contacts for our project, but she will come back and that's a relief to know. Still in this work you are saying good-bye a lot, some times however there is no good-bye and that is not because some body goes home abroad (or yes, Sarajevo, BiH is abroad), but since they don't return to Zagreb from their mission. We have been luckily so far. Mir from somewhere in Hrvatska, Wam ------------------------------------------------------ "Zagreb Diary" can be found on a lot of different electronic networks, it is copyright free and can be ported to any network or other means of communication you like, but please drop my a line, you can reach by sending a message to wam@zamir-zg.comlink.de . Zagreb Diary is dedicated to Tyche, Pjort and Rik, so that they found out what there father have been doing all that time in Zagreb. Financial support for Grassroot relief work in Croatia or BiH can be send to Kollektief Rampenplan (atn. 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