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[09. Jun 2016]

Second call for Defencing Festival and Actions on Croatian Slovenian border

The Defencing Festival will take place from 24th to 26th June 2016 on both, the Croatian and the Slovenian sites of the fenced border in Kumrovec and Bistrica ob Sotli. Temporary Autonomous Zone for Freedom of Movement. With Music & Actions & Discussions against Borders.

Dear friends, dreamers, rebels, composers of worlds, cosmopolitan diplomats from below, poets of life, autonomous astronauts, shamans of all sorts, breachers of stupid laws and animators of consensus, dear comrades from antiracist, antifascist, migrant, refugee, feminist groups, collectives, networks ... all those that swarm and drill so that freedom of movement for everyone will prevail...

From the territory where ideas of international solidarity and struggle for freedom and equality are mocked and places with dignified history are marginalized and conserved just to be sold off, from the border region where differences upon which we communicate, change and diversify are portrayed as spectre to be hunted with nationalisms, hate, militarization...

From the territory on which the power of state and capital constructed razor blade fence against refugees and migrants all along rivers, forests and plains, the act that contributed to the closure of Balkan Route and to the criminal deal between EU and Turkey...

From the territory that nevertheless resists and where the flames of resistance continue to paint the shadows on the slopes of nearby hills spelling “life can not be fenced”

WE CALL AGAIN FOR DEFENCING FESTIVAL on the Croatian Slovenian border, in Bistrica ob Sotli and Kumrovec in the days between June 24-26, 2016.

Here is preliminary skeleton of a program. Many things are still to be figured out, decided together and many more will be decided during the festival in assembly like open and horizontal decision making process


Friday, June 24, 2016


Ljubljana, 12.00 - demonstration
in support of self organized refugee and migrant community, autonomous centre Rog and for freedom of movement for everyone.

You are invited to stop in Ljubljana on the way to the location of the festival. We meet around noon to express support to self-organized refugee and migrant community, active in Social Center Rog that is under threat of eviction. It will be possible to spend the night from Thursday to Friday in Rog in case you arrive day before. After demonstration we will travel together as a caravan to the border, which is around 1,5 hours from Ljubljana.


Bistrica ob Sotli, Kumrovec, afternoon - preparation of camp infrastructure

We are preparing festival in collaboration with refugee and migrant communities, local communities and activists. For this reason, we are preparing camping facilities on the both sides of the border, close to each other and close to fenced and militarized border.


Bistrica ob Sotli, evening - music concert

Activities of festival are partly merged with festivities of municipality Bistrica ob Sotli. Part of those festivities is evening concert. Participants of the camp will have free entrance.


Saturday, June 25, 2016


Kumrovec, Bistrica ob Sotli - workshops, assemblies, actions

There are already several proposals for workshops and we are inviting you to either find synergies with proposed workshops and other activities or to propose you own.

Already existing proposals are:


You are invited to contribute to already proposed workshops and to propose other...

In the evening, with the sun set, we will try to organize trans-border picnic directly on the border so that participants of the festival from both sides (including asylum seekers that will not be able to cross the border) will have the moment of collective joy, being in common despite the militarized border.

After the picnic there will be another music concert in one of the camps and film screening in other.


Sunday, June 25, 2016


Bistrica ob Sotli, Kumrovec continuation of workshops, participation in festivities of municipality Bistrica ob Sotli, concluding assembly.


Infrastructure for the festival:


You can contact preparatory committee from Zagreb, Kumrovec, Bistrica ob Sotli, Ljubljana on:

d10.ljubljana (at) gmail.com
:: facebook.com/defencing

We expect you in Bistrica ob Sotli/Kumrovec on June 24 - 26, 2016. And already before in the process of preparation.

For de-fenced life!