Interview made with three people working in Timisoara

Abolishing the Borders from Below, 2006

What are the issues you work on?

Lately I work in an ecologist NGO, active in the closer area of Timisoara. In the cultural centre INCA I am more into the technical stuff, not so much in these theoretical views.

I have a running distro, with d.i.y. music and fanzines, and some publications made by different groups in Romania, I play in 2 bands, working and organizing concerts for bands. Together with a few of our friends we try to keep this cultural center INCA, some months ago we had a campaign to save this place from city eviction. Away from this I work on a little fanzine, published from time to time.

I’m working more in issues directed to woman, antisexism and anarchofeminism, but not only. Some months ago was happening the first “love kills festival” which was promoting female punk bands and anarchofeminist ideas. These days there was a meeting with some girls from Timisoara, Bucarest and Craiova, to better organize this festival and make it in different cities. Also we want to set up a common fanzine with topics for example medical issues, like drug use and his effects and aggression related issues, stuff like this.

Review from Romania: publications

Abolishing the Borders from Below, 2004

“Let’s take a look at 3 romanian radical zines…actually, from what i know, the only ones…

URA (HATE) zine

#9 “Our respect and honour for Romania – The Prison”; “State and Freedom”; “Making punk a threat again” (interview with several anonimous local punx); “Romaniaphobia”; “Marx – Marxism – Communism”” + translations of lyrics and quotes.

#10 “Fuck the system”; “Romania, prison for migrants”; “Compromised interview”; “Crisis period”; “Justice”; “The compromise or the alternative”; “Burning Terra”; “About freedom”; “Explosive Komunique” + lyrics & quotes.

#11 “Situationist manifesto”; “A finished man” – G. Papini; “Polish anarchism in first half of 20 century”; “Chechenya”; “Kurdistan” + lyrics & quotes.

#12 “The sacred, the violence & the blood”; “Anarchism and christianity”; “Orthodox christian” – a poem; “The night disolves the bodies, but the day – the soul. Punk undead – Gothic”; “The empire of the spirit and the Empire of the Cesar”; “Deadly malady”, “Holy war” + lyrics and quotes.