Džabac offers food, clothes, trinkets, and solidarity every friday, coinciding with the general boycott.
After toying with the idea of occupying one of the many dusty abandoned storefronts to turn it into a more central, open and accessible free shop for quite a few months, we were suddenly spurred to just fucking do it. With the boycott of supermarkets and other spending, and the people’s rising awareness of capitalism’s unquenchable greed the timing felt right – and so we spontaneously cleaned and set up the free shop in two weeks.
On valentine’s day we had our opening, cooking a giant pot of vegan stew and encouraging each other to keep self-organizing. Lots of people showed up to take a curious look and some free goodies, and, to our ecstatic joy, showed interest to start similar things in their neighbourhoods and cities. A few rounds of dumpstering are enough to feed many with bread and pastries, fresh fruit and veggies, random this and that, from chocolate to dish soap. the dumpsters in the city are plentiful and the people are hungry for some tricks and treats! Occasionally some workers organize to give away goods that are about to expire and others are happy to bring in their surplus stuff to trade. And so many people were ready to roll up their sleeves and join our informal Džabac collective right away.
We are hoping Džabac becomes a gathering spot where beyond goods, people get to exchange ideas, skills, resources, solidarity and a good time! By opening up such autonomous spaces, we are exercising for a present and future where we depend on the state and private interest less and less, and instead focus on mutual support that is often surprisingly sweet and excitingly varied. We should be allowed to figure out how to organize living together, as the state and private infrastructures are clearly so carelessly unable to meet even the most basic needs of the living world. So we say it one more time: it’s time to boycott, time to self-organize!
Džabac
Ulica Bozhidara Adzhije 4, Adžijina
Zagreb, Croatia
dzabac [at] systemli [dot] org
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