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radioCona: Protests in Slovenia 2012-2013 (sound collage)
material used:
-audio files colague from various video YouTube sources
- public document by various independent social and cultural organisations (download it in here:
document excerpt:
“The following document was drafted during the month of December 2012 with some changes added in the early days of 2013. The drafting was a collective effort of the boards and members of the following four organizations: KOKS (Coordinating Committee for Cultural Slovenia), DSP (Slovene Writers Association), ODBOR (Committee for a Just Society), and TRS (Movement for Sustainable Development in Slovenia), SVIZ (Trade Union for teachers), VSV (Anonimous All Slovenia Uprising) SRP (Veteran organisation). The purpose of the document was to provide an explanation to the international community about the recent protest movement in Slovenia. The very drafting of this document caused a controversy with the ruling government of Slovenia: Prime Minister Janez Janša’s Social Democrats (SDS). This controversy and Prime Minister Janša’s public letter in response to the draft will be presented in an addendum. First we present our open letter to the international community.
The purpose of the document was to provide an explanation to the international community about the recent protest movement in Slovenia. The very drafting of this document caused a controversy with the ruling government of Slovenia: Prime Minister Janez Janša’s Social Democrats (SDS). This controversy and Prime Minister Janša’s public letter in response to the draft will be presented in an addendum. First we present our open letter to the international community.

Slovenians Demand Radical Change

During the closing months of 2012, Slovenia has seen a series of mass popular protests. Thirty thousand demonstrators gathered on November 17 for the first protest, organised by trade unions, students, and organisations of retired people and artists.
Dozens of protests followed, large
and small, taking place in virtually all of the urban settlements of Slovenia, often organized spontaneously through Facebook and other social media.
We would like to clarify to international observers that these demonstrations are not “rebellions against austerity measures and necessary reforms” as the ruling rightwing neo-liberal autocratic government of Janez Janša has tried to depict them. The demands made by Slovenian citizens
on the streets of their country are not merely for improved economic conditions, but for the basic foundations of a just and democratic state: the rule of law, the preservation of social services, and a sustainable economic policy that will serve the interests of the majority of the population rather than the narrow interests of a few.”
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