R E - R E A D E R - Biro Beograd

1997 we had to found a citizen’s group to
be able to go on with the organisation of
concerts and we registered an organisation
named Monteparadiso. In this time it was
most important for us to work with music,
which was the height of activism for us,
punk bands singing something about anarchism.
We quickly understood that this was
not enough for us and that we would like to
do something more. 1999 we moved from
the fortress to the former barracks Karlo
Rojc. The barracks were built in the end of
the 19 th century and during the history there
were stationed the austrian-hungarian, italian
and in the end, until 1991, the Yugoslavian
army. To the Rojc first moved refugees
from Bosnia, who stayed until 1996. After
that the building was more or less neglected,
it remained only organisations that had been
doing humanitarian work while the refugees
lived there.
In the void between the refugees and some
general undefined status of the building,
the first ones that started to work there were
various bands and other organisations. The
city gouvernement told us that we would
have to pay 15 kuna/m² for a space of 100m².
We moved in, but never wanted to pay. We
took 400m² more to go on with other activities
and helped also other organisations to
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bilo šta želi. Tako je to trajalo nekoliko godina
i bilo uglavnom vezano za muziku.
1997. godine bili smo primorani osnovati
udrugu građana da bi mogli nastaviti sa
organizovanjem koncerata. Tada smo registrirali
organizaciju pod imenom Monteparadiso.
U to vreme nam je bilo najbitnije da se
bavimo muzikom i ona nam je predstavljala
vrhunac aktivizma, sa nekoliko hardcore
punk bendova koji nešto pijevaju o anarhiji.
Ubrzo smo shvatili da nam to nije dovoljno i
da želimo da radimo neke druge stvari. 1999.
godine smo se preselili sa tvrđave u bivšu
kasarnu Karlo Rojc. Kasarna je napravljena
krajem 19. stoleća. U kasarni je kroz istoriju
bila stacionirana austrougarska i talijanska
vojska i na kraju do 1991. godine jugoslavenska
vojska. U Rojc su se uselile prvo izbeglice
iz Bosne, koje su ostale do 1996. Nakon toga
zgrada je bila više manje napuštena, ostale su
samo organizacije koje su se bavile humanitarnim
radom za vrijeme dok su izbeglice
bile tamo.
U praznini između izbeglica i općeg nekog
nedefiniranog statusa zgrade, počeli su prvo
unutra raditi različiti bendovi i neke druge
organizacije. Gradska vlast nam je rekla, da
ako želimo prostor od 100 kvm onda moramo
platiti 15 kuna po metru kvadratnom. Mi